(un)informed confusion
~ and other odd oddities ~

4.26.2007

Great TV....

...on the web. Charlie Rose, perhaps the best, most-intelligent talk show on air (or the most-intelligent best talk show on the air...) has relaunched its website — and in fine fashion, might I add. Start off by checking out Charlie's one-hour sit down with George W. Bush.

On the more absurd side, it seems a number of otherwise intelligent Japanese citizens have been "fleeced" — literally — by a pet poodle scam; on the other side of the world, Newfoundland has posted a $261-million dollar surplus and will soon bequeath to its taxpayers the largest tax cut in the province's history. I wonder: given Newfoundland and Labrador's spruce economic record — troughs, a peak or two, follow by more troughs — is a $155 million tax cut the best way for Danny Millions to prodigalize the province's hard-earned purse?

Oh, and then there's this dandy...

再见。

4.24.2007

A Good Link, Vol. 6

Make sure your speakers are turned UP.

http://www.khaaan.com

The Globe's redesign

The consensus is in: it sucks. And it looks just like — at least according to a number of friends of mine who know better than I do — The Guardian Weekly. What in the hell was wrong with the older, distinguished, tall & thin typeface look?

4.23.2007

Cleaning up?

The nominations list for the 30th annual National Magazine Awards was just announced, and my current place of employment — The Walrus magazine — leads the pack with 51 nominations.

To be fair, it's not uncommon to hear stiff criticism drift the NMAs' way... the awards are often roundly criticized as being virtual hand-outs, yearly alms for Canada's publishing poor. Well, if you're of that blasé sort, let me defer to an old adage: "strength in numbers."

(Also, the next competitor down, Toronto Life, only garnered 23 nominations.)

太好了。

4.22.2007

New Blogroll

Empowered by my newfound sense of empowerment, I've edited the list of blogs appearing under the links header to the right of this post. New additions include The Walrus blog, which I occasionally help HTML-ize; and Daniel Aldana Cohen's blog, which, depending on the day, either advocates the imperial system of measurement or is unabashedly anti-Pole.

A Few Good Links, Vol. 86

1. Moscow's hidden city of billionaires
2. Canadian jailed in China
3. Conrad Black, in his own words
4. Man loses arm to Crocodile; arm later re-attached
5. World's longest tunnel will be a Russia-U.S. pipeline