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Yvon in Montreal May 16

YvonTripper — 2012-04-07T22:48:22-04:00

Dear all:

Please note in your calendars that I will be appearing at Montreal Improv on May 16 to provide you with my views on many important things.

Further details to follow.

More pointless time-wasting crap

Alex — 2011-01-01T19:48:46-05:00

Songs without lyrics quiz

I normally am not that interested in online quiz games, but it's interesting to see where your pop-music knowledge peaks (obviously the 90s is where it's at for me):

60s: 22/36
70s: 24/36
80s: 32/40
90s: 31/36
00s: 19/36

*People Missing Toes Still Pay Full Price

Gbrowdy — 2010-02-26T03:30:27-05:00

And the website:
http://jonesbigasstruckrentalandstorage.com/jonesgoodassbbqandfootmassage.html

Radio Free Qu�bec first quarter report

YvonTripper — 2009-03-19T15:01:57-04:00

Highlights:
* radiofreequebec.com has cracked the world's top 25 million most popular websites, according to Alexa
* Radio Free Qu�bec's Youtube channel has received over 58,000 views and nearly 18 positive comments.
* The number of fans on RFQ's Facebook fan page has increased 900% since it was first launched in January.
*RFQ is pleased to announce the hiring of Steve Penny as financial analyst, to guide listeners through the recession:

I realize nobody cares, but...

chrisdye — 2008-12-08T08:42:08-05:00

May I please have your projections for tonight?

P.S. There is an election tonight.

Lib-76 PQ -47 ADQ-2

Election Information

YvonTripper — 2008-11-28T15:33:47-05:00

Radio Free Quebec has prepared a series of advertisements by the political parties to inform you, the voter:

Parti quebecois:

ADQ/Equipe Mario Dumont:

Liberal Party of Quebec

Quebec solidaire

Green Party

Communist Party:

Marxist-Leninist Party

Radio Free Qu�bec

YvonTripper — 2008-11-13T15:36:24-05:00

Good news! The Gouvernement has agreed to increase its funding of TVQ Television and to create a new public radio service, Radio Free Qu�bec. With its new budget and staff, we hope to greatly increase our current broadcast schedule.*

Here is a clip from Radio Free Qu�bec's coverage of the Qu�bec election.

Both radio and TV services can be accessed at radiofreequebec.com

I assume that you have all already seen this:

YvonTripper — 2008-10-04T07:56:01-04:00

How Well Do You See Colors?

dustin — 2008-09-17T01:29:02-04:00

The FM 100 Hue Test is an interesting little game.
See how well you can detect color changes.

I scored 82 without spending that much time on it (a perfect score is 0). You?

Movie Poster Quiz

vinny9 — 2008-08-19T22:01:51-04:00

Guess the titles from a single letter
(not necessarily the first letter of the title, which fooled me for a bit)

I only got 16. Surely you can top that.

Cultural Differences Can't Be Far Behind

vinny9 — 2008-07-09T11:47:58-04:00

Quebec Margarine can now be yellow

Madness!

quiz-knows

Maryam — 2008-04-30T19:05:27-04:00

hey kids,

what was that site that somebody posted a while ago where you had all the quizzes you'd ever want? I've decided that I am being just too productive at work these days...

Strombeshi

vinny9 — 2008-03-28T10:33:13-04:00

CRAAAP!

chrisdye — 2008-02-28T12:15:12-05:00

For some reason, this commission has difficulty getting anglophones to sit on it.

http://www.craaap.gouv.qc.ca/

One quadrillion here, one quadrillion there, pretty soon it adds up

chrisdye — 2008-01-09T10:00:08-05:00

Katrina victim sues for $3 quadrillion

Slownikki

vinny9 — 2007-11-14T18:09:38-05:00

Lifehacker's Top 10 Quicksilver plug-ins

In other news, my refurbished MacBook had to have its hard drive AND RAM replaced since I've bought it. So I'm pretty disappointed that Apple QA dropped the ball on that, but I can't complain too much because both repairs were free since it's been <1 yr and done on the spot at the Apple Store in Laval.

Flickr feature requests

dustin — 2007-09-28T02:03:22-04:00

I use flickr to publish my photography online. It's a good service, but not perfect. Here are my feature requests to Flickr:

1. On individual photo pages, the meta description and keywords should be about the photo, not about Flickr. Yahoo runs a fricken search engine, you'd think they would get this right.

2. Give me a nice view into the referrer logs. Where are people coming to my photos from? Who's inlining it into webpages? What photos got viewed the most recently? etc. This would be the perfect place to build a Google Analytics competitior.

3. Expand the API to include sets. And keep expanding it from there.

4. Enable HTML links in photo descriptions on my photostream pages when they're showing small photos. Why don't they work here?

Finally, a flickr-related feature request directed to Google: Get an API or scraper set up to read the title, description and tags on flickr photo pages. Then use the info in your Google Image Search algo. I've started searching for images at flickr first now, because experience has shown I often find better images direct from there.

Policemen inciting riots?

dustin — 2007-08-23T05:37:46-04:00

Here's a CBC report (video or text) about police dressing up as anarchists and trying to start a riot during the recent SPP protests in Quebec.

The boots of the provocateurs match those of the police, and the men fled behind the police line to escape. The police refuse to say who the men were, and no other protesters recognize them. You can watch the full union footage on youtube, which is where the CBC got the story from.

Lavallife

YvonTripper — 2007-06-02T19:07:25-04:00

A short TVQ documentary on Laval, which can now be accessed by m�tro.

Doh. I Wish I Knew This Earlier

vinny9 — 2007-05-18T14:07:17-04:00

Hydro Quebec offers rebate on switching to CFL bulbs .
(5$ per 10$ spent before taxes, up to 25$)

How to disable QuickTime movies opening webpages

dustin — 2007-04-26T03:37:54-04:00

Some QuickTime movies contain embedded "HREF tracks" that will open a webpage in a browser window during the movie (or at the beginning or end). This is highly annoying, not to mention a possible security risk. I looked far and wide, but I couldn't find a way to stop QuickTime from opening website links embedded in movies it plays.

The fix is to set movies to open in the excellent VLC media player instead of in Quicktime. VLC will play the movie properly, but ignore any links inside of it. On a Mac you can do this by doing "Get Info" on a movie file and changing the "Open With" selection box to be VLC. Then click the "Change All..." button below it.

It's So Easy Being Green

vinny9 — 2007-04-13T12:34:49-04:00

Quantum effect in photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is awesome and learning about it can only help solar research since it's had a lot of the engineering kinks worked out of it. This article shows just how damn efficient it really is. It's a pretty technical piece but if you can follow it, it's impressive as hell.

Nutshell version of article:
Light hits the photosynthesis chemical. Parts of the chemical oscillate at different energies. These oscillations interfere in a quantum way (over many possible frequencies) and the one with the best resonance (the oscillations that get along best) wins. This optimal interference is how the energy gets transfered.

Iraq descends into lameness

chrisdye — 2007-04-01T18:44:45-04:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6510000/newsid_6515100/6515133.stm?bw=nb&mp=wm

Gambling with our Future

YvonTripper — 2007-03-24T10:51:08-04:00

DEADLINE: Sunday 11:59 pm.

Our current national election has been the most boring one in our history. To spice it up a bit, I invite you to wager in the Election Outcome Pool. Guess the popular vote of the five parties, and the number of seats that they will win. Fill in this ballot in the comments section:

POPULAR VOTE: LIB: X% PQ:X% ADQ:X% GRN: X% QS: X%
NUMBER OF SEATS (out of 125): LIB: X PQ: X ADQ: X

For every percentage point and number of seats that you are off, you get one point. The person with the fewest points wins.

Bonus: if you predict that the Greens or Qu�bec solidaire wins a seat, and they actually do, you get 50 points deducted from your score.

Classy newspaper

Bryan — 2007-03-23T19:54:32-04:00

The director of elections in Quebec recently stated that women who wear the burka or niqab are allowed to vote without revealing their faces. This caused a firestorm of protest and the director has since reversed position. (Somehow what was legal one day was illegal the next.)

It's nice to see that the Journal de Montreal could be counted on to address the issue with taste and courtesy for both sides. (See top of newspaper)

Aqua Teen Bomb Scare

registeredname — 2007-02-01T20:49:52-05:00

Only this would happen in the States
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/01/boston.bombscare/

Burning is against municipal regulations

chrisdye — 2007-01-31T12:20:27-05:00

If you think your town council lacks judgment, have a look at this document addressed to immigrants on the website of the town of Herouxville, Quebec:

http://municipalite.herouxville.qc.ca/Standards.pdf

C'est Bon Des Pop-Tarts

vinny9 — 2007-01-29T09:53:53-05:00

Les T�tes � Claques

Yub Nub

vinny9 — 2007-01-18T09:57:24-05:00

Barbershop Quartet sings the Ewok Celebration song

TVQ website!

YvonTripper — 2007-01-07T19:01:08-05:00

Attention devoted TVQ watchers:

You have repeatedly asked us if we could create an "internet" site where you could find out more information about our programming. We have conducted months of research to learn about the internet, and have set up a preliminary website for you to peruse:

televisionquebec.ca

As well as the current content (none), we shall be adding additional content over the coming months.

Bien � vous,

Yvon Tripper
Chef de la direction
TVQ