bad (microsoft) santa

This just in on the online-merrymaking beat: Microsoft has pulled the plug on an artificial-intelligence Santa with a dirty mind. He had a tendency to veer conversations with children towards oral sex. The Register broke the story.
As a bonus, here’s a look at other bad Microsoft ideas.

ste. catherine st. w.’s ghost block

I have a story in today’s Gazette about the crumbling Seville Theatre and the ghost block it sits on. Here’s the top of the article:
The outer limits of downtown
Andy Riga, The Gazette
The strip of Ste. Catherine St. W. was once alive with nightlife, full of Montrealers heading for Canadiens games at the Forum, movies [...]

facebook is dead

Facebook is officially not cool anymore – I am now part of the phenomenon.
I finally succumbed to the temptation and signed up yesterday. Not to be cool but to use it as a research tool for a profile I was working on of a victim of the Virginia Tech shooting rampage – Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, a [...]

and they’re off

Who needs voters when you have polls and number-crunching websites? Using recent survey results, democraticSPACE, a site run by a former Montrealer, has calculated that the Parti Québécois is set to win a minority government.
We’ll see on March 26. More election links down below, under the Blogroll.