Some of the comments from the Halifax News site regarding the story that I posted yesterday about legislated holiday closures in Halifax. Nova Scotia has hardly joined the 20th century in legislating when businesses can legally open to sell to consumers. The rest of the country is only joining us right now to laugh at [...]
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Archive for December, 2007
Delusional in Dartmouth
by xinit • 12/8/2007 • Halifax, insanity • 0 Comments
Awaiting A Creation Museum Next
by xinit • 12/7/2007 • Halifax • 0 Comments
It’s a little more than a year now that there has been Sunday Shopping in the province of Nova Scotia. That’s right, there’s a place in North America that you weren’t able to walk into a store and buy all your groceries. You couldn’t walk into an automotive store and buy a new tire, or [...]
Read more →Angry Klaus Multimedia
by xinit • 12/4/2007 • angst, humor • 0 Comments
American Dad has been quite good lately, and Klaus’ rant tonight was exceptional. There’s an MP3 that goes along with this fish; load it to your iPod and play it on the bus as you plan your revenge on that asshole on the bus who just coughed in your face. Use the tiny 100×100 icons [...]
Read more →When the drug just worsens the symptoms…
by xinit • 12/3/2007 • insanity, life • 1 Comment
New Scientist has a story on anti-smoking drug Chantix, that has been linked to suicidal and violent behaviour. This is a drug that has been on the market in the US for 18 months now, and this didn’t show up in drug trials? No wonder people are skeptical of science and so-called “Big Pharma” when [...]
Read more →Santa Clausism by any other name still stinks
by xinit • 12/3/2007 • humor • 1 Comment
What is External Delivery? External delivery refers to a scientific research program as well as a community of older kids, teachers, and other adults who seek evidence of external sources of Christmas presents. The theory of external delivery holds that certain features of how Christmas presents are delivered each year are best explained by an [...]
Read more →Discussing Reason With The Faithful
by xinit • 12/2/2007 • life • 1 Comment
I saw this bit of writing pop up in its full form on a number of sites, and didn’t see any clear statement by the author that reprinting was cool, so I asked. The author replied that it’s free to redistribute, so feel free to print the PDF and post on church and library bulletin [...]
Read more →Frequenting Illegal Music Blogs
by xinit • 12/2/2007 • music • 0 Comments
While the legality of these sites is in question, there’s some seriously great punk, new wave, no wave, metal, and a who lot of indie music to be found if you have a bit of patience. Paying for a RapidShare account might be a good investment too if you really want to make good use [...]
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