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The Daily Show on Canada’s election
So tomorrow is Election Day up here in the Great White North. I don’t have much to say about the election itself, other than that the probable outcome of a Conservative minority isn’t as bad as it sounds. The Conservatives don’t have any friends in the House of Commons, so a Tory minority government is […]
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post an album cover
meme caught from Substitute It was a tough call between that, Bill Evans, and Charlie Mingus. Hundreds more Blue Note covers here.
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escar-WHOA!
A moment ago I was reading the Wikipedia entry on snails after watching a bit on the Food Network about escargot. The Wikipedia entry made a passing reference to the “giant African snail”. Sure, I thought, giant snails. Those have to be what, a couple inches long? Well, that’s kind of neat. So I checked […]
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Toaster ovens
Candice and I have been trying to figure out how to best use some Sears gift certificates we got for Christmas, and one of the possibilities was to get a toaster oven. So we’ve read some reviews online, and looked at what Sears has available, and are still pretty much right where we started. Why […]
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you cannot have my swans, they are mine
Ten Top Trivia Tips about Mendel! Mendel is incapable of sleep! Mendel was named after Mendel the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’. Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath to cover up mendel. All swans in England belong to mendel! Mendel can jump up to sixteen times his own height. The Aztec […]
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radio livejournal
The line between mundane and awesome is a fine one, and I think this falls on the “awesome” side. Brad has thrown together Radio LiveJournal, which is to phone posts what the LJ images feed is to images posted in journal entries. It just keeps streaming one phone post after another. No-one uses phone posts […]
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Eyes!
Illustrator Keri Smith takes a sheet of round stickers and a Sharpie to the streets, leaving her town looking like something Richard Scarry came up with. I know what I’m going to grab next time I’m in Office Depot, derivative or otherwise. (Found via the excellent illustration blog Drawn!, which I’ve seen off and on […]
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admire the width of my band!
My web, mail, and DNS hosting is at Dreamhost. It’s a pretty good provider; certainly not enterprise-class and there’s been a couple of times I’ve had to have discussions with support about why something was their problem and not mine, but for personal or small-business shared hosting, it works out pretty well. Multiple shell users, […]