Acts of Volition

Sign of the end-times: CNN is syndicating The Onion on their home page and The Onion is syndicating CNN on their home page.  •  On any given day, you could read a selection of headlines and I wouldn't be able to tell you which of the two sites they came from. CNN has walked from being bad news …

Now that the Canadian dollar and US dollar are at par, perhaps we should start accepting miles at par with kilometers.

I think I’ve come up with the perfect solution for Michael Vick’s career. Vick should join the WWE under the name The Rottweiler.  •  The public outrage that would ensue would only fuel his infamy as a bad-ass wrestler.  •  Food for thought.

A few weeks ago I got a call from Angela Haupt, a reporter for USA Today. She wanted a few quotes for an article she was writing about phantom cell phone vibrations. Thanks to Google, a short post I made in 2004 makes me a leading expert on the topic.  •  The article went up on the USA Today …

A good friend of mine, Peter Rukavina, has been writing on his Ruk.ca weblog (in various incarnations) for about eight years. I’ve always enjoyed reading what Peter writes. Over the years, Peter has written a variety of posts about Tim Banks. Tim is the President and CEO of the APM Group, a …

An interesting quote from an article about the legal battles surrounding government adoption of open document formats in the US:  •  “  •  “Microsoft sees what’s coming. Things like Word and Excel are sort of like a drug now getting ready to go generic.”  •  — Florida Rep. Ed Homan  •  ”  •  Of …

One of the many secrets of a successful marriage is to have a relationship in which one partner does like black jelly beans and the other does not.

The Real Superbowl Holds the Blood of Jesus!  •  Jesus is My Quarterback  •  Jesus is My Coach  •  Jesus is My MVP  •  Jesus is My Half-Back  •  Hail the real Mary  •  The Quarterback Sneak (into heaven)  •  Which End Zone are You Running For?  •  The Star of Our Half-Time Show: The real Prince …

Suggestion for a distributed open-source system to fight badness:  •  The system allows you to enter the name/location of a person who needs to be punched in the face, somewhere in the world (a known spammer, for example).  •  Then, you see if there is anyone near you that needs to be punched in …