Steel White Table

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Neat. Steel White Table is ranked 12th for the phrase “ads suck“. Ranked 1st for “scotish baby names” (because of the misspelling).

The death toll (over 120,000 to date) from the Indonesia tsunami is staggering. We’re fortunate in Eastern Canada that the worst we can complain about is snowstorms or subdued hurricanes coming up the coast of the Atlantic. I think most people can’t relate to the devastation that has occurred in East Asia. [...]

People Will Sign Anything:
So, while looking for my passport this morning I came across this receipt I saved from the local video store…
(via This Is Broken)

Today’s 5-minute beer review [removed] was sent in by Will Simpson — the first (and I hope not the last!) Mud Songs guest beer reviewer. Will cracks open a bottle of something called Jubelale, and his description is excellent. He mispronounces my last name and doesn’t give the beer a rating out of ten [...]

It’s Danny Schmidt day on Whole Wheat Radio:
You will be hearing at least one song by Danny Schmidt every hour today. If you like what you hear, please consider dropping a quick email to Danny Schmidt. It’s those emails that raise awareness in the indie artist community that webcasting works and that you — [...]

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They list 19 Canadian TV streams, including the daily Inuit news in Inuktitut.

Lists: 2004, a collection of almost 500 “best of” lists for 2004 grouped by category.
I posted about their 2003 lists previously.

Why There’s No Escaping the Blog:
Freewheeling bloggers can boost your product—or destroy it. Either way, they’ve become a force business can’t afford to ignore.
An interesting article on the influence of blogs.

What’s the deal with Klingon foreheads being different?:
Why do Klingons look different during Captain Kirk’s day than all the times after and before? What happened to their forehead ridges during that period? (We all know the real reason � the original show didn’t have the budget for prosthetic makeup … and starting with the movies [...]

Yes, SteelWhiteTable.org belongs to Phillip and me. We’re in the process of redesigning some elements. Once I work out some kinks I’ll make the switch to the new domain permanent.

A digested version of Michael Crichton’s latest, State of Fear. The summary of the Author’s Note included in the book is best:
I’m very, very clever and have read a lot and you’re all stupid wishy-washy liberals.

A friend asked me to take care of their dog today. My daughter and I arrived at the house around 9am, geting the house key from the secret location (mailbox), and let outselves in where Cutter greeted us by knocking us over.
Cutter is a greyhound, an odd looking breed: tall, spindly legs - [...]

I find it hard to believe that there are only 66 hits for “What I received for Christmas”, and none of them major topics. So what the hell, let’s get the show on the road:

Points of View by Rex Murphy
Slippers
Five underwear
Six pairs of socks
Watch
Clock
Sea salt
Scotch
Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader

Technology for Country Folk.
That’s probably been around the net for a long while, but it’s my first time seeing it.

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was a name given to a Swedish child by his parents in May 1996.
A district court in Halmstad, southern Sweden, had fined the parents 5,000 kronor (approximately US$680) for failing to register a name for the boy by his fifth birthday. Responding to the fine, the parents submitted the 43-character name, claiming that it was [...]