iPod’s dirty secret. (Merci, T)

A while back, T’s company playtested one of their videogames on kids aged 8 to 10. 9 out of 10 named Grand Theft Auto Vice City as their favorite game. GTAVC is a game in which you play a smalltime crook working his way up the ranks of Miami organized crime. In this favorite among...

Cool idea: Read a good book. Write a review for it online. Leave it somewhere public and register its location so that bookhunters can find it. Use the site to discuss the book with its next owner. Keep track of the book’s itinerary. Here’s a list of books released in Montreal.

Oh, just one more: From Engrish.

In the movie About A Boy, Hugh Grant’s character looks at a site called supermodelswithseethroughtops.com. Check out what’s really at that address. Before you go and ask how I discovered this, it’s on the trivia page of the Internet Movie Database.

Wondering what to do this weekend? Check out this listing of the nastiest, tackiest dives in and around Montreal. You have to see the picture of La Cachette, and Les Princesses. And what to say of Les Courtisanes… I was actually at a party right above that place when my car burned down… but that’s...

If a killer asteroid was on a crash course with Earth, and nothing could be done to change it, should the government tell us? Some experts think not. Then again, most believe that it would be impossible to keep it a secret, as amateur astronomers would find it out as well. What would you do...

Write in with an emotion or facial look to this guy, and he will act it into his webcam and post it. Among the already-catalogued emotions: Total Misanthropy, Turning Japanese, Too cool for you, Being Born, Hamster Dance. Among the pending ones that people have asked for: Goth, Rather Swedish, Got Milk?, Just Peed Myself,...

Shift magazine is stopping publication after next month’s issue. That’s a real shame. The magazine, whose main topic was web culture, was the only one I had ever subscribed to. I picked it up at a newsstand one day, intrigued by the cover story “The Rise and Fall of the Geeks”. I subscribed that very...

This flash animation made me seasick, but it’s clever. (thanks Doctor Wank)

Origami boulders. (thanks Dr. Wank)