So, I was flipping through MacLeans last night, when I came across this article. On the face of it, it could be an interesting read, but as I started reading it I started getting horrified at how ridiculous most of it is. Was this a joke? Nope, apparently it was serious.

Allow me to explain...

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Being Canadian, we're all exposed to French (well, Quebecois really but that's another matter). As a result I've grown used to seeing, recognizing, and pronouncing French, but not translating it. This is generally because all packaging here is bilingual, yet in my gut I feel the French on the packaging always feels like a tortured translation of ( Read more... )

Catching up on the progress on GT5 when I came across this wonderfully beautiful bit "reverse advertising", as I like to call it. I've no idea why, but I got a bit misty-eyed over how amazingly beautiful this video was. Insanity.

The full song in the ad: London Elektricity -- Just One Second (Apex Remix) for any of you who can't get enough of it ( Read more... )

I've been sort of passively watching this new Sci-Fi show for a while now, and it's kind of decent show. Not really outstanding compared to other shows, but certainly much better than most Sci-Fi shows I've seen, mostly because it actually recaptures what to me a Sci-Fi TV Show is about, which is the imaginary wonderment of the future. I'd ( Read more... )

Jesus 3 posts in a day ( Read more... )

Heard on the news that an ultra anti-immigration African-American Italian woman was elected mayor in the small Italian town of Viggiu. The regional Italian media, (although I'm thinking it's really her party's PR group), is calling her Italy's Obama.

Probably best not to think how this makes any sort of sense.

Anyone out there know how to clean a laptop screen that has accumulated caked-on dust to make it as good as new?

We had one of the coldest winters ever, previously this year. Now it seems we're on for one of the hottest summers ever, and it's not yet August. It hit about 35C here today. We have a fan running in the house, and all doors and windows open. I'm sitting here in a T-Shirt, which is rare enough for me, but I'm also sweating from doing nothing, which ( Read more... )

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Mapping thse stages in the Tour de France has given me quite a bit of insight in how various locations and places are named in French. One of the most interesting, and enlightening things I've learned has to do with the mountains ( Read more... )