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My friend and fellow DJ from Clark Hall Pub at Crazy Go Nuts University, Chris “Planet Simpson” Turner, has had a rough weekend. His wife, Ashley Bristowe — also a friend of mine from Crazy Go Nuts University — writes that they had to put down their dog, Pony, after she viciously attacked Chris.

Poor Chris required 40 stitches to his face, and it was decided then

and there that she had to be put down, especially with a baby due very

soon.

It was a difficult choice and it must’ve been hard on them, but it was

the right one. Hang tough, guys, and get well soon, Chris.

Lizvang writes:

I’m selling off some of my glass and hematite jewellery that I’ve

made in hopes of earning some cash to go towards bills I can’t pay at

the moment. Please e.mail me at liz@lizvang.com to make a bid for the piece you would like.

The set comes with necklace and matching earrings and as I said before, they are all handmade by me, myself and I.

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Buy her stuff and give her a hand!

(Remember, boys, Valentine’s Day is coming soon…)

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.

• “I like to puff a blunt to “loosen up” for a long drive, man.”
• “My kung-fu is better than your…oh, dude, are those Doritos?”
• “I smoke because it makes me photogenic!”
• Wasn’t this a scene from Harold and Kumar?
• A poster you won’t see at Successories.
• Bubbie!
• They’ve been turning down the lights in the bathrooms of some Toronto

  clubs to discourage people from snorting coke in the washroom stalls.

  The cokeheads countered by snorting off the backlit screens of their

  PDAs. Apparently, potheads are finding similar uses for cellphones.

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.)

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

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

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

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:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5

“I, for one,” Deenster writes, “do not like the idea of being on tv.”

Here’s a sample of a clever comic commentary on copyright by Tony Esteves in his webcomic, Cigarro & Cerveja: