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In the News

Ann Coulter Gets Her Ass Fact-Checked by the CBC

Video still: Ann Coulter on CBC.

“And Canada also pitched in during the War of the Worlds in 1938…”

Here’s a video clip (700K, QuickTime, enclosure) featuring Ann “Four

legs good, two legs better!” Coulter doing what she does best — going

with her gut feeling and coming up with unsubstantiated facts to back

them up. In this segment, an appearance on the CBC’s news magazine show, The Fifth Estate, she’s quite sure that Canada participated in

the Vietnam war (which in fact, was not the case).

I’ll put my cards on the table right now: Coulter is a completely

insane bitch. Her worldview is that sort of “if you’re not completely

with us, you’re must be an enemy after our precious bodily fluids”

thinking — consider her books Treason (in which she equates anything other than her brand of neoconservatism as such) and How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)

(the sort of back-patting cliquery that one should’ve dispensed with

after high school). I’ve read both books and must say that I’ve seen

better paper after wiping my ass.

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In the News

The Conservative Analysis on Why Spongebob Squarepants is Gay

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Geek

IKEA Fails the Turing Test, But Aces the Davezilla Test

IKEA has a cute little artifical intelligence program, Anna, who will gladly try to help meet your strangely-named disposable Swedish furniture needs.

Honorary GTABlogger Davezilla had some other Swedish needs (I’ll bet they were strangely-named, too), and he compiled this animation which chronicles his conversation with Anna.

Screen shot: Davezilla's conversation with IKEA's chatbot, Anna.

In case you’re not familiar with the term, here’s the Wikipedia entry for “Turing Test”.

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It Happened to Me

Five Reasons to Vote for Accordion Guy for "Best Canadian Blog" in the 2005 Bloggies

Voting on the 2005 Bloggies

closes on Thursday, February 3rd at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time

(that’s GMT-5). If you enjoy this blog, please vote for it for “Best

Canadian Blog”!

And now the five reasons — five particularly well-received entries from 2004:

  • Christine on the Secret Swing
    The

    story that ended up on Boing Boing, leading to MuchMusic and the Globe

    and Mail contacting me about its location and subsequently doing

    stories on it.

  • Must-Know Canadian Tunes?
    In

    which I ask for readers’ help to suggest pop/rock songs that are part

    of the Canadian experience that my love fiancee, who is American, may

    not have heard..

  • The Breakup Style of PowerPoint
    We spend at least 40 hours a week at work — surely some office culture has seeped into unexpected places in our lives.
  • Quite Possibly the First Time the Word “Blog” was Used in Comics
    The

    teenaged Spider-Man was a pretty angsty guy — I’m sure he’d have had a

    LiveJournal — but the credit goes to Superman for what was possibly

    the first time the word “blog” was used in comics.

  • Almost 30 Years Later, and I Still Don’t Belong
    In

    which an extremely right-wing writer gets up my nose about who’s really

    Canadian and who’s not. It aslo gave rise to this button, which got

    bandied about a lot more than I thought it ever would:

    Banner: My Canada includes Accordion Guy

    It doesn’t get any more Canadian than this!

Please vote, and thank you for your support!

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Uncategorized

The Street Finds Its Own Uses for Flickr

Over on The Farm: an article on some interesting uses for Flickr — keeping tabs on how high-tech companies are doing and finding power outlets and wifi in airports.


Funny Flickr tag of the day: weed.

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Uncategorized

Just Be Thankful It’s Not Stallman Posing

A lot of Open Source projects are copies of popular Microsoft products. Miguel de Icaza, Open Source alpha geek and creator of the GNOME desktop for Linux, continues this tradition by striking sexy poses Bill Gates-style. I added (in)appropriate captions below the photos; ask your geek friends if you don’t get the jokes.

(If you want to see these photos in their full glory at their original sizes, you’ll want to see this entry in Nat Friedman’s blog — follow the link and scroll down.)

Photo: Miguel strikes a Sexy Bill Gates pose (1 of 3).

“Some guys will just give you mono. I created Mono, baby!”

Photo: Miguel strikes a Sexy Bill Gates

  pose (2 of 3).

“Open Source is about programmers ‘scratching an itch.’ I’ve got a very personal itch I’d love you to scratch…”

Photo: Miguel strikes a Sexy Bill Gates

  pose (3 of 3).

“Open Source software is like sex in a committed relationship: you only think you’re not paying for it.”

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How Lisa Came to Israel

Deenster beat me to the punch in pointing to the blog called On the Face (it’s her big sister’s blog), but it bears a second recommendation. Lisa’s story told in multiple parts, titled How Lisa Came to Israel,

is an intriguing tale about her arrival in Israel during a explosive

time, both personally and politically. It’s a great story told well.

Here are links to the installments she’s written so far: