And Slaters Go Plop

One News at 6pm appears to have become an advertorial. Does this mean I have to switch back to TV3? Do they still have that silly touch-screen?

I’ve been looking at getting a couple of brewing books and have just been through the tedious exercise of comparing prices. Not sure whether the results would be similar if I was looking for popular novels instead.

Here are the prices in NZ dollars and including shipping:

Amazon — $61.24
Morebeer — $109.26
Whitcoulls — $59.00
Mighty Ape — $73.98
Fishpond — $84.96
The Nile — $66.48
Seek Books — (Didn’t have both books)
Goodbooks — $69.98

Whitcoulls wins but is closely followed by Amazon which puts the other NZ book stores to shame. If you know of a good alternative please feel free to share.

[**edit**]
David, in the comments, informs me of The Book Depository over in the UK who beat the rest at ~$54.00 including delivery.

If you are a Christian you may boggle at the inanity of this. If, like me, you are not a Christian this will probably make as much sense as the musical manipulation we normally see in happy-clappy churches.

Here is a follow-up from Sam Harris on much of the comment generated by his TED Talk on Science and morality.

“Why not read a book? Because it’s boring, that’s why” – Ellen DeGenerate

I gave Twitter a go and found that it’s too unreliable, too limiting, too shallow and too time-consuming. So, future tiny posts will be posted here instead of on Twitter and will be categorised as ‘bleats‘.