like a bug in a rug... Two white nights working on this here weblog design. IE bugs yet to squash (of course), but whatever. Sorry. I love it. You? Downloaded and watched Miyazaki's "Kaze no tani no Nausicaa (Nausicaa of...
July 2004 Archives
The straight line
Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture In 1952 I spoke of the civilization of make believe, the one we must shake off, myself, the first of all! I spoke of columns of gray men on the march toward sterility...
Dawn
Couldn't fall asleep. My bedroom is all white, cream to be specific, teak wood and black leather. The curtain is a thin pale yellow. I sleep in warm glowing clouds. When I sleep....
Strange cold
It is 4:53am, Saturday morning. This past Monday afternoon I felt the hallmark scratch at the back of my throat which invariably signals that I have passed the point of no return and I will now spend at least a...
No... frikkin.. way...
WilliamShatner.com :: The Official Shatner Website - Bill's Space That's right. The Shat has a weblog folks. Comments and all......
IM conversations
Following my previous post, I thought again about all the hilarious IM conversations I have on a daily basis. (Most of the really funny ones being, oddly enough, with two people who have almost the same name... ) I am...
Psst, wanna buy a talking car?
Thursday, July 22, 2004 3:50:53 PM America/Montreal 03:50:53PM Me http://cgi.liveauctions.e...98346&category=12527# Steve wikkid! you bidding? Me u on crack? Steve heh we can put our money together and buy it Me suuure Steve you can drive it during the week...
The precedent is set, the case law is clear. Round up the perpetrators and prosecute.
To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole. /.../ if...
Avoid incurring obligations
Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom 47. Avoid incurring obligations. This is one of the chief aims of prudence. People of great ability keep extremes far apart, so that there is a long distance between them. They always keep...
Showtime: no limits?
If you try to access the Showtime US site from outside the U.S.A. it gives you this lockout message: We at Showtime Online express our apologies; however, these pages are intended for access only from within the United States (Thanks...
Reality frictions
The New York Times > The Hostess Diary: My Year at a Hot Spot Not only is this an entertaining read, it is also an interesting account of one of the friction points between two very different realities: Celebrity and...
Timestamp timezones in Flickr
(and by extension, in social software enabled content management systems, especially moblogging ones) Currently, Flickr timestamps everything in it's developers' timezone, Pacific Standard Time. To anyone not on the western seaboard of North America, this is pretty much useless. Who...
Children at Abu Ghraib
This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow: July 04, 2004 - July 10, 2004 Archives Three days ago, a German TV newsmagazine called Report Mainz broadcast an eight-minute segment reporting that the International Red Cross found at least 107 children in...
Minutiae
Some little stories from the last 24 hours of my life. Not in any order. Generic brand mouthwash. Unlike seemingly everyone on The Plateau (the part of Montreal where I live), I like going to the new PharmaPrix pharmacy. It's...
What does Fox know about reality?
Fox Networks Group to Launch Fox Reality Channel in Early 2005 Fox Networks Group President and CEO Anthony Vinciquerra today announced the creation of a new cable and satellite network, Fox Reality Channel. The new network is scheduled to debut...
Of course! mod_rewrite!
One simple way to reduce comment spam Adriaan thought up of one more very powerful way to stop comment spam (assuming your blog is on a server you have access too... and is running Apache... and the .htaccess directive is...
Amendment X
The U.S. Constitution Amendment XThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people....
3.2 Megapixel cameraphone
Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea Samsung 3mp camera phone: Digital Photography Review Essentially, it seems they took a Pentax Optio S (the model of digicam I currently own) and built a phone around it....
Welcome Steven
Friend Steven Mansour started up a blog over a month ago and I just clued in: stevesgallery.com | Nil magnum nisi bonum. Kinda embarrassing to only realize it now as he's been asking me questions about blogging, and blogging software...
IQ?
"The True IQ Test" (URL removed - it's a marketing stint and after some thought I figured I don't want to encourage 'em.) Congratulations, bopuc! Your IQ score is 127 This number is based on a scientific formula that compares...
Morbid...
FlickrBlog - The Underbunny There was an IM/email buzz around our offices when a Flickr member with the handle 'Underbunny' posted this image, the hands of a 102 year old woman at an open casket funeral Some, er, *nice* pictures...
Another step
I just took the first step in terminating a business relationship with a client who's been paying my rent for over 3 years. It isn't a question of money (I'll have to replace the income somehow) and it certainly isn't...
Where there's smoke
A quick note on Michael Moore/Fahrenheit 9/11... Yes, it is propaganda (not a dirty word, remember... propaganda is not always a synonym for "lies"...), yes he may present things out of context sometimes, yes he's making alot of noise... But...
Take me home
The weirdest thing about this is that the marketing company that came up with this silliness is located two blocks from where I live. The bottle reads: "My values are those of a generation that has taken control of...
Serendipity
I love it. After posting the previous post (about culture democracy blah blah blah) I, of course, went out to have a drink. Ended up staying until closing, but not without having some great conversations with Boris (the only other...
1996 all over again...
I was thinking about writing about this but Tim Bray brought it up (and is in a better position to do so...) ongoing · Party Like It's 1996! I'm a major admirer of Safari and of its primary author Dave...
Corruption, culture and democracy
"I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people if it is well administered; and believe farther that this is likely to be well...
The separation of people and state
Escapable Logic I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better...
An example
Here is an example of information hunting and establishing connections between bits of data online. This story will remain intentionally vague and short on specific URLs for two reasons: to protect the individual's privacy and to keep my Google rank...
Robosapien
A couple of weeks ago, Mie blogged about some "new office members" at 6A. "Neato" I thought, "cheap basic robotics hitting the market..." A couple of nights later, I walked into my usual hangout, Blizzarts, only to find 7 of...
Party party party party
I am a huge Bran Van 3000 fan. Their music IS Montreal, to me at least. Especially in the summer. For the past week I've had them on heavy rotation in my song lists. However, this song (temporary - 4.5meg...
Gulag in America
From What is The Message? (McLuhan Program at UofT Weblog) The Reversal of America. In a democratic country that values the rule of law, that has a constitution with enshrined "God-given" rights to due process of law and public trials,...
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