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I'm happy to say that a Canadian has take top honours as photoblog of the year but check out all the other blogs as well... 25 categories in all

ever wondered what you'd look like if you were on South Park? Now you can create your South Park image! I had some fun with it and I think that I was successful in creating my South Park image... the shirt logo was added in Photoshop

don't know if it's sad or funny, but hell it's another money making scheme that seems to be working

so if you auctioned the naming rights to... yourself... what would you want other people to name you? how are you doing Mrs Goldenpalace.com?

for those of you that enjoy Photoshop CS, it turns out Adobe accidently posted a press release about version CS2, but someone was resourceful enough to grab it out of Google's cache memory and post it

Sony just lost a $90.7m lawsuit over claimed patent infringements in their vibrating controllers, if Sony doesn't appeal soon they will have to stop selling their PS and PS2's in the USA

what happens when you try to mix the reality TV craze with blogs?

a fun site... drag around letters while other people are dragging letters too... all in real time

I've always wanted to be able to twirl my pen around, but this is ridiculous! it's yet more proof that some people have way too much time on their hand and that anything can look cool with a soundtrack to back it

I did a quicklinks post a couple days ago about seeing what's behind your screen, this guy took it to the next level... I honestly don't know how he did this... I'm in awww

it's breaking news... an 8.2 earthquake was measured 200km off the Indonesian coast in the Indian Ocean

up 'til now scientists have had only dinosaur bones to do research, but now they think they've got some soft tissue... very exciting times for all the dino-philes out there

tractor driver dies under eight tons of manure... everyone is baffled how it happened, do you really want to know?

the PNG prime minister was POed that he was treated like everyone else in the airport security check... oh poor baby!

ok, I orignally got this site via Boing Boing and thought of it as amusing, but the more I read the more I became interested in the story (just spent a couple hours reading chunks of it), it's all about the saga of a guy who wants to start a fan site for a mall and gets sued by the mall for copyright infringements and such... very David vs Golieth

more proof that anyone can have a blog these days, Mark Cuban has his own, for those of you that don't know him, he's the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, he earned most of his money by starting broadcast.com

Queen's football player gets stabbed at AJ's Hanger in Kingston... will The Hub ever be the same?

what's hiding behind your monitor? what if you could see through your monitor? here people are having some fun with the idea... pretty cool! (via)

the Da Vinci Code has sold over 25 million copies in 44 languages and isn't slowing down, he's sold nearly 10 times the average sales figures of John Grisham, now he's working on a follow up where Robert investigates the Freemasons (via)

want to know what colours will lead the way for web design in 2005? Adam gives us his input... I hope he's wrong, never been much of a purple fan

they used some high-tech gadgets to find this thought-to-be-lost mural that may not have seen the light of day since 1563

which roughly translates to a trillion calculations a second, so the world's fastest computer nearly doubled it previous world record, and it's not even finished yet, theorectially it still has another 224.5 teraflops to go

running Octopuses? watch the videos... it's kinda creepy to see

a wife was able to divorce her husband b/c he refused to have sex with her... the sex strike started seven years ago!

ok, so Spielberg now owns the rights to the Baywatch movie... ummm... should be interesting

what is it with celebs naming their kids? they all suck... their kids are gettin' beaten up for sure!

we've all watched the Osbournes at one point, but here's a great RollingStone article about children growing up in the shadows of their parents

ooooh hockey news! The Leafs just announced that their AHL team from St. John's will be moved to Toronto next season, they're now called the Marlies... b/c there's already a Maple Leafs team in TO

have you noticed that stores don't check your receipt signature to make sure it matches the one on the back of your card... here's one guy seeing how much he can get away with

there's a new way to search for books on your favourite Amazon site, visually... type in a seach word and it'll bring up the covers it gets from the result, if you wait long enough the covers will spell out the word you used in the search, click a book image and get the book's info... someone's got too much time on their hands

Degrassi is a cult hit and is hugely popular beyond these Canadian borders... a great article on the fame that is Degrassi... kids almost always guessed that it was filmed in California, despite the cast's accents and frequent mentions of Toronto... like the snow wasn't a dead giveaway!

looks like Wayne won't be GMing Team Canada at the next World Championships, he putting family first and choosing to spend time with his sick mother

what? apparently Mackers is having trouble completing orders and needs a trained zit-faced kid to do it

for those of you into Bit Torrent... here are some good sites to download the torrent files

first it was BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo, now GM is planning on having car stereo systems that are capable of playing your iPod, as well as other portable audio deviced

for $2000 the OPP will set up a RIDE stop where you want, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers used it last week for St. Paddy's Day

a planned town where everone has to speak in sign language... interesting concept

Microsoft will be offering these fonts with future software updates, so finally people who use CSS will have for web-fonts at their disposal

wow... some people have way too much time on their hands... and it works!

3M has taken their priduct one step further and created a step by step example on how to create a duct tape wallet (via) or if that doesn't float your boat, make the wallet out of paper money

well known blogger was trying to cross the Canada/USA border and was strip-seached b/c the officers thought you could not be doing this blogging thing for a living... yes you can... but I'm no where near that point

so with lots of channels turning to the higher-resolution of HDTV, which celebs will look better or worse when you can see all their flaws

a nice mini-hack for Movable Type that makes it easier to read the 'add multiple categories' pop-up window by including the categories parent

some kids just can't wait to start, I blame it on TV and movies

think I'll skip Berlin this year... I need time to prepare, but London 2007... I'm there!!! (via)

NewScientist.com sure knows that they're talking about... this is more of a '13 things that do make sense to sceientists' sort of list... which means some of these things mean little to me, such as 'Ultra-energetic cosmic rays'... oh and I'd like to add a 14th thing to this list; the fact that this link is being posted on March 17th and the article is dated March 19th...

ever wanted to see your lab partner nude? well you just might if you go to Boston University, Boink is plugged as 'Real College Porn for Real College Students'

50 tracks is hosted by Jian Ghomeshi and he's just finishing up compiling the list and will count them down Saturday March 26 at 1:00 p.m. on CBC Radio One (if you want more songs, check out the list of songs debated)

with musicals based on Dirty Dancing and Abba, it was only a matter of time before one was greated based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail... with Hank Azaria and David Hyde-Pierce taking multiple roles in it, it's sure to be ______ (insert 'success' or 'failure' here)
update: yet more proof that anything can be made into a musical, turns out the Lord Of the Rings will be the coming to here to Toronto in March 2006, it'll cost about $27 million to to put together... lucky us

test your reaction time... I'm a Rocketing Rabbit (via)

ummm... don't know if I'll rush to make this one... (via)

this is fun... the idea is to whack a penguin as far as you can, my record is 307.8 (via) update: I can't beat 316

they predicted the success of Norah Jones and Maroon 5, they claim that they can predict which songs will be hits and which will be misses

can't get that tune out of your head... here's why

'discover the power of rhyme'... learn vocab through hiphop... I dought you'll find anyone mentioning their bling bling

don't have a gmail account yet? get one here, they have hundreds of thousands of invites of them...

but the LAPD one remains open

a supermarket chain in Germany will now give you the option of paying by fingerprint to save people time when then fumble for cash or cards... personally I don't like the idea of my fingerprints being in a database, even if it is only the supermarket's

a little company that's made some great Lego animation shorts that spoof Spiderman, Starwars, Monty Python Space Odyssey, etc

Well it's that time of year... the Div 1 teams were announced tonight, time to make your pool selections before the games start on the 17th, Illonois, Washington, North Carolina and Duke are in the top spots and the other 60 teams will try to knock them out of the final four (pdf version of draw)

cat shoots owner with a 9mm... maybe the cat was pissed b/c he wasn't being fed Whiskas

the gov't was tired of people in southern India not paying their taxes, so they hired drummers to play outside their houses until they did... pa-rum-pum-pum-pum

do you have a large CSS file for your website? why send a 15743 byte file when you can send a 4056 byte file? simple enough to me..

Ok, I know that it's technically the first movie that the James Bond character appeared in, but it was done as a spoof that is very loosely based on the original Ian Flemming book, but it's absolutely horrible! Ironically enough, it's the book that they're doing for the next official Bond movie, all they need to do now is find some on to play 007.

it's just been announced that Coldplay's new album will be called X&Y it will drop on June 6th, the first single, Speed of Sound, will be realeased on May 23rd, you think there's any pressure for their follow-up to Rush of Blood? just a little...

JetsGo has ceased operations immediately leaving many people stranded

well Google is always changing their sites, now you can custimize your Google News page

got a wound? get your coach to lick it!

their third studio album was due this month (March) but it's been bumped to June b/c they scrapped material and switch producers

Ok, over the next three days (March 10-12) the best university track & field atheletes in Canada will be battling for the national crown in Winnipeg, I'll be cheering on my old team from home. GO GAELS GO!!

Samsung is gonna release the first 7mp camera phone with 'boasts manual focus, shutter priority, AE lock and an optical zoom as well as MP3 functionality and a business card reader'

no longer will your cell play your favourite song when it rings, you can now download the moan of your favourite porn star

Crosby signed a multi-year deal with Reebok and he hasn't even been drafted yet, for those of you who aren't Canadian or don't know anything about hockey, he's the latest phenom, remember they hype around LeBron James before he got drafted? this is the hockey version

Alanis gets a star?! While it's good to see a Canadian get another star on the walk of fame, I would love to know what the criteria is to get one

most people from Toronto will know that each subway stop has unique wall tiles, so why not get buttons for each stop? or just your favourite stops

this guy has decided to post one image a day for ten years(!), heck that's only about 3650 images... I'm sure Moveable Type's new future post system is helping him there...

you've heard of the Bloggies, well here's a strictly photoblog version

the premier issuse, considering the network of photobloggers out there, it's a huge project to undertake

Sony is bringing out their own flash mp3 player, but this one has a mini screen and has a battery life of 50hrs (compared to Shuffle's 12)

'Airports have them; government buildings have them. Now buses in Brazil's crime-hit Rio de Janeiro state may get metal detectors to ward off gun-toting criminals.'

Well the Aussies have done it, they've surfed they're way into the record books, they managed to get 40 people to catch a wave on one board (the board had to be crane lifted to the beach), they squeaked by the 2003 English record of 14

a website from inside of of Canada's toughest neighbourhoods, trying to help improve image associated with it

why do steroids when you can have surgery to force your body to heal stronger

it seems that they're trying to revive old TV shows by putting them on DVD, the lateset being Doogie Howser M.D. Season One (to be released March 22)

try this one on for size... a music album made out of sex sounds, no instuments used here

playing a tense game of Quake? how about in the programming/designing zone and don't want to leave your computer to go pee b/c you'll ruin your flow... well now you can go pee without leaving your computer, just don't drip any on the rug (with female adaptor)

I knew they were odd... but to say it's genetic?

well over the last few days I've learned a lil' more about feeds so I've developed proper feeds, here's the one for the blog... it's not perfect, but it'll work for now until I ge the new site redesign up, which should be in a few weeks

suitcases with built in speakers? Looks like high end luggage, sounds way better! riiiight

when it comes to who sells the most souvenirs, Di wins hands down... one question for you... who cares?

their producer, that's what, the new DMB album is due in May and was a total band collaboration, there's even a song about oral sex on it...

mommy, it's 3am, it's time for school, I'm gonna be late!

A Wall Street firm wants to buy the NHL... do you honestly think they can convince all 30 teams to agree to this deal?

just more proof that people will sell anything on ebay, this time you can buy an autographed implant from an ex-dancer who was taken to court b/c she 'assualted' a guy with her then 69HH chest, started at a $1, now it's about $1500 with just under 3 days remaining
update: with two full days left it's up to almost $17 grand, that gives me an idea...
update: with just over a date left, the bod has gone back down to $11 grand, seems like a lot of people 'entered the wrong amount'... riiiiight, you just realized that a bid $15 grand for one silicon boob was stpuid

here's the one for the quicklinks

the Bali bombing mastermind gets only 30 months for an attack that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians

one of Hitler's properties becomes a luxury hotel... ummm... how's business?

well when you put it that, you're right, he should be the next prime minister! (I especially like reasons #4 & #9)

I wouldn't answer the marijuana question. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried

Billy is gonna receive honourary knighthood, but b/c he's not a commonwelth citizen he won't have the 'sir' in front of his name... thank god!
update: here's a photo of Bill receiving it

a pace maker for the brain to help with depression? hmmmm...

Nikon filed for a trademark of 'D50' on February 8th of this year, will that be the name of the new digital SLR? You're guess is as good as mine, but it most likely will be.