impudent strumpet

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Weird

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Typealyzer thinks I'm an ISTJ ISTJ - The Duty Fulfillers The responsible and hardworking type. They are especially attuned to the detai...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

I'm glad Dalton McGuinty isn't my father

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"Perhaps the most precious thing we have in society is our children, and that includes our older children," McGuinty said at Queen...
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Things Youtube Should Invent

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1. Give us the option to have embedded videos start at a defined point. You can do this in a link to Google Video by adding #1m25s to star...

How to do a reverse apology

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Via Language Log , some guy walks around New York City apologizing to people who bump into him. That took a minute, didn't it? We all d...
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A hamster eating broccoli

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I'm very tired and cranky today, and am going to be doing some cranky blogging as soon as I get less cranky (cranky blogging isn't n...
Monday, November 17, 2008

In re: today's Corner Gas

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1. Brent Butt has had his teeth whitened to TV standards. Perfectly normal thing to do if you're going to be on TV (I'd totally ge...
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Generosity

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I think true generosity isn't giving people things or money or time. I think true generosity is giving people the benefit of the doubt,...
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Sunday, November 16, 2008

For the person googling for the definition of "stanaist"

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"Stanaist" is a typo of Satanist. :) Dear Google: You might want to add this to your autocorrect thingy.

From PostSecret

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An email commenter said that they did this too, and several other people in the community agreed. And, it feels bizarrely personal to admit,...
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Things They Should Invent: garbage bins that are too small to be too heavy

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I've recently heard of people whose green bins or blue bins weren't picked up by the garbage collectors because they were too heavy ...

Outside my window, October 27, about 4:30 p.m.

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I know the buildings look overexposed, but the colours actually are just about accurate. A massive rainstorm was heading out to the east (i...
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Things LJ Should Invent: have locked posts show up in feeds

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I don't actually check my LJ friends page that often because it's such a very small part of my overall internet rounds. I've ad...
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Things They Should Invent: limited number of "offensive" votes per user per day

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I've noticed that people in newspaper comment threads (yeah, I know) are way overusing the mark as offensive option. In some threads, n...

Open Letter to Rogers

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Dear Rogers: If you're experiencing higher than usual volumes that mean it will take nine days for you to respond to my email, you might...

Best fanfic rant ever

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Read this now. Seriously. Even if you aren't into fanfic. Really.
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Famous people twittering

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It seems John Cleese and Stephen Fry are both actually and legitimately on Twitter. (This is confirmed on their official websites.) What...
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Ratings and censorship

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Lately I've been noticing how much things like movie ratings and censorship are focused on protecting children from adult concepts. Thi...
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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Blast from the past

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Once upon a time this was the coolest thing ever:
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Are people with white earbuds really more likely to be mugged?

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A piece of information that is often repeated in the media is that you should get headphones other than the distinctive white ipod earbuds, ...
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