Posts Tagged: Reviews and Top Fives
Dangerous Time
I don't often cross post on Pownce and here on my blog, but this is worth an exception I think. A few minutes ago, a friend reminded me of the Barenaked Ladies' cover of Lovers in a Dangerous Time. I hadn't heard it in years and I'd never seen the video. The song is as good or better than I …
Dripping Ink...
Heck, now that I've actually started writing again, why not go crazy and write a review for our Stuff site too? Over the weekend (yeah, what else would you do over Easter?) I wrote a review of my newish Logitech VX Revolution mouse. After finally disposing of my craptastic Microsoft Bluetooth (sic …
Trailer Park Boys... the Movie
This might be old news, but if you haven't seen it already check out the trailer for the Trailer Park Boys movie. I just watched it three times on loop. So good. Damn, this is going to be the one movie where living in California might actually mean it gets to theaters later than Atlantic Canada …
Doctors and Their Patients
I've just finished reading Edward Shorter's excellent book Doctors and Their Patients, a social history of the evolution of the doctor/patient relationship. Shorter loosely divides the history of the medical profession into three periods: the traditional period when doctors had almost no ability …
Top 5 Basketball Nicks
My brother-in-law and I were discussing great basketball players' nicknames the other day and then I remembered that I used to do dorky top five lists on this site from time to time. What a perfect top five subject. There are some truly stellar basketball nicknames from both current NBA players …
Logitech Z-2300 Review
Yesterday I reviewed my newish Logitech Z-2300 PC Speakers over at the silverorange stuff site. A great set of speakers and a great bargain to boot. Read the full review...
The Zen of CSS Reviewed
Before I get this review of Dave Shea's book The Zen of CSS Design started, let me get an important disclosure and a shameless name drop out of the way as they kind of go together anyway. I had the good fortune of attending the FITC conference here in Toronto back at the end of April where Dave …
Pumping Iron
I finally got a chance to watch Pumping Iron last weekend, which I've been meaning to see for ages. It's basically the story — which I use very literally — of Arnold Schwarzenegger's pursuit of his sixth Mr. Olympia title in 1977. Someone kindly lent me the 25th anniversary special edition of the …
I've Been iTrippin'
When I finally broke down and bought an iPod last fall, I bundled an iTrip with it sepcifically for road trips. Last week, I drove up to Ottawa in a rental car and had the first opportunity to really give my iTrip a decent trial. • The one thing I had really been concerned about was the lack of …
Take Out the Trash
I'm a real sucker for trashy novels, especially in the action genre. There's something incredibly enticing about books with bullets shot into the cover, simple plots with a twist you'll never expect, and simple clichéd characters. My new favourite page-turner of all time is Frederick Forsyth's The …