Friendster’s Recipe for Mediocrity: “If you had to reduce the New York Times article on Friendster, Wallflower at the Web Party, down to a set of bullet points on how to destroy a promising social software application, it would look something like this…”
Superspyware Me!: “Last week, we reported on a red MP3 player whose proceeds [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Oct
16
2006
Today on "Global Nerdy"
Oct
16
2006
Catmas.com: Still an Ongoing Concern
Despite the fact that the Catmas holiday has come and gone, and even though I’m really a dog person (I think of cats as “egg rolls waiting to happen”), I still update the Catmas site every now and again. Click here to take a look at today’s darkly funny cat picture…
Oct
16
2006
Update on the Deadbeat Ex-Housemate Story
(You might want to read the entry titled A Special Message to My Deadbeat Ex-Housemate first.)
As of this morning, a Google search for deadbeat ex-housemate, both with and without quotes, returns the weblog of my deadbeat ex-housemate as the number one result in both Canada and the U.S..
I also got an email from him last [...]
Oct
16
2006
My Favourite Journalists: Stewart and Colbert
This has been sitting in my collection of draft blog entries; I thought I’d fire these out before they got too stale.
A study to be published next year in the Journal of Broadcast and Electronic Media states that Comedy Central’s hit satire show, The Daily Show is as “substantive” as “real” news. It’s both an [...]
Oct
15
2006
Over at "Global Nerdy"
Steve Jobs, clean-shaven and wearing a tie. What the hell?!
Over at Global Nerdy, the tech news blog that my buddy George and I write, here are the latest stories:
Blog Juice Calculator: A tool for finding out how much influence and credibility your blog has. The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century has [...]
Oct
15
2006
Worst Hallowe’en Costume Ever
“Bobby, if you don’t pose for this picture, your friend Mr. Insulin goes bye-bye.”
I thought my idea of going as manta ray-spiked Steve Irwin was awful (my catchphrase would be “What’s wrong? Too soon?”), but it pales in comparison to the children’s “toilet” costume pictured here. With kids being the way they are, unfortunate wearers [...]
Oct
13
2006
A Special Message to My Deadbeat Ex-Housemate
Attention, Deadbeat ex-housemate. You have not been responding to my emails about when you’re going to finally start paying me all that back rent (and that $1000 phone bill) you owe me from starting from October 2001.
Being five years later, I might normally let this go, but you were a pretty crappy housemate: you almost [...]
Oct
12
2006
Maria and the Credit Card Con Artist
Maria has a story about a scammer who tried to con her over the phone into giving away her credit card number:
At around 9:20 am the phone rang. It was “Tim from the front desk” saying that there had been a problem with my credit card and they hadn’t been able to [...]
Oct
12
2006
Dropping Science, Dropping Phat Beats, It’s All the Same to Spock!
“Ill–ill–ill–ill–ill…illogical!” If this photo had existed during my DJ days at Crazy Go Nuts University, I’d have blown it up and posted it in my DJ booth at Clark Hall Pub.
Oct
12
2006
Are You On His List?
Speaking as a money-loving porno freak Roman Catholic drunkard, I’m offended:
For more crazy signs, see this entry.
(Thanks to dreamattack and Miss Fipi Lele for the photo!)
Oct
12
2006
With Nuclear Power Comes a Nuclear Hairdo
The Nork Dork makes such a great subject for Photoshoppery, and his back-door entrance into the nuclear club only eggs the Photoshoppers on:
Photo courtesy of the Sanctuary Blog.
Oct
11
2006
Today on "Global Nerdy"
George was the Best Man at my wedding; this is us at my wedding rehearsal dinner.
Pictured above is the writing team at the new techie blog Global Nerdy. On the left is my buddy George Scriban, whom I met back at Crazy Go Nuts University. He’s a research director at a New York-based private think [...]
Oct
11
2006
Thinking Out Loud: Diversity and the Toronto Coat of Arms
“Diversity” is one of those words that get the neo-con blogerati’s panties in a twist. Many long-winded blog posts have been written on the topic, and they all seem to boil down to the same thing: Ever since my family came to this country, we’ve had nothing but trouble from the immigrants. As the most [...]
Oct
11
2006
Photoshopped Photo of the Day
Via Instapundit, here’s a fine bit of Photoshoppery from the blog Blackfive:
Oct
10
2006
Stopped Clock
As the saying goes, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
In a similar fashion, every now and again, Kathy “Relapsed Catholic” Shaidle and I have opinions that intersect. She’s actually beaten me to the punch on both these items, and I tip my hat to her.
“Harriet” from Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”
The [...]
