Wait, never mind. The microfiche vid's in the linked article - a twofer!

Cory, dude, it's the wrong video.

(But don't lose this one - it's pretty cool as well. I didn't know those controllers had accelerometers!)

Gee, Cory, paranoid much? Use an unregistered card and pay cash to top it up. All they'll know is card ######## went everywhere in the city.

I'd love to see a map of our 3 day mad dash about London a few months back. What with the disembarking near the Eye and reappearing in Greenwich (thank you River Rover) and don't even mention how I managed to take two different buses from the same stop 3 minutes apart. ("No, sir, you want the NEXT #13, this one doesn't go all the way to ...")

"French Dip with Au Jus"

Oh, I know. EVERY time I see this I cringe. It's the verbal equivalent of being introduced to a society matron and, when she turns to leave, you see she's tucked her dress into her pantyhose.

Of course, French isn't the only problem - I once saw a place called the "Cucina Italiana Kitchen". Dept of Redundancy Department on line 1. Sigh.

Oh, great, now the RIAA's gonna build a time-machine, go back to 1979 and sue their asses for using Henry's tune without a license.

And, being old enough to remember signoffs from 1969, they were just as boring - except for the dancing nude people, of course.

LUST is back in fashion! Yippee!

And, as for "bioethical violations", I believe Lea Delaria once said "Life begins when you learn to mind your own f*cking business."

ANKH, please. Medical researchers refute each other on a regular basis. In a month or two that same physician will be telling us if we don't have a Diet-Coke at least once a day, our livers will fall out.

I popped into a smoke shop to get a newspaper the other day. While there, I grabbed a bottle of Diet-Coke and the owner went into this NUT-CASE rant about the evils of aspartame (similar to ANKH's clippings.) This happens while he's literally surrounded by every possible tobacco product on the planet. I called him on this and he had ANOTHER rant that tobacco and smoke issues were not scientifically proven.

Short story: I read him to filth, tossed his paper at him and walked out.

low-risk/low-cost books are how readers discover new authors

This really struck home for me. When I was young (just after the earth cooled), access to inexpensive paperbacks introduced me to innumerable authors.

I'm also seeing a connection here between Gaiman's ideas and those of Clive Thompson here.

Getting books into people's heads keeps the medium alive - and, let's be honest, keeps the people from turning into drones whose first thought is no longer "Wonder what's on TV?"

My two favourites from the article that started all this:

Margaret Atwood: "Longed for him. Got him. Shit."

Joss Whedon: "Gown removed carefully. Head less so."

Proud Canuck here.

Sadly, it makes a teensy bit of sense.

I work with an American who recently emigrated to Canada from one of the "suh-then" states. He tells me our early stance against the "war" on Iraq left a bad taste toward Canada in the rural south. Raw hate and "we should invade those b*stards and kick them out on an ice flow" rage was quite common in his semi-rural area.

Using "Canadian" in this fashion would be a logical progression. They're not being ironic at all.

@Darren Barefoot: Oh, we call them what we've always called them. (WINK!)

Cory, you're living in what must be the most "ultra-surveillanced" country on the planet. How does it make you feel? Do you feel put upon by the CCTV installations?

How about an article from your own point of view - a North American living in the UK?

Mom? What are you doing here?

#100 ROCKS! "Is that it?" as if to imply she's going to be late for her sky-diving lesson. Hope she's around to do 120!

Let's be honest, we Canadians LOVE laughing at the foibles of our southern neighbors. (And, don't get all up in my grill, people, you Americans do it back, just as often.)

But, after about 10-15 minutes of Rick doing this - and the show was a series that went on for weeks - I started to find it sad and more than a little bit creepy and mean.

This is like reading the obit about someone you chummed around with in high school but lost track of when you went to univ.

Somehow we got "Netscrape" on our old Macintosh LC4xx in what? 95?

The first site we visited was the Louvre's website. (And, I'm embarrassed to admit, I wondered if, somehow, we'd be charged for using the site. HA)

I honestly feel, if it hadn't been for the pioneering spirit of the first Netscape developers, I might not be sitting here, using Firefox. (Good Zod, I might be sitting here using IE.)

RIP - anyone for a 21 version salute?

How ironic that Napster - the company that brought P2P to the public consciousness - should be the one with user-unfriendly cancellation procedures.

I was talking to a Londoner about the new terminal they're adding to Heathrow. He laughed and said it would be less of a terminal and more of a waiting room - a place where you could sit while waiting for your delayed flight to FINALLY take off.

I'm with THEMAGUS - Cory, angel, can your 2008 resolution be to give this whole steampunk thing a rest?

Of course, I could just GreaseMonkey the steampunk posts into oblivion, couldn't I? Never mind.

This is terrible. I've been on subways/tubes in many cities and she's the first one I could actually understand. (Perhaps Transport for London has a strict "No chewing taffy while recording announcements" policy.)

Aeroplane?

(Switching to Monty Python Mode)

Aeroplane? Oh my. Aren't we grawnd. Oh no, Mater, no more buttered scones for me. I'm off fly my aeroplane.

Sorry, whenever someone says/uses "aeroplane", all I can see is Graham Chapman dangling from the ceiling making fun of Eric Idle's high class grammar.

A few thoughts:

- wouldn't clearing the area of other people and letting his anger run its course be a better idea (yes, a few chairs/furniture get broken but he could only keep that up for so long)

- surely they could have found someone in Vancouver who could speak enough Polish to yell "Calm down, we're trying to HELP you"

Only a few months ago, a fellow was tasered to death in a bar near where I work. I'm concerned my fellow Canadians are picking up bad habits.

Oh, get OVER yourself. It's a fricking doughnut machine, it's not the end of the world.

Geez.

Why is this news or an even remotely interesting anecdote?

We all (or most of us) spend a part of our day killing crap messages - be they from PR flacks or just someone in Nigeria who'd love to pass on the $$$ I earned for no apparent reason.

The difference in my case, I block the whole damn domain.

I feel her pain - I was once on the phone to Sears (Canada) for close to an hour listening to canned music alternating with "Your call is important to us, please ..."

After 45/50 minutes of this, the clock turned from 4:59pm to 5:00pm and a new message played "Our offices are now closed please call back tomorrow." and it hung up.

Won't SOMEBODY think of the fondants????

Oh, puh-leeze Skep. If you want to use a tech analogy, get the software level correct.

You should have written: Imagine if installing an unlicensed mod to my BIOS caused my machine to be bricked at the next BIOS update.

Hmmm, gee, thats EXACTLY what happens. And, no, ASUS doesn't do it deliberately.

Geeks with soldering irons. Spare me.

Speaking as a Canadian, this is EXACTLY why I refuse to go anywhere near the United States.

I know the average, day-to-day American is still the generally nice person I used to encounter but there's a large group of people down there that are seriously screwed up.

What was that: a game of Simon-Says with guns and security guards?