Nov

YES

Posted by MGK Published in Gaming, It's The Youtube

This makes me want to play World of Warcraft slightly more than I did previously. We are now up to “probably never” from “definitely never.” This is the type of power Mr. T possesses. Also: Shatner.

15 comments

Nov

What’s Wrong With Facebook?

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets

Patrick Metzger, my fellow Torontoista, posted this recently on Facebook (presumably because Patrick is the very model of irony personified), and I thought it deserved wider distribution than his circle of Facebook friends. Facebook, the bloom is off the rose. A few months back I gushed like a schoolgirl about the Internet phenom that’s turned […]

5 comments

Nov

Your Wednesday Diversion

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets

Robots are not very good at stand-up comedy.

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Nov

Your light morning entertainment.

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, The Internets

An open letter to Subway.

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Nov

“The Black Dossier” – A Review

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Comics

Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier has been hailed in some quarters as a masterpiece, in others as Alan Moore’s worst excesses all combined into a single dense volume. I’m not sure yet where I stand on this axis, but a few things about the book puzzled me. […]

20 comments

Nov

Another Post That Is Mostly Just A Link

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly television column is, as it is every Monday, up at Torontoist. Go forth, and read.

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Nov

We’re Getting Screwed But Good

Posted by MGK Published in Economics, Politics, The Internets

Specifically, Canada is totally getting the shaft when it comes to mobile phone costs. Check out those graphs. We’re worse than Rwanda, for crissake. This is just another example of how Canadian politicians’ rhetoric about wanting to make Canadian industry competitive are all too often just empty rhetoric. See also: Canada’s continuing paucity of funding […]

3 comments

Nov

They Love Diet Soda In New Zealand

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, WTF

New Zealand to rest of world: “no fatties, please.”

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Nov

This Will Shave A Year (If Not More) Off My Father’s Life

Posted by MGK Published in Nothing Else Fit

Just so everybody knows, I joined the New Democratic Party today. This may make a difference to some people, it may not. Some of you might ask: “Why the NDP? Come to think, why join a political party period?” Consider it the best way I can think of to express the belief that politics in […]

11 comments

Nov

Well, That’s Good News

Posted by MGK Published in David Suzuki Says You're Bad

I remembered reading a while back about Nanosolar, the company trying to perfect extremely cheap, non-silicon based solar cells. And it occurred to me yesterday, “hey, how is that going, anyhow?” After some Googling, it turns out that the answer to that question is very, very good indeed. The dawn of individual power generation is […]

3 comments

Nov

This Makes Me So Mad I Could Spit

Posted by MGK Published in David Suzuki Says You're Bad

British Airways is flying empty planes across the Atlantic, wasting fuel and creating tonnes of CO2, in order to not let other airlines get the takeoff and landing slots at the airport. Someone tell me again about how voluntary emissions reduction is the answer to the global warming crisis, please?

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Nov

Friday Night Fights: Johnny Quick Teaches Us A Valuable Lesson

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

Namely, “liberals can beat people up too, so long as they are bad people.” He be spiny like an Agave Cactus, he be the painbringer, he be Bahlactus.

7 comments

Nov

You May Find This Hilarious (If You Consider Lord Denning To Be Hilarious)

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Law Skool

In the first year of law school – at least, at Osgoode Hall, where I go – you get exactly one course option in first year to go along with the usual slate of tort law, contract law, criminal law, property law, public and constitutional law, ethics, and legal process and writing. Because these are […]

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Nov