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get firefox
Jun 17th
firefox was already about a dillion times better than internet explorer, and now version 3 is out, so if you haven’t made the switch yet, do it right the fuck now.
then make it even better with add-ons: the ad-blocker (not just pop-ups, all ads, its revolutionary), forecast fox (unobtrusive weather bar), piclens (futuristic picture viewing like minority report), and more.
edit: huzzah!
google politics
Jun 13th
wow this experiment turned out way better than i thought, easy as 1 2 3
in text form:
search string – site:ndp.ca homeless*
results found: 196
search string – site:liberal.ca homeless*
results found: 66
search string – site:conservative.ca homeless*
results found: 2
search string – site:ndp.ca environment
results found: 2280
search string – site:liberal.ca environment
results found: 1590
search string – site:conservative.ca environment
results found: 1060
search string – site:ndp.ca war
results found: 1190
search string – site:liberal.ca war
results found: 715
search string – site:conservative.ca war
results found: 77
search string – site:ndp.ca gender
results found: 773
search string – site:liberal.ca gender
results found: 563
search string – site:conservative.ca gender
results found: 2
a nice bar graph would do wonders here, but let’s not get carried away.
try it with your own search terms and leave the results in the comments!
best of 2007 again?
Jan 29th
a commenter (i should say, “my favouritest commenter ever”) made my list of fav songs into a handy zip file, which is like, y’know, totally rad. here’s some more of my favs, plus the rest, in a handy seeqpod (my fav new website) playlist:
(did that work? i find it works better in ie than firefox, for some reason)
music videos are a dying art, but some mighty fine death throes in 2007
i get bug nightmares (where as my brother, as some sort of entomologist probably has wet dreams about them), and this freaked the hell out of me
and then things get complex, as they are want to do
2007 was also the year i finally took some people up on their “the wire” promise, and now i’m a megafan. buy the dvds, or download them, just watch it. you live in a city in the 21st century? then yes. and the new season, woo-eee, mcnulty’s on the sauce, omar is righteously pissed, snoop is, well, snoop. feels like history in the making.
look who’s stalking 2: the wreckoning
Jan 28th
i write this post because no one responded to my call for more sharing, so at least one of you fuckers better start using del.icio.us and then add me as a friend (or digg or last.fm or whatever). or leave your username in the comments section and i will add you… god you’re so lazy, anonymous reader.
and also i write this post because i’ve discovered the perfect metaphor for social networking sites: the reverse peep hole!
“Our policy is, we’re comfortable with our bodies. You know, if someone wants to help themselves to an eyefull, well, we say, ‘Enjoy the show.’ ”
c’mon friends (ian, jeff, biggie, brian, sioned, megs, sarah, anyone?), i wanna read what you think is worth reading, listen to music you think is worth listening to, and such and such.
had we already been e-friends, you could have read excellent essays on the age of ambition (nyt op-ed), age of consumption (nyt op-ed by jared diamond, author of guns germs and steel), and age of quirk (atlantic).
so alberta’s fuckin up
part 1: vice documentary series
part 2: globe and mail – “shifting sands”
don’t worry, alberta has a plan.
2050! 2050! that’s so awesome. it’s such a good idea, you better go
lobby to retain u.s. interest. deja vu.
hey ian, what the fuck?
good thing ol shark eyes gives a shit. the liberals should run on just reminding canadians harper earned us the fossil award, and is an utter failure when it comes to environmental policy, just like his backwards province. they should be taxing the shit out of Sunco and Syncrude. harper’s “Climate Change Technology Fund” only takes $15 per tonne, starting in 2010, while the “National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy” said that if canada wants to meet its pledge to reduce Canadian emissions by 45 to 65 per cent by 2050, it would have to be $190 to $240 per tonne.
i wish alberta would just leave canada, and then the only window into their country was thru a hilarious reality show based on the hills… just need some dumb young spoiled kids (hard to find in calgary, i’m sure), a theme song by a “hot new indie band”, perhaps “a lesson in crime” by tokyo police club would be appropriate… coming to cbc this summer… the tar sands…
the revolution will not be animated on youtube
Apr 1st
web 2.0
stop the big brother state
Project for the New American Century
“Our liability coverage is zero.
Our balls, however, are enormous.”
Feb 4th
me and the roomie are awfully lazy, it has takin us about 5 months to actually set up our living room. we finally got a tv stand and a coffee table, all our frames are filled with pictures (half of them are even hung), we wired up the tv to the computer (cable is so 20th century), and we celebrated with all this fresh food we bought at the bakery and ravioli shop: bread and deli meat and ravioli and baba ganoosh and pita and wine. so we’re like totally yuppies now. but we were high for the whole thing, so i guess we’re hippies too.
yippies. just like i feared.
also, we have a lot of wiring and 12 speakers (including shower radio) and 4 screens in our tiny apartment. so we’re kinda like techno yippies. well i am at least.
euchre is also back in our life. as usual, we think we’re the shit, only to get destroyed in almost every game. we played with my brother and his girlfriend, who are now living here, so our friend count in vancouver might be up to double digits. we also played with don and his friends, where penalty shots are involved for every 5 points lost, lone hands, or euchres. penalty shots breed more penalty shots, until both bottles of sambuca and vodka are gone, and picking up chicks at the gay bar seems like a good idea. the music is better there though.
we’re off to watch the superbowl (who’s playing?) at the legion with the oldies. in unrelated news, the terrorists have won.
new year’s e-resolutions
Jan 4th
i’ve always been a fan of excuses to do things (like holidays = drinking), so new years resolutions seem like a good idea to me. the roomie and i exchanged a list of 10 for each other. for the record, hers were much more harsh than mine. shit about respect and displacing blame, far out. i told her to get out more, and “get phd and become dr. bond”
for myself, i’ve decided to learn more about philosophy and economics, which means listening to lectures on plato on my ipod and getting a subscription to the economist. and trying to read articles in the business section of the globe such as hopes, fears and bold predictions for 2007. what is it dear readers, are we doomed in the 07 by increased energy costs or gigantic american debt or net selling of U.S. Treasuries by foreign central banks or terrorism or some wicked concoction of all four? i’m not usually this apocalyptic, it’s something about the medium of blogging i think…
speaking of the apocalypse, robert fisk is mandatory reading in these end times. “How the West armed Saddam, fed him intelligence on his ‘enemies’, equipped him for atrocities – and then made sure he wouldn’t squeal”: A Dictator Created Then Destroyed by America and He Takes His Secrets to the Grave. Our Complicity Dies with Him
happier things!
the nobel peace prize this year went to Muhammad Yunus, the guy who created microcredit. My thoughts exactly on this whole problem of “terrorism” and “the middle east” and “war”:
I believe that putting resources into improving the lives of the poor people is a better strategy [for combating terrorism] than spending it on guns.
and here are some other such good things commies like me can be happy about for 2006.
revolutionary idea for 2007? open course ware, by [the real] m.i.t. read about it in “how to go to m.i.t. for free“. for my fellow fake mit graduates or other mediaphiles, they have a Comparative Media Studies program and a Media Arts and Sciences program, including graduate classes.
speaking of open-source, my homeland is going open source too.
i mentioned last.fm and firefox and hype machine as technocessities (copyright!), i forgot digg.com. and now i have a profile and you could see which stories i dugg, if one were so inclined. once again, join and add me as a friend.
(i wish i had more nerd friends who would actually do such a thing)
favs of 2006 – discoveries
Dec 23rd
last.fm – sign up! add me as your friend! let a computer tell you what music you like!
hype machine – check it out, you can find most recent/popular songs.
handsome boy modeling school – i accidentally downloaded the instrumental version of the album ‘white people’ way back, haha, and only recently realized there was a version with vocals. i loved that album, and now there’s de la soul and cat power!
firefox – i dont remember when i first switched to firefox, but it is now indispensable. news and blogs thru rss, tabbed browsing, spell checking, customized search bar (i got google, dictionary.com, wikipedia, imdb, allmusic, youtube, hype machine, and a bunch of torrent sites all at a single click), noninvasive weather bar, synchronized bookmarks and no – i repeat – no ads. ever. do it. do it.
kids who rap!
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