Angel >> Morton Downey Jr. Trash TV personality #1, radio host, singer, songwriter, author, businessman, hopeless nicotine addict, the recently departed Morton Downey Jr. was many things in his long and strange career. But first and foremost he was a shit disturber, brilliant at provoking the stupid and pompous into hanging themselves with their own rope--on prime-time TV no less. Besides, long before he became the scourge of television, Mort the Mouth wrote the surf classics "Wipeout" and "Pipeline," which makes him a saint by any standards.

Insect >> B>High-tech woes The layoffs of more than 30 per cent of the staff at Montreal's source of high-tech pride, Zero-Knowledge, embody a depressing sign of the times. An industry we all hoped would save us from unemployment, slave-labour conditions and substandard coffee has hit the skids. Instead of glamorous lives funded by endless ones and zeroes, we are subjected to countless embarrassing stories of friends deprived of dot-com dreams and are left to kiss our high-tech investments good-bye.