Cracked has an arbitrary list of 25 weird toys. Watch for the violated faerie and the clown works… Check out the cute sushi play set where your child can learn the importance of proper preparation of fugu. Poison… poison… tasty fish! Wonder if the kit comes pre-poisoned or if you have to supply your own?
Read more →I’ve downloaded a couple episodes of Chaser’s War on Everything, and while I have to admit to being a bit confused by about 30% of the pop culture references, it did make for a good show. There’s little that we really get here in North America of what it’s like down under. Name a TV [...]
Read more →Emo vs. Jaguar Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
Read more →This is a Halifax Experience, so if you’re from somewhere without The Crazy, then you can head over to the BinarySoul webstore to take part in all the spending fun! All proceeds go to paying for Tania’s degree in Fishie Studies or whatever it’s called…
Read more →Tania and I were talking about logical fallacies, as her writing instructor had brought up a handful of them in class today. I was surprised that he’d only mentioned ten of them, but then I had a touch time coming up with anything other than ad hominem, appeal to authority, and post hoc. How did [...]
Read more →I’ve reformatted the following spam “job advertisement” for clarity, and I have highlighted some of the bits I find most entertaining. We are at search and selection of both experienced, highly qualified employees, and young, creative and perspective specialists [1] in marketing. We clearly realize that the success of our company are our employees, and [...]
Read more →I’ve written about this ‘experiment’ that these German noisemakers undertook to try making music without a record company’s input. The past subscriber-driven project attracted approximately 2000 people to pay a fee of between €35 and €65 (today’s price in CAD would range between $50 and $93, though the exchange rate wasn’t as favourable when I [...]
Read more →Okay, the basics of the story: Lululemon (Yoga clothing company) makes healthful woo woo claims for clothing LLL plays on sustainable production, claiming seaweed makes up 24% of fabric LLL gets slap on wrist from textile labeling, ordered to remove unproven, untested medical claims LLL claims of anti-stress and amino acids absorbtion are removed from [...]
Read more →It didn’t really hit me until today how popular The New Pornographers are in places that aren’t Vancouver. I know that John Collins was so busy touring and playing with them that he didn’t have time to dedicate much time to the latest Evaporators CD and the shows around that. I’ve seen their name come [...]
Read more →Among spoon bending tricks, I have seen some decent sleight of hand variations that have taken me by surprise. It’s like a well done card trick where, even though I know that you’re forcing my card pick (3 of Clubs again?) it’s still impressive. Yes I know that you can’t really saw someone in half, [...]
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