October 2009
37 posts
Starbucks VIA™ Ready Brew Arrives at All Canada... →
From October 2 to October 5, Starbucks invites customers to join the Starbucks VIA™ Ready Brew Taste Challenge at their favorite Canada Starbucks location. Participants can taste Colombia Starbucks VIA™ next to fresh-brewed Pike Place Roast™ and challenge themselves to guess which one is Starbucks VIA™.
September 2009
56 posts
Paraprosdokian →
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A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists. An example by...
Toronto Open Source Week 2009 →
October 24-30, 2009
Toronto Open Source Week is a celebration of Open Source technology and community throughout the Toronto area.
Snowclone →
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A snowclone is a type of cliché and phrasal template originally defined as “a multi-use, customizable, instantly recognizable, time-worn, quoted or misquoted phrase or sentence that can be used in an entirely open array of different variants. An example of a snowclone is “X is the new black”, itself a version of the expression “X is the new Y”. X and Y may be replaced with...
10 Sites to Learn Something New in 10 Minutes a... →
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Allow me to lay a scene: It’s 7:00 am. The kids need to be fed and bundled off to school. The toast is burning. The cat just knocked a pile of papers off the counter, and you’ve got a…
Photoshopping Illegal? France Set to Regulate... →
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File this squarely under “would never happen in the U.S.” but French lawmakers have a fascinating new idea to combat body image issues: require disclaimers on Photostopped or otherwise…
Texting-crazy kids can still spell, study finds |... →
Parents, some news 2 make u LOL: new research suggests that teens who seem to mangle the English language while instant messaging aren’t losing the ability to spell. Adults have long worried that teens who pepper their online conversations with shortened words like 2day and gr8 and abbreviations like rotfl (rolling on the floor laughing) and bf (boyfriend) will eventually forget how to write...
WARNING: Twitter Worm Spreading via Direct... →
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We have received multiple reports that a new, convincing, and dangerous worm and phishing scam is making the rounds on Twitter. Hacked accounts are sending DMs to unsuspecting users and…
Fantasy Magazine » 2009 Fall TV Preview: Fantasy... →
Now that August has come to a close and the television doldrums are just about over (though, with fare like Harper’s Island, Eureka, Wipeout, and True Blood, the doldrums are mostly imaginary), it is time to look to the future. It is time to look at the Fall 2009 Television Season.
'Dr. Horrible' may villainize the Emmys - From... →
“Dr. Horrible wants to achieve supervillain status. How about by taking over the Emmys?”
HOW TO: Celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate... →
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Saturday, September 19th is the date of a rather unique holiday made possible largely by the internets. Pirate enthusiasts around the globe will be celebrating International Talk…
The Kid's Bucket List →
The Kid’s Bucket List Things every child should have the chance to do before he grows up
1. Indulge in an unexpected treat like going out for dessert in your pyjamas
2. Play road hockey
3. Get to know a baby
4. Give something to charity
5. Put on a show for your parents
6. Play with mom’s makeup
7. Throw a snowball • Sometimes the white stuff just begs to be hurled — at a tree or a...
Facebook fakery spurs Jamaican bank probe|... →
“Jamaican police are investigating a bizarre allegation that a fictitious Facebook profile was created to defame the former head of the Bank of Nova Scotia’s Jamaican operations.”
Red Riding Hood's not out of the woods yet →
“Once upon a time, there was a social anthropologist who decided to study the origins of Little Red Riding Hood.
How sweet. But naive.
Jamie Tehrani’s claim last week that the famous story is far older than anyone realized is likely to set off another ruckus in the deadly serious world of fairy tale studies. And it’s already split on how and when the stories came about.”
Disney Buys Marvel, Iron Man Gets Purity Ring... →
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In August we brought news that Disney was buying Marvel for $4 billion, leading some geeks to wonder what would become of Spider-Man under the ownership of Mickey Mouse. The…
100 Days of Twitter Turned Into Pictures →
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British actor and writer Stephen Fry loves Twitter, has over 750,000 followers and updates it daily. His tweets, however, became a lot more interesting during the past 100 days, as…
Hierarchy of Digital Distractions Topped by... →
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Call it a Maslow’s Hierarchy for the digital age: David McCandless’s Hierarchy of Digital Distractions breaks down what trumps what in the new universe of always-on…
Facebook Fan Check Virus: Something Fishy is Going... →
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We’ve received tips about a Facebook application called Fan Check; reports say this application is actually a virus, and should be avoided at all costs. We’ve dug a bit deeper,…
Google Digs Video Games, Not Aliens.... →
“When Google changes its logo, it’s usually to denote a holiday, or the birthday of a famous scientist or thinker. But this “Google Doodle,” as they’re called, had the ‘net puzzled. The answer started coming together when the company Tweeted a cryptic message that linked to a picture of the logo.”
Google Unexplained Phenomenon Mystery Solved… Or... →
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We’ve all seen it, and we’ve all been bashing our heads all weekend trying to figure what did Google mean with their cryptic tweet and odd logo in which the aliens have abducted…
Unexplained Phenomenon Google Logo: Can You... →
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Google traditionally remixes its logo to celebrate notable birthdays, scientific achievements, world events and other key dates. But why is Google’s logo today a UFO beaming up the…
