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I am a staff writer with CTV.ca News. That operation is part of CTV News, which is of course nestled into CTV Inc. and CTVglobemedia.

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View Article  The inimitable Christopher Walken ...

... Reads Lady Gaga's Poker Face out loud:

And if that's not enough, here's a dose of the real thing: the Lady herself performing Love Game, which includes the following unforgettable verse:

Lets have some fun
this beat is sick
I wanna take a ride
On your disco stick

Globe and Mail corro Doug Saunders, travelling through Romania, found that cab drivers loved that tune (Saunders is doing 20th-anniversary coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall).

When I said in a tweet I could only take 10 seconds of that song, he replied: "10 seconds is all it takes."

View Article  If you're going to F up, do it FTW

From YouTube:

The Telegraph story is here (seen first on Twitter).

View Article  Win 7 demo oopsie on Japanese national TV

I don't understand a goddamn thing being said, but the beauty of this clip is, you don't have to! (seen first on Twitter)

Addendum

A colleague who speaks some Japanese offers up a few snippets of the dialogue (thanks, Phil!)

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View Article  Crisis garden seeds!

I went over to World Net Daily (www.wnd.com) to see what they had to say about U.S. President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize -- and I found this!

Follow the bouncing tweets!

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View Article  Great minds tweet alike
I tweeted this first:

@craigsilverman spotted a classically bizarre NYT correction - http://bit.ly/nhnrO. The cxn's hilarity goes without saying (via @harrisj*).

* Harris's original tweet:

Sometimes, the prudishness of the NY Times makes me laugh http://bit.ly/4fvOTU But I am a coarse person of low morals.

About an hour later, Mathew Ingram tweeted this:

@craigsilverman spotted a classically bizarre NYT correction - http://bit.ly/nhnrO (via @harrisj)
View Article  Support your local artist
My neighbour Neil Klassen has a show opening tonight (6 p.m. to 9 p.m.) at the Board of Directors, 1080 Queen St. W. (slightly east of Dovercourt Road).

The theme of his new works? Outlaws:

My current work marries tar with the stern faces of the Old West, drawing comparisons between these rebels and the Big Oil culture we experience globally. Much like the Big Oil companies of today, the Western Outlaw’s placed themselves above rationalism and the restrictions of the law symbolizing both a particular kind of freedom and an eternal type of perverse, ruthless greed.

The show runs until Aug. 30.
View Article  Elvis's death day, 2009
Yep, still dead.

Nope, no further credible resurrection rumours.

No definitive evidence he's currently comparing notes with Michael Jackson.

The one really new thing is this year is also the 40th anniversary of his last number-one single: Suspicious Minds:

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View Article  Jesus vs. Hitler

The next best thing to the ultimate battle between good and evil:

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