Monthly Archives: November 2005

DRM Will Ruin Your Life and Kill Your Dog

Okay, perhaps this isn’t the Chick tract parody that Cory Doctorow and the EFF would produce, but DRM Will Ruin Your Life and Kill Your Dog [133K GIF image; some swear words] is pretty amusing…

Accept copyfighting into your heart and you shall be saved! Click the image to read the whole comic.
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By Posting this Poppy Image, I’m Courting a Nastygram

[via Colby Cosh]
If you’re Canadian, you recognize the image shown here: it’s a poppy
pin, which is traditionally worn on lapels during the days leading up
to Remembrance Day (November 11th), the day on which Canadians
commemorate the sacrifices made by our veterans.
Here on this blog, it’s [...]

November 5th Trivia

Me and a ferengi at “Quark’s” in the Las Vegas Hilton.
In addition to me and Ashley, November 5th is also the birthday of Armin Shimerman, who played “Principal Snyder” in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the ferengi bartender “Quark” in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
There’s plenty more November 5th [...]

Happy Birthday, Ashley!

Ashley at the Oscar Party, April 1999. I’ll bet she doesn’t know this photo exists!
Happy birthday to my friend from way back at Crazy Go Nuts University, Ashley!

Happy Birthday to Me

I turn 38 today!

Happy birthday to me,

Happy birthday to me,

Happy birthday you sexy accordion playing beast,

Happy birthday to MEEEEEEEEEE!
I’ll be celebrating at Kickass Karaoke tomorrow night at the Rivoli. Feel free to drop by!

Mail Chauvinism

Mail Chauvinism: The Magicians, the Snark and the Camel
Ted Nelson

It
may not look it, but much of the action in computers has already ended.
In the next decade they’ll simply stamp out machines like those we
already know although with new interconnections, at lower and lower
prices with, we [...]

Web 2.0 or Bubble 2.0?

[Cross-posted to The Farm]
Which one is a more accurate reflection of what’s going on — Web 2.0 or Bubble 2.0? I’ll leave
that as an exercise for the reader.
Here’s O’Reilly’s
Web 2.0 Meme Map:

Click the image to see it on its original page.
And [...]

World War II Guidebook: "A Short Guide to Iraq"

Click the image to download the book [4.8 MB, PDF].
I remember reading about A Short Guide to Iraq [4.8 MB, PDF]  in SPY magazine during the
first Gulf War — a guide for U.S. soldier stationed in Iraq during
WWII. Here’s the intr, which aside from the bit about [...]

The Sandwich Board Outside Bay Street Video

Bay Street Video (1172 Bay Street, just south of Bloor), one of Accordion City’s best video stores, not only puts funny comments on post-it notes in their video library,
they also put amusing comments on the sandwich board outside the store.
Here’s what I saw on the north-facing side of their sandwich board
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Boston: See the Ramoniacs this Sunday!

Listen to the bear: punk rock lives!

Gabba Gabba Bear!
That’s my brother-in-law, Andy, who plays bass for the Ramoniacs. The Ramones may no longer be around, but these guys are still beatin’ on the brat with a baseball bat in Boston.

If you’re in the Boston area, [...]

The Flashiest Costume at Kickass Karaoke…

…was worn by karaoke regular “Johnny O”. I shall dub it “Honore de Balzac”, but not for literary reasons…

Hallowe’en Costumes 2005

Here’s what I wore to Kickass Karaoke on Sunday: “Indigo Girls Fan”.
Wendy says that if you took away the cowboy hat, collar and leash, this
was the sort of thing she wore all through high school:

Wendy and I joined my sister, brother-in-law and nephews yesterday for their Hallowe’en [...]