June 2011
1 post
This Is Indeed Summertime →
January 2011
1 post
Who said art has to cost money? →
December 2010
6 posts
“iTunes became popular and useful before there was an iPod, and before there was...”
– Daring Fireball: Untitled Document Syndrome
Parenting Advice
I never give or list to parenting advice, because in the end we’re all kind of making this stuff up as we go and hoping for the best.
Apologize, Now! →
The Day The Big Move Died →
CBC stereotypes a drag on Canada-U.S. ties:... →
School suspends teen who criticized athletics... →
November 2010
7 posts
Inexpensive HDMI cables are a right, not a... →
My New Backup Solution →
I’ve been using Mozy for my online backups for the past few months. I was mostly happy with it, with a few grievances. For one, sometimes the Windows service would halt and backups would stop, and I was given no indication that my backups weren’t running unless I went to check the status.
Second, the fact that the service kept needing restarting at all was a little irritating.
The...
The Man Who Hated Santa Claus →
Spielberg's Abe Lincoln movie →
Why ETFs can be better than mutual funds →
More Reasons to Love Mr. Rogers
“Very frankly, I am opposed to people being programmed by others. My whole approach in broadcasting has always been ‘You are an important person just the way you are. You can make healthy decisions,’ ” Fred Rogers told the court.
Taken from Mr. Rogers’ testimony to US Congress over the “Betamax” case where broadcasters were trying to stop home taping by these new-fangled video...
"It’s silly, puerile trash TV. … But it’s sadly...
Could this guy sound any more like a frumpy professor? I picture him saying this wearing wire-rimmed glasses, a tweed jacket and smoking a pipe.
October 2010
6 posts
How Allies Used Math Against German Tanks →
“The true believers behind candidates, as well as ideologues and utopians, who...”
– Toronto’s Great Schlep — this election is up to you, get your people voting and vote for number two. « Spacing Toronto
Tech Support →
CBC Bans Use of Creative Commons Music On Podcasts →
Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery →
George Lucas Continues Work on His Promise to Keep... →
September 2010
18 posts
The Numbers Game
Listened to an amazing episode of This American Life about a cop who tried to take on the corruption at his precinct. The cops weren’t taking graft but were issuing quotas to beat cops to make a certain number of arrests or violations, as well as downgrading major crimes like rape and robbery to misdemeanors. This was all in an effort to make their precinct’s numbers look better. It...
“Rossi’s much-mocked plan to tunnel an Allen Expressway extension down to the...”
– Thomson ponders dropping out to help stop Ford - thestar.com
** NERD SUMMIT VENUE CHANGE ** - Toronto Nerd... →
“Steve: According to the TTC, Google was having problem with the complexity and...”
– TTC Mobile / Trip Planner Not Quite Ready For Prime Time (Updated) | Steve Munro
Jon Stewart Plans to Rally Against Extremism →
Ebert relaunches At the Movies →
Self-Serve Wine Tanks Coming To Supermarkets →
Password Reuse →
Has Transit Short-Changed Toronto? →
Hume: Don’t confuse road rage with transit policy →
The city-states in your pocket: first look at... →
More Progress on Tournament of Monsters
Started getting a little stir-crazy with Eleanor and Erin out for the afternoon, so did some work on the Monster Tournament stats this afternoon.
A few months back, I did some work on a Python script to pit a monster against a monster over 100 matches and see who would come out on top. I reworked that script a little bit to pit every monster against every other monster and see how many wins...
DemoCamp with Fred Wilson →
Duke Nukem Forever is back: coming to both... →
Video: Inflatable Bag Monsters →
Greplin →
Google Desktop search really changed things for me when it came out, letting me find anything stored on my computer no matter where it was hiding.
Now, there isn’t much that I actually do store on my computer. And I keep stuff all over. I can search in any individual service (Gmail, Dropbox, simplenote, Evernote) for something *if* I remembered which service that was in.
This thing...
Stretching Before Running Doesn't Help, But Don't... →
August 2010
14 posts
Gmail Priority Filtering: I Called It Four Years...
So Gmail rolled out priority inbox filtering today, where it would put emails it thinks is important right at the top of your inbox, ahead of what it deems unimportant. From the post:
“As messages come in, Gmail automatically flags some of them as important. Gmail uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are important, including the people you email most (if you email Bob a lot,...
Neighborly Borrowing, Over the Online Fence →
Round up of various community renting sites for once in a while things like power tools etc. Such a great idea. I really think we need to ween ourselves off the notion of owning objects for the sake of owning them. This is why I use the library and only rent movies. Hopefully I can start doing this with other objects too.
Quora →
http://www.quora.com/
Wouldn’t Entourage be so much better if it were only about Ari Gold?
Stealing Mona Lisa | Style | Vanity Fair →
Amazing account of the theft of the Mona Lisa. I’d never heard that this had happened prior to this. It was missing for over two years before it was returned.
Fear The Snazzy Napper →
★ Creep Executive Officer →
The Shatner Photobomb… →
Announcing the Toronto Nerd Summit 2 - Nerds for...
I’m happy to announce the Toronto Nerd Summit 2 - Nerds for Change.
** UPDATE - VENUE CHANGE - NOW AT THE POUR HOUSE IRISH PUB **
The turnout for the first summit was pretty small, but the great conversations and new acquaintances for those who came more than made up for it. We also played an ‘alpha’ version of the board game I’m working on. Thanks to those who made it...
New shows announced in Montréal, QC - Toronto, ON →
Cory Doctorow places DRM-free e-books with Amazon,... →