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Twitter Updates for 2009-02-25

Lifestream Daily Digest for February 24th http://shortna.me/dec1d # @ethank Cypress is better than Grouse. See you on Sky Chair! in reply to ethank # What’s this obsession Vigneault has for putting #Pyatt out for the last two minutes when the #Canucks are down...

The Yellow Pages: Adapt or die?

While there is much kvetching and hand-wringing of late regarding impending demise of the dead-tree business (sic) that is the newspaper industry, there is another dead-tree business that is descending quickly toward irrelevance:  The Yellow Pages. Every year,...

More photos, little information from C-17 crash at Bagram

This a follow up on this incident… My earlier article regarding a string of C-17 mishaps and runway overshoots at Bagram has drawn quite a bit of traffic lately, and no small number of comments criticizing my attempt at analysis.  While looking around for a...

Another C-17 incident at Bagram

Last week a US Air Force C-17 transport plane (tail #96-0002) made a dazzling nighttime “wheels up” belly landing at Bagram Air Base in Aghanistan sending sparks and flames higher than the tailplane (which on the C-17 is five stories high).  The crash led...

Should Canada bail out Nortel?

Om has a piece today written by Venture Capitalist Allan Leinwand asking whether Canada should bail out Nortel.  He asks:  “But is preserving the country’s technological heritage reason enough to spend millions in taxpayers dollars?” I think that...

Still a lot more bottom in Vancouver Real Estate

This just in:  Vancouver has been ranked fourth on the world’s list of least affordable cities.  This is well ahead of cities like Manhattan, San Francisco, London, Paris, and Hong Kong.  As most rational people know, the city’s thundering real estate...

Best Gawker Comment Ever

There are trolls and then there are troll geniuses.  In a typically art-imitating-life-imitating-art groupthink regarding Facebook’s reflection of our deviant selves occurring over at Valleywag, Private Hangnail intervened with the most salient comment...

Miss Virginia needs some stealthy goalie pads

A kid in New Hampshire has developed stealth goalie pads, which he claims have increased his save percentage.  Stupid, but novel…. not unlike Gary Bettman.  What do I think, you beg?  Over the years I have used many different leg pad designs including a white...

Attack Obama

Yes, you too can celebrate yesterday’s historic inauguration with your very own “Attack Obama” action figure.  Thanks to a crack team of Japanese toy designers, the Obama Action figure will soon be available,  fully-posable and with an array of...

Dreamhost Customer Service FAIL

About 8PM last night my Dreamhost Fail post from yesterday must have found its way into somebody’s hands @ Dreamhost and they finally got around to addressing my emails… sort of.  I got the following response, a mix of helpful (but non-affecting) advice...