Dec

31

Fourth Time Lucky

December 31, 2005 | 2 Comments

Police say a woman accidentally ran over and killed her boyfriend on the highway near Sioux Narrows, Ont. Thursday.
Ontario Provincial Police say the 39-year-old man and his girlfriend were driving from Whitefish Bay to Kenora on Ontario’s Highway 71.
The couple stopped for a break at the side of the highway at about 3 a.m., […]

Dec

30

Click Fraud and the Net

December 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Excellent article in Wired on the perils of click fraud. Yes, there are people who click on the ads you see below and, no kidding, they are doing it to enrich themselves…Who would have thunk it?
In fact the entire click based advertising model is flawed at a more basic level: it forces people to leave […]

Dec

30

Road to Hell…

December 30, 2005 | 7 Comments

My socon friends will, of course, say “I told you so”….
An unusual wedding ceremony was held in the southern resort town of Eilat on Wednesday, as Sharon Tendler, a 41-years-old Jewish millionaire from London married her beloved Cindy, a 35-years-old dolphin, Israel’s leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday.
The groom, a resident of the Eilat dolphin […]

Dec

29

Red/Blue

December 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment

One of the things you see in Iraq, you see all these soldiers, Marines, private contractors, and they’re all from the South, the greater South, the Mid-West, the Great Plains. And they all e-mail their families every single night about what’s going on. And so people in other parts of the country are far more […]

Dec

29

Descriptions

December 29, 2005 | 1 Comment

Scanning the Toronto papers in the wake of the Boxing Day shooting it appears a) gang related, b) part of an ongoing battle, c) to have involved upto fifteen people.
Police are not, however, releasing descriptions of the suspects though,
“The source also said police have issued a border alert for the suspects, whose identities and descriptions […]

Dec

28

Clunk…sound of the RIAA falling dead

December 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Here’s a nifty little extension for Firefox which lets you share the contents of your media files with your friends. P2P without the public - or the RIAA house detectives - able to see what you are sharing.
With broadband and this sort of private, virus/adware/malware free, enviornment my CD collection is your CD collection…Brilliant and […]

Dec

28

Google Putty

December 28, 2005 | 1 Comment

An eigth of a ton of silly putty? When you are a 20 something millionaire the sky is the limit. I kinda like the image of the guy grabbing the ink off a piece of newsprint…sort of sums up the business Google is in.
Update: given the spike in my traffic…it seems that there is more […]

Dec

28

Those Wacky French

December 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment

A French government crackdown on digital piracy has backfired because lawmakers rebelled by endorsing amendments to legalize the online sharing of music and movies instead of punishing it.
The vote last week by members of France’s lower house dealt a setback to Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, who introduced the draft legislation. Showbiz and cultural […]

Dec

27

WTF??

December 27, 2005 | 7 Comments

The number of known victims is climbing after a shooting amid hundreds of shoppers in downtown Toronto on Boxing Day, with police saying a girl has died and at least six other people have injuries.
Officers initially said only four people had been wounded in the gunfire, but they told CBC News at about 7:30 p.m. […]

Dec

26

Vancouver - Winner

December 26, 2005 | 2 Comments

Vancouver is the world’s best place to live, a survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has found.bbc
I’d agree. It is a wonderful city. But I have to say that Victoria, being Vancouver 35 years ago, smokes Vancouver in terms of livability simply because Vancouver, 35 years ago would smoke Vancouver today. Imagine a city […]

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