At long last, a Napoleon Dynamite reference: “I caught you this delicious mouse!”
One of my favourite observations of Paulina Borsook, author of the book Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High-Tech
is what she calls the “Cat/Dead Rat” theory of geek philanthropy. She
summarized it [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2005
Aug
31
2005
"Cat/Dead Rat" Rears Its Ugly Head Again (or: How Geeks Can Help with the Katrina Relief Effort)
Aug
31
2005
On the Blogware Blog / Blog for Relief Day Tomorrow
On the Blogware blog: More links on Hurricane Katrina.
Also: Proposed by Hugh Hewitt and seconded by Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds, “N.Z. Bear” from The Truth Laid Bear is calling for a Blog for Relief Day
for tomorrow, Thursday, September 1st. He’s asking bloggers to post an
article to encourage their readers to [...]
Aug
31
2005
If You’ve Got a Couple of Bucks to Spare…
…and really, even if it’s only a literal couple of bucks, send them to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. This Google search should help you find a suitable organization to whom you can send money.
Aug
31
2005
What’s Up at Tucows
I
thought I’d use an old “Tucows Games” graphic to introduce this entry,
which is, as you might have guessed, about my place of employment,
Tucows Inc.
Exercising Our Options
The announcement was made yesterday, but in case you hadn’t yet heard, I’ll repeat it here:
Tucows Inc. completes closing of over-allotment option
[...]
Aug
31
2005
The City’s Best Tire Pump
Here’s some useful information that isn’t “newsworthy” enough to get
into the paper, but perfect for a local blog like mine: the tire pump
at the Petro-Canada at the corner of Bloor and Keele Streets
is the best damned gas station tire pump I’ve encountered in the city!
In less than [...]
Aug
30
2005
Even Better Than All Those "Employee Pricing Deals" from Ford, GM and Chrysler
Click the photo to see the ad (it’s safe for work).
Aug
30
2005
I’m Enjoying This Album
Funny, that’s exactly what I looked like at Crazy Go Nuts University.
Late Registration is a good follow-up to College Dropout
(and hey, two album titles I can sympathize with!*), which I have also
recently purchased. It’s a perfect companion to Common’s album Be, another excellent hip-hop album released this [...]
Aug
30
2005
The Soundtrack from My Personal Coming-Of-Age Film
[via Daimnation!] Damian Penny picked up the meme, and I’m running with it:
…find the Top 100 songs from the year you graduated from high school,
list ‘em on your site, highlight the ones you like and cross out the
ones you hate. You underline your favorite, and ignore the ones to
which [...]
Aug
29
2005
"Impudent! Impudent! Impudent!"
Request you denounce and prevent the American DuPont impudently forcibly occupy intellectual property of Mr.Huang!
impudent DuPont CO.!
impudent Holliday!
impudent! impudent!! exceeding impudence!!!
DuPont and CEO Holliday are transnational scoundre!
Seek response from E-mail:
info.china@chn.dupont.com
http://www1.dupont.com/NASApp/dupontglobal/corp/contactEmail.jsp
president@whitehouse.gov
Postmaster@doc.gov
Does DuPont [...]
Aug
29
2005
On the Tucows Blogs…
Blogware:
Blogging Katrina: A list of blogs covering Hurricane Katrina.
The CBC Lockout Blog:
A pointer to Tod “I Love Radio.org” Maffin’s blog devoted to the
lockout at the Canadian Broadcasting Corportation, Canada’s public TV
and radio broadcaster.
IndieGameDev:
Unity Game Authoring Tool: Deploy games for Windows, Mac OS, web and Apple’s Dashboard?
Bills of Rights: A [...]
