Cluster F*ck 2011 (aka Election 2011)

Over the past few days I have been sarcastically tweeting out random crap about the upcoming federal election in Canada. The problem with this approach is that I cannot sum up my frustration with this event in 140 characters. Below lies the complete platform with which I will base my future updates on this matter.

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Be offended, be very offended

30 Rock aired its Season 5 opener last week and it contained within it a 15 second throw-away joke about having sexual intercourse with your wife when she is asleep. The Internet lit up with activists, rape care workers and apparently anyone who knows how to type, expressing their disgust at such an offensive joke and [...]

The Scary Side

Sometimes advertisers don’t seem to understand how things will look or read after they spend their 9-5 day creating the ads.

JD and Their Ducks

It’s very good that Jack Daniel’s would like to let us know about their expert quality controllers. I am sure they provide a lot of benefit to the end [...]

What a Hack

It was recently announced that 1 month ago perennial Stoss Blog antagonist Twitter had a security breach when a high ranking executive’s account was accessed by a “hacker”. The hacker correctly guessed the users’s secret security questions to gain access to the account then surfed through corporate data and released it to well known techie [...]

Anatomy of a Con

My Lonely Planet Guide for India (which was a God send of a book) had countless warnings about scams in India. Almost each city/section had special headings on the type and nature of scams in that region and spoke about how to spot them and avoid them. Aside from being a yet another fear mongering [...]

India-ology

Greetings from India where my friend Andrew and I have been traveling around for 2 weeks now!

In that ime I have learned a few things and thought I would share.

1) I am white and rich  - It sounds almost racist, but in a country of over 1 billion Indian residents being white makes you stand [...]

Marketing 101

Today I show you some advertisements that came from marketing departments that are seemingly run by monkeys who are either 40 years older or younger than their target audience and/or have IQs in the single digits.

Is it McDonald's?

This ad advertises that mayonnaise and chicken “is McDonald’s”. Correct me if I am wrong, [...]

Pics For Thought

A few more day-to-day pictures:

Enjoying it while I can

The above comic was sent to me after my blog posts on Mr. Keen’s book about Internet media destroying society. The big-nosed guy on the right makes an interesting point, there will always be a need for writers no matter where we read our [...]

www dot withdrawl dot com

The other night I came home to no Internet. It appeared I could not get an IP address from my ISP. (un-geekly written: Internet had a booboo). I wanted to call the provider to tell them I was down, to make sure they were investigating, however I realized to do this I needed access to [...]

What Hogwash…

I mentioned briefly in my last post about the Swine Flu. And today I read that Air Transat and other airlines have suspended flights! Has this world gone mad?!

Swine Flu World Wide Stats

This picture was in the UK morning paper. Notice that the only place that has any deaths in it is [...]