It’s really good to see that the American media knows what’s important: 3-foot subs that aren’t.
It’s not like there’s anything more important to talk about right now.
Tags: news, america, msm, john koetsier

Ho hum, it’s snaining here in Langley, BC., Canada.
(Snow and rain mixed together, for the uninitiated.)
Tags: snow, rain, snain, snaining, langley, bc, john koetsier

I just saw POV on PBS: Waging a Living, and I am ashamed that I am ever in any way discontent with my life or my job or my salary.
Waging a Living follows the lives of 4 individuals who are “working poor.” (More details about them.)
One’s a security guard in downtown San Francisco, making $9-10/hour. […]

Well, if there was anydoubt at all, this should lay it to rest:

Visiting Venezuela President Hugo Chavez has denounced Israel’s recent attacks on Lebanon as “genocide,” likening its action to war crimes committed by Germany’s Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
“Israel often criticizes Hitler … but they have done the same thing, perhaps even worse,” Chavez told […]

OK, so it used to be lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Not any more.
(Reuters, AP, and NY Times photo fraud, explained, demonstrated, and eviscerated, in detail. More details: check out this video.)
Tags: reuters, fake, lie, NYtimes, AP, lebanon, israel, hezbollah, hizbullah, PR

I sometimes shop at Chapters Indigo. But only when I have too … like when I get a gift certificate from IDC Canada for participating in one of their research studies.
I hate shopping there, because the site is always, without exception, slow. I have never had it respond quickly. Double plus annoying. Plus, the selection […]

Let the hackle zipper cut in the drailing wheel

Originally uploaded by johnkoetsier.

You can’t make stuff this good up:
“Let the hackle zipper cut in the drailing wheel, then draught at full tilt to upgrade, let the drailing wheel tunning hight speed, at this time set the […]

What’s wrong with table based web design? Well, nothing, obviously:

Yum.
Of course, I realize that even if you’re using tables, you don’t have to turn the border feature on, but still … it’s not cool.
(The person whose site this is may be an incredibly wonderful “product coach,” for all I know. Just don’t go to him […]

Very, very, very dumb gun safety officer. Click the play button:

You have to admit, the guy’s got guts. He must be pretty tough …. he tries to continue his speech. Unbelievable.
I don’t think I’d continue my speech after shooting myself in the foot.

I saw this screed from a college student a couple of weeks ago: why you should cancel your cable. Or satellite. Or even broadcast TV.
And I agree.
I have an odd relationship with TV. I can go without for days. Then I get hooked into a hockey game or a movie, and suddenly I’m watching for […]

I just found out that the Washington mob is really, really big in San Diego. They’re even breaking into many previously legit industries, such as gas stations.

Can someone please tell me why Americans are obsessed with race?
I happened to be searching for quite a few schools online today - double-checking a small subset of some contact data that we had received to gain some assurance that all of it was good - and all the school info aggregators had a high […]

Okay, am I the only one who thinks this whole story is just completely bonkers?

A CONVICTED murderer in California was due to be put to death with a new kind of injection in the early hours of this morning after a federal judge ruled for the first time that the usual method may inflict “excessive […]

Houston police chief Harold Hurrt wants to put surveillance cameras in all kinds of private spaces … including homes.

“I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?” Chief Harold Hurtt told reporters Wednesday at […]

This is a great quote about the whole Cheney shooting incident:

Dr. David Blanchard, the emergency room chief, estimated that Mr. Whittington had more than 5 but “probably less than 150 to 200″ pellets lodged in his body.

From the New York Times.

Crazy Apple Rumors has a great - and just slightly tongue-in-cheek - article about the recent iPod hearing-loss lawsuits:

“We did a cost/benefit analysis,” said Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, “And it clearly is not cost effective to continue to have stupid people as our customers.”

That about sums up my opinion regarding silly class action lawsuits […]

I recently picked up a book from the library that completely blew my mind. I was going to start a review of it like this:

Some books are from the literary catch-and-release program: you read ‘em, return ‘em, and remember them no more.
Others are like great bloody axes crashing through your brain like some cosmic sword […]

The DEA and US Customs found a tunnel between Mexico and the US on Wednesday night. Thursday morning, it’s on the news.
Umm … not smart. Not smart at all.
Watch the tunnel. See who comes through it. Follow them. Contact Mexican police and do the same on the south side. Wrap up a whole ring and […]

OK, everyone knows: Google is selling out.
China is big, China is profitable, China wants control over communication and transmission of ideas. Google is big. Google is profitable. Google, whose original purpose was to enable easy access to all the world’s information, is helping China censor communication and transmission of ideas.
And the rather idiotic “don’t […]