Victoria College Academic ProgramSemiotics is the science of communication and sign systems, in short, of the ways people understand phenomena and organize them mentally, and of the ways in which they devise means for transmitting that understanding and for sharing...
January 2003 Archives
Congress Meets Wall Street
State of the Union Poster "How Big Corporate Campaign Contributors are Buying America...And What the Rest of Us Pay"...
Oh wow!!!
Celestia: A 3D Space Simulator This is a dream come true! I can't wait until this is super clean and perfected... but as it is, it is already a load of fun!...
What ails America?
perfectly feasible possibilityDissociation is a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. During the period of time when a person is dissociating, certain information is not associated with...
Wakey wakey!
The Globe and Mail: Privacy under 'unprecedented assault' Somehow I get the feeling that Washington is pressuring Ottawa. At least we HAVE a "Privacy Commissioner" who can table such reports!...
Crookedness
I got a letter today from the Internet Search Registry. A *real* letter, as in "in an enveloppe, with a stamp in my mailbox" It's not a letter so much as it is a "bill", or rather, in the words...
DNA-ROM
Data stored in multiplying bacteria11:02†08†January†03 The scientists took the words of the song It's a Small World and translated it into a code based on the four "letters" of DNA. They then created artificial DNA strands recording different parts of...
Free books
University of California Press eScholarship Editions 350 volumes made publicly available. Some interesting stuff in there....
I guess it's time...
Learning to program One more thing to add to my to-do list. Yes, sniffles, I am faux-geek. ;)...
I killed my Safari
A friend wondered if it was possible to have Safari's built in google search do it's thing on google.ca instead of google.com. So I searched the contents of the Safari package, found the instances of google.com in "/Safari/contents/MacOS/Safari" and replaced...
Touchscreen...
Troll Touch Touchscreens If this allows to write on the screen and have Inkwell do handwriting recognition, I am in love......
Oh Sony!
The Civil War Inside Sony This is a brilliant article covering not only the turmoil of Sony, in it's unique position, but also of the entire IT and Entertainment industries....
The Cheeky Girls
'The worst act ever'? Their mother scribbled the simple but catchy lyrics to "Touch My Bum" in half an hour: "I never ever ask where do you go. I never ever ask what do you do. I never ever ask...
Someone's always comin' round here
Angeles No one's gonna fool around with us So glad to meet'cha, Angeles...
Forgive them Father,
for they know not what they do... The Guilt-Free Soldier GM: "On s'améliore pas..." RB: Je veux pleurer....
"I am weak... and materialistic."
State of the Union... Not Good Video cut-up of Dubya's State of the Union....
Pi
Watched "p" for the second time last night... "Eleven seventeen, note to self: <strumming lips> WOOLOOWOOLOOWOOLOO</strumming lips>" Hehehehehe. Still unimpressed with this movie. Bad acting throughout (except for that main Hassid character), overly dramatic, and I take issue with the...
He danced on snow.
Sad news. This man. Craig Kelly. Not only was he the Michael Jordan, Tony Hawk of snowboarding. Not only was he four time World Champion. He was also a truly remarkable human being. I have never forgotten, nor will I...
Any takers?
Long Bets Related to The Long Now Foundation It seems to me that many Californians have too much time and too much money. It also seems to me that so should I... ;)...
matrix
Sony's New Day Wild, beautiful... frightening as all hell. Of special interest/concern, everything after "IN THE SONY ZONE". Why the mixed feelings? Because it sounds absolutely wonderful.. until you realise that it is not meant to further humanity as much...
C'est pour quand?
Printemps été - Jean LeloupC'est le printemps et c'est l'été Et les filles sont déshabillées...
My comment
On this thread. Hrm... an OS with all apps integrated, apps "as OS". What I think we should do here is step back a moment and look at our computers as a tool, and not a tool box. Nevermind the...
Repeat after me.
The word "cloaca" has been popping up in my head all morning. Literally. It'll just "pop up"... cloaca cloaca cloaca... For some reason I thought it was that little bulbous thing at the back of one's throat... So just before...
Velocity
Despite the stack of "theory" books I want to get to, as well as the two recently gifted Murakami novels (thank you!), I sat down with an earlier acquisition which was still staring at me from the coffee table: "You...
Bread in a glass
I saw a TV commercial last night about getting St-Patrick's Day to be a national holiday. It ended with "Imagine, a day off for St-Patty's! Now who do you think came up with that? ..." ... And then they flash...
Société des alcools du Québec
Musique to my liver The great thing about living in a place where booze is regulated and sold by a governmental body is that I can go to their website and know that the outlet down the street from me...
What is this world coming to?
Feline dance classes... Somebody please tell these ladies those are STUFFED cats... sigh......
Nevermind monkeys and typewriters...
Drunken monkeys hold a clue! Biochemical studies from the St. Kitts colony also indicate that the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin in steady and binge drinkers have altered functions, which may be exaggerated by chronic alcohol abuse. "We tend to think...
Bowie
Ashes To Ashes They got a message from the Action Man I'm happy, hope you're happy too I've loved all I've needed love Sordid details following The shrieking of nothing is killing me Just pictures of Jap girls in...
Second wind
After a sleepy day spent meeting a new friend for coffees, watching "Pi" and just generally lazing about and getting nothing much done, I try to go to sleep at 1am. Wouldn't you know it, that's when I wake up....
Somebody's on crack...
Neil Diamond Song - Crunchy Granola Suite I got a song been on my mind And the tune can be sung and the words all rhyme Deedle-ee deet deet deet deet deet deet deet dee dee...
Fortune cookie mishap...
Chinese buffet for lunch with co-workers today. "You will get what you want through your charm and personality." Never has there been a greater case of a fortune cookie fortune being given to the wrong person. At least that was...
Did someone say "Library of Babel"?
William Gibson Will comment later. Later is now: Broges' "Library of Babel" is "The Universe". ("The Library, which some call the Universe,...") Think of it this way: every particle in the universe is one of 25 characters and is recorded...
Aaaaaaaaaahahahahahah
Jesus 'healed using cannabis' This "discovery" is not surprising in the least. Sadly though it will be derrided by well meaning brain-washees. Aw well. "Yo Jee, don't bogart that joint!" Hehehe.. sorry couldn't resist... ;) (p.s.: I don't smoke pot...
Ces petits riens
Serge Gainsbourg Mieux vaut n'penser à rien Que n'pas penser du tout Rien c'est déjà Rien c'est déjà beaucoup On se souvient de rien Et puisqu'on oublie tout Rien c'est bien mieux Rien c'est bien mieux que tout......
Katerine
Le bonheur dans les cinémas pornographiques sur les bancs de bois des églises catholiques décidement le bonheur est écoeurant Trop drôle ce mec....
Salmon Day
one of those days where you swim upstream all day only to get screwed and die in the end (thanx to michel - http://shakylegs.blogspot.com/ )...
Television
I just finished watching the last installment of "Tuning In: 50 years on the CBC" (http://www.cbc.ca/tv50th/tuningin/index.html) hosted by that guy there... whatshisname... Rick Mercer, right. Realy quite enjoyable! I even felt nostalgic... and proud! That's saying alot for me, actually....
And now this...
I've been very quiet lately. Languishing in a limboish haze of holiday partying and extreme procrastination. The site I've been obsessing over for the last 2 to 3 months is ever so near to completion, and has been a painful...
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