By Ian | September 30, 2004
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 Act Like Films
By Ian | September 30, 2004
Via vowe dot net epsi.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 all entries are thrown out after each hourly draw. So if your up [...]
By Ian | September 30, 2004
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 CYA: “prevent future illness and bring the province up to national standards.”; “most [...]
By Ian | September 29, 2004
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
By Ian | September 29, 2004
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 fiction authors have it so easy.
This quote from a Charles Stross interview is a [...]
By Ian | September 29, 2004
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”)
Of course none of this compares to the hell on earth that is back office [...]
By Ian | September 28, 2004
I’ve added review links and comments to my previous Saturday Night Hong Kong Films in Toronto (Omini TV ) listings
By Ian | September 27, 2004
From Association for Computing Machinery comes Integrating VoIP into the enterprise could mean the end of telecom business as usual. from their VoIP issue.
(what’s a PBX? Private Branch Exchange. A telephone exchange used within an organization and located on the premises; an example would be the main switchboard in a hospital. see here for [...]
By Ian | September 27, 2004
Opening on Sept 28th (that’s Tuesday) across Asia, 2046 is Wing Kar Wai 4 year cinematic journey, starting Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, and Zhang Ziyi.
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The New York Times magazine tells the story (The Director’s Director (Registration required) behind the making of this film which will likey be a huge success (or an absolute [...]
By Ian | September 27, 2004
Andrew Orlowski (San Francisco bureau chief of The Register) spoke to the cream of the music industry, telling them to embrace the Future, Technology,Freedom and Growth, and dump DRM, and old business Models.
He also suggested why and how. He does a good job of suggesting where things are headed, and how not to resist, [...]
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