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We got a good 6cm plus of warm snow on Saturday, so I thought I’d head out with the new camera and take advantage of the beauty the snow adds to the ugly town. More here, mattclare.ca/winter

Just when you thought Ashton Kutcher was an OK guy after he campaigned for John Kerry, and gave his quote about Kerry’s plans to lower most people’s taxes and raise his singificantly. Well, it appears as though that Bush win has left that money in Ashton’s dangours hands. Ashton has purchased a International CXT. That’s International as the transport truck manufacturer.

The Sun (the UK one, not Toronto etc.) has the pictures: www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2004541348,00.html

The International CXT is the world’s larget pickup. It’s like an International 18 wheeler hitting a hummer – but the resulting vehicle lost enough weight to no longer need a commercial drivers licence to operate it. The best part is because it’s just the same truck that delivers Pepsi to the local store, it probalby can’t handle off-road tasks any better that the 1/4 sized Land Rover Discovery.

How did I learn about this, as one not known to be up on celebrity gossip? Well I found out about the CXT and then Google ‘cxt own‘ to find out who the first idiot would be.

Earlier this week Bill Gates was demoing his new media centre PC and got a rude, but familiar suprise. It was in Las Vegas at Consumer Electronics Show (CES), with help from Conan O’Brien, Gates was about to show off the new software a part of his keynote but the soon-to-be-shipped software froze up, despite two attempts. Conan thought it was funny, and he was probably trying to hold it back considering he was on the richest man in the world’s payroll.

Of lesser note, was a blue-screen-of-death that appeared on a new XBoX game, but that’s just a working demo of game, not a should be market ready operating system.

No more CNN crossfire! Too bad I don’t have a catagory called ‘Ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead’, because this one fallls under that one!

CNN’s cross fire has been cancelled, well they fired Tuker Carlson after testing him out behind the news desk all last week. As John Stewart of The Daily Show likes to point out; Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala are both Republican and Democratic hacks that bring no meaningful thought to the debate show. John Stewart famously appearedon Crossfire last fall to tell them ‘to stop’.

The other hosts were the scary-southerner James Carville and the other Republican contributer Bob Novak, who (using Stewart’s words) is a duche bag.

Bob Novak. Not only is Novak generally against rights, he also leaked the identity of a CIA agent to the press to attack her husband politically. That’s right, On July 14, 2003, Robert Novak revealed the name of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame in print after a White House tip. Plame’s husband, former US Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV, had publicly challenged President Bush’s claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium ore from Africa. Bobbie Novak, from those security minded Republicans, exposed an undercover agent because her husband exposed a fact that contradicted the Republican’s made-up reality. Learn more at BustBob.com or from this article at the Pittsburgh Review.

The Globe and Mail article announcing this quotes Jonathan Klein, chief executive officer of CNN’s, in saying “I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp,” adding “I doubt that when the President sits down with his advisers they scream at him to bring him up to date on all of the issues,” he said. “I don’t know why we don’t treat the audience with the same respect.”
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Just got back from the K-os conert at Brock. Saa-heat!!

His band was really tight, especially the guitar and bass, as you have to be to play K-os’s stuff. My favourite moments was when Hit the Road Jack was used to lead into the song with the same beat, Crabbucit!

Other great moments included some freestyle in the middle of the show, with a lot borrowed from Public Enemy by both K-os and the guy on the turn tables. My favouite track, Crucial, was the last track off the album then the broke out the power chords (even Kevin himself rocked with his own guitar). Almost everyone knew all the words, and the their were a good number of people there, especially when you consider that the posters went up on the last day of exams and tickets didn’t go on sale until nine hours before the show!