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On Rudy?s grin
2007-10-20 19:18:00 I know this is petty but can your image four years of this? More About: Culture , Rudy , Grin
Helplessness: watching the thuggery of emerging Black culture
2007-10-20 18:28:00 I don’t get the Black rapper thing, never have, but then I’m a middle age white guy living in northern Canada, not a Black guy enduring what passes for life an inner city ghetto. So I remove myself from the emerging Black discussion, I can’t possibly understand it ? I roll my eyes and I move ... More About: Health , Lifestyle , Culture , Watching
Rugby Hits the Big Time
2007-10-20 17:47:00 TIME has an interesting paean to the game of rugby entitled Rugby Hits the Big Time More About: Sport
In the UK we take our swans seriously
2007-10-20 13:31:00 The inhumanity! The BBC reports that in Bedfordshire 30 swans were found shot. Hardly national news anywhere else in the world, but in the UK swans are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. Swans have a traditional Royal heritage, and the penalties for murdering swans is severe, as a spokesman for the Royal ... More About: Terrorism
Linux and Me 4: Zaurus?, Media Boxes, and Puppy Linux.
2007-10-20 11:18:00 This is the forth post in a series where I examine experience with the Linux Operating System. The previous posts discussed finding the right distribution (distro) of Linux that works for you, important things to understand when you take the plunge into Linux, as well as a look at the software available for Linux. ... More About: Media , Technology , Open Source , Puppy
RIAA, just leave your consumers alone!
2007-10-20 10:32:00 Wired writes about another case of bullying on behalf of the RIAA, the recording industry’s answer to the failure of their market to adapt. This summer there was another court case that was dismissed due to lack of evidence. The RIAA is trying to dodge paying legal fees of 42 year old Tanya Andersen. The RIAA ... More About: Media , Legal , Leave , Injustice , Consumers
Save 2nd Base
2007-10-19 22:52:00 This is pretty cute ? and for a great cause. As I understand it, the theme was designed by a couple of high school students in Toronto who had their designed banned because of its offensive implications. What was that implication? I tossed that around for awhile and finally got it, I think ? assuming first base ... More About: Humour , Health , Save , Base
The Shuffle: Listening and ONLY listening
2007-10-19 21:44:00 Right from the beginning there was the great question: do people really want to do all kinds of things on their gizmos or do they just want to do one thing really, really well? I didn’t really know what this meant at the time. But I do now. Or this? The Shuffle blows the others out of the ... More About: Technology , Listening
On beer ? the age of the industrial giants is over
2007-10-19 20:52:00 JUST 10 years ago, the proposed merger of SABMiller and Molson Coors into MillerCoors would have worried craft brewers. Back then, ?American beer? was thought of as a cheap product with very little beer flavor. But today the United States has by far the most exciting beer culture in the world, and America?s 1,500 craft ... More About: Lifestyle , Beer , Industrial , Giants
12 female body types! Which are you? Which do you want?
2007-10-19 20:48:00 Trinny and Susannah reveal 12 women’s body types - which are you? | the Daily Mail: More About: Body , Female , Types
Defining catty: senselessly grubby
2007-10-19 20:40:00 There is no male equivalent to the female term ‘catty.’ Here is a visual definition, from Stop “The Posh”! The original. Does she look happy with this hair? NO. And neither will you. Ellen Barkin: Proto-Posh. Having this hair is the real reason she can’t move her face. We’re actually not sure if Jenny McCarthy is copying Posh, or ... More About: Lifestyle
More bang for your buck: Viagra causes hearing loss
2007-10-19 20:19:00 From the too good to be true file. Is there any truth to the rumour that the sales of Viagra increased 18 fold with the news that it could impair hearing? A story is here: Impotence drugs may silence love’s sweet song. More About: Health , Bang , Loss , Buck
PET Day?
2007-10-19 19:46:00 Want a sure way to have half the country work on a statutory holiday? Pass this bill: MP proposes Pierre Elliott Trudeau Day More About: Politics , Lifestyle
Fast Food and the case for manslaughter
2007-10-19 19:28:00 A lot of people out there ? virtually all conservatives ? think that governments have no place in regulating industry. It’s your choice, they say. It’s up to you to figure out what is good and not good for you ? as if the sidewalks aren’t crammed with evidence that selection isn’t working. Take this witless family ... More About: Health , Lifestyle , Food , Fast Food , Legal
LOLcats take on TS Eliot?
2007-10-19 19:15:00 Corprewland has TS Elio t ?s “The Wasteland”, rewritten in the LOLCat of i can has cheezburger: IM IN UR WASTELAND BURYING UR DEAD april hates u, makes lilacs, u no can has. (1) april in ur memoriez, making ur desire. spring rain in ur dull rootzes. earth in ur winter, covered in snow can has potato. PO-TA-TO. INVISIBLE SUMMER! RAININGZES! im in ur ... More About: Politics
The Downside of ?The Biggest Losers?
2007-10-19 19:12:00 I’m always pulling for these guys. It’s tough to be fat ? losing a bunch of weight is a great personal victory. The hit TV show The Biggest Loser has fatties dropping pounds by the case lot ? it’s engaging TV watching people get healthy, get happier ? accomplish their goals. But. according to this NY Times ... More About: Health , Lifestyle , Losers
Surprise! The Sky Didn?t Fall ? Online Music Choices Grow
2007-10-19 18:38:00 It makes your bloody blood boil. The moment technology changes, those myopic, conceited, techno-idiots with the greatest vested interest in the changing technology want government to protect them from the unknown. It happens every bloody time, in analogue and digital and in audio and video and the moment the new paradigm shakes out, they shut up ... More About: Internet , Music , Technology , Lifestyle , Online
Putin wants US date to quit Iraq
2007-10-18 19:23:00 Putin, it’s pretty hard to argue with him: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the US should set a date for a withdrawal from Iraq . He was speaking during a live televised question-and-answer session with the public covering both domestic and foreign policy issues. Mr Putin said that as long as the US avoided setting a pull-out date, ... More About: Politics , War , Putin , Quit
Cecilia, please don?t leave the spotlight
2007-10-18 18:41:00 Ah, the French, as refreshing as a chilled ? French president and wife divorce “I don’t see myself as first lady - the whole idea bores me.” ? Cecilia Sarkozy Interviewed in March 2005 Cecilia Maria Sara Isabel Ciganer-Albeniz was born in Paris to a pianist father of Russian origins and a Spanish mother. A law student and ... More About: Politics , France , Leave , Spotlight
Understanding Pakistan
2007-10-18 18:30:00 Now, let’s try to get this straight. General Musharraf, who stole power from an elected government to become dictator of Pakistan , decided to go democrat and ran for election on October 6 and won easily ? against an opposition who declined to participate. But not so fast, the Supreme Court has yet to rule whether or ... More About: Understanding
Canada: give these peaceniks a chance
2007-10-18 18:06:00 Two US peace activists were not allowed into Canada because of a few peace-activist-oriented misdemeanors on a record sheet made available to Canada, and only to Canada, by the US FBI. Curious, isn’t it that while the vast majority of Canadians, in one form or other, claim to be peace advocates, albeit tepidly, the country won’t ... More About: Human Rights , Chance , Give , Injustice
Canada?s Sex Party stumps for a ?sex-positive future?
2007-10-18 17:35:00 If Canada Post will deliver material that is clearly anti-homosexual, it should deliver mail that is clearly pro-sex for a ’sex-positive culture,’ that’s the argument of Canada’s federal Sex Party and that’s the message the judge will deliberate over the next few weeks. But it is too graphic, winged Canada Post: “the pamphlet, which the party ... More About: Politics , Future , Positive
Camels as mirage
2007-10-18 01:30:00 Turkish MPs call for army move into northern Iraq - Yahoo! News:
On Putting Pasta in its Place
2007-10-17 19:43:00 LET me propose that you start cooking pasta in a way that might make you the laughingstock of your foodie friends: make more sauce, and serve it on top of less pasta. Do exactly what you?ve learned not to do. Talk about the blinding bolt of clarity: of course! Pasta as an accouterment not as the ... More About: Health , Putting , Place
The other half, living large
2007-10-17 19:07:00 The Uplands, Victoria, British Columbia. This seven-bedroom, five-bath oceanfront estate called ‘Sweet Pea’ sits on 2.4 acres of gated property with over 1,400 feet of ocean frontage and its own private pond. It is offered for sale at $28.5 million. More About: Living , Lifestyle , Half , The O , Large
Huffington Post and the blustering headline
2007-10-17 18:46:00 I love Huffington Post but I hate their strident ’sky is falling’ headlines. Now they mock themselves in pictures, too. How’s this? Match the breathless headline, “Turkey Approves Sending Troops Into Iraq,” to their invading force below: But HuffPo’s silliness notwithstanding, this is an important story: Turkey’s parliament resoundingly approved a motion on Wednesday allowing troops to cross ... More About: Media , Huffington Post , Headline , Erin
Explaining Stephen Harper
2007-10-17 18:35:00 The situation with Mr. Harper is as follows. He can’t bring in the policy agenda he wishes because the population isn’t far enough to the right. Therefore, he has to sell himself as a competent manager, which he is. And he has to do politics well, which he does. So, it’s all politics all the time. That ... More About: Politics , Stephen Harper , Stephen
Who Googles what?
2007-10-17 17:53:00 Sometimes, statistics collide with common sense and sometimes they surprise. According to these stats supplied by Google, Ireland was first in requesting cures for hang-overs, Canada first for information about Marijuana, but, curiously, it was the Philippines, not the British, who were first to hit on homosexuals. Here is the list from: Sex, Nazi, burrito and Viagra: ... More About: Internet , Googles
Bush and ?Fiscal Responsibility? in the same picture
2007-10-17 17:26:00 Does Bush not understand irony? He is spending $2 billion a month, or is it a week, on a war no one wants, he has squandered an enormous surplus to drive his country into third-world debt and yet he’ll stand in front of an audience with an enormous banner behind him and talk about Fiscal ... More About: Politics , Picture
India?s Call-Center Jobs Go Begging
More articles from this author:2007-10-17 17:19:00 It didn’t take long for the bloom to leave this rose. Remember when those out-sourced call centre jobs were the passport to the Middle Class in India ? Ya, well, perhaps predictably, they have become a ticket to ill health and a social stigma. “As recently as four years back, the choice was pretty clear. Either you got ... More About: Jobs , Developing World , Call , Center 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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