Stuff knows all

Or, more accurately, Stuff knows stuff all, as they seem to be just making up random figures for their stories now (or again, as previous experience has shown).

This one, for example, discusses the naming of the new Wellington A-League football franchise and its owner Terry Serepisos...

Serepisos, whose name had been googled 13,300 times during the past week, admits he's still coming to terms with the enormity of the task, but said the support he had received was "overwhelming".

13,300 times? How would anyone know how many times they'd been googled over a given time period?

Google, as far as I know, doesn't really give that sort of specific info out except via vague trends and zeitgeist reports, so I'm at a loss as to how Stuff could be so confident with their number.

Why Stuff.co.nz is crap

To further the new segment of our podcast (which you'll hear soon) we bring you "why Stuff.co.nz is crap". This will be us posting (and podcasting) the terrible sports-reporting being done by "New Zealand's source for sport, rugby, cricket & league news". Feel free to send us anything you find and we'll put it up.

Today's Stuff-crapiness comes from Dom who was reading about the World Swimming Champs in Melbourne.

Champion United States swimmer Michael Phelps already has one giant hand on the gold medal after cruising through the second semi in 1min 55.13sec, more than a minute outside his own world record set last year.

My God, less than 55 seconds to swim 200 metres. Was he actually in the water when he set that record?