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A big thank-you to CNN for picking up my post on Roméo Dallaire! EDIT: 17:40 EST Proving that the world is in fact a Möbius strip of awesomeness, this CNN article just linked to my post about the article linking to me. To the CNN Web person who’s been checking out this little site: you [...]

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Today’s Google News links to a Toronto Star review of the movie W, titled “Sympathy for the Dubya.” Some time after Google picked up the link, the Star seems to have changed its headline to a much less witty “Oliver Stone’s W. a sympathetic portrait of Bush.” I imagine the paper’s editors thought it was [...]

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Apparently tired of covering the election, the war and Iceland’s emergence as a terrorist state, the “Most Trusted Name in News” is apparently also looking to become the Most Trusted Name in Not-News: From CNN: More than 10,000 people have signed an online petition urging the Army to let an Iraqi puppy come home with [...]

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What? Why was a moose in a helicopter? Why did he fall out? And what the heck does “DNR” mean? The CBC reports: An endangered moose died as a result of a fall from a helicopter sling, the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources says. Department spokesman Dan Davis said veterinarians have confirmed the moose [...]

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If you’re a regular reader around these parts, you may know that I can sometimes be a little harsh when it comes to the fine city of Toronto. So to restore a bit of balance here at flickeringpictures, and as evidence of my journalistic integrity, here’s a positive post for a change — one that [...]

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While watching the two-hour Mythbusters “Supersize Special” yesterday, I saw the Discovery Channel’s “The World is Just Awesome” commercial for the very first time. It’s the most adorable thing I’ve seen on TV in a while, featuring the all the regular Discovery Channel personalities and all the quirkiness, silliness and little-boy wonder that a channel [...]

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Google In Quotes is still in beta, but it’s an excellent tool for finding out where the candidates stand on specific issues like abortion, oil, Iraq, human rights, etc. The app also compares quotes from Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, and the usual cast of six-o’clock-news types in the American political [...]

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Reason #874 why I love the Times of India. The article is actually pretty interesting too — apparently the Indian state of West Bengal is losing out on millions of dollars from the international Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use because its chief minister refuses to set an example by kicking the habit. West Bengal [...]

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If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s that much-ballyhooed new Microsoft commercial featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates at a shoe store. I gotta say, I don’t really get it… Is this an ad for Vista, Xboxes or shoes? Also — and this really isn’t coming from any rational place in my mind — for [...]

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A little while ago, the CBC sold the rights to the old Hockey Night in Canada theme song that so many of us canuck (and northern U.S.) kids grew up with, and launched a nationwide competition to come up with a replacement. The winner gets a cool $100,000. One of the entries is from Asher [...]

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