Also cool in this video: monster trucks.
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Careful, Le Devoir
Keep doing this and you’ll go blind.
Test the Nation: CBC stumbles out of the gate
So CBC has been running ads for this Test the Nation “event” that came out of some brilliant mind in the senior programming boardroom.
I’m not quite sure what the point is. It seems to be some sort of nationwide IQ test, complete with break-the-stereotypes revelations where they show stupid surgeons and smart tattoo artists.
What struck me on their website is this “mental gym” quiz. Ten surprisingly difficult questions about logic, memory etc. Below the big link to the test is a list of the top 5 finishers so far.
Apparently all five answered the questions 100% correctly in under a second and a half.
Could have something to do with the fact that you can take the test over and over again and the answers never change.
Leave it to the idiots
The Park Ave. YMCA, which was involved in that unfrosted windows peeping tom debacle, has decided not to think about the issue too much (or trust some provincial commission), but to simply conduct polling and see what Joe Schmo Quebecer thinks.
Shawinigan Handshakee runs for office
In a desperate grab at relevancy, Bill Clennett, who tussled with Jean Chrétien 11 years ago, is running for office for Québec solidaire in the Quebec riding of Hull.
New Montreal tech blog
The Gazette’s Roberto Rocha has quietly started up a Montreal tech industry blog (fixed link) with some startup fodder. It should probably be announced some time over the next few days.
On successful Amber Alerts
CNN is reporting that a 13-year-old Florida boy has been found alive hours after he was abducted at gunpoint.
Meanwhile, closer to home, the SQ located two Pierrefonds children who had been abducted by their mother (I think).
Both cases sparked Amber Alerts, which prompted countless calls from the public, though in neither case it seems did the public make a difference.
Attack on ref saves ref’s life
Hopefully people don’t use this as an excuse to start cross-checking refs in the face though.
Don’t forget about the other third party
Québec solidaire (the fringe-left association of hippies that pretends to be a serious party) has a new strategy this election: focus on some key ridings.
Good luck with that.
How’s Mickey doing, anyway?
Fanatique.ca has a roundup of how former Habs are doing in their post-Montreal hockey careers.