These are even more wrong than gummi lighthouses…
Update: Even more Hannah Montana gummi wrongness here.
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Aug
29
2008
Your Last Chance to Get Tiny Tom Donuts
This is the final weekend of the Canadian National Exhibition here in Accordion City, which means that it’s the last chance for most locals to get the wonderfully deep-fried, sugar coated, bad-for-you but oh-so-tasty Tiny Tom Donuts. I’ve loved these ever since I started going to the CNE as a kid, not just for the [...]
Aug
29
2008
Obama $3 Bill, Meet the McCain “Keating Five” Dollar Bill
You’ve probably heard reports of the “Obama $3 bills” being passed around by Republican supporters in which Barack Obama is wearing an Arab headdress.
It’s meant to insinuate that he’s a Muslim, secret or otherwise, and apparently they’re all plotting to bring about the destruction of America.
(I remember there being some kind of commandment that says [...]
Aug
28
2008
File for Future Reference
If you ever meet someone who’s not sure of the difference, you can always use this picture as a visual aid:
Aug
28
2008
The “Things to Say During Sex” Chart
Click the chart to see a larger version.Chart courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Aug
27
2008
Meanwhile, on Global Nerdy: Looking at Internet Explorer 8’s “InPrivate Browsing” Feature (a.k.a. “Porn Mode”)
Last night, I attended a presentation where the latest beta version of the upcoming Microsoft browser, Internet Explorer 8, was shown to us. At the end of the dinner, we attendees were presented with USB keys containing installers for the browser so we could take it for a spin:
Over at Global Nerdy, I review its [...]
Aug
27
2008
Toronto’s Scramble Crossing Debuts Tomorrow!
If you’re ever in Tokyo, you need to observe the scramble crossing in Shibuya. It’s pretty fascinating.
Tomorrow at 11 a.m., the intersection at Yonge and Dundas streets will become a scramble crossing (or as some of you urban and traffic engineer types might call it, a Barnes Dance or “exclusive pedestrian phase”). That means that [...]
Aug
27
2008
Sign of the Day: “Dissent is Not Patriotic”
Rendering the word “treason” meaningless, one stupid sign at a time:
Aug
26
2008
b5media is a Red Herring Canada Top 50 Finalist
b5media, the company where I work and hold the title of “Nerd Wrangler”, is one of the finalists in Red Herring Canada’s “Top 50″ Awards, which is described as…
…celebrating the most innovative and promising companies in Canada. Adding to the success of our yearly North America 100, Europe 100 and Global 100 events, Red Herring [...]
Aug
26
2008
I’m on “Future Tense” Tonight
On Friday, Jon Gordon from the radio show Future Tense interviewed me about my recent posting in Global Nerdy titled Seinfeld and Celebrity Computer Endorsements, which features my comments on Microsoft’s hiring of Jerry Seinfeld as a pitchman and a collection of celebrity computer endorsements. In the interview, which is being broadcast tonight, we talk [...]
Aug
26
2008
Craigslist “Casual Encounters” Ads in the Republican and Democratic National Convention Cities
First: a quick lesson. For those of you not familiar with Craigslist, it’s a classified ads site created by San Francisco-based programmer Craig Newmark, and it’s a thorn in the side of newspapers, whose classified ads revenues are shrinking because in many cases, Craigslist gives you more bang for the buck (for my own examples, [...]
Aug
25
2008
Seen at Kensington Market Today [Updated]
While making a quick run to Kensington Market to get some lunch fixings, I saw this dog — I thought it was an Australian Shepherd, but it’s actually a Bernese Mountain Dog (thanks to all the commenters who straightened me out on that one!) — and had to take a picture:
Aug
25
2008
The Latest Maple Leaf Product Recall List
Maple Leaf CEO Michael McCain.Photo by Tara Walton, Canadian Press.
Once again, for those of you who haven’t been paying attention to the news: Maple Leaf Foods, a Canadian company, has issued a massive recall of all meat products produced at its Bartor Road plant in Toronto. They’ve published a list of the 200 or so [...]
Aug
25
2008
Need Help with the Maple Leaf Product Recall List [Updated]
Update: Laurie Sefton HTML-ized the list, which you can see in this entry. Thanks, Laurie!
Does anyone want to help me turn the Maple Leaf product recall list into an HTML table? Maple Leaf have published it in PDF form, which is great for print, but not all that hot for the web. I’ll take page [...]
Aug
24
2008
“A Free Thinker is Satan’s Slave” [Updated]
I think I’ll just post this one without comment:
Photo taken by scarlett_1975 and found via UFailPix.Click the photo to see the original.
Update: Thanks to Kim Scarborough for pointing out who took the photo!
Aug
21
2008
A Full List of Recalled Maple Leaf Meat Products [Updated]
Update
Since Sunday August 24th, Maple Leaf Foods has updated the list of recalled food to include everything produced at the Bartor Road plant here in Toronto. Click here to see the updated list.
You can also download the list in PDF format.
