I saw Club Native (there's a brief clip at that link) at Hot Docs yesterday afternoon: it's a film about the struggle some Native people face in Canada trying to be recognized in their communities ( Read more... )

Your friend and mine Steve Murray does a column at the National Post called Extremely Bad Advice. I was lucky enough to have my question answered this week!


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So a few months ago I posted about Primus, and my post was basically "PRIMUS IS GONNA SCREW ME GUYS I CAN FEEL IT". In retrospect I should have waited until they actually screwed me, because otherwise my post is just sour grapes when the grapes are still pretty good. That is a "metaphor ( Read more... )

Does anyone have a Paid Account on LJ? I came across Leigh Walton's blog and I find it to be extremely excellent, but there doesn't appear to be an LJ feed of his RSS, and you need a Paid Account to create one!

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Okay, so here's a first-world problem that I'm sure other people have. I like BoingBoing1, they have a lot of great posts and even if I don't share Cory's interest in Disneyland2, it's still a great site and a great feed. I also like the Modern Mechanix blog, in which they take old articles and advertisements from vintage Modern Mechanix ( Read more... )

Something I would like to do is be alerted of server status when I am on the road. The idea would be something like this ( Read more... )

I HAVE A THEORY, and that theory is that Wikipedia has killed the fan page. Now, the itch to make a site about Show X, with Show X pictures and favourite sound clips and episode summaries is too easily scratched by adding to the Wikipedia page about Show X, or even just reading the existing Show X Wikipedia node ( Read more... )

Chris linked me to Dan Clowes's very sweet Mister Wonderful, which was serialized in the New York Times, but which you can read for free right now! Just be careful: the list goes from Conclusion to Chapters 1 through 19, and you really want to save the conclusion for last.

thanks Chris!

Guys I have moved from my old place at Spadina and Dundas to my new place which is closer to St Clair!

Jenn had been here for about a week or so ahead of me, but the phone company Primus (Oh, Primus, you are not so good) had been entirely unable to hook up our phone or internet access, and as a man who is apt to "spend his time" on the internet ( Read more... )