The Lands’ End fall catalog is porn for the heartsick man. Who thought sixty pages of stylish-yet-practical clothing would employ models who are disturbing approximations of the lovely thirty-something woman who doesn’t want to put up with your shit anymore?
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For a second, studying the supposedly idealized images of men in the catalog — the ideal man for these uber-women? Your replacement? — the old anger flashes: These guys are dorks! They’re wearing clothes chosen by their women – turtlenecks and non-Levi’s jeans, monogrammed, $50 button-down shirts with matching ties. . . khakis.
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Each page of Lands’ End fantasy is a perfect scene in the wonder of her new life without you.
2007/11/29
Land’s End Women
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2007/11/21
Onaswarm
My company BlogMatrix has just launched it’s latest product — Onaswarm. If you use Facebook, Flickr, blogs and especially if you have other likeminded friends online, you should go over there and get an account.
What does it do? Simple: it imports all your feeds — your content — from the services you use on the net and collects it into a single place — a “lifestream”. If you have friends online, you can link your Onaswarm accounts together to create a “swarm”, displaying what all of you doing.
- Here’s a webpage showing what everyone in a Toronto technology group is doing
- Here’s a calendar version of that webpage
What’s really neat is that you can take these pages and put it on your own blog or webpage, to create (for example) an “active blogroll” showing what all your friends are doing, or an events calendar showing all the things you’re doing.
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2007/11/16
What non-program will that monster Harper cancel next?
I had the unfortunate experience of having the Toronto Star in my house this morning. Ahem:
First, the Conservatives cancelled the child-care agreements the Liberals had signed with the provinces. Next, they gutted the Kelowna Accord, the $5.1 billion federal-provincial agreement to tackle aboriginal poverty. Now they’re scrapping another piece of Liberal handiwork.
Effective March 31, 2008, the Canadian Health Network will cease to exist.
Wow. Two programs that never actually existed in any meaningful sense, and one program that no one has ever heard of. Who do they think they are, the government?
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2007/11/05
Bad jokes on CBC
CBC radio just had a story about the Hollywood writer’s strike. During the story the announcer mentioned “they’ve have stopped writing lines and started walking the line”. Funnyish, but not bad delivery. Too bad there wasn’t a producer’s strike though — then CBC could tell us that the producers are walking the line after, of course, stopping doing lines.