tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41252911439188866442024-03-05T06:28:17.238-05:00Yes. Well. Right.The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04339905457174947982noreply@blogger.comBlogger596125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4125291143918886644.post-61674298910263506852011-01-07T11:29:00.000-05:002011-01-07T11:29:24.758-05:00Books I Read in 2010I started recording, through the magic of computers, all the books that I read in 2010. I might have missed a few (particularly books that I re-read this past year) as with most of these kind of projects, the ambition quickly becomes surpassed by the reality.<br />
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<div align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></i></b></span></div><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.beautifulchildren.net/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beautiful Children - Charles Bock</span></a></li>
<ul><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first book I read in 2010, it was one of those books that is technically quite fine, but failed to leave an impression. The best part was the dedication.</span></li>
</ul><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307357724"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Generation A - Coupland</span></a></li>
<ul><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It started off as one of the best books Coupland has written, but quickly turned into every other book Coupland has written</span></li>
</ul></ul><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Juliet Naked - Nick Hornby</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzowFJTApfY">Pride and Prejudice with Zombies</a></span></li>
<ul><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Didn't finish this one - the gag wore off on me too quickly.</span></li>
</ul><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Golden Compass - Pulman</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is The What - Eggers</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mystery Train - Marcus</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sushi Daze</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How To Be A Canadian - Ferguson</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rabbit, Run - Updike</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Bloods-Rover-James-Ellroy/dp/0679403930">Blood's A Rover - Ellroy</a></span></li>
<ul><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I wanted this to be better - I had been anticipating this one for years. </li>
</ul><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Ascent of Money</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lucky Jim</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Midnight's Children</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where The God of Love Hangs Out</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Point Omega</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let The Great World Spin</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What The Dog Saw</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Superfreakonomics</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Too Big To Fail</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Quants</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Changing My Mind</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Number9dream</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hokkaido Highway Blues</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eating The Dinosaur</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All My Friends Are Superheroes</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Realia</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Operation Mincemeat</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Less-than-Treason-Hemingway-Paris/dp/019505332X">Less than a treason: Hemingway in Paris</a></span></li>
<ul><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I went through another Hemingway phase this year and read biographys about him. No other writer's life really fascinates me as much as Hemingway's does, and I re-read The Sun Also Rises to remember why I was reading all these books about him, and read for the first time True At First Light</li>
</ul><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Multitude of Sins</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imperial Bedrooms</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great Apes</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Less-than-Treason-Hemingway-Paris/dp/019505332X">I Was Told There' d Be Cake</a> - Sloane Crosley</span></li>
<ul><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a great find this year.</span></li>
</ul><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Atonement</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Comedy by The Numbers</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maps and Legends</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Never Let Me Go</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitch-22</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Ask</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The War of The World</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/popus/franzen6.htm">Freedom</a> - Franzen</span></li>
<ul><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who didnt read this book this year? I like the Corrections better though.</span></li>
</ul><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Running with the bulls: My Life With The Hemingways</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hemingway: The Toronto Years</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">City of Thieves</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zero History</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leviathan</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">American Alone</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Await-Your-Reply-Dan-Chaon/dp/0345476026">Await Your Reply</a> - Chaon</span></li>
<ul><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the best books I read in 2010.</span></li>
</ul><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">True At First Light</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hocus Pocus</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imperial</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Liar's Poker</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Earth: The Book</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How Did You Get This Number</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Djibouti</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inherent Vince</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wrong About Japan</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Great Derangement</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Warhol Gang</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">100 Photos That Changed Canada</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Wrestler's Cruel Study</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's A Riot Going On</span></li>
</ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04339905457174947982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4125291143918886644.post-72059308393749622562010-12-16T21:38:00.000-05:002010-12-16T21:38:38.999-05:00The Definitive Best Songs of 2010These are the best songs of 2010. This is a stone cold fact that cannot be disputed. If you have a different opinion, too bad, you're completely wrong. Update your playlists accordingly.<br />
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It was a good year because there was a new Broken Social Scene album. I haven't seen it, but I heard This Movie is Broken wasn't that good - probably because it didn't have Joe Dick in it. This is the best song on Forgiveness Rock Record.<br />
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Jack White continues his descent into being the weirder younger brother of Johnny Depp, but damn this song is good.<br />
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They announced that they are on hiatus, which is code for the lead singer and the guitar player hate each other. Good album to go out on though.<br />
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If you someone said to you that guys from REM and guys from Snow Patrol joined forces, you would start running in the other direction. Which would be too bad, because this is a good song. Get On The Road is an honourable mention for 2010.<br />
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I found this song through one of those free song a day podcasts. Most of the songs are crap, but this is one isn't.<br />
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This album was supposed to deliver us all from the mediocrity of mainstream and the piousness of alternative rock, to make right what was wrong. It didn't do any of that, but it still had some good songs. Soft In The Center gets an honourable mention.<br />
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This song didn't come out in 2010, but screw you, it's my list. What, there are rules to this kind of thing? Listened to this one a lot early last year. Much better song than Sweet Disposition.<br />
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He's Canadian, but don't hold that against him. Robots got a lot of attention this year, but if you like that song better than this one, than you're wrong. If you think so, take your ipod and dunk it in a glass of tepid Four Loko and then throw it off the roof into an empty swimming pool.<br />
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Wicked song from a wicked band that deserves more recognition.<br />
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Another wicked song that puts the bass in your face.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJWrF7rsKfM">Heading For Nowhere - Jets Overhead</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_7nPkjdLQY">Coffee Girl - The Tragically Hip</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6pxhaA2-_o">The Mama Papa - Plants and Animals</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWBG1j_flrg">The High Road - Broken Bells</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPdExLDpRzw">Blood's Too Rich - Luke Doucet</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzjERZU3wbY">Swim Until You Can't See Land - Frightened Rabbit</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_3540655">Underdog - e-dubble</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOPWth95We4">A Crime - Sharon Van Etten</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04339905457174947982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4125291143918886644.post-86023557999096001902010-11-16T12:03:00.000-05:002010-11-16T12:03:06.094-05:00It's On Like A Certain Large Ape That Throws Barrels At Stereotypical Italian PlumbersNintendo wants to <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/11/11/its-on-like-donkey-kongor-is-it/">copyright the phrase</a> "It's On Like Donkey Kong" in a shameless PR stunt that coincides with the release of a new Donkey Kong Game.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/m/arts/story.html?id=3820779http://www.nationalpost.com/m/arts/story.html?id=3820779">Mr. Murray</a> on the situation: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><i> "</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><i>But really, since when is proclaiming your highly cemented corporate identity by trademarking stuff you didn’t come up with a good PR move? Becoming part of the public lexicon is every company’s free advertising dream, except for, say, Exxon or BP Oil, and trademarking publicly generated phrases really cuts into that dream. I mean, it’s not as if the saying is a negative one that needs to be controlled before it harms the company, like my popular catchphrases, “Taco Bell is only good when you’re drunk” and “Even drunk, I won’t eat at McDonald’s.”</i></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Take luge, for example. This event is ridiculous - a luger sits on a pie plate with two knives on the bottom and hurls down an ice track. I'm not saying that there's not a level of skill and athleticism involved, but it was no surprise that the luger from Georgia died. (IOC officials should be ashamed for the <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35405216/ns/today-today_in_vancouver/">double-speak</a> after the accident - they blamed in on 'athlete error' but went ahead and made track changes).</div><br />
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I would gladly trade in my work laptop for one of these.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04339905457174947982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4125291143918886644.post-75501561774785714062010-01-04T16:14:00.006-05:002010-01-05T13:59:48.526-05:00I Vote For Leaving It BlankThe <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Aughties</span>? The Naughties? The Blanks? Let's just leave this decade nameless and move on with our collective lives. <div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was mid-December when I saw a 'best of the decade list' that I realized that this nameless decade was over. Of course I knew that the year was coming to an end, but the last time a decade ended I was anxious about the clocks turning over, caught up in the general unease about Y2K. Ten years ago I was in a park, in the middle of Japan, watching fireworks with the woman who would become my wife, waiting for the world to end. And it almost did at midnight: everyone flipped on their cellphones, causing the system to overload, so all you heard were long beeps. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is how the world ends - not with a bang, but with a busy tone.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We took all that anxiety from Y2K and spread it out over the last ten years, from terrorist attacks to weapons of mass destruction to airport security to seeing Janet Jackson's nipple to bird and swine flu to a financial crisis to having a black President of the U.S. to cyborg monkeys overthrowing the current order and taking their rightful place as the master's of humanity. (OK, that last one is only mine.) We might have been better off if something had happened on Dec 31, 1999 - an elevator that traps people in a high rise building, a server meltdown in the basement that had <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">everyone's</span> credit card info and precious, precious porn. 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It's like a comment list from a boring blog mixed with a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">MSN</span> messenger conversation between a pedophile pretending to be a 12-year old girl in her underwear chatting with an undercover RCMP officer pretending to be a pedophile, combined with a New Year's Party where everyone is drunk and just talks at one another.<br /><br />The best part about is Fake Twits - anyone can create an account in anyone <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">else's</span> name, add a photo and pretend to be that person.<br /><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/petermansbridg">@<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">petermansbridge</span> </a>is a standout:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Sf8VJOm5vO9k9cgnZDNfWJkyn6ZA30WRQQ1LT5tdAGRGD3mG0ElI2jGl3PSEiOq0eBVduCtiuFAk16zBPTPt86bXLq6hlh7Q33hDm2IjyybIfca77ljkwdY9SKMnm-8O50_wOM_58yU/s1600-h/pmans1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Sf8VJOm5vO9k9cgnZDNfWJkyn6ZA30WRQQ1LT5tdAGRGD3mG0ElI2jGl3PSEiOq0eBVduCtiuFAk16zBPTPt86bXLq6hlh7Q33hDm2IjyybIfca77ljkwdY9SKMnm-8O50_wOM_58yU/s320/pmans1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346518387208317810" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />So is <a href="http://twitter.com/EtalkBen">@<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">etalkben</span></a> who claims to be Ben Mulroney. The sad thing is that if you just read the posts, you couldn't really guess that it might not be the real Ben Mulroney... or is it?<br /><br />There was a great Annie Mr<strong style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">oczkowski</span> twitter, but it looks like it has been deactivated. No doubt there will be some kind of backlash against fake twits, and there will be some verification process and all the fun will be sucked out of Twitter and we will be left with people posting about what their cat did this morning or entreaties to have a positive day. </strong>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04339905457174947982noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4125291143918886644.post-15028128013114580202009-06-09T13:36:00.000-04:002009-06-09T13:37:08.871-04:00The History of the Credit Card<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR8hkp1qZuKoDR9ArWKaBDaBZghodGowzh-TWFvF6lgzYgYiSxwA6kr0aN-yvttR2ZuNL52E-s3_a3pjmVTDpizS_4Gw41WFNxUE6I-cLwnqX5f0ro6Z7A8xgXu-4CNkIT-Gks76W-nsU/s1600-h/Copy-of-AmEXplastic1959.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR8hkp1qZuKoDR9ArWKaBDaBZghodGowzh-TWFvF6lgzYgYiSxwA6kr0aN-yvttR2ZuNL52E-s3_a3pjmVTDpizS_4Gw41WFNxUE6I-cLwnqX5f0ro6Z7A8xgXu-4CNkIT-Gks76W-nsU/s320/Copy-of-AmEXplastic1959.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345383195674238050" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.thebigmoney.com/slideshow/plastic-flashback#">A visual history of the credit card</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04339905457174947982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4125291143918886644.post-76138009762454687602009-06-05T09:50:00.002-04:002009-06-05T09:54:14.800-04:00Countries That Smoke The Most<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgQ5pf9XwhepB5RD78guEjPhZLDsgRIprKaCfXxYcaZWja8PaIGA1bpxQ38J1rYmqfBJfUNHUO72juy5cQsUOs2JAbBIp3RSpQdBuSLDdrkjDsGtxNgx5-egN27AlIo-oxLA7YQL9Aoks/s1600-h/cigarettes.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 273px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgQ5pf9XwhepB5RD78guEjPhZLDsgRIprKaCfXxYcaZWja8PaIGA1bpxQ38J1rYmqfBJfUNHUO72juy5cQsUOs2JAbBIp3RSpQdBuSLDdrkjDsGtxNgx5-egN27AlIo-oxLA7YQL9Aoks/s320/cigarettes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343840816896830210" border="0" /></a><br />Once again, Canada falls behind the rest of the world in smoking. It's apparent that what's needed is a government program aimed at getting teens and children smoking, so we can beat the global competition.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=10672">Courtesy of the good people at Japan Probe.</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04339905457174947982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4125291143918886644.post-17769696777391335712009-06-05T09:45:00.003-04:002009-06-05T09:48:28.228-04:00Space Monkey PicturesIt seems to weird that we once did this - put monkeys into space. But we did, and their contribution to the space program shouldn't go unnoticed, as they blazed the trail for the eventual <a href="http://somethingknew.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/pigs_in_space.jpg">Pigs in Space</a> program.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4BndS8Jeq83PMc2X7UzJjz7bcW7BKSJ8NIXMYT8SlH2BwY_6QPVYRY2X-2TcUNRmUoDKCYbZ_TxJVKtCXB8heD4eibCmDeoFUBNEd34VEF6uUnW7kIPcBfyPOqIe4_2KDKLGJ8FTjDtI/s1600-h/090528-05-space-chimps-training_big.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 244px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4BndS8Jeq83PMc2X7UzJjz7bcW7BKSJ8NIXMYT8SlH2BwY_6QPVYRY2X-2TcUNRmUoDKCYbZ_TxJVKtCXB8heD4eibCmDeoFUBNEd34VEF6uUnW7kIPcBfyPOqIe4_2KDKLGJ8FTjDtI/s320/090528-05-space-chimps-training_big.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343839253299698162" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/space-monkeys-fifty-years/photo5.html">Space Monkeys</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04339905457174947982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4125291143918886644.post-77860105434333783272009-06-05T09:43:00.001-04:002009-06-05T09:44:28.235-04:00100 Abandoned Houses<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2XGH7Qe3vp1HKVa0Gb3fo6Cdxqhlpv8FnNNWsrQxqLbJHSmc5c4Tx69o531K-gbiaLMJfjYSV_aoUgn9tHKuWJVgoIcAlEa7eXHIMBOBxtOfe_HLd-H49RfKNrLMgrV15EVP8ugk2Du0/s1600-h/10150402_14_xl.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2XGH7Qe3vp1HKVa0Gb3fo6Cdxqhlpv8FnNNWsrQxqLbJHSmc5c4Tx69o531K-gbiaLMJfjYSV_aoUgn9tHKuWJVgoIcAlEa7eXHIMBOBxtOfe_HLd-H49RfKNrLMgrV15EVP8ugk2Du0/s320/10150402_14_xl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343838862434490242" border="0" /></a><br />Unfortunately just the outside, but still interesting to look at.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.100abandonedhouses.com/">100 Abandoned Houses</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04339905457174947982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4125291143918886644.post-9122569222397431282009-06-05T09:41:00.001-04:002009-06-05T09:42:36.455-04:00Tortue Apology Chart<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUNb7GcK7Qtz9A_0mw1cR1Yu4o642g4v4SwoMpQIieiPRUlfVlcCmeHAkb3hTZUkLKAj-KRKWD6CkVd184053fKqikbdo58DL_2eJhOUGCrWziBMTFkGWhlx5QIEskaNcsI3Ajky0Wxho/s1600-h/Torture+Apologia+Chart6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 247px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUNb7GcK7Qtz9A_0mw1cR1Yu4o642g4v4SwoMpQIieiPRUlfVlcCmeHAkb3hTZUkLKAj-KRKWD6CkVd184053fKqikbdo58DL_2eJhOUGCrWziBMTFkGWhlx5QIEskaNcsI3Ajky0Wxho/s320/Torture+Apologia+Chart6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343838259623230786" border="0" /></a><br />Just in case your boss calls you in to explain how the team-building exercise you were in charge of went so horribly, horribly wrong.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUrgSfrb0k4CeoYqj_YPMymWh2-_FIIXM3aieHOWFQZgSxkPgdGxkGNJo4iXpXz0s8_fq31POcLy2VpPi6qHXTm1T-JaQkN9ELyN8Kl2WK25oLXBWGJsxolIR2yectB3gFDP4hEWT3eT8/s1600-h/Torture+Apologia+Chart6.jpg">Torture Apology Chart</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04339905457174947982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4125291143918886644.post-57549021594024318322009-06-05T09:38:00.002-04:002009-06-05T09:40:47.747-04:00Explosions and Boobs<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJiIu1fFUvVGQIzHQ3yVVv-42OaQFz6nQpIdPhdl5fOoJg0Bj1z3hMy3AGN7nu3oJ3L8e_-mCW7eZtmVWhG6hO1t8UEVW55P5s_yl5Zz5fC6Nd1sJsih2ATF2WpJPb-NMM9XQ9-Z0Fa3E/s1600-h/e+b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 132px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJiIu1fFUvVGQIzHQ3yVVv-42OaQFz6nQpIdPhdl5fOoJg0Bj1z3hMy3AGN7nu3oJ3L8e_-mCW7eZtmVWhG6hO1t8UEVW55P5s_yl5Zz5fC6Nd1sJsih2ATF2WpJPb-NMM9XQ9-Z0Fa3E/s320/e+b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343837924725886450" border="0" /></a><br />Once again, the Internet justifies its existence.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.explosionsandboobs.com/">Explosions and Boobs</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04339905457174947982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4125291143918886644.post-75342200424849600192009-06-05T09:34:00.001-04:002009-06-05T09:37:34.715-04:00Yokohama Port Photos<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtNXTwho_z7XjQEiCAus1xYaSCU6vSqRfS0KKLyhAtdXl1nE8ZN4B8QcuMwNlvMXSe3VbMjTeKd91HBjubMH2BHaA9y6t2_4qStrKUbHrxKqzyqSOGtNPD02An19b2M-pWf0e819ys_EY/s1600-h/yokohama+port.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 144px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtNXTwho_z7XjQEiCAus1xYaSCU6vSqRfS0KKLyhAtdXl1nE8ZN4B8QcuMwNlvMXSe3VbMjTeKd91HBjubMH2BHaA9y6t2_4qStrKUbHrxKqzyqSOGtNPD02An19b2M-pWf0e819ys_EY/s320/yokohama+port.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343837004146178914" border="0" /></a><br />Great photo series on Yokohama Port, which turns 150 years old this year.<br /><br /><a href="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/photospecials/graph/150Yokohama/33.html">Mainichi Dailt News</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04339905457174947982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4125291143918886644.post-34630442920185972852009-05-29T13:53:00.003-04:002009-05-29T13:56:51.600-04:00Just Making It Up OR Your Memory Hates YouIncredibly interesting article about <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">confabulatory</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">hypermensia</span>, a disorder that is the opposite of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">amnesia</span>, in which suffers make up past events:<br /><br /><p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" align="justify">"Most strikingly, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">LM</span> confabulated plausible answers to questions about both his personal life and public events, which would normally elicit from most people an answer of "I don't know". When the researchers asked him "Who won the <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Palme</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">d'Or</span></em> at the Cannes Film Festival in 1980?" he replied "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Fernandel</span>"; when asked what he had for dinner on Tuesday two weeks ago, he answered "Steak with french fries"; and when asked "Do you remember what you did on March 13<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">th</span>, 1985?" he replied "We spent the day at the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Senart</span> Forest."<br /></p> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">LM</span> thus has a "pure" amnesic syndrome, in that his impairment is not associated with other cognitive deficits which might interfere with memory function. He scored normally on short-term memory tests, and the evaluation revealed mild, diffuse <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">neurodegeneration</span>, rather than damage in a specific part of the brain. False memories are not uncommon in patients with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Korsakoff's</span> syndrome - indeed the condition is also referred to as amnesic-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">confabulatory</span> syndrome. However, the confabulations of such patients are sometimes extraordinary, bizarre and verging on being delusional. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">LM's</span> confabulations, on the other hand, were always plausible, and therefore quite unlike those reported in other <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Korsakoff's</span> patients. "</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04339905457174947982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4125291143918886644.post-70610912785306939072009-05-29T13:51:00.001-04:002009-05-29T13:52:50.169-04:00Charts About Beer<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4L8HDX75_EW5fJnLKsTFztBxKQO-lIlV44nkl5eXtzyjOJeP4Aw7Lk0gw1S-epYz0mzJm2BG8y5z7hfYcoX64BLXSIbyf-hwdC1V18Fr0ofSnvaywFOaykj2Ap_10oJvcSSZtDQEnXl0/s1600-h/GABF+Medal+Map.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 186px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4L8HDX75_EW5fJnLKsTFztBxKQO-lIlV44nkl5eXtzyjOJeP4Aw7Lk0gw1S-epYz0mzJm2BG8y5z7hfYcoX64BLXSIbyf-hwdC1V18Fr0ofSnvaywFOaykj2Ap_10oJvcSSZtDQEnXl0/s320/GABF+Medal+Map.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341305175759792642" border="0" /></a><br />It needs to be noted that Canada is not included on any of these charts about beer.<br /><br /><a href="http://flowingdata.com/2009/05/29/11-informative-and-fun-infographics-about-beer/">Infographics about Beer</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04339905457174947982noreply@blogger.com0