A stink has been raised involving a skit from this year’s Gemini Awards featuring puppets forced to retire and living in a retirement home.
The story goes that the family of Bob Homme, the Friendly Giant, were not amused and did not authorize the use of Rusty the Rooster and Jerome the Giraffe. So they requested that all the Friendly Giant pieces on loan to the CBC and previously on display in the CBC Museum on Front be returned.
The public reaction has been quite mixed. Some say the family should get a sense of humour and get over it. Others think the skit was quite offensive and have expressed their dissatisfaction about the whole situation.
The CBC has officially apologized for the whole thing.
Simo says I don’t write about puppets enough. This one was actually in the queue!
“We have gained expertise in designing and building large-scale, energy-intensive facilities by building efficient data centers,” said Larry Page, Google Co-founder and President of Products. “We want to apply the same creativity and innovation to the challenge of generating renewable electricity at globally significant scale, and produce it cheaper than from coal.”
I actually started playing this game for DS thinking I might learn some Spanish. Instead, Miguel steals my DS, flees to Mexico, and I gotta play hangman to get it back. Err…. what?
Green Team It’s Enviro-tips from Will Ferrell and friends. Green Team! You probably don’t want to play this on your work computer with the speakers on.
okay… so you can’t see a thing here… she’s the blurry thing in the baseline courtside seats just to the left of the basket. this is the best i could do with my crummy camera phone!
The Escapist : Indie Game Store Kyle Orland on the challenges of running an independent videogame store. Margins are slim, around 15%, and most stores close within a few years. Another article about how jobs that are supposed to be fun actually really suck.
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Alcohol flush reaction is a condition where the body cannot break down ingested alcohol completely, due to a missense polymorphism that encodes the enzyme, acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2) [1], normally responsible for breaking down acetaldehyde, a product of the metabolism of alcohol.
