addiction
Flickr’s “interesting pictures page”:http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ is highly addictive…
posted at 10:34 pm on Friday, February 03, 2006 in Links | Comments Off on addiction
an interesting park
urban art: a group built a park in a parking spot:
posted at 6:00 pm on Sunday, January 08, 2006 in Links | Comments (1)
how to order wine
A good overview of the subject of ordering wine in restaurants…
waiterrant.net — How to Order Wine Without Looking Like a Jerk (title slightly edited)
posted at 5:58 pm on Sunday, January 08, 2006 in Links | Comments Off on how to order wine
My outsourced life
If our employers can outsource our jobs, why can’t we?
New digital camera? Know how, where you can use it
Another “know your rights” for photographers. The news here is slightly better than some other articles I’ve seen on the subject.
Of course, it would be more useful to me if it were Canadian… :-)
USATODAY.com – New digital camera? Know how, where you can use it
posted at 5:56 pm on Sunday, January 08, 2006 in Links | Comments (1)
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Jeff K says:
Some of the best Boris Spremo news shots (cdn. news photographer) were rumoured to be taken with the cops yelling “Hey you can’t go there!”. Apparently he had a hearing problem when loud authority figures were making no sense. I suspect a press-card and a big honking news corporation standing behind him helped a bit with his freedoms, but I am only er, speculating.
http://www.phsc.ca/boris_spremo.html
[Book ref. avail. on req.]
invasion!
The Globe and Mail: They’d take Halifax (then we’d kill Kenny)
bq. First approved in 1930, Joint Army and Navy Basic War Plan – Red was drawn up to defend the United States in the event of war with Britain.
bq. It was one of a series of such contingency plans produced in the late 1920s. Canada, identified as Crimson, would be invaded to prevent the Britons from using it as a staging ground to attack the United States.
posted at 9:32 am on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 in Current Events, Links | Comments (1)
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We were going to grab Buffalo if invaded? What if it worked? Would we have to keep it after the war?
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Macleans.ca | Culture | Books | Does anybody really know what time it is?
bq. Having reworked the astronomical calculations that underlie standard chronology, [Anatoli] Fomenko argues that time is out of joint. History as commonly reckoned is about 1,000 years too long, contends the mathematician. Most of those centuries should be carved out of the Middle Ages, which barely existed as a bridge between the ancient and modern worlds: Christ, Greek warriors and medieval knights all lived at the same time.
posted at 9:31 am on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 in Links | Comments (1)
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Interesting link. The journalist, the mathematician and the historian might consider looking beyond western civilization, but I guess that’s too hard. Some reviewers on Amazon call it a mere derivative work. […and besides time doesn’t exist anyway :), Er, well I at least I don’t have any. ]
sick days
A new variation on “40% of sick days” from The Angry Economist
biker vs. squirrel
I can’t believe I didn’t link to this before!
“Squirrel vs. Biker”:http://www.hftonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16501 subtitled ” And people ask me what I need a Browning .338 Winchester Magnum for… ”
It’s apparently from “The December 2004 newsletter”:http://www.victoriagoldwings.org/newsletters/dec04.pdf of the Gold Wing Road Riders Association of Victoria, BC, but the html link is easier to read.
posted at 7:11 pm on Friday, November 11, 2005 in Humour, Links | Comments (1)
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I love this story. :-)
combover
Did you know that in 1977, a U.S. Patent was issued for the combover? Yes, it’s true, “Patent 4,022,227 – Method of concealing partial baldness”:http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=4,022,227.WKU.&OS=PN/4,022,227&RS=PN/4,022,227 was issued to Frank and Donald Smith, of Orlando, FL.
I read about it at Damien Katz: Combover where there’s also a link to Combover: The Movie…
Damien Katz: Who moved my Hasselhoff?
Who knew that the fortunes and misfortunes of America were directly tied to the television career of David Hasselhoff?
Now you too can read all about it at Damien Katz: Who moved my Hasselhoff?
How to Sell a Bulldozer
posted at 12:05 pm on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 in Links | Comments Off on How to Sell a Bulldozer
Timeline for Unfolding Crisis of Mankind
Interesting description of near-future events:
deconsumption: Timeline for Unfolding Crisis of Mankind
via “How to Save the (World”:http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/10/01.html#a1290)
posted at 10:46 am on Monday, October 03, 2005 in Links | Comments (2)
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Have you read Diamond’s “Collapse” yet?
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Well the one thing he said about northern residents perhaps migrating south caught my eye. I’ve been wondering how the average household will deal with doubled natural gas prices this coming winter. The ideas that come with the gas bill are all really lame.
PowerSquid Outlet Multiplier
Ok, the “PowerSquid Outlet Multiplier”:http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/powersquid-outlet-multiplier-no-more-wasted-outlets-126065.php is not only useful, it _looks_ cool…
posted at 9:35 am on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 in Links | Comments Off on PowerSquid Outlet Multiplier
A lightbulb moment
I finally figured out “where all the spam is coming from”:http://www.google.com/blogsearch.
The coincidence is too perfect to ignore.
Ain’t progress grand?
herding undergrads
About Process Control (or, “Herding Hung-over, Grumpy, Horny, Undergrad Gerbils”) | D*I*Y Planner
bq. He visually located the big pink sign that said Bookstore, Mandatory Book Drop, stared at it uncomprehendingly for a moment, turned around to acknowledge my instruction with a curt nod and then walked over and proceeded to drop his bag in a huge green recycling bin. Ah, the leaders of tomorrow.
posted at 11:58 am on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 in Humour, Links | Comments (1)
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It has come to amaze me that people feel buying 5 books for an education is some sort of monumental requirment, achievement or some sort of largess. This rather implies they could not afford, or chose not to have purchased more than 5 books in the past. Perhaps not even an overview of philosophy, history or psychology. I know of some people that have *never* read such a book. Perhaps some are working for nothing herding gerbils at bookstores.
Tom Peters on Logistics
bq. Small/smallish business people bitch about Wal*Mart, bitch about Home Depot, bitch about the Chinese. But how the hell do you beat the Chinese if you are selling a $9,000 stove but completely screw up the delivery and installation, thereby screwing up a platoon of other people, thereby costing us time (lots of) and money (lots of) occasioned by the delays?
posted at 10:05 am on Saturday, September 10, 2005 in Links | Comments Off on Tom Peters on Logistics
Engadget 1985
ROTFL: Engadget 1985
posted at 11:14 pm on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 in Links | Comments Off on Engadget 1985
Here in Richmond Hill, we don’t do arty nonsense on a street corner, we bring down corrupt governments, expropriate land from powerful universities and create a national park in our riding if we want a nice park to walk in:
http://www.jdipaola.com/action.php
Well, at least we dream about it, but we mark the X in 13 days.