Atlantic News Perspective #124 (Dec 20, 2004)
Jim Carrey as a Newfoundlander and driving under the influence.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

10 ADS AMERICA WON’T SEE

2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist

Mind Hacks: Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what’s going on inside your brain.

Lewis-MacLeod Family 2003/2004 Timeline

“Gary Schare, Microsoft’s director of product management for Windows, has been assigned the unenviable task of explaining how Microsoft plans to respond to the Firefox challenge with a product whose features were last updated three years ago. He has said that current users of Internet Explorer will stick with it once they take into account ‘all the factors that led them to choose I.E. in the first place.’ Beg your pardon. Choose? Doesn’t I.E. come bundled with Windows?” – Randall Stross, The Fox Is in Microsoft’s Henhouse (and Salivating) | NY Times

The Ten Most Accurately Rated Artists in Rock History | Spin.com

Atlantic News Perspective #123 (Dec 13, 2004)
A 400 year-old play, the war on meth and a new beak for a bittern.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Stephen Colbert’s Guide to Dressing and Expressing Like a TV Journalist

Beatles Christmas Records

Wal-Mart Sued For Selling Evanescence CD | VH1.com

I totally agree with this lawsuit, but for very different reasons.

“If you think the 10 commandments being posted in a school is going to change behavior of children, then you think employees must wash hands is keeping the piss out of your happy meals.” – Jon Stewart (CNN Larry King Live)

Grandaddy: “Nature Anthem”

The Year in Ideas: A to Z | NY Times Magazine

“In my ideal cinémathèque, ‘The Life Aquatic’ would play on a permanent double bill with ‘The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.’ Mr. Anderson and Stephen Hillenburg, Mr. Squarepants’s creator, share not only a taste for nautical nonsense, but also a willingness to carry the banner of unfettered imaginative silliness into battle against the tyranny of maturity.” – A.O. Scott (The New York Times)

Coulter: Canada is “lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent”; Carlson: “Without the U.S., Canada is essentially Honduras” | Media Matters for America

“A survey of 300 retailers in Sweden found that squeezing handsets into snug-fitting pants is the second leading cause of broken phones.” – (CNET News.com)

Atlantic News Perspective #122 (Dec 6, 2004)
Needle threats, a snared dog and dangerous bulbs.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

My second iMix: Banjo Bonanza

Milkman By David Firth

“In August, 2003, in Montreal, four people opened their umbrellas at 13:00 hrs, signalling 40 others to approach for instructions. Minutes later, at a designated spot, they all began quacking, tossed rubber ducks into a fountain then left.” – RCMP report (National Post)

“After having sex with a girl, you can have her put Diet Coke into her vagina and that will prevent pregnancy.” – absurd comment heard from young, rural Nova Scotian males (Halifax Herald)

My first iMix: Unofficial “Harold and Maude” Soundtrack

Look Around You: “Math” | BBC America

The Return of Mean Magazine.