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New Zealand Gets Its Own "Jersey Shore" Called "The GC"
TV Buzz The GC is about to be New Zealand's hottest new reality series that's “about a group of Kiwis trying chasing their dream on the Gold Coast.” I guess there really are guidos everywhere.
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Bully At Skatepark Pushes Kids Around
And then tries to attack the skatepark designer when he defends the kids. Apparently the jerk has since apologized.
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Magnificent Cloud Formation Over New Zealand At Sunset
Science Buzz I want to go to there. This particular formation is an example of Undulatus asperatus—meaning “agitated waves”—which was proposed as a separate cloud classification in 2009 by… wait for it… the founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. (I'm serious.)
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Link: Foo Fighters Concert Causes Earthquake
http://hollywoodreporter.com/news/foo-fighters-eartquake-...
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Are you ready to rock?! During a concert in Auckland, New Zealand 50,000 Foo Fighter fans and their enthusiasm was picked up as geological tremors by local seismic stations.
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Giant Albino Carnivorous Snail
Culture Buzz A rare albino Powelliphanta, a massive meat-eating mollusk which can grow to the size of a man's fist, was found in New Zealand recently. A man's fist which shakes at the heavens and curses Yaweh for unleashing this nightmare on the world. New Zealand is a country of sheep and horror.
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Killer Whale Pod Swim With New Zealand Tourists
Science Buzz Awwwwww. AAAAAGGGGHHHH. Awwwww. My hind brain can't decide if this is adorable or terrifying.
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10 Ridiculous 'Haka' Faces
The Rugby World Cup begins today in New Zealand. The Haka is a traditional dance from the South Pacific islands, most known as the 'war dance' performed by the New Zealand Rugby team before a match. Here's ten versions. Add yours guys!
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Video: New Zealand’s Version Of “Jackass” Is “Halfass”
A group of New Zealanders wondered aloud why there was no New Zealand version of Jackass. They went about changing that. Kind of. (Thanks Mike!) (via youtube.com)
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Video: World's Largest Swing
A.J. Hackett Bungy's Nevis Swing in New Zealand has a 300-meter arc, a 70-meter free fall, and is often used over cliffs and canyons. FTS! (via stuffistolefromtheinternet.com)
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Video: Snow In New Zealand
It's snowing hard right now in Wellington, New Zealand for first time in decades. This short film beautifully captures the awe of this experience.
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Image: Star Wars Currency Is Coming To The South Pacific
These are the coins you're looking for. On Niue, a tiny island country that sits 1,500 miles northeast of New Zealand, this November “Star Wars” fans will be able to purchase limited mint copies of silver-plated coins featuring Luke, Leia, Han Solo, and the gang. A $2 coin will cost $117 to purchase, which is worth it just for the Millennium Falcon carrying case alone.
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If You Had To Leave Tomorrow, Where Would You Go?
Culture Buzz In our latest #GOODAsks, we asked our Twitter followers and Facebook fans: “If you had to leave tomorrow, where would you go??”
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13 Stills From Hitchcock’s Lost Film ‘The White Shadow’
Movie Buzz The New Zealand Film Archive has announced the discovery of a long lost film by famed director Alfred Hitchcock. The film, titled The White Shadow, was made in 1923 and is thought to be Hitchcock's earliest known work. (via filmpreservation.org)
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Video: Lindsay Lohan Interviewed By Terrifying Squirrel Puppet
And it makes fun of her for stealing jewelry. This is for a New Zealand show called “On the SkyCouch with Rico,” taped while Lindsay was still under house arrest. The horror…the horror…
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Video: Jesus Christ Has Returned
And He’s living in New Zealand. That’s right: God is a Kiwi. (found via Joe.My.God.).
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Video: Hardware Stores Make Horrible Earthquake Shelters
Note to self: Stay out of the yard tool isle. Skip to 1:00 to see the horror unfold. Seriously though Christchurch, New Zealand…what did you do to piss off Nature so badly? (via geekologie.com)
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There Goes Another Trampoline!
Culture Buzz Some guy films a tornado from an office building in New Zealand. I guess trampolines are really popular in New Zealand?
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Video: Behind The Scenes Of The Hobbit
Peter Jackson posted his first video blog giving a sneak peak behind the scenes of The Hobbit. It'll make the hair on your feet stand on end. Nerds, commence to manipulating your Bilbos!
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12 Of The Worst Earthquakes In History
Culture Buzz In chronological order! Today's disaster is merely one of many reminders that Mother Nature only tolerates our presence most of the time. From ancient Greece to modern day Peru, millions have suffered the devastating effects of tectonic shift.
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Image: Post-Quake Bike Ramp
This guy knows how to make the most of the Christchurch earthquake aftermath. Not even natural disasters will stop him.
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New Zealand
A massive earthquake in New Zealand is gathering a lot of attention within the BuzzFeed partner network.
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Link: New Zealand Earthquake
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/21/new-zealand-eart...
The 6.3-magnitude quake has reported killed more than a hundred.
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Video: Graffiti Artists Forced to Dance Until Police Arrive
Schadenfreudian justice is the best kind of justice. Via.
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Video: Air New Zealand Safety Video
Does anyone really pay attention to those pesky warnings on airplanes? Air New Zealand has decided to take a different approach by enlisting the help of NZ's soccer team, All Blacks. Because there's nothing like a hot soccer player to help capture your attention.
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Image: Olivia O’Neil, Miss Teen Wanganui, Loses Crown For Dying Hair Brown
Beauty pageants are really reaching to create their publicity-raising scandals these days. Fifteen year old Olivia O'Neil had her title as Miss Teen Wanganui stripped from her after she posted a photo to Facebook in which she had died her hair brown.
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Sheep in the Shire
Movie Buzz When Peter Jackson's production crew left Matamata, New Zealand, they left 17 hobbit holes on the private farm that was used as a stand-in for the Shire. Since then, the farm's sheep have moved in on this hobbit ghost town.
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Link: Software will be Unpatentable in New Zealand
http://www.nzcs.org.nz/news/blog.php?/archives/97-.html
Despite what appears to be a big-budget lobbying effort by the pro-patent fraternity, Hon Simon Power Despite what appears to be a big-budget lobbying effort by the pro-patent fraternity, Hon Simon Power announced today that he wouldn't be modifying the proposed Patents Bill hence software will be unpatentable once the Bill passes into law.
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Link: Super Traveling Fur Seal Finds Itself 100km Inland On A Farm
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/cutestuff/3030895/Seals...
This curious New Zealand fur seal scared the living daylights out of a bunch of calves and confused a farmer when he was found on a farm no where near the ocean.
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Link: Trove of Long-Lost Silent Films Returns to America
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/movies/07silent.html?pa...
A John Ford film from 1927 is among the treasures found in a New Zealand archive that are being returned to the U.S.
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Video: New Zealand Ice Cream Bandits
Three girls broke into a local shop in Auckland, NZ threatening the owner with a gun and hammers - before making off with bags of ice cream. If they went to all this trouble for ice cream, can you imagine what they would do for a cell phone? What a scary thought.
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