An awesome Flash based video for The Beatles classic "Come Together". (~8Meg SWF) Beautiful tribute. Beautiful example of being inspired by someone else's work and producing something beautiful. Lest no one get hurt. Or in trouble......
May 2004 Archives
Online Journalism papers
International Symposium on Online Journalism Home - Symposium Research Papers May be of interest to some folks I know... Merci Ludo....
Rastafarwe
I am wearing this t-shirt by one Geoff McFetridge, at this moment, as a pot of pho bo (vietnamese beef broth) simmers in the kitchen. Roast onions, garlic and ginger under broiler until burnt. Cover beef bones with water...
mutek
MUTEK Shows aside, apparently there are some interesting panels and workshops. Sadly though, the whole site is in flash, the schedule all done in little flash modules, making it nigh impossible to get a clear overview of what's what. Shame....
Eric Idle says "thanks!"
This may be old news but I just heard it and well, you should too: Pythonline - Eric Idle presents... The FCC Song....
On my own advice
I awoke this morning thinking of a friend who seems to be at one of those crossroads in his life where the next incarnation of himself is unsure. I thought of what advice I could possibly give him. Perhaps because...
On elections
Now, lemme get this straight... "On Sunday, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin called general elections for June 28, 2004." One month. On Politics 'In our time the destiny of man presents its meanings in political terms' - Thomas Mann HOW...
MP3 blogs
A list of mp3 blogs. I've wanted to do the same for a while now but was hesitant. Guess I'll start too. :)...
The F-word in school
No, not *that* f-word... The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Editorials: Hard lessons from poetry class: Speech is free unless it's critical A school military liaison and the high school principal accused the girl of being "un-American" because she criticized the war...
Demystify
This kind of thing drives me up the wall: TIME Magazine Cover: Secrets of the Teen Brain - May. 10, 2004 "Research is revolutionizing our view of the adolescent mind - and explaining its mystifying way" Listen, here is some...
An economy of caring
Friend Jim Moore is doing all he can to garner attention, raise awareness and just get people to care about a situation of genocide and other nastyness happening in Sudan at the moment. Much of his efforts are focused on...
Helthinki
This event was just announced yesterday. Just checked with my travel agent... a last minute flight to Helsinki, departing tomorrow evening, would cost me an arm. Damn. I must consider this carefully....
Bad timing
It is 8:30pm and I am so hungry I am shaking. Problem is I decided to do a complete scrub down of my kitchen and the floor is still wet, the furniture still packed into my living room and the...
After the (MT3.0) dust has settled
Blah blah blah licenses. "W!" My question is this: is 3.0 any better? And by better I mean faster. Has the code finally really been cleaned up and optimized? Does it run better? Cause, in all honesty, and I love...
Meshing storylines from my life
There are narratives in my life that have quietly threaded along in the background, closely following me. Slowly parts of these stories have meshed into my "real life", and this morning another part intersected for the second time with my...
Down to earth
Telegraph | News | 'Buddha' sweet has sour taste in Japan I'd like to think that Buddha was a down-to-earth kinda guy, who occasionally DID pick his nose... and who most likely would laugh at such things. En-lighten up people!...
Who, what, when, where and why, and the death of the author
After reading Foucault's short piece "Author Function", I thought the following. Take any expression, be it a text, a song, a painting, and label it "The What". Label the author (composer, painter, etc) "The Who", and and attach it as...
Cinema disobedience
While I loathe linking to BoingBoing, I hafta say I'm with Cory on this one 100%....
Sneaker pimps, showin' stripes
The retro sneaker craze is getting to me. For some reason, I love it. I'd have to say I'm partial to Adidas myself. The solid teutonic three stripes. Puma never appealed to me, probably because of the brotherly strife (1920...
KeyCaps found!
Mac OS used to have this nifty utility app called "Key Caps". It would display a keyboard on your screen which would allow you to see the keyboard mappings for all the characters of any fonts you had installed....
Interconnectedness and patterns, knowledge and freedom
Mark Federman, over at the McLuhan Program, offers up this great entry. While the framework of his entry is based on how the limitations on media use that the RIAA (and MPAA) are seeking will effectively limit access to information...
MT Template for monitoring comment spam
As the title says, here is an MT Template which gives you a nice RSS 2.0 (don't start with me!!!) feed of your blog's comments, complete with handy dandy links to your MT admin and MT-Blacklist interface for quickly identifying...
Brilliant t-shirt folding technique
It looks a bit tricky but by the second or third try you too will be a master t-shirt folder. Try it. Now. Thanks Jim!...
Evil genius
[this is aaronland] proof of concept : what's on first? Mad scientist Aaron polls the New York Times for metadata keywords, matches them to http://del.icio.us/ "tags", crosschecks those against http://www.flickr.com/ image "tags"... RDFs it all and spits out a nifty...
Reading the graph
over at Jim Moore's . I read it like this: The more information leaks out of Iraq, the less enthusiastic the American public is about the whole thing. (There is hope afterall!) And, look at what was needed for...
Aprils at the Tokyo Fun Party
Near the end of my Tokyo trip, I had the privilege and good fortune to hook up with Patrick of Tokyo Recohan. Patrick is a fellow Québecois, living in Tokyo who in his spare time runs this used CD website....
It's over, it's over, it's ooooooveeeer
"Notre Père, qui est aux Cieux, que ton nom soit sanctifié..." (Our Father, in french) GodDAMN. SEVEN days?! SEVEN DAYS! Seven days of sore joints, of tingling skin, of cold sweats, of confusion and dementia... over! Finally. The hardware issues...
Sweet
From A girl in Tokyo: News of love From Yahoo!Japan News (This page contains Japanese) It is very heart warming, lovely news. April 20, Kyoto: A female swallow fell down from the nest and then didn't move for a while....
A week wasted
I've been back one week now. I had exactly 36 hours between arriving and falling ill. I've had the flu for 5 days. Yesterday I gave in and went to the "clinic". Normally a flu lasts 2, 3 days max...
Goddamn them all
Bear with me.. I recently saw "Master & Commander" (twice, on flights) and "Pirates of the Caribbean". This is to bring back memories of cheap beer night on Tuesdays when the Irish band would play at the Brasserie in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue....
Quote of the day
"I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over...
Purge
Spring cleaning "au max". Any article of clothing I have had for more than 3 years, and which I have not worn in at least a year, in a bag and off to the Salvation Army. Pantry and fridge will...
Doctor's appointment
Taking a computer in for repair, especially a PERSONAL computer, should be like going to your GP, family doctor, dentist or vet. Why can I not call up my local mac shop, tell em what's wrong, make an appointment, show...
The Ville de Montréal is screwing with my jogging route
I'm somewhat a creature of habit, I suppose, and as such, little changes to things I take for granted sometimes leave me... rather pissed off. Since last fall, the Ville de Montréal seems to have taken two very annoying actions,...
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