This week we’re joined by guest Juha Saarinen, technology writer for the New Zealand Herald (and in loads of other places), to talk a bit about the recent Spark outage.

* Juha Saarinen: XT time all over again? – NZ Herald News

* Spark blames outage on bad modems – Stuff.co.nz

* Kiwis caught out by cyber attacks – 3 News

* Celebrity Nude Picture Scandal: Kiwis face internet meltdown trying to see photos

* Cards Against Humanity – #Decision14 Edition ~ Rachel Rayner

* Russian cyber war linked to Spark crash – Stuff.co.nz

* BBC: ISPs Should Assume VPN Users Are Pirates – Slashdot

* The insane TiVo Mega costs $5,000, can record three years of TV, and looks like a rack server – The Verge

* Giving up on Doctor Who – MetaFilter

* No free lunches for hungry kids says Colin Craig – 3 News

* ‘Frozen chicken’ tax cut predicted – 3 News

* Nats promise to keep military bases open – NZ Herald News

* LegaSea harpoons National’s fishing parks – Stuff.co.nz

* Boaties warned to avoid Rena exclusion zone – 3 News