New Zealand Transformer Coins Feature Heros We Actually Care About

For some reason the governments of the world think their constituents want to see images of political leaders and royalty. And while famous presidents like Abraham Lincoln certainly deserve recognition, New Zealand has decided to honor a couple of heros that are probably a lot closer to all of our hearts: Optimus Prime …

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New Zealand Police Blamed for Kim Dotcom's Illegal Surveillance

The case of Megaupload's founder Kim Dotcom gets odder by the day, with the latest official documents revealing that the police simply didn't know, or didn't bother checking, if Kim Dotcom was a New Zealand citizen or not.

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Prime Minister Admits That Government Spies Illegally Bugged Kim Dotcom

As more details leak out about the investigation on Kim Dotcom, the more embarrassing it gets for government officials. After thinking Dotcom had a doomsday device, it's now known that government spies illegally bugged Dotcom at the behest of the US government.

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Watch This Badass Train Smash and Destroy Snow Like a Boss

If you're a YouTube connoisseur, you've probably already seen a train plow through snow before. But that's because a giganto snow plow is attached to the front of the locomotive—those trains were meant to kill and plow snow. This train? It's just a regular train. And it's freaking badass.

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The New Facebook Is Finally Public! ...In New Zealand.

We reviewed Facebook Timeline, the awesomely personal, beautifully designed new profile, in September. September. Facebook said it'd be open to everyone soon after. Clearly, that hasn't happened—but the wait is over! If you live in New Zealand. What?

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Man Gets Decapitated While Testing His DIY Hovercraft

Alastair Senior, a 40-year-old man from New Zealand, was killed in gruesome fashion—decapitation—on a hovercraft test drive. Senior had been building his own hovercraft and was about to ride it for the first time when things got awry.

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Hitchcock's First Film Discovered in New Zealand Amongst "Highly…

The first film Alfred Hitchcock ever worked on, back in 1923, has been unearthed amongst a "collection of unidentified American nitrate prints" in New Zealand, and will be re-premiered at LA's Samuel Goldwyn Theater on September 22nd. [LATimes via NYMag]

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