This is not really apropos of anything, but to get to boingboing.net I just type "boing" and then press the down arrow and enter, and it totally sounds like "shave and a haircut, two bits"!

How Ubik.

right on! I only wish the globe and mail was as vigilant.

While not directly relevant, I just learned that according to our harassment policy at work, "fuck" (and variants) doesn't add up to much, but if you say, "fuck you" it's harassment. Hah!

I just saw some knitted crocs in the elevator. Someone call Donatella Versace!

Related Canadian mishaps: a severed foot was also found along the Ottawa River this past fall.

On maybe a related note - A well known Canadian image from their national archives : http://mikan3.archives.ca/pam/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=3191599&rec_nbr_list=3197321,3197324,3197320,3192779,3198130,3191599,3627469,3197327,3197323,3627465&tmplt_nbr=201&item_index=1&total_items=1&

the mounties pulled me over once to say, "I happened to notice you are a cyclist wearing a helmet, and just wanted to say thank you." very odd experience but no objections, it was not systematic. no free coffee involved!

I am Canadian public servant for whom boingboing.net has been recently made inaccessible as part of a new departmental policy of blocking potentially inappropriate websites. I am not certain if many other Canadian public servants have also lost access to bb - but just for the record, our department classified your site as blocked, due to "nudity." Brilliant. (Is the flying spaghetti monster not wearing pants?)

Having said that, I just wanted to applaud boingboing for keeping us updated on this important issue, as it directly relates to how I do my work and serve clients.

Just for the record, Sammy & I had the very same first impression. I think it's also the retro graphix. And the "fact of the matter" that secretaries are still women doesn't help me to chill out.