Apparently Ottawa graffiti artists using new keyboard controlled spray paints.

ardent, beetle, choice, desire, energy, fervor, hanker, ignite, jiggy, kindle, lovers, moving, notice, oxygen, pamper, qwerty, reform, strive, tickle, urgent, vacate, winter, xanadu, yellow, zonker

I know xanadu has 7 letters.

Posted by Shad Muegge at August 21, 2002 11:24 PM

I'm diving directly into the next patch of daffodils I find. Once I'm in there I'm going to sing happy songs and think of those I love.

be pro love, be pro daffodil diving, be pro happy songs.

I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy...cle

Posted by Shad Muegge at August 21, 2002 10:39 PM

Only a lunatic fringe on the far Left is still calling for revolution, a smashing of the social order, but it must be acknowledged how widespread that idea was in the 1960s. Most leftists do believe that, without them, the naive proletariat would wallow for ever in ignorance and slavery. Unless they are volunteering hands-on service in blighted neighbourhoods, however, most leftists are far removed from working-class life. Many are wordsmiths -- journalists or academics who run in packs. Leftism has become wordplay -- a refuge for bourgeois intellectuals guilty about their comfort and privilege.

Posted by GeeTee at August 21, 2002 06:50 PM

As I understand it, the benefits of multiculturalism are that the sterile white-bread cultures of Australia, Canada and Britain get some great ethnic restaurants and a Commonwealth Games opening ceremony that lasts until two in the morning. But, in the case of those Muslim ghettoes in Sydney, in Oslo, in Paris, in Copenhagen and in Manchester, multiculturalism means that the worst attributes of Muslim culture -- the subjugation of women -- combine with the worst attributes of Western culture -- licence and self-gratification. Tattoed, pierced Pakistani skinhead gangs swaggering down the streets of Northern England are as much a product of multiculturalism as the turban-wearing Sikh Mountie in the vice-regal escort at Rideau Hall. Yet even in the face of the crudest assaults on its most cherished causes -- women's rights, gay rights -- the political class turns squeamishly away.

Posted by GeeTee at August 21, 2002 06:17 PM

Oxfam says quotas and tariffs set Europe's sugar prices at almost three times the world market price resulting in huge surpluses each year that are dumped overseas with hefty subsidies depressing world prices and pushing other exporters out of third markets.

Posted by GeeTee at August 21, 2002 05:50 PM

This was posted using my cable modem. woohoo!

Music, video, pages with lots and lots of pictures.

The internet is good.

good shit is so fast.

I haven't even tried the porn sites yet.

Posted by Shad Muegge at August 21, 2002 02:49 PM

During the class action period, Mr. Strauss sold 2, 558,488 shares for proceeds of $179 million! Mr. Kevin Kalkhoven sold 3, 561,204 shares for proceeds of $246.4 million! These are two examples of disgusting greed and the cashing in of company options during a time when Canadians have lost their family, retirement and life savings following the collapse of JDS share value. Moreover, the idea that Canadians are kinder and gentler vis-a-vis corporate governance is nonsense.

Posted by GeeTee at August 21, 2002 09:38 AM

The fact is that whilst marketers continue to fly in the face of general opinion, spam activists will continue to challenge them. I for one hope they do. The email marketing sector really does need to wise up, and agree on some sensible policies. If they don't they may not live to regret it. Anti spam software is getting increasingly sophisticated, shifting power closer and closer to the user. Email marketers better wake up to this reality - the threat is significant.

What's the significant threat? That users may be able to have some control of the ceaseless flow of commercials being pumped to them constantly? Marketing doesn't have to be the hard sell and the bombardment of advertising. It can be the driver of real research to find what will make their product better for the buyer. I don't mean more compelling with jingles or funny videos, but rather something that adds value to the product. That's what real marketing is any right, driving the requirements process? I guess the problem is that most products are basically equivalent and the only to make them seem different is to advertise.

Posted by Shad Muegge at August 21, 2002 08:23 AM