Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
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 Continue reading Sherry Carroll, Don Valley East Toronto Councillor & Blogger
@ 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 Continue reading You Might Be A High-Tech Redneck…
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 Continue reading Found Words: Apophenia
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 Continue reading Winterlicious 2005, Toronto
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 Continue reading Flickr coincidence & The Intimate Planet
EFF has created the Endangered Gizmos!. View the petrified remains of the Extinct Napster 1.0 (Genus: Filesharing software with central directory) and imagine what could have been; see the cute, but Endangered, HD 3000 (Genus:HDTV Tuner card) play; watch the Continue reading Endangered Gizmos List