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( from a japantoday.com reader ) 10. Bomb-strapped Chechen Rebel Chick 9. Gay Atheist Boy Scout 8. Superman in a Wheelchair 7. Saddam Hussein 6. Invisible Clothes Man 5. George Bush 4. Pantsless Priest 3. Japan Tobacco Industry Lobbyist 2....

At work today I was shown a web-based interface to a video-camera surveillance system (via some seemingly proprietary browser plug-in, mind you, but that's hardly the point). We accessed a live camera in a grocery store in the West-Island. We...

Oh-oh here we go So Wired does an article about Blog Spamming. The article links to the above URL... a bit of poking around reveals that one of the culprits is located in Montreal. François Lane, who blogs himself of...

Reporters sans frontiËres - International This is good. Interesting stats. I'd LOVE ot see the actual reports that generated these "grades" though......

Hehe. This seems to be getting alot attention. Which makes sense considering the nature of blogging and news syndication. A media content provider (Doonesbury/Garry Trudeau) makes a social commentary (today's strip) about a popular and rapidly growing medium (blogging). The...

Somebody care to explain this to me: http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Halloween%20Flashers%20In%20Quebec #2 !?!?! hahahahaha...

and some dreams just can't come true, no matter how badly we want them to....

Now John at the bar is a friend of mine, He gets me my drinks for free. He's quick with a joke or he'll light up your smoke, but there's someplace where he'd rather be....

THIS is utterly ridiculous. But SO funny. And so Quebec. I wonder what these folks do for X-mas decorations......

I tried to do this layout in CSS... I am a failure... Could not get the damn divs to align center. I hacked and hacked and hacked away at antipixel's code, but it just wouldn't do it for me. So...

Can somebody please let me in on this little bit of fashion necessity? It seems I keep buying shirts that are meant for... bellied... men. These things billow like sails in the wind when untucked. And yet, I see the...

I always make sure to learn things the hard way. I webmaster (v.) my friend's website. It needs not only a redesign but I'm redoing the entire architecture. What is now one site will be broken up into 4 domains,...

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Father's surprise: call-girl daughter Holy mackerel. Poor guy... poor girl... poor wife... all around crazyness....

Labels X Nice. A much missed fetaure from Mac OS of old... Finder labels... you know, color-coded files and folders?...

TheFeature :: It's All About The Mobile Internet great site. well... interesting to me anyways.. what with my web/wireless situation....

I can't seem to face up to the facts I'm tense and nervous can't relax I can't sleep, my bed's on fire Don't touch me I'm a real live wire... (Everybody!)...

Eric Harshbarger's LEGO pages Not only must this be the single coolest "job" ever, but I am ever so so so tempted to try my luck... Is the world big enough though? ;) Eric, you rock. Plain and simple....

I.. um... break my spaghetti in half before cooking it. Linguine, spaghetini, fettucini... If it's long, it's getting cracked. I've had guests go into convulsions over this. So now I ask if/when cooking pasta for a visitor. Is it so...

zoe This is waaay cool: ZoÎ The goal here is to do for email (starting with your personal mailbox) what Google did for the web... The Google principle: It doesn't matter where information is because I can get to it...

Yeah. Web. Since '96. So I guess I'll be adding "categories" to this blog... and start ranting and raving about "web standards" and Mozilla... and IA and UE and UI ad nauseum... I might as well. Have tons to say......

Wow, i am thoroughly depressed. I haven't been this down in ages. I hate this damn job; I feel trapped, without any challenge and no advancement. I have to sell this car. It's sucking me dry. If you ever need...

I farking LOVE The Gypsy Kings. There. The secret is out....

First of all I must say I am, by nature, a loner. However I do have social skills and am quite sociable. I have many friends of all different walks of life who have gone so far as to tell...

Bob Dylan: Masters of War These words are true in any and all times. (I especially enjoy the Pearl Jam version of this song ;)...