Burned!

I love it when someone gets caught trying to scam the rest of us. It happened this week when China’s official news agency was forced to apologize for awarding a “photo of the year” award to a Photoshopped image of antelopes migrating peacefully...

Poor Summer

I’m a bit irritated with the Sarah Connor Chronicles, that new Terminator show I was telling you about. It’s mainly because of how Summer Glau’s part is written. In episode one, when she met John Connor at school, she was a super-cute, friendly kind...

Pump pain

The title of this blog entry is such a cliche. Every time gas prices go up, newspapers all publish stories called, “Pain at the pumps” or something like that. Anyway, it’s no surprise that we’re paying more than ever for gasoline. Every time...

Shame

I’m ashamed to live in Ontario. Just because we’ve had a warm winter so far, it seems like we’ve forgotten how to cope with snow and ice. I looked out the window and there’s about 2cm of snow on the ground, and some light freezing rain. Now,...

WTF, WTC?

So BenQ, the Taiwanese computer hardware manufacturer is taking some flak for their advertisement that uses the crumbled ruins of the World Trade Center as a background. They’re selling an MP3 player, by the way. Aside from the obvious misspelling, the ad...