Get me a choo choo train… or else
Shopping in Vermilion this weekend will be more like heading to the wild west for the holiday season, NewsChannel5 reported.
About 25 people are expected to go Christmas shopping with guns strapped to their sides.
They are shopping with guns in support of the concealed weapons bills that Gov. Bob Taft is planning to veto. - [...]
Goodbye Salter Street
Alliance Atlantis is closing one of the finest television productions studios in the world:
Alliance Atlantis (TSX:ACC.b) has announced that its Academy Award-winning Salter Street Films division has laid off its last employee and is about to close.
The Halifax-based company produced This Hour Has 22 Minutes and earlier this year won an Oscar for co-producing the [...]
Santa Clogs
In a world of lay-offs, downsizing, executive pay-outs and large-scale corporate corruption it’s refreshing to come across a company that simply gives a damn about it’s employees:
Called together about 2:30 Friday, each of the 200 employees of San Antonio Shoe in Pittsfield was presented with a gift of $1,000 for every year each had worked [...]
Saddam on CNN
Everyone knows: he was captured. But I think CNN put it best:
About 600 soldiers of the 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, and special operations forces of Task Force 121 conducted the raid in Ad Dawr, near a compound of ramshackle buildings, about nine miles outside Tikrit.
U.S. soldiers found Saddam hiding in a 6-to-8 feet deep, [...]
And a car is a horseless carriage
Ross “Random Bytes” Rader, the big boss at Tucows, the company developing the very-cool-looking Blogware has decreed that common blogging terms be banned from Blogware’s lexicon because they confuse (aka “require them to learn” ) users too much:
RSS, XML, RDF, Trackbacks, Permalinks (and its complement, the wonderfully concise but completely equivocal “#”), Auto-discovery and even [...]
Slim Devices understands their market
I postulate: Geeks tend to be early-adopters of technology. Geeks tend to like to hack their technology. Geeks create. Ergo: any new technology that lets geeks hack it in a creative way will be readily and quickly adopted by geeks.
Slim Devices makes a damned cool piece of hardware called the Squeezebox, a device that they [...]
Postal Service goes ballistic
Unable to grasp the fineries of satire and parody, the US Postal Service is up in arms and looking to mobilize it’s workers en masses over a Mad TV skit:
The Postal Service said Wednesday it is calling on its 750,000 employees to contact Sandy Grushow, chairman of Fox Entertainment Group to protest the sketch on [...]
The State of For-profit Medicine in the USA
If there was any doubt that socialized, publicly-funded, universal health care is the only feasible way to go about taking care of each other, this story about Galveston, Texas dispels them handily:
In the screening centre, Irene Perez has proven she’s “medically indigent.” Even though she makes only $650 a month, Perez will still have to [...]
Really long movie review: House of 1000 Corpses
For Melissa:
First, House of 1000 Corpses is not a horror movie. Despite the presence of hapless university students, a plethora of misshapen rednecks, and a creepy old house it’s not The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original, the remake can go piss up a pole). It’s gore, it’s excess, it’s bizarre, it’s troma like Troma. Which [...]
One-line movie review: House of 1000 Corpses
Directed and written by Rob Zombie, it’s nothing short of a masterpiece. Most people will absolutely hate it.
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