October 2008
176 posts
Google 2001 →
blownspeakers:
“In honor of our 10th birthday, we’ve brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001. “
Hits for “Quinn Omori”:
In 2001: 4
In 2008: 447
Oh this is great! For “Matthew Gruman”:
2001: 10
2008: 1,720
Top ten reasons for thanking conservatives.
rabbleblog:
by Robert Chernomas *
[…]
You finally understand the idiom, “fool me once shame on you, fool me
twice shame on me.”
“If homosexuality is a disease, let’s all call in queer to work: “Hello. Can’t...”
– Seth Rogen (via livesophia) (via sparo) (via thenightdances) (via peterwknox)
September 2008
181 posts
Strong leaders have open minds
rabbleblog:
By David Suzuki
How often must a president or prime minister make split-second decisions of the kind they have to make during a debate? We’ve witnessed eight years of an American president who apparently isn’t interested in seeking advice or counsel when his mind is already made up and who doggedly refuses to admit mistakes or change his mind. That’s truly scary because he’s running...
The Guillemots - “Who Left the Lights On,...
“«Le verbe aimer est un des plus difficile à conjuguer : son passé n’est pas...”
– Jean Cocteau (via polarisair) (via stewardesses) (via thinslice)
WatchRalph Shaw, “King of the Ukelele”, at Word on the Street.
WatchMaria in the Shower at Word on the Street.
PETA asks Ben & Jerry's to use breast milk instead... →
livejamie:
I hate Peta so much. :|
Ridiculous as they seem (are?), think about how much you wouldn’t know about animal treatment if they weren’t around. You have to bend a metal bar past the vertex before you can make it straight.
But yeah… creepy.
tylercoates:
Rilo Kiley - “A Better Son /...
So Bud Oracle approached me today on the street for his campaign, smelling a bit like Wreck Beach. He handed me a little flyer (about an inch wide and long), explaining that he is trying to keep his campaign under $50 and that “[I] seem like a smart guy who can probably find out more about him on [his] own.”
After reading through his stuff, I’m pretty sure that was code for...
WOTS
Word on the Street was pretty great. The $20 scavenger hunt/gift bag included a free subscription to subTerrain, at least a dozen free books, magazines, buttons, pencils, pins, etc. Even Mint Records was there handing out samplers. I got to write/read a limerick about cougars at the Royal (inspired by a true story) for the Geist event, got a few videos of the music, and just had a really great...
.bak
Does anyone else still append files with “.bak” when you don’t want them accessible? I haven’t edited an autoexec.bat since the 90s, and I still use that convention.
Stephen Harper on Canadian 'culture"
rabbleblog:
By Murray Dobbin
In an interview by Kevin Michael Grace that appeared in the Montreal Gazette
on March 22, 2002, Stephen Harper offered this answer when asked: “Is there
a Canadian culture?”
Strephen Harper: “Yes, in a very loose sense. But I think that Canadians
culture is complex. It consists of regional cultures within Canada, regional
cultures that cross borders with the U.S....
“The website looks fabulous! What a change. It’s a winner…
Love the...”
– Within an hour of going live, we got this message from an author featured on the site I just finished. What a great feeling.
Books
Me: i'm re-reading Easton Ellis' The Informers... were you in the class when Carolyn made me tell David Helwig that his "rat/vagina torture scene" was copied in Ellis' American Psycho? one of the most awkward moments of my life
Quebec women join the battle
rabbleblog:
by Pierre Beaudet […] Michèle Asselin, the President of the FFQ, says Harper is destroying some of the gains achieved by the women’s movement in the past period. ‘He is the one who has abolished the national daycare program. Indeed, Harper brought down Canada to the lowest level of all OCDE countries in educational programs for pre-schoolers.’ In addition she reminds us, Harper...
What about health care?
rabbleblog:
By Jan Malek
[…]
Health care is only recently seeing federal government reinvestment after years of devastating funding cuts. There has also been a shift – particularly in the last two years under Conservative governance – of health care responsibility to the provinces, many of which are happy to see health care delivery costs passed into the hands of private...
WatchLightning Strikes on the John Hancock Building
Art and Ordinary people
rabbleblog:
by Dionne Brand
Harper says that ordinary people don’t care much for arts funding and by implication for art. He conjures a hulking vision of ‘ordinary people’ as dull and uninterested, hateful and without grace, glowering at their televisions at the effete artists cavorting at galas. I don’t know which ordinary people he’s talking about. All the ordinary people I know love to hear...
Time Fite - Big Mistake (Guitar Chords) →
I didn’t know he was such a weird looking dude until I was looking for a video to go with the chords.
