I never knew

In its quest to ‘organize the world’s information,’ Google now wants to keep track of your credit card number and where you live. The company is introducing Google Checkout today, a service that will allow users to make purchases from online stores using payment and shipping information they keep on file with Google.—Google Aims to Speed the Online Checkout Line

Are Lynx and Ax the same thing with different names in different markets? Anyway, they’ve got great commercials and this ‘Spray More Get More’ one is the best yet.

Niiiiiiice. Very very cool laser etched Powerbook with graphic based on Magritte’s Son of Man painting. Well done.

Pour ceux qui, comme moi, s’ennuient des carnets romans de l’ami Lauzon (criss dude, kessé tu fait?), Daviel nous en fait un beau. En passant, ça change rien à rien mais je le mentionne, il pastiche un style que je lis rarement et apprécie encore moins souvent. Y’a Alex et of course le king qui font bien ça mais sinon, je comprend plus ou moins l’engouement.

More sound! And video, I considered just dumping the sound on Odeo but decided to keep the video since it gives a tiny bit of scenery. Way back in March when we were in Mexico, our last night was at a nice place up a hill in Puerto Angel and there was an insane amount of noise, dogs most of the night, roosters calling each other out from one side of the small valley to the other, loads of different birds singing at the crack of dawn. Hard to sleep. In the morning I recorded this to give you an idea, it’s taken with a still camera so sounds is so so, hike up the volume a couple of notches to get the true effect.

Been meaning to look this up for a while; number portability is coming to Canada in March 2007. I’d put money on Fido coming up with the data plan I want one month before then.

First trailer for Spiderman 3. We don’t see Venom fully but we do see the crawling suit. Very well done. Only… 11 months to wait. (via Shatnerian)

I’ve read all of Palahniuk’s books, all of them are good and all of them have cringe inducing moments. I could give a couple of examples from the books but so more people can relate, I’ll use examples from movies.

• Most of the bodies discovered in Se7en. I loved that movie but have seen it only once and I’m only now considering seeing it again.
• The face beating-in of angel face in Fight Club (based on a Palahniuk novel).
• The whole mouth on curb thing in American History X. (Notice the Pitt to Pitt and Norton to Norton link ;))
• The infected arm thread in Requiem for a Dream.

Well, Chuck’s latest, Haunted, is like that times ten. Holy shit! Some disturbed, disgusting stuff in there. If I didn’t know his writing and want to read the cringe parts to get to the great moments, I wouldn’t have finished it. I read a couple of parts while having large breakfasts in restaurants and eeeesh, some bites were going down sideways.

To give you an idea, it starts with the short story “Guts” and people are known to faint (here too) at his readings of the story. That part might be a hoax or partially setup by fans but I wouldn’t bet against it.

Still, recommended. Although you might want to start with some of his others ones if you don’t know him yet.

There is some fun video at TurnHere, short guides to neighborhoods/ cities/ attractions from around the world (mostly US so far). New featured content every day and some very good stuff in there. The ones for Montréal are very hipster heavy but pretty good. (Bug; they have a map of Vancouver at the bottom)

Finally a democrat with some balls (although really, actual balls would have been doing that two years ago), Feingold goes after Bush like they should have been doing for, well, years.