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A gallery of beautiful photos from the Olympics.

I knew somebody would make donuts based on the Olympic medals, but I thought it might be a Canadian company, not a Japanese one.

First, the Swiss hockey team shuts out Canada. Embarassing.

Then, the Swiss women beat Shannon Kleibrink’s rink, costing Canada at chance at the gold. Gah! I mean, if it weren’t for Scotland, Canada would’ve invented curling!

So, now, it’s official. I’m sick of the Swiss

Neutral ninnies! Zuricheads!

If you roast ‘em all in a fondue pot, sure bet ya that they’ll complain a lot.

Whiny, whiny Switzerland.

It looks like I’ll need to find another “killer app” for Greasemonkey. The wizards of Gmail have seen the error of their ways and removed the annoying pop-ups.

Meanwhile, I’ve been messing around with Movable Type plug-ins so much I haven’t actually been blogging. Bad Johnny.

July 15, 1974: “Rock Your Baby” by George McCrae

For being born in the mid-70s, I think I got off easy here. A couple years later and I’m into Shaun Cassidy and Starland Vocal Band territory.

What was the #1 song (in the U.S.) on your birthdate?

A couple of interesting blogs on the Olympics:

DFL covers the Olympics from the opposite end, focusing on the athletes who finish last in each event. Excellent tagline: “Because they’re there, and you’re not.”

It even has a last-place “medal count” so you can see who places first in winter Olympic futility. (Mouseover the title to see what it stands for.)

And Jim Courtney writes about using a Slingbox, a piece of hardware that attaches to your TV to narrowcast its signal to any computer on the internet, to watch CBC’s Olympic coverage from L.A.

You can only watch the signal from your Slingbox from one computer at a time, so this isn’t iCraveTV all over again.

When I upgraded to Firefox 1.5, I didn’t bother getting the updated Greasemonkey extension. By then, Google Mail had already added a delete button, which is pretty much all I used it for.

But now there’s a Greasemonkey script to stop those annoying pop-ups that occur whenever you mouseover someone’s name. This integration with Google Talk is cool and all, but the pop-ups are just too much.

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I was reading this article on procrastination today, when I was supposed to be doing work. Har har.

Anyway, this line struck me as weird:

Procrastinators can change their behavior—but doing so consumes a lot of psychic energy.

It seems like the sentence starts like an article from Psychology Today and ends like a bit of copy from an RPG instruction manual.

Watching conservative bloggers writhe over the Emerson and Fortier cabinet appointments has been nothing but entertaining. The grit of Reformers sticking to their guns. The tortured logic of Harper supporters. The bile flung as each calls the other traitor. The satirical takes.

Angry in the Great White North has drawn his line in the sand. You’re either in the club or you ain’t.

Here’s a brain teaser for you, a little microcosm of the entire Mohammad cartoon issue.

Do you condemn a UPEI student paper for publishing all 12 of the Danish cartoons, something no other publication in North America has done, or do you condemn the UPEI administration for stepping on the freedom of the student press for recalling all the papers?

Also: The New York Times has an excellent article in its arts section on the power of imagery.