From the monthly archives:

November 2008

List of Sins…or List of Potential Band Names!

by Joey deVilla on November 30, 2008

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Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

I assume that by “shacking”, they actually meant “shacking up”.

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Safety First

by Joey deVilla on November 29, 2008

I assume that this guy’s just using the rubber band to avoid a fine for not wearing his seatbelt and not as an inexpensive repair job…

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Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

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Each According to His Abilities

by Joey deVilla on November 28, 2008

President Bush is really putting the “lame” in “lame duck”:

Screenshot of MSNBC: "Obama will address economic woes today, Bush to pardon turkey"
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

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The Entire Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Gets Rickrolled!

by Joey deVilla on November 28, 2008

Short of Rick Astley pulling this off at Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration next year, this is the ultimate Rickroll:

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The Night Baster

by Joey deVilla on November 27, 2008

Comic: The Night Baster

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Is Canada Becoming a Digital Ghetto?

November 27, 2008

Over at CBC’s Search Engine, Jesse Brown asks an important question: Is Canada Becoming a Digital Ghetto? I’m reproducing the article in its entirety below.

Here are three things that suck about being Canadian right now:

Last week the CRTC sided with Bell against a group of small Internet Service Providers who want to offer their [...]

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Happy American Thanksgiving!

November 27, 2008

Whether you’re having a traditional turkey, stuffing it with a duck and a chicken, or going with the option pictured below, have a safe and happy holiday!

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Programmer T-Shirts for Good Causes

November 25, 2008

Andy Brice has created some t-shirt designs for software developers and selling the shirts online for a good cause. The proceeds from sales of the t-shirts, some of whose designs are pictured below, will go to two worthy charities: jaipurfoot.org and sightsavers.org.
If you’ve got a programmer on your holiday list – or even if you [...]

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Papercraft HAL 9000

November 25, 2008

If you’ve got a colour printer with decent paper, scissors and glue, you can make these papercraft HAL 9000s:

You can download the kit here. The instructions are in Japanese and “Engrish”, but you’re smart people. I know you can figure it out.
[This article was also posted on my tech blog, Global Nerdy.]

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McGriddles: A Review

November 25, 2008

Yesterday, I had an assignment that took me to the University of Waterloo, which is somewhere between an hour and an a hour and a half’s drive west of Accordion City, depending on traffic and weather. I decided to hold off on breakfast and leave a little earlier than I’d planned, just in case the [...]

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Using the Hell Out of Your Digital Camera

November 24, 2008

I got this Nikon Coolpix P6000 assigned to me. I’ll do a writeup on it in a future article.
Cockeyed.com has a great article featuring “10 camera tips not really related to photography” which covers some interesting uses for a digital camera that may not have occurred to [...]

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“Dude, I’m a Drug Dog”

November 24, 2008

Be thankful you don’t have this dog’s current assignment:
Click the photo to see it at full size/Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

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Vatican Forgives Lennon

November 23, 2008

I think it’s rather sporting of them:
The Vatican’s newspaper has finally forgiven John Lennon for declaring that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, calling the remark a "boast" by a young man grappling with sudden fame.
"The remark by John Lennon, which triggered deep indignation mainly in the United States, after many [...]

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Exposed

November 23, 2008

How’d I miss this? Here’s an article – Exposed — from the May 25th, 2008 edition of the New York Times Magazine about one blogger’s experiences and the lines that you can cross while writing blogging, both personally and professionally. It covers some issues to keep in mind when writing in a forum that [...]

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Japan Airlines’ CEO Sets an Example

November 23, 2008

In striking contrast with American CEOs like those at the “Big Three” auto manufacturers, Japan Airlines’ CEO takes the bus to work, has his desk in the “bullpen” with the rest of the employees and slashed his salary to below that of his pilots (he’s currently paid about US$90,000):
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ABC News’ story [...]

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