Recently, Deenster wrote about an article in Men’s Health magazine: The 30 Hottest Things You Can Say to a Naked Woman. I think that’s a bit ahead of the game — there’s still no consensus on the hottest things one can say to a fully-clothed woman:
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The guy [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2006
Jan
20
2006
The Hottest Thing You Can Say
Jan
20
2006
The Globe and Mail on Bulte and the Blogosphere
Today’s edition of The Globe and Mail has a story in the Globetechonology section about the recent brouhaha over Sam Bulte in the world of blogs. Here’s a very apt excerpt:
But the copyright fundraising flap shows off the Web’s best
potential. It gave experts a platform for non-partisan arguments,
backed up by primary [...]
Jan
20
2006
I’m on Bicyclemark’s Podcast
Yesterday, I did a phone interview with Amsterdam-based Mark “Bicyclemark’s Comminque” Rendeiro in which he asked me questions about the Canadian election. It’s included in his most recent podcast. Here’s his description:
Canada’s biggest elections in a decade are days away. Many predict the
conservatives will take control and push a very American-Republican
type [...]
Jan
20
2006
The Balanced Meal
Regular readers of this blog will know that last night, a fundraiser for the MP in my riding, Sam Bulte, was held at the Drake Hotel, a boutique hotel that’s become one of the city’s more popular after-work and weekend hangouts. The fundraiser, billed as a celebration of artists and creators in honour of a [...]
Jan
19
2006
On Germany and the Philippines
Two friends of mine, both of whom live in Canada, recently wrote articles about life in different countries. These articles piqued my interest, so I’m pointing you their way.
Michael “The Darker Side to Rants” Kalus, whom I know from his comments in this blog, email and IM, writes about why he finds the prospect of [...]
Jan
19
2006
Online Rights Canada’s Balanced Meal — Tonight!
Remember, if you’re in Accordion City tonight, one of the events tonight is Online Rights Canada’s Balanced Meal, a counter to Sam Bulte’s fundraiser, which is taking place in the same building.
I’ll be there, with digital camera and accordion.
For more information on this event, see yesterday’s posting.
Jan
19
2006
A Buck Doesn’t Go as Far Anymore
I know that I brought this fact up in the previous entry, but I thought it bore repeating in its own entry.
What $250 bought in 1987: In November 1987, for the cost of $250, The Cowboy Junkies recorded The Trinity Session at the Church of the Holy Trinity, using only a single microphone and the [...]
Jan
19
2006
The Cowboy Junkies, "Piracy", and How it Made Them Big
Those of you who weren’t teenagers in the 1980s may not remember the image to the right. Back then, the technology that the entertainment industry feared was good old magnetic tape. The industrial-entertainment complex’s movie arm was fighting the Betamax; MPAA capo Jack Valenti famously testified before Congress that “the VCR is to the American [...]
Jan
19
2006
Why "Future Fuzzy" Wears That Hat
One of the webcomics I enjoy is Sam Logan’s Sam and Fuzzy, which could be described as “the adventures of a lovable loser and a short, psychotic bear”. The author recommends that new readers start reading from the January 3rd, 2005 strip; I think that you can start as early as late 2003, which is [...]
Jan
18
2006
My Biggest Source of "Hits" Today…
…is the Macleans piece, Wrath of the Bloggers, which features quotes from Cory Doctorow, Michael Geist and yours truly. Right now, 15% of this weblog’s incoming traffic is coming from there.
Jan
18
2006
Online Rights’ Canada’s Balanced Meal — Tomorrow at the Drake
In the same hotel as the one where Sam Bulte’s $250-a-plate fundraiser — er, celebration — is being held, Online Rights Canada will be holding a Balanced Meal where the talk will be about “why MPs shouldn’t take cash from the industries they regulate”, the way Sam Bulte is.
The fun runs from 6 p.m. to [...]
Jan
18
2006
Sorry, Sam, But Your $250-a-plate Party IS a Fundraiser
Michael Geist writes in his blog about the fundraising dinner being thrown by Sam Bulte’s Big Content snugglebuddies:
Now, despite clearly
labelling the event as a fundraiser on her own website,
she’s arguing it isn’t a fundraiser at all. Instead, in response to
the question “How can we count on you to carry [...]
Jan
18
2006
Even More Questions from the All-Candidates Meeting
That’s right, even more from my notes on last week’s all-candidates meeting. In case you missed them, here are my earlier entries on that meeting:
All-Candidates Meeting: Opening Statements
All-Candidates Meeting: First Two Questions
More Questions from the All-Candidates Meeting
Question Seven: The Gun Crime Question
What are you going to do about gun crime?
Peggy Nash, New Democratic Party
This [...]
Jan
18
2006
Swingers!
Although the news is a couple of weeks old, I haven’t yet had a chance to comment on the ruling by the Canadian Supreme Court that clubs that allow group sex and partner swapping do not harm Canadian society and should not be considered criminal.Colby Cosh said pretty much what I think, so I’ll let [...]
Jan
17
2006
Apollo 12 Cuff Checklists
One thing that impressed me in the movie Apollo 13 was their use of checklists: in a mission where little differences are actually big differences, there’s nothing like a checklist to take care of the things that our brains are bad at (accurately tracking long lists of procedures and data) and free our brains to [...]
Jan
17
2006
If David Janes Were Running for Prime Minister
While David Janes and I do not always see eye-to-eye on every issue, our poltics often align in that foggy part of the political landscape where “fiscally conservative” and “socially liberal” meet (according to the Map of Politopia, I live in the northwest suburbs of “Centerville”). Accuse me of wanting to have my cake and [...]
