November 29, 2008 • 1:29 pm Comments Off
Hack journalists everywhere were given an early Christmas gift on Friday when a mob of early morning shoppers trampled a Wal-Mart employee to death on Long Island, and hours later two men had an old-timey duel in the aisles of a California Toys R Us. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Uncategorized , Black Friday, Bob Layton, Consumerism, Tragicomedy, Zombies
November 28, 2008 • 3:44 pm 2
Through my random perusals of Flickr’s explore feature, it has unfortunately come to my attention that taking pictures of fat babies in oversized teacups is some sort of “thing”. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Uncategorized , Flickr, horror, photography, the thing that should not be
• 9:47 am 4
In addition to the 140+ people killed this week, many have been quick to triumphantly name another victim in the Mumbai attacks: the Main Stream Media. The attacks are being hailed as a watershed moment for citizen-generated journalism, and to some extent that is true. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Uncategorized , Facebook, Flickr, Journalism, Media, microblogging, Mumbai, Social Networking, Twitter, Wikipedia
November 23, 2008 • 9:19 pm Comments Off
We put our shop dogs to work. Sophie returns e-mails and Stella keeps my boots warm.
Filed under: Uncategorized , doggone it, great dane, office bitches
November 21, 2008 • 10:30 am Comments Off
TSA behaviour detectors: no value added.November 17, 2008 • 11:08 pm 1
I played in a coed floor hockey league tonight. Before you get too anxious – yes, we won. And, you should know, I am of the female variety. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Uncategorized , floor hockey, hockey hair, whiners
November 15, 2008 • 6:49 pm 4
Rather than google-ize my problems like normal, I thought I’d take advantage of the monocle’s nerd bench strength and ask a fairly ridiculous question.
Let’s assume I’m going to buy a PS3 and use it as a media centre. Let’s also assume I already have an old modded Xbox filled with hundreds of gigs of radness. Can I hook up the Xbox to my wireless router and stream from it the PS3 the same way I would any other computer? Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Uncategorized , 10110100101, PS3, stop all the downloading
November 14, 2008 • 3:08 pm Comments Off
Our weekly round-up / How we saw the internet this week. Not to be taken internally.
November 11, 2008 • 8:29 pm 6
I got a phone call out of the blue the other day. I almost hung up on the person, seemed awfully like a telemarketing call. **long pause** “Is this so and so?”
Turns out it’s was a girl from film company who wants to feature our condo on a design program. They had my name on file from a previous show I was interviewed for – and apparently they think that my husband and I, in addition to our condo, would be a good match for their new show. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Uncategorized , design television, fraidy cat, home decor
November 7, 2008 • 1:53 pm 1
Welcome to the first of our weekly links round-up. Here’s what we found riveting this week:
