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The Beer Hunter

January 12, 2006 by Michael Boyle

The Beer Hunter

has expanded to include all of Ontario, including the Ottawa area. “It’s 9:44am on Thursday. There are 18 retail outlets you can get booze
in Ottawa and the surrounding region right now [sic].”

Tags: Google Map, Ottawa

From the Toronto Star’s

January 12, 2006 by Michael Boyle

From the Toronto Star’s

blog: Negative Comedy. Five new attack ad scripts in the same theme as the Choose your Canada theme.

Tags: Canadian Politics

Mike from mtl3p

January 11, 2006 by Michael Boyle

Mike from mtl3p

is voting conservative in the Federal Election on January 23. I weighed in in his comments, and I promised there to make a similar declaration. I’ll be posting that soon.

Tags: Canadian Politics

Tom Coates has published

January 11, 2006 by Michael Boyle

Tom Coates has published

the best post so far (it’s early though) summarizing the spyware issue with Apple’s new version of iTunes: Cynicism and stupidity at the iTunes ministore. If Apple had only made this opt-in instead of opt-out – and informed users of what opting in meant – everything would be different. It’s disappointing that Apple didn’t know better.

Tags: Tom Coates

I never really paid much attention

January 6, 2006 by Michael Boyle

I never really paid much attention

to ThinkGeek before, but this PowerSquid Outlet Multiplier – basically a power bar that you can use without wasting outlets on power bricks – got my attention. I wish there were a Canadian ThinkGeek though. Is there?

Tags: Curiosities

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