Monthly Archives: July 2008
Natural selection in the confectionary world
I don’t get it, but I LOL’ed: Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one […]
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Media watchdogs and all that
Today I found out I won third place in the Consumer Magazine: Investigations and Analysis category at the 2008 AEJMC awards for my Review story on Harvey Cashore. It’s nice to know people read my 6,000 word self-indulgent (me, not Harvey) opus on a then-unknown CBC journalist, yeah? Since then he’s been featured on J-Source […]
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Things I want this week.
Poul Jensen for Selig Z chair
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Death is imminent