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Kiwiana: Buzzy Bee Toy

March 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Genuine NZ Buzzy Bee
Originally uploaded by Darryl Robinson.

The Buzzy Bee is a piece of kiwi culture. Most kiwi kids grow up with at least one of these “pull-along” toys. The wings rotate making a clicking sound. From Wikipedia:
Designed and first produced in the 1940s by Hec and John Ramsey, it became popular during the post-war [...]

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Lighthouse Park Vancouver

March 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Lighthouse Park Vancouver

Originally uploaded by elguapo_kiwi.

This was in Starlight Cove in West Vancouver

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KiwiBloke Looking For Rivendell

March 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Rivendell is here somewhere

Originally uploaded by elguapo_kiwi.

Rivendell is here somewhere

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Things that Make You Go Hmmm

March 13th, 2008 · No Comments

I was scanning the web and I noticed this:
In reality, it’s not that hard to get better mileage: drive slower, reduce weight, and increase aerodynamics. None of this seems to particularly interest Detroit, since better mileage tends to increase the amount of time people own their cars before upgrading.
This is the stuff that tweeks the [...]

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Pauatahanui Inlet By Sea

March 13th, 2008 · No Comments

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Originally uploaded by kegan1.

Boats on the southern end of the Inlet. Taken from the Paremata Bridge.

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Home Sweet Home

March 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Paremata Railway

Originally uploaded by TELPortfolio.

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Rover Art

March 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Red Rover 1

Originally uploaded by Mad_T.

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Hummer Crusher

March 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Cuthbertson Tracked Landrover

Originally uploaded by macspite.

Landrover designed to crush used Hummers.

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Does Anyone Remember Microsoft Money?

March 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Intuit was founded in 1983 by Scott Cook and Tom Proulx in Mountain View, California. It made it’s mark in the software industry with it’s friendly personal accounting tools such as Quicken and TurboTax and it’s small business software Quickbooks. With revenues of over $2 Billion, Intuit is the leader in the personal finance and [...]

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Library of Congress Flickr’s Collection

January 24th, 2008 · No Comments

North American’s P-51 Mustang Fighter is in service with Britain’s Royal Air Force, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)

Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress.

The Library of Congress has started a project with Flickr to label, comment and tag hundreds of photos in their collection. The photos are in the public domain (most) and [...]

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