Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
Via Slashdot and from the Red vs Blue guys (season 3 starting soon) we have The Strangerhood (with a little help from Sims 2). for more see: Art of Machinima and Machinima : Spielbergs with Joystick or this Machinima: Games Continue reading More machinima
Via vowe dot net:Pepsi.ca and Apple Canada are going to give away one 20GB iPod every hour starting October 3rd for 84 days straight. Only Canadian residents can enter, and all the regular conditions apply. One interesting twist is that Continue reading Pepsi.ca to give away 2,016 iPods
Following up on my orginal The End of Sushi or Sayonara Sashimi, there is a flurry of press reports on the threat to Ontario sushi in the CBC, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and CTV . Most of this is Continue reading The Battle for Toro
Via The New York Times “Is Voting Worth the Trouble?” (September 26, 2004): The ancient Greeks had a word for a person who is indifferent to public affairs in this way: idiotes, or idiot. category: words
Via ST(O). I’m not should if the intention is to mock the sci fi story, or to highlight the difficulty of writing (and reading) when you cannot assume the reader is familiar with the subject, word, concept, history, etc. Contemporary Continue reading If all stories were written like science fiction stories
Via Boing Boing we have The Worst jobs in history, via Baldric. So, yes your job cold be worse: Fuller, Groom Of The Stool, Guillemot Egg Collector, Barber Surgeon, Bath Attendant, Coin Producer, Tanning (basically most of these involve “Pee”) Continue reading Worst jobs in history, via Baldric