[This was also posted to Global Nerdy.]
Local tech evangelist David Crow points to The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need. Unlike What Color is Your Parachute? or Who Moved My Cheese?, Johnny Bunko is in manga form — that’s right, it’s a Japanese-style comic book.
An unusual book needs an [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
May
09
2008
“The Adventures of Johnny Bunko” — A Manga Career Guide
May
09
2008
Design Plagiarism at the TTC (or is it the MTA)? [Updated]
It’s not plagiarism; it’s just lameness. Be sure to read the “Updates” sections at the end for details.
Take a look at these suspiciously similar subway safety posters. The one on the left is from the Toronto Transit Commission, the one on the right is by New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority:
Click the photo to see a [...]
May
09
2008
Chop Suey Specs
I should let Angry Asian Man know about this one — a pair of joke glasses in the same racist spirit as “Commander Riker” in this poster:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Look closely at the package: it says “Made in Hong Kong”. Yowch.
May
09
2008
“London Underground”
I should’ve posted this video during the recent (and blessedly short-lived) transit strike here in Accordion City, but I remembered it just now. It’s London Underground, a musical rant about Jollie Olde London’s subway system, performed by the team of Adam Kay and Suman Biswas, known as Amateur Transplants. Be advised, it’s pretty sweary:
Here are [...]
May
08
2008
P.J. O’Rourke’s Commencement Advice (or: “Fairness, Idealism and Other Atrocities”)
My favourite humourist on the rightward side of the political spectrum is P.J. O’Rourke, whose stuff I’ve been enjoying since high school. Along with Ben Stein (if we ignore his idiocy with his film Expelled for the time being), there’s enough sense and broad appeal in his writing for him to be able to contribute [...]
May
08
2008
Face of Death: How Dudes Will Probably Die This Year
Here’s an infographic featuring counts of men in the United States who will die in 2008, broken down into various causes ranging from all types of cancer (about 308,000) to suicide (about 26,000) to HIV/AIDS (about 8,500).
Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
The numbers are projections based on the CDC’s WONDER database. WONDER stands for “Wide-ranging [...]
May
06
2008
New Blog: “How I Spent My Stimulus”
I’ll leave it to the How I Spent My Stimulus blog to explain what it’s all about:
In January, Congress approved $152 billion in economic stimulus checks for millions of American households, intended to boost the economy and avert a recession. Just how this money will be spent remains to be seen. We hope this website [...]
May
06
2008
Accordion on the Beach
Click the photo to see it at full size.Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
May
06
2008
Poster of the Day
Meanwhile, he’s thinking “She’s hawwwt!“Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
With the notable exception of Shaq, does anyone over the age of ten do that thing with the eyes anymore?
May
06
2008
The Stoned Rollers
There’s something about photos from the seventies that I love. Maybe it’s the way the colours came out in photos taken back then and the way they fade over time, or perhaps it’s the hair and the clothes, but those old photos have a certain special something that present-day photos don’t. Case in point, this [...]
May
02
2008
Conan O’Brien on a Kinder, Gentler “Grand Theft Auto”
“In the past, Grand Theft Auto has been severely criticized for being too violent,” says Conan O’Brien. “Well, the new version — I got it yesterday and was playing with it — it’s been toned down a lot. I’m not sure it’s better…”
[This was also posted to Global Nerdy.]
May
02
2008
Nine Years as “The Accordion Guy”
Here’s a blast from the past: me with purple hair, rockin’ out at Queen’s Park on Saturday May 1st, 1999:
I had no idea what was coming up next.
Yesterday marked the 9th anniversary of my playing the accordion on the street for the first time. I’ve got a longer entry about that fateful Saturday, when my [...]
May
02
2008
Cory Doctorow’s Reading of “Little Brother”
Last night, the Ginger Ninja and I attended Cory Doctorow’s reading of his new novel, Little Brother at the Merrill Collection (the collection of sci-fi books located in the upper floor of the library on College Street just east of Spadina). Little Brother is Cory’s first foray into writing a “young adult” book (memo to [...]
May
02
2008
Colossal Cake
We have team lunches (on the company dime, whoo-hoo!) reasonably often at b5media. Sometimes it’s dim sum, sometimes it’s shwarma, sometimes it’s pub food. Last week, we ended up at Wayne Gretzky’s, where we saw this colossal cake in the desserts display:
Damn, that’s one seriously stacked cake!
Naturally, we had to order a slice of [...]
May
01
2008
Pete Forde’s Taking the IonCleanse Challenge!
My friend Pete Forde suffers from “Rich Man’s Disease”, which the medical profession has given the less colourful name of “gout”. He saw my earlier post, Quackery in the ‘Hood, in which I wrote about the IonCleanse system, a footbath which purports to remove harmful toxins from the body…through your feet. One the ailments that [...]
