As I was making my daily visit to Vince’s fine page today, the image next to the day’s post reminded me of a site I would frequent when I worked at Online Support which (among other things) made great product spoofs.

This site is the headquarters of the Afrosquad. I was pleasantly surprised to see how much it had changed over the past few years. The part that amused me specifically was the movies section. The movies themselves aren’t high quality, but, the effort put into them makes up for that. My favorite so far is the one for ‘Asswipes’ (so your hand don’t smell like ass).

They average a delicious 3 minutes each, totally worth your time. The rest of the page is also full of good material.

It’s spring clean up time in Charlottetown and that means crap on the streets. It doesn’t bother me so much, but a lot of people are understandably pissed of at how long it’s taking the city to pick up the many piles of leaves, rusty fridges, and other assorted eyesores.

In one situation, a woman’s daughter was getting married and she particularly concerned about the rubbish on her street as she would be entertaining at her house. She called her city councillor, who called the garbage people, who picked up some of it. Still, there was enough stuff let on the street to cramp the style of a good wedding party.

What’s a good city councillor to do? He, his wife, and his youngest son get a truck and clean up the street themselves in time for the wedding. There were no cameras or reporters. He didn’t even tell anyone he did it.

While I am not the son who helped him with the trash, the city Councillor is my father, Bruce Garrity. Sure, he may double-click on web links (all the time!), but this genuinely impressed me.

A great open letter to IslandTel by Peter at Reinvented.net. As a member of a company in exactly the same scenario, I won’t shed any tears for IslandTel if they can’t leverage 100 years of monopoly to provide adequate service at competitive prices.

update: it’s not so much macs, but the people who use them

I want a Titanium PowerBook as much as any self-respecting web designer, but this quote from a News.com story about the opening of the Apple store (QuickTime) in Washington D.C. gave me the creeps:

More than 500 zealous Mac fans lined up as early as 4 a.m. EDT for the chance to be the store’s first customer and to support Apple Computer’s retail experiment. The crowd–which earlier broke into chants of “Apple! Apple! Apple!”–roared when the stored open at 10 a.m. EDT.

These people have clearly not read Brave New World.

Read Everybody must get stoned by Ian O’Doherty at Salon.com. It is short and you will laugh out loud.

I’m so embarrassed by this event I decided to post about it for everybody to see.

About a week or so ago, I set up IIS on my system so that I could practice my mad ASP skills in preparation for a new job. So. I plopped it on, played with it for a day or two, then forgot I had it installed. Today, a couple of weeks later, I find out that my IIS default page was horribly, horrible, defaced by a k-rad 1337 h4x0r.

To his credit, he was a political activist (dare I say, satirical genius?). So, I thought since he went through all the trouble to deface my private web server (which I foolishly left with the default username/password for the FTP) I would pass on the message he left me for a greater audience:

(For effect, I used the same font, colors, and formatting as the elite llama)

“I’m A Bug”

I’m a bug.
So are you, baby.
Want to use my
pinchers on you.

“Louie Louie,” but punker.