Usher haiku

, May 26, 2010

Yo, after tonight Don’t leave your girl around me True player for real


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Link of the Day: Google’s Pac-Man game

, May 26, 2010

Pac-Man celebrated its thirtieth anniversary on Friday. And as you may already know, the good people at Google chose to mark the occasion with their first interactive logo, which was a fully playable adapation of the original game. If you missed it, then don’t fret. Thanks to the tribute’s productivity-killing popularity, the game has been […]


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Currently enjoying “Send” by Wire

, May 25, 2010

Throughout their intermittent but lengthy career, Wire have made a habit of making great music, disappearing for years, and then reemerging with a whole new aesthetic. From the pop-punk sound of early records like Chairs Missing and their strangely reminiscent of Elastica debut Pink Flag, through the grander synthetic sounds of later records like Manscape, […]


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More about Mantler

, May 25, 2010

At the risk of becoming the band’s unofficial publicist, I wanted to let you know that if you missed the live set that Mantler performed on BBC 6 Music yesterday, then you’ll be able to catch it in podcast form for the next few days. Do check it out, and have a listen to some […]


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Link of the Day: Eat Right Ontario

, May 25, 2010

If you don’t mind the government telling you how to eat, then this could be a very useful resource. Billed as “your first stop for trusted information and advice on nutrition and healthy eating,” it does at least look pretty extensive.


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“24″ runs out the clock

, May 24, 2010

Tonight’s episode of 24 was everything the finale of a long-running television series should be. It aired, it ended, and it won’t be followed by any new episodes. That, in the strictly technical sense, is how you wrap up a series! Sure, you could also do something dramatic or poignant, or have a conclusion that […]


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Link of the Day: BBC 6 Music

, May 24, 2010

Nine times out of ten, if I’m listening to anything at all at the office during the day, it’s BBC 6 Music. It’s quite possibly the single best radio station available to streaming listeners on the web – which makes the fact that its future is in jeopardy all the more frustrating. Today’s a particularly […]


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Life’s a never ending wheel

, May 23, 2010

In honour of Ronnie James Dio, who passed away last week at the age of sixty-seven, here’s an excerpt on his classic album Holy Diver from the book The 100 Best and Absolute Greatest Heavy Metal Albums in the World, Ever. “Holy Diver has it all. Packed to the hilt with bona fide classics, there […]


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Link of the Day: Generatus

, May 23, 2010

I don’t want you to click on today’s link. I want you to know about it, so you can join me in lamenting the fact that it exists, but I don’t want you to click on it. Why? Because Generatus is a website that generates “funny” status updates for your social networking profiles, for the […]


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Link of the Day: Ad-Free Blog

, May 22, 2010

I heard about the Ad-Free Blog campaign through a link on the blog of one Foster Kamer, a Village Voice columnist who recently put himself in the middle of a hullabaloo about a crude but clever dick joke. Thanks to Funkaoshi for the indirect link. It’s an interesting idea, at least when it’s not being […]


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