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Happy Holildays! via Dead Robot» Dead Robot December 24th, 2008 at 20:14

I was going to steal StevieB’s video find but this one works for me. It’s how I see Sharkboy, every time he makes me popcorn. (Via......
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Blog Roll Ups! via Dead Robot» Dead Robot December 2nd, 2008 at 18:30

I’m dry today so I thought I’d troll off my virtual friends. Acid Reflux relates a story of his French interviewer being highly interested in his erection while being HIV positive. Blamblog relates how I felt in the 80s, but without the drinking. Brokeass Weave posts a preeetteeee pickchur! (NSFW language) Citywoof has a serious pain in the foot, a night of debauchery and a stolen tryst in the loo. Got Cris posts an interesting mix tape. WARNING! CulturalSNAFU hasn’t updated since Nov 5… The Electronic Replicant has a post about… uhm. It’s a post where he talks about bluetooth… uh. He has nice colours on his site. The Fortress of Solitude continues with his Bond Haiku Movie Reivews. Sadly, From A to B hasn’t posted anything since October....
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Death Note 2 via Dead Robot» Dead Robot November 23rd, 2008 at 21:29

image Stay with me readers, I’m going to go all geeky/nerdy/anime on you with my thoughts on Death Note 2: The Last Name, a sequel you’ve probably never heard of. And if you have, you’re cooler than me! Bit of a back story for you non-Death Noters: The original Death Note movie is adapted from Manga (aren’t they all?), about a young lad, Light Yagami (Tatsuya Fujiwara), who discovers a book dropped to earth by a death god, a “shinigami” named Ryuk. He sees a particular person’s face and writes their name in the book, they meet a tragic end. Light then takes it upon himself to see if he can rid the world of evil with the help of his book. Enter the police (as they do, when their criminals start to die off) who are trying to figure out why their crime...
In Celebs and Media, Criminals, empire, cinema, manga, 3 years, anime, crime and punishment, crime rates, death god, death note, death note movie, detective, japanese culture, kia, light yagami, movie adapted from, plot twist, sarah michelle gellar, sequel, serial killer, shinigami, tatsuya fujiwara, young lad, bloggers

Are you listening Warman and Kinsella? via Dr Roy's Thoughts November 1st, 2008 at 16:56

image So using hyperlinks even to allegedly defamatory material is not in itself defamatory. Finally a good decision by a Canadian judge. let's hope this stands on appeal. Great news for bloggers!Landmark ruling finds no defamation in hyperlinksROBERT MATASNovember 1, 2008VANCOUVER -- In one of the first court decisions in Canada on defamation on the Internet, a B.C. judge has ruled that a website is not liable for defamatory material on a link to the site.The lawsuit, which drew international attention, was initiated by Wayne Crookes, the Green Party of Canada campaign manager, in 2004. He alleged that Internet site p2pnet.net posted a link to U.S. sites openpolitics and usgovernetics that included defamatory statements. He asked the court to rule that posting hyperlinks to websites containing...
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Bad Dates With Stephen Harper via Dead Robot » Dead Robot October 6th, 2008 at 22:18

Trinity Square Video, over on YouTube has released all their faux-confessional videos of failed dates with the current Prime Minister. Here’s the one my brother wrote (you know it’s Michael because he mentions Nyquil being the colour of Stephen’s eyes):...
In political, Celebs and Media, bloggers

Warren Kinsella: Bloggers have become news via Werner Patels - A Dose of Common Sense October 6th, 2008 at 20:17

image Warren Kinsella writes today that bloggers have become news in this current election campaign (e.g., for breaking stories on various candidates who have had to resign as a result). Warren seems to think that this a bad thing – I don't. It shows the resourcefulness of bloggers and their ability to do things that the mainstream media, apparently, couldn't. But I also detect a double standard in Warren's remarks. When a journalist breaks a story, no one is saying, including Warren, that the journalist has become news (well, except for one CBC reporter who tried to manipulate the news...
In Weblogs, Blogging, Warren Kinsella, bloggers

Where is the debate on the issues, folks? via Werner Patels - A Dose of Common Sense October 1st, 2008 at 22:16

image This whole "plagiarism" non-issue is still being talked about – by bloggers and the media, but not by ordinary Canadians who are more interested in the issues, such as the economy and how to get taxes down in this country. The media, and certain bloggers, are wasting their time dissecting Harper's "Howard speech", just as they are wasting their time chasing after speeches that Dion lifted from David Suzuki. The only blogger – a Liberal no less – who had anything smart to say about this nonsense was Red Tory (as I wrote yesterday) [I]t really is a measure...
In Canada, Media, Conservatives, Liberals, Plagiarism, bloggers

StudioYVR Is Now Obsolete via Dead Robot » Dead Robot September 24th, 2008 at 14:42

Sorry Don. You’ve been replaced....
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Wait. What? Am I Asleep Here?* via Dead Robot » Dead Robot September 22nd, 2008 at 22:08

Funny gays in the news! From bsteward23’s blog comes a tip that McCain’s Chief of Staff is a Log Cabin Republican. Expect this story to burn up the bloggosphere for a few hours but much like the gay hooker plant in the White House press gallery, I bet this will not garner much attention outside queer blogs. Meanwhile Canada’s own self-loathing, “I make dumb remarks on the internets”, right-winged openly gay motormouth (motorfingers?) is (supposedly) ousted from the Conservatives for making utterly useless comments on the bus beheading saying it could have been prevented with a good ol’ gun. Hey sometimes you gotta love Google cache. I’m actually more amazed that George Michaels is stupid enough to be caught yet again with drugs. And he seems to...
In Queer stuff, Celebs and Media, bloggers

L’il Bastard Friday via Dead Robot » Dead Robot September 19th, 2008 at 17:30

image If you haven’t seen CB’s L’il Bastard Friday remixed comics, then I ask you: What the fuck are you doing here? Go look at them before some asshole in corporate decides to shut him down for sullying the good name of Family Circus, Denis the Menace and Ziggy. (Images safe for work, text not so much…) Curious straight guys are going to learn something. I had to look up......
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Sage Advice My Younglings via Dead Robot » Dead Robot September 11th, 2008 at 21:44

Baby’s First Internet. I love the Flickr Your Meal page. That’s me! (Seen on Gruffpelt’s Flickr page,......
In flickr, sage advice, younglings, bloggers, Distractions

In Which Dead Robot Turns Chrimson With “Gwarsh!” via Dead Robot » Dead Robot September 8th, 2008 at 02:35

Robert, who has been coming around this here blog for a couple months now, recently started up Canada Blog Friends, a review site of Northern webzines (ha! when was the last time you heard that? Webzines! hmmm…) that: …is a celebration of life in Canada, as manifest in many different blogs, across many different genres from every part of the nation. The coolest Canadian blogs are profiled here, and sometimes extra passionate posts are condensed in compelling story briefs and further digested in comments. Well I got featured yesterday and I have to tell you, I’ve never had a stranger say such nice things about my blog/hobby who didn’t want money or sex. Go read the review. I rarely toot my own horn on here but the post is so well written I feel like a proud parent...
In Canadian, robot, Money, stranger, Canada, Celebs and Media, blog, posting, bloggers

Weather Meme via Dead Robot » Dead Robot August 14th, 2008 at 12:49

From Electronic Replicant, who says I can remix at will: How do you cope with hot weather? Suck it up. Sweat it out! When does the heat make you most crazy? When people forget themselves and impose their sweaty meat space presence on public transit. Where do you go to get air conditioning? Movie theatres, gym, work, my dad’s (but he likes it 2C warmer than tepid. Your favorite place to sleep in hot weather? An open tent with a breeze flowing through. Have not been camping once this summer. Soon, we’ll be in Saugatuck MI, though! Your favorite hot weather food? Cold fruit. Any kind that has been in the fridge a long time. Your favorite people to visit in the hot weather? We’re getting into having ice cream in the gay village at the end of the day and inviting friends or...
In sleep, dad, Public transit, tea, camping, god, presence, fridge, long time, favorite place, 2c, air conditioning, bitch session, gay village, good weather, hot weather, open tent, replicant, saugatuck mi, weather food, bloggers

Summer’s Last Gasps Pt1 via Dead Robot » Dead Robot August 11th, 2008 at 17:04

image Summer is winding down. You’ve seen the Bat Man, you’ve shopped at Buy N Large, you’ve met your Waterloo, you’ve ignored that X file on your desk, you wept like a child at their mother’s death bed as Indy watched the UFO leave South America (Why!!? WHY???). The excitement is winding down. What’s to do now? What would sexy Jesus do? Put on a play! And not just any play, but Hamlet 2, a Homer Simpson-esque sequel to the great tragedy featuring time travel, music and Staying Alive fog machine dancing. The trailer alone had me laughing more than any trailer (or movie…?) I’ve seen so far this year. No surprise, really: it has Catherine Keener finally getting work; a cameo from Amy Poehler; a title card that proudly announces it’s from the...
In Jesus, south park, South America, Waterloo, excuse, iphone, desk, amy poehler, bat man, brit, cameo, catherine keener, death bed, ed broadbent, elisabeth shue, excitement, screech, soils, steve coogan, ufo, x file, Celebs and Media, bloggers, Distractions

More on the Janke-Garth feud via Werner Patels - A Dose of Common Sense August 11th, 2008 at 04:16

image Steve Janke was kind enough to clarify his position with respect to the mailouts he's received from Garth Turner: My complaint was that Garth Turner's comment dialog, from which he collected email addresses to submit to Constant Contact, did not include an opt-in. That makes all the difference. It is in direct violation of Constant Contact's terms of service, and puts an email marketing firm like Constant Contact in jeopardy. Constant Contact appears to be the company Garth uses for his mass mailings. In my view, that's all fine, but I simply don't see why this should be such...
In Garth Turner, Steve Janke, Media, Weblogs, bloggers

Republicans scamming the media via Werner Patels - A Dose of Common Sense August 4th, 2008 at 16:03

image Be careful what you wish for. Bloggers always want to be taken "seriously" and placed on an equal footing with the other media. Well, that wish has become reality for the bloggers accredited for the Republican National Convention. The only trouble is, as Ed Morrissey reports, that bloggers are now subject to the same exorbitant and out-of-this-world fees for Internet services as the traditional, mainstream media: Qwest will provide the customer with a RJ45 plug for each 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps service and a fiber optic SC/PC connector for each 1 Gbps service. The service does not provide...
In United States, Republicans, Repulican National Convention, Media, bloggers

Devils Who Care via Dead Robot » Dead Robot July 31st, 2008 at 02:20

image Met up with Sean of Fortress of Solitude this evening and promptly spat ice cream on him while excitedly trying to explain how much HD TV rocks. “Preaching to the choir,” he said. Here we are holding up our Mini Book Expo hauls!...
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For CB… via Dead Robot » Dead Robot July 23rd, 2008 at 00:13

From the movie Welcome To Woop Woop...
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Dear PR Firms: Please Have An Angle When Pitching To Bloggers via Deep Jive Interests July 23rd, 2008 at 03:04

image If you're going to send us something, make it worthwhile. So, if you’ve been blogging for any stretch of time, you might get contacted from time to time by public relations firms on behalf of web entities looking for a mention.  I know I do.  Perhaps I’m not so important that I get included on some lists and not others (in fact, I think that’s precisely the reason), but I can’t help but wonder *why* I get pitched the way I do. Let me explain. I rarely, if ever, act on a message by a public relations firm — contrary to what some bloggers say about PR firms ruling the blogging roost, that is. Most of the time its because of the combination of two things 1. I’m clearly part of a list they like to send unsolicited information to, as its addressed...
In Marketing, PR, Public Relations, Blogging, bloggers

Hearing the grass grow via Werner Patels - A Dose of Common Sense July 21st, 2008 at 16:13

image Ed Morrissey is normally a common-sensical sort of blogger, who doesn't indulge in hand-wringing and the-sky-is-falling messages. Not so this morning, though: The Barack Obama campaign wanted to make sure that the reporters traveling along with the presidential candidate on his foreign tour presented themselves properly. His staff distributed a memo that dictated a dress code, reminding the women in the media entourage of the need to keep from offending the natives. Morrissey then reproduces the memo and pretends to sense "a faint whiff of paternalism". I don't think the Obama team meant any offence to the journalists, or...
In Barack Obama, US presidential election, Current Affairs - United States, Ed Morrissey, Media, bloggers

The CBC “Gets It” via Dead Robot » Dead Robot July 16th, 2008 at 21:53

This is currently the number one submission for the Ceeb’s Canada’s Hockey Anthem contest (via Torontoist) that is currently being jacked up by Something Awful visitors. (warning: video’s audio is mesmerizing and annoying) While losing the theme to their CTV rivals in a dollar contest, I commend them for spinning their loss into an national (internet?) contest. But crowdsourcing bites you on the ass if you’re trying to cover up a dickmove. However, it was removed for a brief period of time and the Ceeb reinstated it like a good......
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How To Make SharkBoy Laugh via Dead Robot » Dead Robot July 14th, 2008 at 20:48

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In fall, slip, ass, wham, Celebs and Media, bloggers

Devil May Care via Dead Robot » Dead Robot July 15th, 2008 at 17:53

image My review for the Mini Book Expo Devil May Care Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Flemming * Hardcover: 304 pages * Publisher: Doubleday (May 28, 2008) * ISBN-10: 0385524285 * ISBN-13: 978-0385524285 Shipping sponsored by RandomHouse.ca I’m not a big fan of authors taking over a franchise after the death of the original author and have regarded books like this as “authorized fan fiction”, not unlike the pornographic fanfic you discover on the web. I usually find these types of novels are soulless copies of the originals. The essence of the series the author cultivated throughout his career was always somehow missing when handed over to a young buck, much like several Issac Asimov 3 Laws of Robotics books. The ideas are there, but there’s no...
In Gadgets, world, news, game, franchise, world domination, mystery, metaphors, drawings, metaphor, book expo, ian flemming, mini book, 100th birthday, 3 laws of robotics, andy warhol, british writer, car chases, doubleday, foreboding, henchman, issac asimov, mysterious woman, new novel, octopussy, quirks, sebastian faulks, severa, young buck, robot, Celebs and Media, drinks, bloggers, Distractions

iPhone Mania in Vancouver: Tanya and John on the Bill Good Show via Vancouver Blog Miss 604 July 11th, 2008 at 20:01

image Copyright © 2008 Miss604 - Rebecca Bollwitt. If you are not viewing this post through the Miss604.com feed then this content has been republished without permission. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2008/07/iphone-mania-in-vancouver-tanya-and-john-on-the-bill-good-show.html.Waiting in line ups since 4:30am, watching the Rogers system fail and confronted by those who simply don’t get the hype, Tanya Davis and John Biehler were real troopers this morning (and continue to be) while attempting to secure their shiny new iPhone 3Gs. Based on the Twitter FailWhale - Photo credit: SeanOsteen on Flickr They were featured on the Bill Good Show on CKNW and I was able to capture some audio from the show. This text will be replaced You can read their blogs for coverage,...
In Vancouver, Blogs, Radio, interview, geeky, addparam, bill, tanya, swfobject, failwhale, mediaplayer, iphone, Internet, bloggers

Caption This via Dead Robot » Dead Robot July 10th, 2008 at 21:46

image Over on The Mangina Monologues, cb has had some pretty funny Family Circus captions. Now I want to try: Image via Boingboing via Derrickbostrom.com For example, I’d say something tasteless like… oh…. “Did I remember to order the clown for Jon Benet’s party?” Now you......
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Rogers Ad Remix via Dead Robot » Dead Robot July 9th, 2008 at 16:45

image Phronk hates Rogers as much as I do. He getting tired of their flyers coming through his door trying to sell him stuff he doesn’t want or already has. Go take a look at his post. He makes a great point about how crap we don’t need is displayed like something religious. Here’s the ad he got: I loved his remix of it. So I did one too:...
In General, Flyers, rogers, crap, bloggers, Distractions

Men That Suck via Dead Robot » Dead Robot June 29th, 2008 at 05:45

image Before I start posting pictures of Pride in Toronto coupled with the usual bitter, snarky comments, I want to share with you a new meme: Romach, my new found Irish sexpot blogger has introduced me to the world of Men That Suck: Romach’s picture here. (not entirely safe for work) Mine (note the new Wall•E shirt, Thank you SharkBoy!): Freddie Mercury:...
In Toronto, pride, freddiesexpot, mercury, Blogger, bloggers

MiniBook Expo On Again! via Dead Robot » Dead Robot June 26th, 2008 at 15:51

image Lex, over on Unsweetened.ca has fired up her magical blog MiniBook Expo! Go claim your absolutely free books. The catch? You gotta blog about the book you choose. Choose wisely! Claim It. * watch for a book you want * click through to claim it * make sure it’s not already claimed by someone else * leave a comment to claim it (max 2) * Get it. * we’ll confirm you claimed it in the comments. * then email you for your address * send me your address * Canada Post will bring you your book. * Read it. * can you really say anything if you haven’t read it? * Blog it. * Post something about the book within a month of getting it * include a link to the publisher and the author if...
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Some Stats (That I Really Don’t Watch… really…) via Dead Robot » Dead Robot June 25th, 2008 at 03:24

image I know that stat reporting to your readership is as exciting as an Annual General Meeting for Canadian Chartered Accountants. But the plugin Wordpress.com Stats is like those new President Choice Blue Cheese and Hot Wings chips: So addictive, I will probably keep over from it. Domain owners with WordPress and WP.com bloggers can install it as a Plugin (you’ll need your API Key). Best of all, it’s free! Instantly you can watch your incoming/outgoing stats bloom like a tense parent watching their sexually budding child go out on Prom Night. It also does a great job logging Google searches that brought people to your site. For fun, here’s the last few searches: restaurant makeover 4 killman zoo 3 dead robot pictures 3 hey ashley whatchoo playing 2 attack photos 2 amy good...
In Google, Tony Blair, Tech, wp, gas millage, ashley, blue cheese, domain owners, gorilla, grapefruit moon restaurant, grapefruit moon restaurant makeover, hot wings, killman, labadee, page views, president choice, shirtless, robot, bloggers, Distractions

Sean Sees The Light via Dead Robot » Dead Robot June 20th, 2008 at 12:04

image Why can’t you people!??...
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