3D RadioBe sure to have your transistor radio handy over the next few Saturdays, as National Radio are doing another of their excellent New Year 3D Radio Shows on the 31st of December, and 7th, 14th and 21st of January.

There's heaps of stuff to take the time to tune into - I'm particularly looking forward to the various live-to-airs (Grand Prix, Coco Solid, SJD, and the Phoenix Foundation's Luke Buda), and the Retreads show featuring three of the big alt acts of yesteryear who either toured and/or released material over 2005: the Straitjacket Fits, Toy Love and Children's Hour.

And yours truly features in one of the panel discussions, along with Robyn of Secret Passage and Peter of Dub dot Dash, discussing all things the interweb: mashups, wikipedia, blogging, podcasts, and whatever else takes our fancy. That's at around 1pm today (31 Dec), but should also turn up on the Radio NZ audio-on-demand page at some point, and, if not (and technology permitting), as a podcast over at noizypod.

Here's the full 3D Radio schedule...

31 December, host Jon Bridges
12.30pm: Feature interview with film makers Taika Waititi and Loren Horsley
1pm: Panel discussion on music and the internet with bloggers Robyn Gallagher, James Guthrie and Peter McLennan
2pm: Retreads: classic Kiwi bands stage a comeback, starring Straitjacket Fits, Toy Love & Children's Hour
3pm: John Ono Lennon (American Public Radio documentary, part 1 of 2)
4pm: Grand Prix: acoustic and live to air

7 Jan, host Hugh Sundae
12.30pm: Feature interview with MTV and BBC DJ and Breaks Co-op memberZane Lowe
1pm: Panel discussion: best albums of 2005 with Grant Smithies, Nick Bollinger and Julie Hill
2pm: Lambchop and David Kilgour in concert
3pm: John Ono Lennon (American Public Radio documentary, part 2 of 2)
4pm: Phoenix Foundation's Luke Buda: acoustic and live to air

14 Jan, host Hugh Sundae
12.30pm: Feature interview with Eating Media Lunch host Jeremy Wells
1pm: Panel discussion: NZ record companies after the demise of FMR withTrevor Reekie and Simon Grigg
2pm: The DNA of Pop (BBC) with Blur bassist Alex James, part 1
3pm: The Coromandel Groove: Andrew Clifford checks the Coromandel's creative pulse
4pm: Coco Solid live to air

21 Jan, host Jon Bridges
12.30pm: Feature interview with Robyn Malcolm
1pm: Panel discussion: TV drama in 2005
2pm: The DNA of Pop (BBC) with Blur bassist Alex James, part 2
3pm: BIG DAY OUT SPECIAL
4pm: Art in Oamaru: Hiphop artist Jody Lloyd mixes with the artists, penguins and drunks of the deep south
4.30: SJD: acoustic and live to air
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Win Tickets to the BDORightio, I've got two tickets to give away to the 2006 Big Day Out. See Iggy in all his glory! The White Stripes rock'n'roll revelation! The fantastic Franz Ferdinand! And Henry Rollins ... shouting!

Head over to the noizyland.com homepage for details on entering.
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National MP cut'n'pastes from MaximGareth Robinson has spotted a potential bit of naughty cut'n'paste action from National MP Richard Worth, who issued a newsletter (archived on Scoop here) on the 9th of December. Read this bit...

The tragic suicide of Nelson voluntary euthanasia campaigner Ralph Vincent, who ended his own life at his home after a small stroke, has prompted calls to re-examine the so-called "right to die". There are many issues at the heart of the euthanasia debate, and the debate itself is important.

Frequently used terms such as "the right to die" are misleading. What voluntary euthanasia is really about is the "right to kill", or giving someone a legal right to end another person's life on the grounds that the person wanted to die.

...and compare to this release from the Maxim Institute issued on the 1st of December (also archived on Scoop here)...

The tragic suicide of Nelson voluntary euthanasia campaigner Ralph Vincent, who ended his own life at his home after a small stroke, has prompted calls to re-examine the so-called "right to die". There are many issues at the heart of the euthanasia debate, and the debate itself is important.

Frequently used terms such as "the right to die" are misleading. What voluntary euthanasia is really about is the "right to kill", or giving someone a legal recourse to end another person's life on the grounds that the person wanted to die.

Hmmm. The rights and wrongs of using other people's words seems to be a popular topic on the NZ blogosphere at the moment.
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A few NZ Music linksA few worthwhile NZ Music things to check out (while I get the proper noizyland backend - which does all this sort of stuff automatically for me - up to speed)...

• A new indie music CD and merchandise store and website based in Hamilton (but selling to the world) - the excellently named Wowee Zowee. Lots of nice local and international indie releases, and a fantastic selection of merchandise.
  
• Chris over at NZBC has a five-minute chat with Christian Datsun (who is due back in NZ with the rest of The Datsuns for a tour in January).
  
• Dubber continues to come up with business models that would have made him a millionaire (if he'd been living in San Francisco in the mid-to-late 90s).

And, totally unrelated, the sequel to the best ever point'n'click game - Samorost - is out now. Play Samorost 2 here.
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Noizyland: sick as a dogOkay, the convoluted code underlying the noizyland homepage seems to be causing the most grief to the poor server it's living on, so I've switched it off and redirected all the traffic from there to here.

I'm in the process of getting a bigger, faster, more stable php/mysql build of the site up and running on another hosting service, so things should (hopefully) be back to normal by next week.

On, and go and vote for llew (SunnyO) in the 2005 Weblog Awards.
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