Monthly Archives: November 2005

Warning: This post contains no pictures. * ‘Sloan’ to join CBC as satellite radio DJs * The Canadian Podcasting Tour – Halifax: November 23 (7:30 p.m.) * Ninjatune update: S&N ‘Homages’ Double 7″ EP Sixtoo (1200hobos/Sebutones/etc.) and Norsola Johnson (Godspeed/Mollases/etc.) are S&N. No need for some witty snapping sales pitch here. Shit is hot. 4 sides of heat…with Sixtoo on [...]

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Dating Jimmy Kimmel, meta-bigotry and Zoloft

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 22-November-2005

Sarah Silverman | Onion AV Club Irony Maiden | Slate Sarah Silverman Interrogation | Slate Quiet Depravity | The New Yorker Jesus is Magic

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Muskrat meat, deep fried SUV fuel and the “pass-out game”

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 22-November-2005

Atlantic News Perspective #159 | Aliant.net

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Portland Road Trip?

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 17-November-2005

Sigur Ros FEB 6 @ 7:30pm On-Sale Friday, November 18 Tickets are $30.50, general admission, all ages. http://www.liveatthestate.com/

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Working for the Man

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 16-November-2005

“Members of Congress have increased their own pay by $30,000 per year since freezing the minimum wage at $5.15 per hour (the lowest among industrialized nations).” – Jimmy Carter (This isn’t the real America | LA Times)

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Live Music Reviews

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 15-November-2005

Jill Barber Standing confidently in front of a capacity crowd with a guitar in hand, Jill Barber strummed, dipped, swayed and, most importantly, sang her way through a selection of songs from Oh Heart and A Note To Follow So (recently liberated from obscurity by Zunior.com). Older beyond her years, Barber delivered a blend of pastoral [...]

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US Politics

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 15-November-2005

On Bush, the Dems, Jon Stewart, Hunter Thompson, Bill Moyers, and King (not Don) by John Cusack.

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Rose hips, prison tattoos and young vets

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 14-November-2005

Atlantic News Perspective #158 | Aliant.net

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Stuff

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 13-November-2005

Moleskine planners are available at The Bookmark (5686 Spring Garden Road) in Halifax. If I wasn’t hooked on my Palm and iCal, I would probably buy one.

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The Leatherman vs The Swiss Army

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 13-November-2005

Ultimate Geek Tool | Ask MetaFilter

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Danger! Danger!

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 12-November-2005

Dangerously clever Halifax ‘rap nerd’ to launch latest CD at Seahorse By STEPHEN COOKE, Entertainment Reporter, The Chronicle Herald Dangerously zone Halifax hip-hopper Jesse Dangerously brings a crew along for the first time on his guest-laden EP Inter Alia. By Jon Bruhm, The Coast MP3>Jesse Dangerously’s “Outfox’d (When Pacitists Attack)”

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Cancon

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 9-November-2005

Hoser courtesy of The Colbert Report.

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The New Math

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 9-November-2005

Geek Alert: Linksys WRT54G ($89.99) + The Open Source WRT54G Story = $600 router? Nerd Alert: GTD + 43 Folders + Lifehacker + $19.86 Brother PT-65 Electronic Labeller = productivity porn

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Great Video

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 9-November-2005

The White Stripes – The Denial Twist (d. Michel Gondry) (QuickTime)

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Free crack pipes, the Tolosa International Choral Festival and millions of gallons of manure

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 7-November-2005

Atlantic News Perspective #157 | Aliant.net

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Critical Confessions

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 6-November-2005

“It’s a dirty little secret among critics, I think, that we don’t always feel today what we felt yesterday, yet I think that’s a secret that we keep as much from ourselves as from our readers.” – Scott Tobias confesses in The Onion AV Club.

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Ignorance = Bliss

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 5-November-2005

“People who do things badly…are usually supremely confident of their abilities — more confident, in fact, than people who do things well…One reason that the ignorant also tend to be the blissfully self-assured, the researchers believe, is that the skills required for competence often are the same skills necessary to recognize competence.” – New York [...]

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No Good Reason

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 4-November-2005

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Awards

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 3-November-2005

Best of Halifax 2005 Best local website: halifaxlocals.com Wi-five! Halifaxlocals.com wins for the second straight year as the best local website, keeping us all in the loop about the Halifax music scene. The site relies on an open-source, message board-style format that keeps things currentâ€”and unpredictable. â€œOn the front page of Halifaxlocals, youâ€™ll typically see a lot [...]

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