Mike DeWolfe : The Daily Edition

Top 5 Reasons Why Public Transit Sucks Your bus can drive away while you're standing at the bus stop. You don't get a refund on your ride even if you're stabbed mid-trip. It's like having a 50 ft. car on the road, with 0+ passengers and one well paid driver; all contributing to traffic density. It moves criminals from the downtown core to suburbs. It's a breeding ground for H1N1. Top 5 Reasons Why Public Transit Rocks Every time the bus pulls over you can get a creepy seat mate! You don't need to drive down Cambie drunk-- get a professional to do it for you. All of the walls of your ride are covered with diploma-mill adverts. There's free gum everywhere! That weird smell probably isn't coming from you.

Today, I hit a video store that was going out out of business. I scored a collection of the best of the early years of SCTV. I got to thinking: there must be some of the these on Youtube. Enjoy! Half Wits High IQ Farm Film Celebrity Blow-up Dr. Tongue's 3D House of Stewardesses Hey Geogry Tim Ishimuri Show Oh That Rusty (from that Martin Short was funny once) Ben Hur (watch out for Leopards!)

First things first: to read this blog post, you will need to pay me $1 in advance . How do you fill a shopping mall? Charge admission. This week, Hillside Mall in Victoria announced a "late night before late nights" event. For $5 per person, shoppers could come into the mall on a Sunday night when the mall is otherwise closed. Stores offered 10% or more off of select items and deals. As of November 23rd through to Christmas, the same mall will be open to 9PM every night. This afternoon, the mall was active but far from capacity. This evening, the mall was thick with people. No parking spots to be had. Line-ups in every store. The mall had carolers, live piano and free bottles of water. Did that fill the mall up to capacity? No: it was the feeling to exclusivity. To have one of the 2100+ cars in the parking lot; or be one of the 6,000+ people crowdng the stores. For $5 you could be packed into a mall that was a 2/3 full when it was free to visit. We're still not out of a r...

Why is it bigotry if a white man hires only white men, but it's solidarity if a union only works with unions?

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We've all accomplished a great feat. We've made shopping bags as popular as swastikas. Why? Because of our love-hate with oil, we use it all the time and spout vitriol at anyone else who uses it. You've given up bags. Keep the momentum going and give up these other petroleum products: Chewing gum Hair dye Asphalt Crayons (the main ingredient is paraffin wax, a petroleum product also used in most candles) Candles (see above) The wax layer of the packaging your frozen food comes in. (And, of course, the fertilizers that farmers used to grow much of that food.) Ink Panty hose Heart Valves Pillows Aspirin Ammonia Toothpaste Toothbrushes Guitar strings Shoe polish Tape Rubbing Alcohol Vitamin capsules (think you're healthy when you're dosing yourself with a little bit of petroleum every day?) Solvents Caulking Insecticides Deodorant Ask your eco-conscious grocery store when they're going to stop selling the above items.

I have been trying to crack the nut of increased web traffic for some time (my labour pains have been documented on my tech blog ). I may have tripped over a solution, but I have to see if this is a two day fluke or not. In broad strokes, my solution is to ask "what vexes you?" What gets you pissed off and animated? I do this trick in restaurants. I take a moment and tune from my table to all of the tables in earshot. I listen to all of the conversations-- not to eavesdrop: I am taking them in an indistinct combination of words. Family, friends, TV, what's on the menu. What I hear a lot of (maybe because it's me): I hear people talking tech. Why did Windows do this? My email won't work! Did you see the LOLcatz site? I can't get my iPod working! This stuff (tech) vexes people. When it gets people's attention, they look for a way to scratch their itch. Being single vexes single people, so they go to OKCupid (like the slogan says, "your date will be OK...