Monthly Archives:: May 2007

Google Images: New Face Filter

Posted by & filed under Other / Canada.

Google added an excit­ing new fea­ture to Google Images: a face fil­ter to search for faces! If you go to Google Images and type in the word you’re look­ing for and then append &imgtype=face  to the end of the search results url, Google will return images with faces only. Here’s an exam­ple: Search­ing for “Canada” Search­ing for… Read more »

Warehouse Sales Canada: In Accessories

Posted by & filed under Canadian Deals & Coupons.

Got info about this ware­house sale in my email: In Acces­sories is hav­ing their famous semi-annual blowout sale.With extended hours, the designer jew­elry whole­saler will be clear­ing out sam­ples, one-of-a-kinds, and over­runs at up to 90% below whole­sale cost. Come find over 2000 brand-name designs in ster­ling sil­ver, Swarovski crys­tals, and semi-precious stone items start­ing at… Read more »

Sam the Record Man closing it’s doors

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Just got word from the fine folks over at fjet­sam (ok, that’s me) that the flag­ship Sam the Record Man store on Yonge St. will be clos­ing its doors for good on June 30th. It’s a Cana­dian land­mark, and an absolute shame to see it go. More details and edi­to­r­ial over at fjetsam.

Future Shop: HD-DVD Player Bundle

Posted by & filed under Canadian Deals & Coupons.

It’s not a huge sale, but if you hap­pen to own an HDTV and an Xbox 360 and haven’t picked up the HD-DVD Player to go along with it, nows your chance. Future Shop is bundling the XBox 360 HD-DVD Player with the newly released HD-DVD release of The Matrix Tril­ogy for only $249.99. That’s… Read more »

McDonald’s Mondays: Rappin’ Big Macs

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This video was embed­ded using the YouTu­ber plu­gin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video. This one goes out to all my homies. Word to your moth­ers and so on. It’s hard to not be amused by a man teas­ing the drive-thru box — but rap­ping his order at it? That’s… Read more »

Free Canadian Stuff: Shoppers Drug Mart 2000 Optimum Points

Posted by & filed under Canadian Freebies, Free Stuff.

This is a con­tin­u­a­tion of the pre­vi­ous sur­vey. If you’ve com­pleted the pre­vi­ous sur­veys and haven’t received your 1000 points phone Shop­pers Drug Mart at 1 800-Shoppers and com­plain and they will reward you with your points while you’re on the phone. Click here to com­plete the lat­est Shop­pers Drug Mart sur­vey, this time worth 2000… Read more »

Facebook

Posted by & filed under Other / Canada.

I’ve been very busy lately and hadn’t checked my smart­canucks email for a while… today I went through my unread emails and guess what I found… not deals, not free­bies… but face­book invi­ta­tions! from peo­ple I’ve never met: and note that this is not my per­sonal email! Face­book is the 19th most vis­ited web­site in the… Read more »

Great Gift Ideas — DesignerGifts.com

Posted by & filed under Canadian Deals & Coupons.

I’m going to a wed­ding tomor­row, and I’ve had a heck of a time com­ing up with the right gift. We’re big believ­ers in get­ting peo­ple gifts that stand out so they’ll always remem­ber the who gave it, and there was lit­tle in their reg­istry save for tow­els and dishes. While try­ing to come up… Read more »

McDonald’s Mondays: Eddie McMurphy

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This video was embed­ded using the YouTu­ber plu­gin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video. “I’ll make you a ham­burger bet­ter than McDonald’s.” “Bet­ter than McDon­alds??” It may be hard for you to remem­ber back this far, but there was a time some­where between the inven­tion of the wheel and… Read more »