300 is Not American Propaganda

I really liked 300. Thought it was beautifully shot, well-acted and more than anything else, captivated my attention and thoroughly entertained me for two hours.
As such I was prepared to completely ignore the rising swell of “300 is American propaganda” rhetoric until people I like started saying so too and then I thought “alrighty, time [...]

In A Plastic Alter-verse

How strange a place do you have to end up, to end up drinking beer from plastic beer bottles?
Next up: rubber cans?

Facebook Dragging Me In…

Ever since the rise of Friendster back in 2003 (is that thing still around? hey, it is! And so is my account… sitting there like digital flotsam) I’ve pretty much avoided the social networking sites, not for any real reason but that I don’t seem to get much out of them. And they seem [...]

Flickr -> Facebook, Together At Last

Mr. Jonathan Keebler (of Why You Should fame) has released a bookmarklet (javascript-based functionality that sits in your browser’s bookmark bar) that lets you grab photos from Flickr and upload them to your Facebook photo album.
Chocolate, peanut butter? I think so.
Update:After a mere 1380 minutes, Jonathan has released an update. Get it now.

Number portability comes to Canada

This is good news for all cellphone users in Canada:

…major wireless telecommunications carriers across the country will flip the switch on wireless number portability (WNP), which will allow cellphone users to do something that has been possible with traditional land lines for years.
(Via CBC)

It obviously won’t be a perfect system, cellphones themselves often won’t work [...]

300

Holy shit.
See this movie.

Vancouver Beats Toronto!

I bet you were thinking it was going to a hockey post but no such luck for you! Instead, something more exciting: The Economist’s Worldwide Cost of Living Survey.
Here it is, with 33% Can-con*:

34 (43) Vancouver Canada 96
36 (35) Chicago US 95
36 (40) Luxembourg Luxembourg 95
36 (43) Montreal Canada 95
39 (35) Los Angeles US 94
40 [...]

ePass Falls Down, Goes Boom

About a year ago I tried to use Canada’s ePass system to file my taxes, and blogged about what a brutally bad, buggy system it was. Two months ago Jonathan pointed out that ePass is prone to a number of basic security vulnerabilities. Amusingly, in both cases we were later anonymously attacked by commenters on [...]

Yep, Anything

Teacher: When you grow up you can be anything you want!
Second grader: I can be an elephant?!

(Via Overheard in New York)

Pragmatic Programmers: TextMate

It’s no secret I love TextMate. It and the Finder are probably the only two applications always open on my Mac. Heck, the day I bought it I printed out the manual and read it cover to cover, so I’m pleased to see that the latest Pragmatic Programmers book is TextMate: Power Editing for the [...]

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