Archive for August, 2007

While I’m On The Subject of Great Unintentional Advertising

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If you have one of those phones you can send text messages with that tries to guess the words you’re trying to type, try typing “Smirnoff” (like the vodka) into the predictive text.
Pretty funny huh? If you don’t get the joke immediately, keep pressing whatever your “next word” key is.

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One Of The Best Web Ironies Of The Year

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Take a gander over at Neowin.net in their software section. Today at 5:39am they posted the release of Norton 2008.
Roughly fifteen hours later, they posted the third-party Norton Removal Tool “for when Add/Remove doesn’t work”.
I wonder how much Symantec paid for this epic advertising.

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I Want One

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I was just reading on everythingusb.com that Logitech has just unveiled two new “powered” USB headsets with a whole whack of fancy features. I have the Microsoft Lifechat LX-3000 which I love, but it’s too big. It cooks my head when I wear it because of all the padding on the ear cups. [...]

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This Is Just Too Weird

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Ever since I moved to the Toronto area the fact that I live within 15 minutes of TWO nuclear power stations has always been something that has lurked in the back of my mind. I’m not so young that I don’t remember Five Mile Island, and I have full faith that anything the Americans [...]

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Tar and feathers and—

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Many thanks to my distinguished colleague and friend Krystalle on finding this little gem. Seems some “poor” guy in Ireland literally got the tar and feather treatment when it was discovered that he was dealing in drugs. And yes boys and girls… there are pictures.

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Do You Think Microsoft Will Compete With The iPhone? Let’s Hope Not

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Unbelievably Cheap Digital Camera Deal

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Staples (in CANADA) is selling the Sony DSC-S650 for $129 in it’s Going Back to School sale. No mail-in rebate. Man these things are getting cheap! I can’t imagine it being a bad camera if all you want is a point and shoot. I’m tempted to buy one myself for times [...]

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