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Lou’s Coffee Bar (as in Cindy Lou) @ (514 Annette :north east side side of Annette and Runnymede Road, in the west end of Toronto i.e. Bloor West Village, High Park, Malta Village, and The Junction ) is the friendly neighborhood bean shop (and my preferred “Third Place”). Friendly to dogs and new Mom’s as well.

Come on in Junction City, for the organic fair trade brew from micro-roaster Toi, Moi & Café (tea is served too!); and stay for the yummy baked goods, open WiFi, and atmosphere.

Lou’s Coffee Bar :

514 Annette Street, Toronto, Ontario, CA

Update : Now Open, miss the street sign, Sunday Morning’s from 9 to Noon to wild enthusiasm.

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via NeatoRama comes this tribute to Bill Watterson’s classic comic Calvin and Hobbes by Nina Matsumoto of Space Coyote

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Via CBC we have the sad news that visionary Arthur C. Clarke has passed away at age 90. Best known as a Science fiction writer for the novel of the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”, he wrote many, many, other fact and fiction novels.  I am most thankful for his short stories, (in particular :The Nine Billion Names of God) He also conceptualized geostationary satellites (known as Clarke Orbits) for use in telecommunications.

Also much quoted are his “Clarke’s three laws”:

Here is the BBC Obituary: Sir Arthur C Clarke, and this last message from Arthur C. Clarke- A Voice from Beyond.

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• Free ebooks appear to boost sales | Blog | Futurismic - There has been a lot of criticism of the practice by some writers and lots of praise from other corners. At the moment, it looks like the practice works.

- Books ebooks business

• Put Not Your Faith In Ebook Readers - Frankly, book reading just isn’t important enough to qualify for priority treatment in that marketplace. Meanwhile, handheld game consoles, phones, and other multipurpose devices have found their way into the hands of people from every walk of life. (is

- ebooks future hardware literature Books CoryDoctorow Culture Amazon

• Seth Godin gives good advice to the music industry - Boing Boing - transcript of a fantastic talk he gave to some music execs about the future of the music industry and the Internet. This is some good straight-shooting insight about what the music industry will never succeed at (suing fans) and what they could do instead

- economics music MusicBiz business Startup

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as we hit another Lunar New Year, in this case Year of the Rat/Mouse. (where’s my cheese?  Probably somewhere under this 30 cm of snow!)

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Via Michael Geist comes word that an fable in “Hill Times (a weekly newspaper for Ottawa’s “savvy political and government insider”) written by Michael Eisen (Microsoft Canada’s Chief Legal Officer) misleads in the service of the “Prentice Canadian DMCA” act it wants to get passed so as justify the digital locks (that don’t work) to wants sell.

2 years ago we went through the Sarmite Bulte CopyRight for Sale un-election and yet this continues. Thankfully, opposition grows

Technorati Tags: canada copyright law microsoft

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After the Storm

Originally uploaded by False Positives while enjoying a nice groundhog (day) stew.

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In a lazyweb “fools seldom differ” moment, my post The Real Reason for Increased productivity behind Scripting Languages (commenting on a XKCD comic) has been riffed on by Bart of “Moves on Rails” : The new programmers excuse for slacking of:

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(no, I’m not doings a “Zed”, now please excuse us while we hide from the ruby/rails/rspec mobs….

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This is what is Weird Wonderful Web for January 26th through January 27th:

• Still, or even more, relevant today: The Heavenly Jukebox from The Atlantic Monthly article on digital music from 2000. (no longer locked behind the paywall)

- business economics internet MusicBiz music mp3

• In E-mail and the Problem (blackrimglasses.com Ethan Kaplan), Ethan makes a lazy web request : “a bayesian clustering algorithm .. auto-group threads of messages and group those threads according to implicit thematics.” Preferably with going all SkyNet. Ethan see “AideRss.com” for the RSS part of the problem.

- email RSS Startup

• TheFunded is Creating Database of VC Term Sheets - users to upload term sheets so that people can compare and contrast individual terms from each VC. The transparency is great for Entrepreneurs. VC’s? Not so much.

- Startup business

• WebMynd Could Change the Way You Bookmark Websites - a Firefox add-on that records every website you visit and saves a virtual copy on your hard drive. not just an image of the page or the URL, but the full text site!

- tagging del.icio.us firefox Firefox+extensions Extensions

• How to Communicate (Part II) | Mark Evans - Communications 101updated for early 2008 : Twitter, Facebook, email, phone Video-Conferencing, meat

- facebook email comunication im

• Best of Independent Toronto - David Crow, Mark Kuznicki, Will Pate, Joey deVilla, Amber Mac. Toronto is a better place for having these people (and some other equally kind and generous souls) around. (vote early/late/often)

- Toronto demoCamp technology Startup

• The Sledge-maker’s Daughter by Alastair Reynolds - This story, from Interzone issue 209, has been shortlisted for the 2007 BSFA Award (as noted a few days ago)

- SciFi

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• What’s Special About This Number? - distinctive facts about a lot of numbers

- Math education fun

• Toronto’s startup Whiz Kid Albert Lai is on the next (second) episode (next saturday) of the new CBC show on biz trends : Fortune Hunters some of which is up on YouTube

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• And Toronto Tech Goddess : via BlogTo Amber MacArthur is gone from Citytv - (Rogers has blown it big time!) Good Luck Amber! Based on her blog post it sounds more like she jumped as much as was pushed. I hope for some news, post MacWorld.Update : read the comments from the original BlogTO post, then watch the follow up interview of (the now Burnett) Amber on Digital Journal. Go Amber!! (AmberMac will also be on the CBC’s Test the Nation: Trivia on Sunday, January 20th as part of Team Blogger).- Toronto ambermac
• Vancouver Tech Women to Watch in 2008 | Raincity Studios - Go VanCity Ladies! (now if someone would put together a list for TO? AmberMac would be on that List.)

- vancouver Canada demoCamp technology

• The Post-Apocalyptic Workout You know, just in case of Zombies……. or xmas turkeys
• and there is the Dalek Workout: Exterminate the Flab - (video)
  

  Put all your energy in to it. Obey. Obey. Feel the stretch in your Plunger. Some of you older model may want to skip the Stair Aerobics….

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