If this isn’t the best thing in the whole world, I don’t know what is.

It’s a Peter Mansbridge snow globe. There’s also a George snow globe, a HNIC snow globe, and a Being Erica snow globe, but none are as phenomenal as the Peter Mansbrige snow globe.

If you want one, come by my desk later this afternoon with a dollar, and I’ll sell you one. All proceeds go to charity.

And you thought you were done your Christmas shopping.

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	Asides	Posted at 1:31 pm (17 Dec 2010)

Watch until the 1:00 mark.

Too funny.

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	Asides	Posted at 6:18 pm (14 Dec 2010)

If you’re like me and you’re way behind on your Christmas shopping, you may be interested in these vintage CBC buttons for that special loved one in your life.

The description on the Etsy posting says it all:

I believe The Tragically Hip said it best, and I paraphrase from memory…”I was raised on TV, with nothing to live or die for, no religion too…”

The CBC.
It’s a Canadian Thing eh!

All that for only $6.25 USD.

You’re welcome.

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	Asides	Posted at 9:56 pm (13 Dec 2010)

A bunch of CBC employees are taking part in Movember, which according to Wikipedia is “an annual month-long event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November… to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and depression.”

Ryan Couldrey, a CBC employee who also works as a photographer, wants to capture the hair-raising results.

He’s organizing a photo shoot for Toronto employees next Tuesday, Nov 30th, from 10am to 3:30pm.

Here’s the flyer for the event.

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	Asides	Posted at 10:58 pm (23 Nov 2010)

The headline says it all. Bravo to the 22 Minutes crew.

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	Asides, This Hour Has 22 Minutes	Posted at 8:59 pm (21 Oct 2010)

A reader left this note about the CBC’s logo:

I thought you might be interested in this company’s logo. It looks eerily familiar; I just can’t think where I’ve seen it before.

Of course this isn’t the first time the CBC logo has been appropriated. The gem has also shown up in an ad for a dental clinic in Peru, a gay bar in Sydney, Australia, and various other places, including dresses, t-shirts, and strangely a frying pan.

Thanks Megan for the heads up.

Have you seen weird uses of the CBC logo? Let us know.

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	Asides	Posted at 6:44 am (21 Sep 2010)

Kim Fox, the social media guru at the CBC pointed out how much she likes this promotional poster for CBC Radio’s Wiretap. I have to agree, it’s a fantastic poster.

The poster was done by Montreal artist Jack Dylan for a live show in 2009. You can find out more about Jack and his work at his web site. I love how he incorporates the super hero references into his work.

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	Asides, Wiretap	Posted at 1:35 pm (17 Sep 2010)

Apple has finally spared CBC staff from those huge CTV ads that used to be directly across from the CBC headquarters in Toronto.

Now we have huge iPad ads.

Thanks to Jamey for the pic.

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	Asides	Posted at 7:08 am (10 Sep 2010)

A screen grab from the trailer for ‘Scott Pilgrim vs the World.’

You can watch whole trailer here.

Thanks to Mark for the heads up.

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	Asides	Posted at 7:28 am (16 Aug 2010)

There’s been a lot of speculation about the death of the Tea Makers, a long-running blog obsessed with the CBC, recently.

If you care, I wrote a post outlining what appears to have happened.

The whole post is after the jump.

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	Asides	Posted at 9:12 pm (13 Aug 2010)

The Tea Makers, a blog that is almost always critical, sometimes incisive, and usually obsessive of the CBC, may be gone.

“It could be finished,” Allan Sorensen, one of the bloggers who frequently writes on the site said, adding “it’s too early to say.”

Sorensen said the issue was “behind the scenes drama which makes little sense.”

“I hope to see it return but some personal issues need to be resolved.”

The homepage of the site reads cryptically: “2005-2010 – He loved Big Brother.”

Internal disputes are not uncommon with the blog, in the past one of the guys, Fake Ouimet, or Anonymous Fake PoonGirl or somebody like that, deleted a all of their posts in some sort of fight.

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	Asides	Posted at 3:08 pm (12 Aug 2010)

The Liberals have released a fake census questionnaire intended to mock the Conservative government.

The fake census, called the “Voluntary Conservative Census Form,” intends to paint Conservatives as narrow-minded louts for scrapping the mandatory census.

It asks such questions as “Are there any rooms in your house where you keep books? If so, why?”

It also includes a question specifically about the CBC: “How many CBC shows do you watch? Do you feel bad about this? How much money do you think the government should waste on the CBC?”

The Globe has more on this here.

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	Asides	Posted at 7:20 am (29 Jul 2010)

Kory Teneycke’s testy interview with Kathleen Petty on her show, The House, last June, grabbed the attention of at least one listener.

Not one to beat around the bush, and having no paper in his shop, he wrote his letter on a plank of wood and dropped it off at the our Fredericton station. Here’s the text of the letter.

While working in the shop this morning listening to Kathleen interview Cory [sic] [Teneycke] of [VP, Development at Quebecor] at 9:35 am I was appalled at how rude, inconsiderate and unprofessional this gentleman was to Kathleen presenting her interview.

He constantly cut her off while she was talking and blatantly bullied her while she asked exceptionally good questions in regards to the news show he is promoting.

Because of Cory’s mannerisms I will not be subscribing to the news show he is involved with.

I only wonder if the company is as unprofessional as Cory.

Hats off to Kathleen for not backing off in the interview. She is one cool woman!

Signed:

Mike Stewart,
Fredericton
June 19, 2010
9:43 a.m.

PS: I have no paper in the shop, the twit that tweets people doesn’t work weekends, the secretary knows how to run the fax machine (I don’t) so this is my form of communication.

I love that last bit about the twit that tweets and the fax machine, too funny.

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	Asides	Posted at 6:41 pm (20 Jul 2010)

CBC/Radio-Canada has launched an initiative in the lead-up to Canada Day with the idea of “Celebrating Canada” What does that mean to you?”

The request is “to share a piece of your story through a cool photo or two. Show us what it means to you to be Canadian, what Canada represents for you, or what you cherish most about Canadian citizenship,” it says on the CBC/Rad-Can site.

You can send your photos as an attachment to your email (Photo@cbc.ca) or by uploading directly to this page on Flickr.

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	Asides	Posted at 5:56 pm (17 Jun 2010)

Ron MacLean broke from his lunch with Don Cherry on Thursday to help save a man who had jumped into the Delaware River in Philadelphia.

It was apparently a suicide attempt, and when MacLean realized what was happening, he rushed over to help fish the man out of the water.

“I kind of hop over the rail and jump down to help this guy that’s already in the water with the man who is taking his life, as it turns out…”

“It was an unbelievable scene,” MacLean said. “So I get back to the table, Grapes sits down and says, ‘Well that’s just great. I’m telling a wonderful story about Dave Bolland, enjoying a nice lunch and you go running down to the river.

The whole article on CBC.ca is here, plus there’s an interview with Mark Kelley

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	Asides	Posted at 8:33 am (04 Jun 2010)