Freyburg

Just added a link to the Crowsnest Pass Promoter to the left side of the site. What PG Shotgunner demands, I do.

The destruction of Telus has begun! Primus is offering broadband Voice over IP, much like Vonage in the States. For about $35 a month, I’ll be able to get an Edmonton and a Vancouver number, so the 90% or my friends who live in those two places can call me for free (and vice versa.) This will more or less eliminate long distance charges, and when I move (as I’ll inevitably have to do), I just plug the Primus box into a high speed Net connection and hey presto, I’ve got the same two numbers. That applies even if I’m in some foreign land, as long as they have high speed Internet connections.

Now all I have to do is give Telus Mobility the boot. Anyone want to buy a LG520 phone?

So I’m sick with some sort of cold/flu/something or other. Luckily I’ve got 4 days off, so I’ll be sitting on the couch sucking down chicken soup and orange juice. At least it gives me time to watch some movies that have been gathering dust on the iPod.

This week’s paper has a story about some weights being stolen from the local gym. I’m quite proud of the headline I came up with: “weights lifted.”

Here’s some more random stuff…

A cool interview with Bruce Sterling in Reason magazine, and an audiio interview with Senor Sterling (scroll down a little bit to find it.)

And here’s something that really bakes my potatoes…Apple put out the fantastic 1984 Macintosh ad on their site to celebrate 20 years of Mac zealotry…..but they changed the ad! The girl with the hammer is now wearing an iPod. Much as I love my iPod, I can’t say I’m a big fan of this sort of revisionism. What’s next, Apple II ads where Greedo shoots first?

In praise of nerds!

It’s time for a crazy crap roundup!

First up, the good folks at some Pork Council somehwere have produced “Pork 4 Kids!” Fun fun fun!

No young proto-fascist should be without the talking Anne Coulter doll!

And finally, through the magic of the Internet, you can relive your youth and play LCD pocket Donkey Kong Jr.