Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Dec
31
2007
Toronto’s Language Quilt
“Language Quilt” map taken from the Toronto Star.Click here to download the full article (20 MB PDF — you’ve been warned!)
Yesterday, the Toronto Star published a map titled The Language Quilt, a map of Accordion City and surrounding areas colour-coded by prevalent mother tongue based on 2006 census data. If you’re willing to download a [...]
Dec
31
2007
Jesus Camp
In case you missed the excellent documentary Jesus Camp on A&E last night, you can catch it in its entirety thanks to Google video in large size or below in a small (but still watchable) window below…
Wendy had a conniption fit every five minutes while watching Jesus Camp. This film does a good job of [...]
Dec
31
2007
Buy This Guy’s Deadbeat Housemate’s Copy of “Rock Band”
Brent Ashley knows that I’ve had my troubles with a deadbeat housemate (whose debt of thousands of dollars I forgave recently), so he knew I’d be amused at this classified ad that appeared in the Toronto edition of the classified ad website, Kijiji:
Selling my deadbeat roommate’s Rock Band
Price: Best offer
Street address: Yonge & Finch, Toronto [...]
Dec
30
2007
Another Old-School-Style Canadian Club Ad: “Your Dad Was Not a Metrosexual”
Back in October, I posted an image of a Canadian Club ad whose design evoked the early 1960’s titled Your Mom Wasn’t Your Dad’s First. The ad used photos that had been Photoshopped to have that old “Kodachrome” look and featured models dressed and made up in the style of the time and featured this [...]
Dec
26
2007
2007’s Most Dangerous Animals
As we approach the end of the year, you’ll see more “Top X of 2007″ lists including this one, 2007 Top 8 Most Dangerous Animals…
Click to see the comic at full size.Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Dec
26
2007
You are the 9th Most Loathsome Person in America
…well, according to The Beast’s list of the 50 most loathsome people in America for 2007, anyway. (And yes, we’ve got loathsome types of this sort in Canada as well.)
You
Charges
You believe in freedom of speech, until someone says something that offends you. You suddenly give a damn about border integrity, because the automated voice system [...]
Dec
24
2007
Reading for a Jewish/Filipino Christmas
Our Christmas tree ornaments, which include little dreidels.
Ours is a mixed household: the Ginger Ninja is Jewish, and I’m a Filipino Catholic. Although she’s from a tradition that doesn’t celebrate Christmas at all and I’m from what could arguably be called the culture that celebrates Christmas the most (a good chunk of the Philippines takes [...]
Dec
24
2007
Gift-Wrapping Tips
Photo borrowed from Oy Bay!
I don’t have any — I’ve taken the gift bag route — but Teresa Nielsen Hayden, moderator of the Boing Boing comments section and blogger at the excellent Making Light has tips aplenty on how to wrap your gifts.
My favourite tip: “Be bold. Look like you mean it.”
Dec
23
2007
30 Minutes with CNN Headline News
Here’s a pie chart showing the content of half an hour’s worth of CNN Headline News. No wonder the results from that Indiana University study said that The Daily Show was as substantive as “real” news shows…
Click the graph to see it on full size on its original page.
[Found via Reddit]
Dec
21
2007
Caught!
Here’s a close-up of the front page of the Lewiston Tribune (a newspaper in Lewiston, Idaho). Note the two pictures, which are for different stories: one of a guy making a Christmas sign, the other being surveillance camera footage of a thief. Do you see something odd that connects the two otherwise-unrelated pictures?
Click the photo [...]
Dec
20
2007
Robot Johnny’s “Super Santa” Animation
I’m not the only person in the Accordion City blogosphere contributing content to the Canadian sci-fi channel, Space — local illustrator par excellence John “Robot Johnny” Martz (he’s also one of the folks behind the excellent blog Drawn!) did the promo animation for Space’s Christmas Superhero Marathon, shown below:
Click here to see Robot Johnny’s blog [...]
Dec
20
2007
Hotel Drinking Glasses: Not as Clean as You Might Think
I remember chortling at a remark in an old MAD magazine about hotels about the “sanitized for your protection” sash that they used to place across the toilet seat and the “sanitized for your protection” paper in which they wrapped the glasses. The article said that they were probably cleaned with the same cloth.
As the [...]
Dec
20
2007
She Wants a Bodyguard for Her Wedding
That’s a photo of me circa fall 1999 playing a thug for a film project of my friend Scott Watkins.
The Ginger Ninja pointed me to this Craigslist Toronto “help wanted” ad for an unusual one-shot job:
I’m looking for a polished, professional bodyguard for a one day gig. Someone similar to ex cia ,csis, fbi, or [...]
