Who couldn't survive without a little bit of punk rock in their life?  Not me.

You Say Party! We Say Die!
The Flatliners
The Rebel Spell
The New Breed
The Tranzmitors
The Leather Uppers
Maximum RNR
Propagandhi
The Jolts
Subb
SNFU
The Vapids
Inner City Surfers
nomeansno
Hanson Brothers
The Black Halos
The Evaporators
Hacksaw
The Exploders
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Here's the next installment in my exploration of fine Canadian music:

The Hot Springs
The Maynards
The Guest Bedroom
Duchess Says
October Guard
Raised by Swans (only one song, but you must listen)
The Arcade Fire
Falconhawk
Metric
Hilotrons

Enjoy!

PS>  If you haven't realized it yet, there's  - you know.. the stuff that comes out of your ( Read more... )

It's called the Smartuki and I want one.  You take one part smart fortwo and add 1000 cc's of gixxer goodness:

I love this second video when it comes up on the camera. You don't hear anything, but when it passes it sounds like an F1 car. That sound make me giddy every time I hear it.

Here's one list in a series of (good EXCELLENT) Canadian bands to check out:

Fake Cops
Solvent
Peaches
controller.controller
Caribou
Cities in Dust
Broken Social Scene
Immaculate Machine
The Hidden Cameras
Cadeaux

More to come, hatheads.

It's been a good music day today.

Firstly -- They sayed that theyed do it, but I didn't believe them.  CBC Radio 3 (yes, I am blogging about it again) has integrated New Music Canada into it site.  If you have no idea what this means, let me spell it out for you.  You can now listen to any band from NMC and add it to your R3 playlist.  Don't have ( Read more... )

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So old blue contributes to global warming, I know that.  How much so I really had no idea.  So I decided to measure it:

12MPG or 19.4L/100KM

and that's city driving, which is not bad for a 302.  I thought it was a bit lower.. like 9-10MPG.

Either way, I spend a shitload of money on gas.

So I've been tasked to bake a cheesecake for a staff function.  I've got some ideas and am gonna put them out there ( Read more... )

Took me a bit to find it, but here it is:

find . \! -cnewer date_markerAll you need to do is pipe the output to a command such as mv, or rm.

Or, to gzip all non-gzipped files in a directory:

find . -not -name "*.gz" -exec gzip {} \;

Or maybe you didn't.... either way, watch this:  Hacking Democracy.