3D printing for kids

This is too cool for words and if you have schools that want to push technological (early childhood) education, this looks a pretty good idea.   Kind of Sesame Street 3D printing.   Me: I just like the machine's colours.

Letter to the New Zealanad Listener on the Internet-Mana Party, published in the June 21st issue

I've been feeling the temptation to vote for Internet-Mana, for no better reason than the impulse to give someone else a go, who isn't part of the self-referential New Zealand political complex.   That said, by doing things like writing to the Listener's Letters, 21 June, I'm kind of making myself part of that complex.   No easy answer to that one.