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Episode 03: Listen there, comment here

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Top 5 signs you live in a failed state

5. National holidays marred by injuries resulting from celebratory gunfire 4. Police academy successfully besieged by terrorists 3. The druglords who convinced your police force to leave town are routed by your army, whose troops also sell drugs 2. Your president appears at public events with a parrot on his shoulder 1. Your flag has [...]

happy birthday chuck, and pass the xylometazoline hydrochloride

In the infinite immutable wisdom of millenia upon millenia the human body decided that an appropriate response to hostile viral takeover is to clog all available breathing passages with goo. It’s a good thing buildings don’t evolve, because if they did whenever there was a fire they’d automatically lock all the exits and cut the [...]

kas in “circles”

the brink of history

I’ve been known to get cranky about how Canadian news gets overtaken by US election coverage. I don’t mean to suggest that the subject is of absolutely no interest to me, but their election season lasts over two years (ours is about 37 days) and it’s pretty easy to reach saturation far in advance of [...]

Apparently it’s da Vinci Code week

Apparently it’s da Vinci Code week on the History Channel. It’s their answer to Shark Week, I suppose. I’ve still managed to avoid both the movie and the book, though I did accidentally read The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, one of whose co-authors appears in this evening’s greasily compelling conjectumentary Beyond the da Vinci Code.

Flatiron

First successful implementation of the Gorillapod, on the sidewalk outside C’est What after a few pints of “Hop Addict.” Note how, like the party guest that no one remembers inviting, the CN Tower insinuates itself into another photo of the Toronto skyline.

Episode 02: Listen there, comment here

I worry that there may be one of you out there, or perhaps less than one, maybe half of one of you, who subscribed to the Steve of the Web Podcast here at SteveCastellano.com before I had a chance to move it to its official home at steveoftheweb.com/podcast. So I’ve gone to the studio with [...]

Have you seen these spirit killers?

Found street art. Edit: Pardon me. Sprit killers.

Nothing to say other than wordpress rocks

i’m saving it all up for the podcast now. this post is just killing space. andrew maxwell is the funniest living irishman next to dylan moran, nevermind leary, word has it he nicked his best stuff from bill hicks, who’s dead now, so who’s to know. what else. getting a gorillapod or two, flip video [...]