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Nintendo Revolution to be available by Christmas 2006. Aces!

The US is a ribbon-based economy.

I don’t care all that much as I don’t shop at either place, but Urban Outfitters rips off a Johnny Cupcakes t-shirt design. This post is me sticking it to the man. Rah.

The first Bad Baby Name post of 2006 brings some doozies. Let’s get to them!

The first Bad Baby Name combines the Overused Irish/Scottish Name with Horrible Spelling: Mckenzy. Oh well done. Nobody’s every named their kid Mackenzie before. And to misspell it, that’s original! Good one!

The second Bad Baby Name was actually the first one spotted by both me and Mrs. CanSpice: Axel. First thought that popped into our heads: Axel Rose. Someone’s dad’s a Guns ‘N’ Roses fan! Here’s hoping your future isn’t filled with cocaine, fights, and lawsuits, young Axel!

The third Bad Baby Name combines Old Testament Skool with Horrible Spelling: Aachariah. We can only hope that this one’s a typo and is actually meant to be Zachariah.

You witnessed it: I actually hope that some baby in Hilo is named Zachariah.

The fourth Bad Baby Name is this week’s winner: Qwuincey. Now Quincy/Quincey isn’t a bad name, but when you try to tart it up by throwing an extra letter in there, that’s just wrong. Especially when you put it in the one place where an extra letter shouldn’t go, cleaving the sacred bond between Q and U. Now the kid’s going to be going through life thinking there’s nothing wrong with the sentence “Qwuincy qwuickly qwuaffs kumqwuat liqwuor”.

I don’t often do these sorts of Internet meme things, but this one’s just a tiny bit interesting. Open iTunes to answer the following:

Total number of tracks: 3435

Sort by song title:

• First Song: Boards Of Canada - ‘84 Pontiac Dream
• Last Song: Clint Mansell - πr²

Sort by time:

• Shortest Song: Unknown Numbers Station - Voice Sample Irdial (shortest proper song is Track 6 off DJ Shadow’s “Endtroducing…..”)
• Longest Song: Various Arstechnica DJs - Arsmix 2005 Project (longest proper song is Kincajou (Duck! Asteroid) by Banco de Gaia)

Sort by album:

• First Song: Gipsy Kings - Hotel California from the album ¡Volare! - The Very Best Of The Gipsy Kings
• Last Song: Deep Dish - Yoshiesque

Top 10 Most Played Songs:

1. Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (37)
2. Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror (37)
3. No Doubt - Don’t Speak (36)
4. Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place (36)
5. The Tragically Hip - New Orleans Is Sinking (35)
6. Orbital - Halcyon + On + On (33)
7. Blind Melon - No Rain (31)
8. Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend (31)
9. Moby - Bodyrock (31)
10. Faith No More - Epic (30)

First five songs that come up on Party Shuffle:

1. Unknown Numbers Station - Oblique Irdial
2. The KLF - Church Of The KLF
3. Andrea Parker - Clutching At Straws
4. The Tragically Hip - Coconut Cream
5. The Tragically Hip - Smalltown Bringdown

Search for:
“sex”, how many songs come up?: 5
“love”, how many songs come up?: 83
“you”, how many songs come up?: 141
“death”, how many songs come up?: 7
“hate”, how many songs come up?: 0
“wish” how many songs come up?: 4

No remarks on how Apple hardware is crappy, please.

Back in December, Vancouver Canucks goaltender Dan Cloutier had “season-ending” knee surgery.

While I was back in Canada for the holidays, I heard (from my friend’s friend’s brother… via my dad) that Cloutier was rumoured to be involved in a car accident earlier in the year right around the time that his surgery was scheduled. A Porsche Cayenne struck three pedestrians, two of whom died instantly. The accident happened in Cloutier’s neighbourhood. Cloutier owns a Porsche Cayenne, a rare SUV on the streets of Vancouver. The driver sped away and hasn’t been found, yet. The awesomely-named Holy Puck has a good bit of insight on the situation.

But now Holy Puck is reporting that Cloutier will come back in February. I don’t know where he got this information from, unless it’s from some inside source. The four sources I’d think of as being most likely to report this news (CBC, TSN, CKNW, and the Canucks) don’t say a thing about Cloutier.

I just want to know what’s going on with Cloutier!

Update, 15 March 2006: The Vancouverite says that the Vancouver Police Department has categorically denied that any member of the Vancouver Canucks organisation was involved in the aforementioned accident. Case closed.