Year: 2006

How NTP magically turned $20k into $600m.

1. Hire the guy who has information that could invalidate your highly questionable patent with the specification that he’s legally bound not to reveal that information.
2. …
3. Profit!

Street Style. As you gaze upon these asinine and ridiculous outfits just keep in mind that somewhere in the US someone is actually wearing those clothes, in public even.

In case you were wondering, there’s now an established mathematical formula for establishing the superiority of a posterior. At last! I was so tired of evaluating women’s bottoms according to my own subjective standards!

Last Saturday was my 35th birthday. Personally I’m not known to be one who regards this sort of thing very much; in recent years I would much rather have ignored it than anything else. I’d probably feel different if I felt I had accomplished more in my life, but that’s the way it goes. This year, however, was different, not so much on the day itself (although it is 35, which means I’m getting perilously close to middle age) but in what happened 3 days after. Continue reading On getting old…

Berlusconi beaten in Italian elections. Who’s the coglione now, Sylvio?

If you’re unsatisfied by the results of your £5000 penis-enlargement operation, the next logical step is to send a mail bomb to your surgeon. Well done Brett Steidler! Now you’re going to jail, and EVERYONE knows you have a small penis (as well as self-esteem issues).

The current climate of paranoia about terrorism will protect you!.. from people singing along to Clash songs. Mind you the world would be better off if listening to, say, Britney Spears could lead to your getting interrogated. Maybe someone should look into that.

Microsoft: you sell ‘naked’ PCs? Expect a little visit. Redmond’s goon squad strikes again… aren’t there racketeering laws that are supposed to prevent this sort of behavior?

In a move that surprises no one, PM Harper bends once again to his American master and calls off pot reform. I guess Quebec separatists really are the only political group in Canada genuinely interested in issues of sovereignty… generally.

One thing I’ve always wondered is why I kept seeing, practically every day, a motorist getting pulled over by a cop literally within a stone’s throw of the intersection near my highway exit. It was, as I said, almost a daily sight on my commute home. I postulated then that either I was witnessing an incredible coincidence, or that something was rotten in the city of Montreal. Today I got my answer. Continue reading Screwed.