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New York Magazine’s Vulture Blog has an excellent - and spoiler-ridden - interview with Joss Whedon about Dr. Horrible.

He mentions The Specials as an influence, which made me happy. I’ve always said The Specials is the movie Mystery Men was supposed to be.

I’ve also just put a hold on Soon I Will Be Invincible, a book whose title Joss mentions as an influence.

Anyone know where I can get one of those jackets with the buttons on the shoulder? And knee-high white rubber boots? How would I look as a Neil Patrick Harris-like blond for Halloween?

Did you know my nickname in junior high was Doogie?

Fusion Man, the Swiss rocket-pack guy and this Japanese helicopter guy should get together and fight crime.

That is all.

BBC News: Obama says US cannot ignore race

CBCNews.ca: U.S. must move beyond race, Obama says in frank speech

Hmm…

FoxNews.com: Obama Condemns Pastor, But Won’t ‘Disown Him’ (front page headline)

Of course…

National Post: Obama offers pastor nuanced support (front page headline)

Apparently, Obama can denounce, disavow, reject, recounce, and repudiate Wright, but as long as he doesn’t disown him, it’s still “nuanced support.”

[UPDATE] But none of these compare to this CNN headline, which was reportedly up for about seven minutes:

Obama: Constitution stained by the ’sin of slavery’

Jonathan Coulton performs “Still Alive” in Rock Band on Vimeo

Jonathan Coulton performs “Still Alive” in Rock Band from Joy Stiq on Vimeo.

Posted here instead of the tumblelog because Iff must see this.

Bah. The RSS feed for White Whine doesn’t have a properly formatted title tag.

Oh, wait.

Crap.

Earlier this month, the Star had a great feature about Toronto’s fire-hall crests and how they reflect the character of the city’s neighbourhoods. I love flags, heraldry, sports logo — any simple, graphic identity — so the full page gallery of crests was a treat for me.

I had intended this post to link to some of the crests, praising some and comparing others unfavourably to minor league hockey logos. There doesn’t seem to be an online version of the Star’s gallery of crests, but I had found most of them on the city’s fire service website, back on Jan. 3 when the article was published.

They’re all gone now.

Does Toronto’s blanket signage policy, which apparently forbids the fire stations from displaying the crests on the halls, also extend to the website?

I guess that makes me a geek and a spaz.

I wrote by first article for the CBC’s tech pseudo-section on Thursday. It’s about Sony’s CD protection fiasco.

Next time, I’ll write a more descriptive title. “Sony and the rootkit” doesn’t say anything to someone who is just coming to the story.

Boingboing has a great round-up of its coverage of the Sony XCP nonsence.

On del.icio.us, a social bookmarking site, you can look through other people’s bookmarks, to see what’s popular on the web, including mp3s. This page also lets you preview the sound files before you download them.

A lot of these popular mp3s are mash-ups, mixing one genre with another. Acoustic rap. Symphonic video game music. The Beatles meet Guns and Roses. That sorta stuff.

That symphonic Mario music reminds me of that acapella chorus…

And I also found that Be Good Tanyas track on del.icio.us. Y’know, the one from the Zellers ad. (Actually, I heard it on the CBC long before HBC bought it, but the ad reminded me of how nice those wandering harmonies are.)

I don’t really know much about the SomethingAwful vs. eBaum’s World drama, but this is a damn catchy song.