I realize more and more with each day how much I dislike Avril Lavigne. It used to be more on principle, because she was largely responsible for spearheading the "mall punk" movement, but when I listen to her songs I realize there's nothing punk about her, mall or otherwise. She's easy listening. She's the kind of music that gets played in ( Read more... )

http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/438314

To sum it up, a waitress working in a restaurant raises $2,700 in a cancer fundraiser for shaving her head, then her manager fires her for two months from her job based on her appearance (to give her hair a chance to grow back). Not inluded in the link above, but mentioned in another article, were ( Read more... )

Anyone know any good Drupal programmers?

Have you ever had the experience where you're walking around and suddenly out of the corner of your eye you perceive a person talking loudly to himself, and you go into "possible crazy person nearby" alert mode, and you glance over only to find that it's some well-dressed business dude talking into a bluetooth headset?

So weird.

not behind a cut, take that all you people who post your sports analysis essays........

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started ( Read more... )

My journalist friends will be familiar with having to write stories based on press releases, so I thought I would share this one from Rogers Communications, which announced today that it would finally be bringing the iPhone to Canada. The ENTIRE press release is pasted below:

Rogers Issues Statement on the Apple iPhone
    TORONTO, April 29 /CNW/ - ( Read more... )

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/28/games.censorship?gusrc=rss&feed=technology

the money paragraph:

Gamers vote. Gamers buy newspapers. They won't vote for you, or buy your newspapers, if you trash their entertainment with your ignorant ravings. Call them social inadequates if you like, but when they have more friends in World of ( Read more... )

Since some people have asked, here's what you have to do to cast a vote for Gamezebo in the Webby Awards:

Go here: http://peoplesvoice.webbyawards.com/

Register for a username and password, and sign in. Then go to the Website category, scroll down to Entertainment, click on the Games-related category, and cast your vote for Gamezebo.

Feel free to ( Read more... )

Gamezebo, the casual games website that I've been editing for close to a year now (and contributing to before that as a freelancer), has been nominated for a 2008 Webby Award in the "Games-related" category!

As I understand it, the Webbys are basically the Academy Awards of websites. Not only that, but who are the other nominees in our category? ( Read more... )

I hereby vow to only ever take on ONE (1) feature article assignment at a time from any one outlet.

Head exploding.