Yes, yes, I’m going to write something about this whole scans_daily/Peter David brouhaha eventually. It’s coming. But come on, folks, last night’s episode of Battlestar Galactica isn’t going to watch itself, you know? Also, I tried a can of the Jimi Hendrix Energy Drink, and it in fact tastes kind of like what would happen […]

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Because if you like making cupcakes, and more importantly if you like making THEME cupcakes, then you should enter this contest and make a cupcake and try to win ACTUAL MONEY. (Personally, I mostly dislike cupcakes. Most fancy cupcakes are vehicles for a huge mound of unpleasantly-made icing. But I know most people like cupcakes. […]

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A commenter over at Ezra Klein’s blog asks: Again, I’m curious about the reasons for conservatives advocating a tax instead of cap and trade. Why is one more palatable than the other for them? Because it’s a stealth tax cut. Make no mistake, of course – when it comes to carbon control policy, conservative viewpoint […]

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Hosea? Really? I mean, as usual the judging at the final round was head-scratchingly nuts. Stefan’s dessert plate – which looked perfectly tasty – was in fact excellent food, but got widely panned by the judges on the basis that it “didn’t feel fully conceived,” which is food-speak for “I wanted pie or something like […]

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Sometimes this column is difficult, because a concept is so sublimely wonderful. These are rare moments, but true ones, ones to be savoured. Do I really need to explain how fantastic this is? First off, it is a giant wheel. We all remember the brief villainous stint of Big Wheel in the Spider-Man comics fondly […]

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Top comment: I’m waiting for the Janis Joplin energy drink. The “Me and Blueberry McGee” flavor sounds scrumptious. — SilverMoonWolf

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User Friendly creator Illiad caught plagiarizing his punchlines from Metafilter comments. This cannot end well. Top comment: To make so many people outraged, it must be worse than that Mohammad thing! — nickshogun

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Most people don’t get to see recent comments to much older posts for obvious reasons, but I thought this, from Nina, on this post, was hilarious: I could really do with a “fuck this shit” button on my browser. You know, one I could click every time I come across something so mediocre that I […]

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Recently, in discussing the proposed bill before Congress to require ISP and wifi providers to keep records of all user access, several commenters made smug “not in Canada” comments. I didn’t have time to mention it then, but this is not the case, as an Ontario Superior Court judge recently ruled that no warrant is […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. Also, to answer a question a bunch of people have asked in email: because the Deep Space Nine and Voyager covers are, respectively, boring and boring plus ugly.

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FLAPJACKS: So first you did those Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. ME: Yes. FLAPJACKS: And then you did all that nerd-lit from years gone by. ME: Yes. FLAPJACKS: You realize there remains only one true realm of nerd-bookery left to you. ME: Unfortunately. FLAPJACKS: A final frontier, if you will. ME: Yes, very clever.

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8:14: We are informed that nobody will ever forget the name of Viola Davis for her performance in Doubt. I would suggest that just maybe this is optimistic and that in three months’ time Viola Davis will be a hard-to-answer trivia question. 8:15: Some schmuck kisses Miley Cyrus’ ass. How much self-worth does one lose […]

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WHY THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON WILL WIN BEST PICTURE: Because it’s finally the big-swing Best Picture contender directed by David Fincher with Brad Pitt in it that a generation has been waiting for. Because it made the most money out of all the contenders. Because people genuinely like it. Because people think Cate […]

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Republicans introduce bill that would require all ISPs and Wifi providers to keep two-year logs of all use. Comment of the thread: The Republicans said that if the Democrats got elected, the government would take away everyone’s rights, but I had assumed they meant the other party would be responsible. — plus C

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