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Y’know, when I was young, oversexed and lived by an ocean, I smiled more than these guys.

If you’ve been watching the CanWest Global TV network or riding the subway in Accordion City, you have been deluged with promos for the new series, Falcon Beach. You have probably (and correctly) guessed that it is the Canadian answer to the hit TV show, The OC.

What you may not have guessed is that it’s made in Winnipeg (a.k.a. “Winterpeg” and “The Peg”). Winnipeg Beach, to be precise. Boss Ross’ hometown.

Mind you, I believe they don’t say where the beach is in the show, and another TV show did manage to convince us that Pittsburgh (actually Toronto in steeltown drag) was a gay party town.

Who knew that the Star Wars series of movies had so many people screaming “Noooooooo!”? Now, for the first time, you can hear them all in one place! [390KB, MP3 file]

Bonus: This entry has a remix of Liam Lynch’s My United States of Whatever, with Darth Vader’s “Nooooo!” subbing for Lynch’s “Whatever”.

Nominations for the 2006 Bloggies are open until Tuesday, January 10th at 10:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (that’s 03:00 Wednesday, January 11th UTC). The rules are slightly different this year — you have to nominate a minimum of three different blogs for your nomination to be valid. Please make The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century one of your nominations!

This question is always burning in my mind whenever one of my hippie friends tries to feed me their latest meat-and-dairy-free organic creation or when I’ve been to the “Kind Kitchen” at the Om Festival:

Click the image to see the full comic.

To

help you get started with what is probably your first day of work this

year (at least in North America, anyway), here’s a cute Flash animation

titled Drum Machine [3.0MB; Flash file]. Enjoy!

That’s “Happy New Year!” in Tagalog.

I wrote this post hours before midnight and set it to automatically appear at the start of the new year. I’ll at my friend Liz’s house party at midnight, so please accept these in absentia wishes. Have a good one!

I don’t know how many current computer games have this feature, but back in the dark ages of DOS, many IBM PC games featured a “the boss is coming!” key. This key, when pressed in mid-game, quickly suspended the game and hid it with a screen that looked like a  word processor or spreadsheet. Once the boss was out of sight, you could press the key again and resume the game. This feature has found its way into blogs: a number feature this “web fire escape” icon, which if clicked, takes you to a web page that looks more work-related:

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(By default, that web fire escape should take you to Google. You can set the escape destination on this page.)

Dreidels once served a purpose similar to the “boss is coming” key and the “web fire escape” — but in reverse: they were used to make it look as if you were slacking off. In the time of Emperor Antiochus IV, study of the Torah and Jewish prayers were forbidden. When Jews gathered to study or pray, they had a dreidel handy just in case the “cops” or any “snitches” were passing by: if one did, they’d break out the dreidel and pretend to be playing a game of chance, which was legal. These days, the dreidel is a children’s game played at Chanukah, often using chocolate for “bets”.

I could write about the rules here, but it’s more fun to learn by playing. You can try out jewfaq.org’s JavaScript-based game, but those craving a much flashier version (using Flash, no less!) should give Babaganewz.com’s Dreidel 6000 a spin.