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Month: December 2008
Truth Is Out Of Style
Many disparate things have come together to activate deeply stored things in my brain. First there was a PvP strip that actually made me laugh. My immediate reaction was to adopt the name “Muppet Jesus” for my career as a hiphop artist. Secondly there is the constant reinforcement from the world of politics that there is no use for objective… Read more →
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Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 was painless, save for the extended tagging plugin I use needing a bit of code tweaking (I’m sure there will be a new version along shortly with 2.7 support, but I was able to make it work for now anyway). Nice UI.
Canadian Cultural Heritage
You know, between the Heritage Minutes, Hinterland Who’s Who, and now the National Film Board’s online archives, it’s possible to have a really weird Canadian culture flashback online–at least for people my age. I don’t expect the Yanks to understand this post. Read more →
The key observation
Humans are essentially social animals. No man is an island. Etc. You’ve heard it all, but now there’s science that actually kind of shows it. Happiness, in short, is not merely a function of personal experience, but also is a property of groups. Emotions are a collective phenomenon. Happy people tend to cluster with happy people, and unhappy people likewise–shocking,… Read more →
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Did you see the page of spirit photography that Jeff Ford linked to the other day? That stuff is pretty cool, especially in the historical context. I admit, though, that it makes me want to see if I could use my meagre Photoshop skills to cook up something similar from some digital photographs.
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Remember when Microsoft had the genius idea of embedding code inside documents–remember how that worked out from a security perspective? Remember when browsers started allowing executable code to be embedded in the pages–there was no security problem with that, right? So clearly the best thing for us to do is to add a new way to embed natively executable code in web pages. There’s no way that could go wrong, right?
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From Canada To Wal*Mart: You’ll Take Your Unions, and You’ll Like It.
Christmas Spirit (sincere)
I should note that while I maintain a little bit of hipster irony about the whole Christmas thing (for instance, this made me laugh right out loud) there are some other people in my household who are completely into it. And, since I am completely unable to say no to them, I have found myself singing carols and taking part… Read more →
Christmas Spirit
I just found this on my hard drive–I think it might have run in Harpers ages ago–and thought it was worth putting up here: A HO-HO-HO HOW-TO From the “Santa Manual” distributed by Western Temporary Services to employees in its “Santa Division” The Walnut Creek, California, firm provides as many as 3,000 Santas to department stores and shopping malls each… Read more →
Music For Broken People
This mix probably should speak for itself, but when I have I ever let something like that stop me from sticking my two cents in? We start off with the Canadian Music Icon of my university days, Mr. Jerry “Jerry Jerry” Woods, and his orchestra. He’s giving some helpful advice from one broken person to another, but doing it painfully… Read more →
Painfully limited
I’ve made no secret of the fact that Eddie Campbell is one of my favourite comic creators—not to mention one of the top five living people I’d want to spend a night drinking and talking BS with—and that I think Alan Moore is probably the best comic writer to have yet lived. So it’s probably not surprising that I’m a… Read more →
Wrongheaded
That’s a screen cap from the video for Amanda Palmer‘s tune Leeds United. (As an aside, that video was directed by sometime comic book writer Alex DeCampi, and I found out today that at least two of my online acquaintancesYou know, the people I know who I’ve never met IRL, and who live on another continent. are actually part of… Read more →
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Wow, I hope this is accurate. I’m totally willing to trade for the chaos to get out from under.
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so he starts to roam the streets at night
and he learns how to steal
and he learns how to fight
In the ghetto
