! In other cities people complain about Christmas starting too early. In Montreal people do something about it – they organize, plan, scheme… no idle chatter here. Uh, OK, it’s completely ridiculous, doing things like smearing shop windows with baby oil in protest. But we’re an activist city – we won’t take serious matters like decorating for Christmas too early lying down! The outrage of it all! [embarrassingly, this was found via Swallowing Tacks]
I usually don’t take
online tests, but the one that Tom referred to in Plasticbag.org seemed interesting: “Are you dumb?” at the Guardian Online. It turned out to be very difficult for a New-Worlder such as myself – some of the questions relied very much upon local knowledge. I stll don’t know what Posh and Becks refers to, and have never heard of Douglas Bader. I still managed 29 of 38.
Not only are
the Rheostatics one of the closest things to a genius literate pop band you’re going to find, but group member Dave Bidini is a fine writer of books, not just songs. His latest is Tropic of Hockey and you can read an unedited sort-of excerpt called Gretzky Eats Shit. Bidini has also posted another story called Joan. Interesting maybe-fact – the “Gordie” in the story is probably Gordon Downie of the Tragically Hip. I’m not certain, but I’ve been hearing stories for years about the rock-band house-league hockey team in Toronto. So it makes sense.
OK, when I start
a company there’s going to be a very simple test for the person who is responsible for setting up the virtual server for a new site. If you forget to set it up so you can get there using only the domain name + TLD without adding ‘www.‘ in front of it, you’re fired.
Hmmm
. This is scary to me: “Britain will give insurers the go-ahead to use genetic testing for the first time to identify the hereditary condition Huntington’s disease.” In Wired News, UK Insurers Back Genetic Testing.
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