When public service announcements try too hard to be hip, this sort of train wreck is usually the result:
Monthly Archives: November 2005
Nov
28
2005
To Get Ahead, You Have to Wear More than the Minimum 15 Pieces of Flair
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Nov
28
2005
“Grover Demands Sacrifice!”
Every year, on the day after Thanksgiving, a few thousand people are sacrificed in Manhattan to appease the angry god Grover. Luckily for me, I was in Boston…
Nov
28
2005
What World War III Might Have Looked Like
Here’s something fascinating yet spooky: the newly-elected Polish government has opened its military archives from the days of the Warsaw Pact, which includes a 1979 scenario called “Seven Days to the River Rhine” based on the ridiculous assumption that NATO would be the aggressor in a nuclear exchange. Here’s a map that outlines the scenario…
According [...]
Nov
28
2005
Vote for "Accordion Guy" for the 2005 Canadian Blog Awards!
It’s blog awards time again: voting for the 2005 Canadian Blog Awards
is open until this Wednesday, and The Adventures of Accordion Guy in
the 21st Century is nominated for “Best Blog”! Won’t you please vote
for this blog, which presented these goodies over the past year?:
The Beer Hunter, the [...]
Nov
25
2005
Happy American Thanksgiving!
One of the best things about being a Filipino-Canadian
Catholic/American Jewish couple is that there’s little or no overlap
between our holidays. Each set of parents gets to see us for their
respective holidays, and Wendy and I each get some bonus celebrations,
such as an extra Thanksgiving. Wendy got her [...]
Nov
24
2005
Lisa Joins Global Voices
This one has been languishing in the “oh yeah, I should blog this” file and it’s about time I posted it.
I’ve mentioned the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School
before. My ties with it are many: it’s where Wendy worked, I met Wendy
at a conference organized [...]
Nov
24
2005
Maciej on Secret Prisons in Poland
Maciej Ceglowski, former hacker, painter and all-round interesting guy, commented on the Washington Post article that refers to secret outside-the-law prisons run by the CIA.
The article teases by saying that these prisons are in “eastern
European democracies”. The Post knows which specific democracies, but
won’t divulge them at the request of [...]
Nov
22
2005
Symantec Tries to Get Funky
P-Nort and the crew IN THA HIZZLE TO CAP THA VIZZLE! And hopefully, it won’t slow down your procizzle or thrash your hard drizzle.
[via Teaching the Indie Kids to Dance Again] Here’s a little musical biscuit you might want to choke down only once: Symantec Revolution [2.6MB MP3], a song promoting [...]
Nov
21
2005
The Chrismukkah Blog
Chrismukkah.org is the blog for those of you in Jewish/Christian households, like mine, where this Chanukah/Christmas, it’s lumpia (egg rolls) and latkes (potato pancakes).
