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The Current Situation

“America to the Rescue”

This week, The Daily Show aired one of its best and most spot-on segments, America to the Rescue, a high-larious summary of 30 years of American foreign policy in the Middle East:


Can’t see the video? Click here.

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In the News

R.I.P. Blinky, the Two-Headed Calf (Who Looks Just Like the Tucows Logo)

(This article was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.)

Boing Boing points to the story of Blinky, the two-headed calf, who was euthanized yesterday.

My co-workers at Tucows and I couldn’t help but notice that Blinky bore a rather uncanny resemblance to our corporate logo:

Blinky the two-headed calf, side-by-side with the Tucows logo

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Uncategorized

Tucows on Canadian Business’ 2007 “Tech 100”

(This was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.)

Business squishy cow and Canadian Business “Tech 100″ logoWhat’s a blog for, if not to toot one’s own horn, or at least the horn of the company for whom he is a spokesmodel?

Tucows, where I’ve worked for four years and where I hold the title of Technical Evangelist, is on Canadian Business’ 2007 “Tech 100” List, their annual listing of Canada’s 100 largest publicly traded companies. We’re right by the median, ranked at number 49 on the “Performance” list.

I like to think that at least a little chunk of that was my doing.

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funny

Disturbing Food Image #1

Sausage snake charmer
Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

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funny

I Love the Cover of the Latest “Onion Weekender”

(This was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.)

Cover of the “Onion Weekender”: “Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg — We sit down with the Smug Little Shit Behind the Latest Internet Phenomenon”

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funny

Nerd Scrabble

I got this picture from my friend Miss Fipi Lele. It was originally titled Alderaan is a proper noun, assho — OPTIMUS! COOL IT WITH THE LUBE!:

Nerds in Optimus Prime, Darth Vader and Boba Fett masks playing Scrabble

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Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

A Tale of Two Facades

Take a look at this building:

Facade of High Park Manor, on Bloor Street near High Park Avenue, Toronto.

…and then this building:

Facade of Sunny South, on Bloor Street near High Park Avenue, Toronto.

Believe it or not, these buildings aren’t just in the same neighbourhood, they’re right beside each other. I took both photos on the same day, perhaps 15 seconds apart. Good landscaping and decent signage make a big difference.

(I really hate the sign on High Park Manor, from the all-wrong-for-the-building choice of typefaces, to the fluorescent-backlit sign that makes the place look like a convenience store rather than an apartment across the street from the city’s largest park.)