Entries Tagged as ‘Revenge’

December 17, 2007

montreal parking anarchy/revenge

UPDATE: I CORRECTED THIS ERRONEOUS POSTING HERE…

I’m a big fan of revenge (see previous posts here). But a site recently featured on Montreal City Weblogseems extreme. It pointed to a local website encouraging Montrealers to seek revenge against parking officials, SUV drivers, parking-spot thieves and other ne’er-do-wells by sabotaging their parking meters. The idea is [...]

October 17, 2007

revenge of the facebook haters

While working on a story about one of my favourite topics (revenge!; see if you can find it in Saturday’s paper), I stumbled upon a cool new add-on to Facebook. It’s called Enemybook and it lets you list your enemies on Facebook, then tell the world why you hate them.
Enemybook creator Kevin Matulet calls [...]

September 16, 2007

copyright issue or political tussle?

Le Québécois, a hard-line sovereignist website, says it will no longer allow visitors to post articles from La Presse, a federalist newspaper, in its forums. 
No, it’s not because its editors find articles by La Presse writers such as André Pratte, Alain Dubuc et Vincent Marissal ”insipides et propagandistes.”
The tussle is over copyright issues, or so La Presse warned Le Québécois in [...]

April 13, 2007

paper junk mail: just send it back

Junk mail (the paper kind, not the digital variety) is like the weather: everybody complains but nobody ever does anything about it. At the risk of sounding like a nut case, I am going to pass on how I’m getting revenge on the companies (mostly credit card providers) that pay Canada Post to put [...]

April 12, 2007

24: a spoiler

I hate spoilers – especially about the TV series 24. And the last place I would expect one is on LCN, Quebecor’s 24-hour news station (and on some topics Quebec’s answer to Fox News). But there it was a few minutes ago on the news ticker scrolling under a talking head.
Apparently, some of the [...]