Until today, I had never even seen FarmVille in action. Sure, I had received all the Facebook notifications asking me to help my friends, but no part of me had any desire to do so. Then I read an article in TIME magazine called Zynga Harvests the Cyberfarmer, and decided to take a peek at [...]
Saturday, November 21, 2009
As reported on The Big Money Google plans to prevent you from seeing ads that promise white teeth and a flat belly! Why does Google want us all walking around with guts and stained grills? What does the search engine giant have against its users’ bodies? I explore…
Oh, wait. It turns out that most of [...]
Saturday, November 14, 2009
If you had the displeasure of watching the Black Eyed Peas perform “I Gotta Feeling” on SNL tonight, you feel my pain. According to MTV “The group turned in a trio of excellent performances and managed to get the normally staid “SNL” audience to make a little noise and bang around a bit.” While I [...]
Saturday, November 7, 2009
At age 21, Rihanna has undeniably built quite an empire for herself. Tied with Beyoncé Knowles, she has five #1 hits in this decade (if my source is correct, Mariah Carey is the only American solo artist who has more) and shows no signs of slowing down. Last night ABC aired her interview with Diane [...]
Saturday, October 31, 2009
I recently read something in a book by Christopher Hitchens that surprised me: “We have only recently established that a cow is closer in family to a whale than to a horse: other wonders certainly await.” Whoa. What? I did not know that. Then I learned that baby whales and cows are both called calves. [...]
Saturday, October 24, 2009
If you’re like most people who use Windows Live Messenger, you’ve received a message from a friend that is filled with bogus links. Only one time in my life have I mistakenly clicked on such a link. In a moment of inattention I followed the underlined text and instantly I had sent that same message [...]
Saturday, October 17, 2009
I get a huge kick out of super scammy and unsolicited emails. I just don’t understand who is tempted to click on ANYTHING in these messages. This one came to my wife, and I laughed so hard that I thought I would share it. This is exactly how the message was written, aside from my [...]
Saturday, October 10, 2009
As a Canadian, it is not uncommon to find one’s self saying “did you know that ________ is Canadian?” to Americans. Because Canada is inundated with everything US-made, there is a certain pride in revealing that a celebrity that is assumed to be American is in fact a Canuck. In many cases, it is easy [...]
Saturday, October 3, 2009
If you’ve never seen this video, please do so. It’s an eye-opener, to say the least. It puts in perspective just how very tiny we are compared to other celestial bodies in our solar system, our galaxy and the universe.
An interesting book to read (even just the first few chapters, which is all I’ve [...]
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