By Ian | January 31, 2005
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide Project:
The Encyclopedia Galactica used to be the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom in the universe. That is, until the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy came along. The Guide scores higher that the Encyclopedia in two respects. First, the Guide is slightly cheaper; and second, it [...]
By Ian | January 30, 2005
Written by Matt Biddulph del.icio.us tag stemmer, uses Porter stemming to show where you’ve made different del.icio.us tags with the same English word stem. You can use it to help clean up your personal fauxonomy.
The Porter stemming algorithm (or ‘Porter stemmer’) is a process for removing the commoner morphological and inflexional endings from words in [...]
By Ian | January 30, 2005
Miguel de Icaza (of Ximian GNOME fame) attempts to “re-balance the force” after AccordionGuy Sexy Beast remix causes cosmic meltdown.
Category:Humour; (Via Ted Leung)
Update : Joey noticed and added his own chessy tasteful captions.
By Ian | January 30, 2005
Cooking with EFF: KnoppMyth r5a5 and pcHDTV for DTV Liberation because they want to Kill P2P to Save TV.
Electronic Frontier Foundation has a cookbook to guide you in assembling your own personal video recorder (PVR) with KnoppMyth r5a5 and pcHDTV.
Why? Because the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) requires all future digital television (DTV) tuners [...]
By Ian | January 28, 2005
Robert X. Cringely on “Dethroning King Gillette” asks the question “Is iPod the Razor or the Blade?? He looks at the margins on the iPod and songs sold at ITunes and concludes that Apple is still in the hardware business, for now, but is doing what King Gillette could never dream to — making [...]
By Ian | January 28, 2005
Alerted by a small piece from the “Inside City Hall” column of the Globe & Mail (unavailable online and unattributed) I’ve discovered that Sherry Carroll, Don Valley East Toronto Councillor (Ward 33), is a blogger (started December 1 2004 with regular postings).
Websites are not uncommon for Toronto Councillors, especially when election times [...]
By Ian | January 27, 2005
@ AMERICAN DIGEST
If….
You post squirrel recipes on a website.
You’ve ever bought beer online.
You write to Hewlett-Packard to sponsor a NASCAR team.
You’ve modeled your new ‘Daisy Dukes’ for a webcam.
You have a celphone headset for your fishing boat.
Your robot dog is named ‘Bubba’.
You [...]
By Ian | January 27, 2005
apophenia: the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena. The term was coined by K. Conrad in 1958 (Brugger). Or to take the subtitle of this blog “making connections where none previously existed”. Spotted in The Intimate Planet
Category:Words
By Ian | January 27, 2005
Toronto’s annual WinterCity Festival is a 14-day city-wide celebration of our city’s culture, creativity, and cuisine, to encourage residents and visitors to get out and experience Toronto’s restaurants and attractions during the traditionally quiet winter season.
The festival’s culinary element is Winterlicious , which this year is between January 28 – February 10. [...]
Posted in Food, Toronto |
By Ian | January 25, 2005
FlickrBlog
“A guy from Scotland goes 5490 miles to Tokyo and takes a picture of a girl taking a picture. She turns out to be from England, 413 miles away from him” and then “he posts the picture he took on a Website (in Canada, irrelevantly) and within 6 weeks the girl in the photo finds [...]
False Positives
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