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Monday, March 31st, 2008And boy, is it good.
Archive for March, 2008
Monday Miscellany
Monday, March 31st, 2008It’s really a miscellany today. I was half-tempted to title this 88 lines about 44 links, and maybe even do it in some kind of poetic structure, but fortunately a combination of laziness and good sense prevailed.
Nice to see that former local (and HGPA-member) Brian O’Malley’s movie deal is actually happening–at least leads are being [...]
Maintenance
Sunday, March 30th, 2008I’m about to move up to Wordpress 2.5.
If there are any issues apparent before midnight (EST) assume I’m aware and working on them.
After that, please drop me a comment if you see something broken.
The Great Song Of Indifference
Sunday, March 30th, 2008One of my favourite music videos of all time, for Geldof’s second-best song.
The woman playing the bodhrán–the one with all the stage presence of a bass player–scares me. A lot.
I love it
Saturday, March 29th, 2008Holy “ask and ye shall receive”, Batman!
From the CBC
The National Union of Public and General Employees, which represents more than 340,000 workers across the country, on Friday wrote to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to investigate the practice of “traffic shaping” and its impact on internet users.
“These internet service providers are, with little or [...]
Watts on Earth Hour
Saturday, March 29th, 2008Some of my cynical thoughts on “Earth Hour” tonight are echoed, and then turned up to 11 by Canadian hard SF author, Peter Watts.
Hundreds, maybe thousands of Torontonians will celebrate the event by climbing into their SUVs and driving out to Downsview Park, there to light candles in the darkness. The Eaton’s Center up at [...]
Saturday Night Characters 1: The Cleaver Sleeve
Saturday, March 29th, 2008When asked about my home town, I usually reply with one of two quips. Either “it’s a great place to be from” or “it may be smallish, but it has a high character ratio”. That second line which inevitably leads into discussions of the various people that are “real characters” that everyone in the conversation [...]
An Oldie But A Goodie
Saturday, March 29th, 2008The ‘net memes are often easy to pass by, but there’s something about the CD Cover one that amuses me.
My result is shown above (click for the larger version). Tons of other ones–many of which are disturbingly plausible–at the flickr pool.
The extremely Net-savvy among you will be able to place the font used for the [...]
Tom Waits For No Man
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Why not?
More details at the YouTube page–here’s the first bit, but there’s much more:
Performed for us live (at the La Brea stage in Hollywood, 1978), and rotoscoped – a process that traces back the live action frame by frame and turns it into animation. The original live action was shot with 5 cameras – 2 [...]
Canada Needs Some Net Neutrality Enforcement
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Did you see the news about Bell deciding that it can filter and shape traffic even carried over “wholesale” pipes to ISPs?
Users of the Canadian family-run ISP Teksavvy (which we profiled last year) have started noticing that Bell Canada is throttling traffic before it reaches wholesale partners. According to Teksavvy CEO Rocky Gaudrault, Bell has [...]
A throne is a throne…
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008You know, the Pope-throne in the Vatican press room, or wherever it is, reminds me of something…
(photo source)
Oh yeah, I know what it is. It reminds me of the stage at the No Rest For The Wicked concert I saw in Milan.
(As an aside, I know I shouldn’t be shocked at hypocrisy here, but doesn’t [...]
Dismissed with a touch of ceremony
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never go back to Texas again.
Everything had gone right with me since he had died, but how I wished there existed someone to whom I could say that I was sorry.
I never saw any of them again—except the cops. No way has [...]
Midweek Miscellany
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008It is very hard for me to imagine that Guinness cupcakes could be anything but super yummy. Make me some–I’ll be your friend.
While we’re talking about food, I’ve got to say that enough is enough. I consider myself at least something of an epicure, so I believe that there are such things as quality olive [...]
It Might Surprise You
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008And now, for a nice long weekend diversion, a selection of songs with a common characteristic: people seem to be surprised that I really like them.
First up we have Dino. This might surprise people who know me a bit, since I’m really not a lounge type of cat. It might surprise people who know me [...]
Something to chew on
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008Oh, I am going to enjoy reading a bunch more stuff at Bostrom’s site, I can tell already:
Wisdom is distinct from cleverness or mental efficiency. Wisdom is about getting the big things right. A prerequisite is the ability to recognize what the big things are, i.e., a sense for proportion, for what is important. I [...]
Lachlan O’Dea
Someone with a Voice
Trish
Richard B.
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