From the monthly archives:

August 2008

These are even more wrong than gummi lighthouses

Hannah Montana Gummis

Update: Even more Hannah Montana gummi wrongness here.

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Your Last Chance to Get Tiny Tom Donuts

by Joey deVilla on August 29, 2008

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 donuts themselves, but also for watching them getting made on their assembly line:

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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.

Obama $3 bill

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 not to bear false witness against your neighbor. Since the Republican Party are purportedly big on the Ten Commandments, maybe that one has recently been repealed.)

In keeping with their inability to fight back against Republican campaign tricks, the Democrats’ response has been rather lame: a couple of statements expressing disappointment in this cheesy tactic. I thought I’d do them a favor and teach them a thing or two about winning a war of memes by creating this template for a bill featuring John McCain. Better still, I don’t have to tell any lies.

So, Democrats, take this idea and run with it: the “McCain Keating $5 bill”:

McCain Keating $5 Bill

I didn’t have much time to whip this up and I’m not a graphic artist by trade, so if you can do better, by all means, please feel free to improve upon my work and spread it around.

Keating Five?

You know, as in the Savings and Loan Crisis, which cost the American taxpayer about $125 billion (and in late ’80s/early ’90s dollars).

See McCainKeatingFive.com, AZCentral.com’s writeup of McCain’s involvement with the Keating Five, the Wikipedia entry for “Keating Five” and the Phoenix New Times article titled McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five.

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File for Future Reference

by Joey deVilla on August 28, 2008

If you ever meet someone who’s not sure of the difference, you can always use this picture as a visual aid:

Comparison: an ass and a hole in the ground

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The “Things to Say During Sex” Chart

by Joey deVilla on August 28, 2008

"Things to Say During Sex" chart
Click the chart to see a larger version.
Chart courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

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Meanwhile, on Global Nerdy: Looking at Internet Explorer 8’s “InPrivate Browsing” Feature (a.k.a. “Porn Mode”)

August 27, 2008

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 [...]

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Toronto’s Scramble Crossing Debuts Tomorrow!

August 27, 2008

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 [...]

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Sign of the Day: “Dissent is Not Patriotic”

August 27, 2008

Rendering the word “treason” meaningless, one stupid sign at a time:

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b5media is a Red Herring Canada Top 50 Finalist

August 26, 2008

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 [...]

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I’m on “Future Tense” Tonight

August 26, 2008

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 [...]

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Craigslist “Casual Encounters” Ads in the Republican and Democratic National Convention Cities

August 26, 2008

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, [...]

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Seen at Kensington Market Today [Updated]

August 25, 2008

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:

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The Latest Maple Leaf Product Recall List

August 25, 2008

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 [...]

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Need Help with the Maple Leaf Product Recall List [Updated]

August 25, 2008

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 [...]

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“A Free Thinker is Satan’s Slave” [Updated]

August 24, 2008

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!

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