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Brent has purchased for himself a new 55'' widescreen television and a progressive scan DVD player. Although I'm less than thrilled at his choice of Samsung components, I applaud this new foray into the wonderful world of high priced electronics. Since his...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - "Crazy Ants" are devouring the famous migrating land crabs of Australia's Christmas Island and may have killed off up to half the crab population in the past few years, a conservation official said on Wednesday. http://reuters.com/news_...

I wanted a new bedside lamp. I went out to Home Depot and bought a new bedside lamp. I wasn't able to completely understand the instruction manual, but luckily there exists a medium where idiots can ask questions. It is called the Internet. I scanned it ...

You may remember, a LONG while back, I posted about how I was getting my theatre room renovated. I waited for the furniture I wanted to go on sale, and shortly thereafter, in the first week of January 2002, it did. I purchased said furniture, and so began ...

California has been taken over — 'conquered', if you will — by a master race of giant ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping th...

This article on cnn.com states that Coke is reportedly working on secret plans for a vanilla version within the next few months. I dont know about you, but im thinking vanilla floats will be in order if this is happens. P.S. What ever happened to Crys...

I gain more respect for Roger Ebert every day. Here is an intelligently written commentary on the state of internet music sharing and how it relates to the music industry. He talks about Universal's new CD copy-protection scheme that will render CDs unplayab...

Seen on FARK, but definately newsworthy enough to be seen here as well. The popluar site that hosted all kinds of advertisements, like the classic "Vikings?!" ad, and the "Dodge Aries" spoof is coming back! AdCritic had originally shut down a few months ag...

This is the most retarded thing I've seen all week. I know Google is trying to be all multi-language and stuff (I tend to get redirected to Google.ca most of the time), but this is ridiculous. A version of Google for Klingons. Originally posted on Wednesda...

The shirts and schedule are inside. Thanks again to T.J. Maguire for doing them up for me. The shirt price is $17 (add $2 for XXL). For those just tuning in, this crawl will take place on the 27th of April, 2002. the sign-up links will remain at the top ...

First off, please DO NOT go to trafficmagnet.net. I don't want to give those bastards any traffic. They are the scum of the earth and should be destroyed. The reason? They have webcrawlers that go and harvest email addresses from web pages for the sole p...

Spoo.ca is another Halifax website, run by Simon Leither. As it turns out, spine.cx and spoo.ca both decided to use PHPNuke around the same time, in August 2001. Simon was even nice enough to post an article about the Pub Crawl. It's a pretty cool site all ...

Get out your shamrocks and your leprechans, and wear something green. This Sunday is the day when everyone is Irish. It's time to drink green beer and insult the British. Then we drink more green beer, maybe some good Irish whiskey, and stumble all the way ...

Recently, I've seen more than one account of rumours that anime television show Dragonball Z and ultra-violent anime movie Ninja Scroll are going to be remade as live action movies. What's the deal here? Where are they going to find an actor with Goku's ha...

I'm sure many people have seen this on Slashdot, but I think this needs as much exposure as it can get. Here is a PDF describing the atrocity. Basically we're looking at $1.23 for all CD-RWs, $2.27 for all DVD-Rs, and a completely ridiculous $21/Gig tax on...

Jayden Cole Pick was born March 9th, 2002 at 1147h at the maternity wing of the IWK hospital. He weighed in at 7 lbs 3 oz, which I think puts him slightly below Featherweight :) Congratulations Jeff & Crystal. EDIT: Pictures of baby Jayden are just a li...

Jesus Murphy. Some guy was shot several times and killed outside the Copper Penny last night...only about two hours after I left. Yikes. Although I heard on the Q104 this morning that the "alleged" shooter was arrested at the scene. On a side note, I wen...

DVD Forum's Steering Committee voted this week to approve the use of low-bit-rate compression for high-definition DVD. The DVD Forum's decision, made at a meeting on Feb. 26 in Tokyo, to stick with a red-laser-based scheme but switch to low-bit-rate compressio...

The title says it all, the name and the theme of the fifth incarnation of the Feelin' No Pain pub crawl have been decided. It's still scheduled to take place on the 27 April 2002 (Saturday). Times and bars are still up in the air, so feel free to suggest som...

Here is an article on MSN's Slate.com talking about how HDTV is available in most places now, but nobody knows it. I can understand that HDTV is prohibitively expensive for a lot of people, that's fine. But the fact that most cable (even digital cable) pro...