Ok, I’m a Canuck, so I don’t really have a horse in the race as far as the upcoming American election is concerned.
But this is a damn funny video.

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Subtitle: Unless you own your domain, you’re a pawn in Web 2.0
First off, before I get into my angry philosophical rant, a quick shout out to the 2507 Troops. Thanks for checking in, and yes, Sis is Ok. ‘Twas just a dream.
Now for the meat of the post.
Rupert Murdoch web property MySpace has […]

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Subtitle: And no, it’s not just the postt 9-11 crap.
There was a time, many years ago, where the anticipation leading up to taking a flight somewhere, anywhere, would bring on two or three days worth of giddy excitement. That time would have been about 20 odd years ago.
Since then, I’ve taken enough flights that […]

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Subtitle: For many, Windows is unavoidable. That doesn’t mean you have to be stuck with Microsoft’s other overpriced, crappy offerings.
A coworker reads my blog on a regular basis (lord knows why), and after he read the post from the other day about “Ignorance” he started asking some remarkably astute questions about Firefox and Open […]

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Subtitle: And the networks wonder why people are watching less and less TV
I don’t really “watch” TV much anymore. Oh, sure, the TV’s on, and within view, for hours and hours on end, but I use it mostly as a kind of audio-visual “white noise” while I’m working/playing on the computer. It’s a […]

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Subtitle: Making a game of watching the flow of a news story.
Hi, my name is Grelmar, and I’m an addict.
My drug of choice is information.
It started at an early age. In Elementary, when most boys my age were watching G.I. Joe, I’d race home to tune into PBS and watch Nova, National Geographic, and […]

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Subtitled: Why do people fall for this crap?
Now, I have fairly good junkmail controls, so I never even see most of this stuff. But every now and then, someone who I have whitelisted will forward on some piece of internet mythology, thereby evading the the guardians at the gate.
Usually, it’s something fairly inane, or […]

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I’d be stunned if anyone ever actually reads this, but here goes.
So, his Jobness sir Steve announced that he’s going to realease an “iTV” box.
What does it do? Well, it lets you download poor quality videos at an overpriced rate from iTunes so you can watch them on your TV at home. While […]

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