I’m fooling around with the blog’s layout for a new look for 2007. Things should start looking cleaned up on January 1st.
Monthly Archives: December 2006
Dec
30
2006
I am Spider-Man
It’s been a while since I’ve taken one of those silly “Which X are you?” web tests, and the “Which Superhero are You?” one has been making the rounds. Here are my results…
Your results:You are Spider-Man
Spider-Man
65%
Green Lantern
65%
Iron Man
65%
Superman
55%
Supergirl
45%
The Flash
45%
Hulk
45%
Robin
40%
Catwoman
40%
Wonder Woman
35%
Batman
30%
You are intelligent, [...]
Dec
29
2006
Introducing the Tainted Vista Review!
Over at Global Nerdy, I’ve got the first article of a new series: The Tainted Vista Review in which I make reports about my experiences using Windows Vista on the laptop sent to me by the Microsoft-Acer-Edelman troika. As I state in the article, asides from saying “Thanks for the free laptop”, I’m not beholden [...]
Dec
28
2006
Blogger Don’t Preach (I’m Keeping the Laptop)
[This has been cross-posted to my tech blog, Global Nerdy.]
Ferrarigate
If you’ve been following the technology blogs over the holidays, you’ve probably heard about Microsoft’s latest “guerilla marketing” move to promote Windows Vista: give some bloggers a free Acer Ferrari 1000 or Acer Ferrari 5000 laptop pre-loaded with Windows Vista to try out. The [...]
Dec
24
2006
Audio Advent Calendar #24: "Louie, Louie" and "Takin’ Care of Jesus"
As Christmas grows closer, I get busier with all sorts of gatherings with friends and family, so expect posting to be light for the next couple of days.
However, that means that you’re not going to leave empty-handed: I’m still providing offbeat Christmas tunes for you to enjoy. The first is a parody of the Bachman-Turner [...]
Dec
23
2006
Audio Advent Calendar #23: "South Park" Christmas Treats
For those of you who are South Park fans (like the Ginger Ninja and me), I present a couple of Christmas-related audio and video treats.
In an earlier entry for the Audio Advent Calendar, I mentioned that O Holy Night was my favourite of the religious carols and presented a version performed by New Orleans jazz [...]
Dec
22
2006
Audio Advent Calendar #22: "Alan Parsons Winter Wonderland" by Grandaddy
For the last working day for many of us, I offer something both mellow and amusing — indie-folkie rock darling Grandaddy, doing a number called Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland.
Grandaddy - Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland (4.2 MB MP3)
Dec
21
2006
Audio Advent Calendar #21: Two More "Six Million Dollar Man" Christmas Adventures
Yesterday, I presented two “radio play” style MP3 files starring Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man, in various Christmas-related bionic adventures. Today, I present two more:
Christmas Lights (7.4 MB MP3): A few days before Christmas, Air Defense Command intercepts a strange coded communication and Steve must help decipher it. You get three guesses as [...]
Dec
20
2006
Merry Frakkin’ Christmas!
[via Making Light] Take Santa Claus and cover him in the style of the introduction to the new Battlestar Galactica series and you get this…
By the bye, I am incredibly behind on my Battlestar Galactica viewing. “How far behind?” you might ask, to which I would answer “Well, I saw all of season one, and [...]
Dec
20
2006
What’s This All About?
Want to know what this image is all about? Go check Global Nerdy and find out.
Dec
20
2006
Somewhere, Bill O’Reilly’s Head Just Exploded
You’d think that after all the huffing and puffing they’d been doing about the “War on Christmas” that Fox News would actually do as they said…
Dec
20
2006
Chanukah, Night Six: "Give the Jew Girl Toys" by Sarah Silverman
This is a popular Chanukah download from this blog year after year, so I’m posting it again: Give the Jew Girl Toys by Sarah Silverman. I still have to see her film Jesus is Magic and her rendition of The Aristocrats from the film bearing the same name.
Sarah Silverman - Give the Jew Girl Toys [...]
Dec
20
2006
Audio Advent Calendar #20: Two "Six Million Dollar Man" Christmas Adventures
Yesterday, we had a 1980’s television high-tech hero save Christmas; today, let’s go back a decade farther and enjoy the Christmas-saving adventures of the 1970’s favourite high-tech hero: Colonel Steve Austin, better known as The Six Million Dollar Man!
In today’s offering, I’ve got two of four recordings of Steve Austin’s Christmas adventures. The first is [...]
Dec
19
2006
Only Global Nerdy Would Run a Graphic Like This
Today on Global Nerdy:
C’mon, would Scoble show an image like this for the story about Google deprecating its SOAP API on his blog? Arrington? Om? My newest LinkedIn buddy, Jason Calacanis? (Okay, he might, and I think Marc Canter would too.)
But seriously, folks: for smart-headed and smart-assed tech news, Global Nerdy’s the place to go.
