Archives for May 2000

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May 9, 2000 by Michael Boyle

A thread about how Mattel is taking on Matt L. Next up: they’re suing a new mother for naming her daughter “Barbie”.

Ruh Roh!

May 9, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Ed’s taken on his evil Scooby Doo persona again: “Another thing to do every morning before you start work: The Rainrorest Site.” (sorry Ed, had to do it).

Whoa – two more things I definitely like:

May 8, 2000 by Michael Boyle

the new Eatonweb by Brig and the new Fcuker swirly design (in purple, natch).

Things I like today:

May 8, 2000 by Michael Boyle

The expanding MetaFilter. To paraphrase you-know-who… it’s a platform!
My friend Buffy’s article about Médecins sans frontières in Outpost magazine.
O’Meara’s always engaging (and True) pile of words in Locals at Large: You’ve quit your job, you’ve been on a bender for two weeks and you and everybody you know have been circling each other like hungry dogs in the coliseum of love. In other words, it’s spring in Montreal.
The new Prolific and Swallowing Tacks designs.

to be doing much blogging these days – at least on weekends. Yesterday was “walk all over the mountain” day, today was the first of this season’s regular Sunday pickup soccer games in Parc Lafontaine. We’ve been doing this hack soccer game for about 6 years now, and last year we merged two similar games and it’s even more viable than ever. By “hack” I mean that in true Montreal tradition, most people are exorcising some weekend-induced chemical imbalances during the game, so it’s pretty uneven. Some clean-living folks are giving it everything they’ve got, others are just trying to survive and sweat out some of the weekend’s consumption of booze.