Gav\'s Rants
“Why aren’t the bathrooms at the tennis courts open?” “Why is the second gate to the tennis court locked?” “Do they think that people come to the park wearing adult diapers or do they just not care?” All quotes from JK… a visitor from North Vancouver who was out last weekend trying to enjoy a [...]
“You’re out of order… you’re out of order…. you’re out of order…everybody’s fucking out of order!”… Me…. channeling my inner Pacino, because what the fuck else can one do when facing dick limp leaders who won’t explain their shit to the people, that pay their freight… in Canada, Toronto and Dildo, NFLD. SEAMUS O’BRADAIGH [...]
REPRINTED FROM GAWKER.COM Story by Editor John Cook – Gawker.com The following is a breaking story alleging Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is a crack cocaine user. Editor John Cook says the video detailing Ford smoking from a crack pipe has also been seen by Toronto Star Reporters but the dealer reputed to be a crack [...]
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The mayor of Canada’s largest city told a packed news conference that he doesn’t use crack cocaine and isn’t a crack addict. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denies using crack cocainehttp://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/canada.xmlFOR PERSONAL USE ONLYhttp://www.cbc.ca/rss/image/cbc_144.gif11402CBC Canada News Powered by WPeMatico
Emotions ran high in a packed Edmonton courthouse Friday as Richard Suter, accused of causing a crash into a restaurant patio that killed a young boy, was granted bail. Man accused of killing child in patio crash granted bailhttp://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/canada.xmlFOR PERSONAL USE ONLYhttp://www.cbc.ca/rss/image/cbc_144.gif11402CBC Canada News Powered by WPeMatico
After Google initially complained about Microsoft’s Windows Phone YouTube app, it appears that the two companies are now working together to provide some kind of a solution. In the meantime, however, Microsoft’s actually rather good YouTube app has been replaced with its feature deficient predecessor. Google had two significant problems with Microsoft’s app: it allowed [...]
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You ever heard of the cookiecutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis? I hadn’t either until Phenomena’s Ed Yong told me about it today. “It’s a small cat-sized animal with chocolate-coloured skin, a rounded snout, and large green eyes. Beneath the bizarre head, its lower jaw contains what looks like a saw–a row of huge, serrated teeth, all [...]
Over at Wired Science, a photographer caught a stunning sequence of a killer whale in Monterey Bay flipping a dolphin out of the water and then eating it. Apparently, they do this regularly! “I have seen this with several different species of dolphins from various places around the world, so I think that killer whales [...]
Shutterstock/D. Hammonds Casey Schwartz, an eighth-grader in Millburn, NJ, is 14 years old. She got her first computer (a toy) when she was 18 months old. She got her first cellphone (a real one) when she was in the second grade. Casey now owns a white iPhone 4S — a device she takes with her [...]
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Royal Bank has promised it will never outsource a Canadian job to a foreign worker solely to save money. Royal Bank pledges not to outsource jobs for cash savingshttp://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/canada.xmlFOR PERSONAL USE ONLYhttp://www.cbc.ca/rss/image/cbc_144.gif11402CBC Canada News Powered by WPeMatico
The journalist who broke the story alleging Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was recorded on video smoking crack cocaine says he may never be able to get his hands on the evidence. Alleged Ford crack video seller not responding to callshttp://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/canada.xmlFOR PERSONAL USE ONLYhttp://www.cbc.ca/rss/image/cbc_144.gif11402CBC Canada News Powered by WPeMatico
Senator Mike Duffy says he wants a “full and open” inquiry so Canadians can get all the facts about the scandal that has rocked the Senate and the Prime Minister’s Office and that he has no plans to resign. Duffy says he wants to give Canadians 'the whole story'http://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/canada.xmlFOR PERSONAL USE ONLYhttp://www.cbc.ca/rss/image/cbc_144.gif11402CBC Canada News Powered [...]
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Darl McBride, the former chief executive officer of SCO, says he was offered $2 million by the Utah attorney general in May 2009 in exchange for taking down a website criticizing an area business person. Still pursuing the years-long legal battle against Novell and IBM over Unix and Linux intellectual property, SCO needed money at the [...]
Hc_07 Google is upgrading the digital certificates used to secure its Gmail, Calendar, and Web search services. Beginning on August 1, the company will start upgrading the RSA keys used to encrypt Web traffic and authenticate to 2048-bits, twice as many as are used now. The rollout affects the transport layer security (TLS) certificates that [...]
Let’s have fun with metonymy! I got into this thicket with an early scene in my new profile of Jerry Brown. Here I was trying to convey the interesting/odd experience of talking with the man: “Do you know what ‘metonym’ means?” [Brown] asked out of the blue one time. Unfortunately, I didn’t. (To spare you [...]
