Monthly Archives: November 2005
Nov
11
2005
Pillow Fight at Dundas Square This Sunday
A scene from a recent pillow fight in London. Click the image to see the source page.
[via Torontoist] This could be fun: A big flash mob-esque pillow fight
has been scheduled for this Sunday, November 13th, at 2 p.m. at Dundas Square.
The
general rules are:
Soft pillows [...]
Nov
11
2005
"Katamari Damacy" Creator Doesn’t See a Long-Term Future in Making Games
If you haven’t played the PlayStation 2 game Katamari Damacy or its
sequel, We Love Katamari,
you should drop by our house sometime and
give it a whirl. It’s one of the best games to come out in a long time,
as well as one of the most simple and addictive. [...]
Nov
11
2005
It’s an Official Acronym Here at Tucows
SWAG: Short for “Silly Wild-Ass Guess”. Used as an initial seat-of-the-pants “guesstimate” for the timeframe of a project. As the project progresses and more information becomes available, the SWAG gets replaced with dates of increasing accuracy.
Nov
11
2005
Remembrance Day [Updated]
It’s November 11th, the anniversary of the singing of the Armistice, marking the end of World War I. It’s commemorated as Remembrance Day in Canada, various Commonwealth countries and in France and Belgium and as Veterans’ Day in the U.S.
Here in Canada, we often read this poem on this day:
In Flanders Fields was written by [...]
Nov
10
2005
Blogrolling Downtime This Saturday at 2 a.m.
Blogrolling Downtime
Saturday, November 12, 2005
Approximately 2:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time
Estimated downtime: 3 hours
Please note that both Blogrolling and the Blogrolling Forums will be
down on Saturday, November 12, 2005 at 2:00 a.m. (that’s Friday the
11th at 11:00 p.m. Pacific Time or Saturday [...]
Nov
10
2005
4th Anniversary!
Four years ago, inspired by my friends Deenster’s and Cory’s blogs, I decided to start my own little blog and came up with the name “Joey deVilla’s Hall of Shame”. While searching the web for some possible site graphics ideas, I stumbled across this image:
Erin Gray (”Wilma Dearing”) and Gil Gerard (”William ‘Buck’ Rogers”) from [...]
Nov
09
2005
Imitiation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
[Originally posted on The Farm. I thought this might be of more general interest since it's about design.]
The web application frameworks Rails, Django and Symfony not
only have the same general approach to their frameworks, they also
have the same general look on the banners of their webpages. These
frameworks [...]
Nov
09
2005
And Now, the French Weather Report…
“Scattered explosions and a 99% chance of gloating on Little Green Footballs…”
Nov
09
2005
More Photos from the Wedding
Here’s another set of photos from the wedding. These were taken by Mom’s brother, Uncle Ni. You can look at them in photo
album format or as
a slideshow.
Wendy, me and Dad. Click the photo to see the slideshow.
Nov
09
2005
The Accordion Report
While I was busy celebrating my birthday last Saturday, others were
celebrating the accordion at the 8th Annual Northeast Accordion
Festival in Minneapolis. Dave “Dave’s Picks” Polaschek sent me this scan [244KB JPEG image] of a local newspaper that covered the event (click it to see it at full size):
[...]
Nov
08
2005
Archie Goes "Real Doll"
Who knew that Archie Comics were so interesting? Not only have I stumbled across a story in which Betty went goth, I’ve also come across a comic in which the nerd character, Dilton Doiley, has an inflatable “girlfriend” [117KB JPEG file]…
They kind of look like Chris Pirillo and Ponzi, don’t they? [...]
Nov
08
2005
When News and Advertising Synchronize
Take a look at the random ad that got served along with the news story titled Gigantic Apes Coexisted with Early Humans, Study Finds:
Nov
08
2005
Unlikely Graphics
[Slightly repurposed from this posting on The Farm]
The three images shown below are used as the banner graphics on the web
page for a product launch that took place yesterday. Can you guess what
the product is?
Perhaps it’s a new line of clothes? New bookstore? Perhaps something [...]
Nov
07
2005
When Did Movie Theatres Become Police States?
Accordion City writer James Reid and his girlfriend went out a Friday night to see a preview screening of Derailed, which came with a free search-and-seizure procedure:
…the line was moving slowly because they were asking customers to raise their arms so that they could be electronically frisked with a metal detector, and women’s purses were [...]
Nov
07
2005
Because You’re Curious: Ashlee Simpson’s Tantrum at the Bloor Street/Avenue Road McDonalds
A late-night post-drinking snack at McDonald’s is generally a bad idea, but one after having eaten at a great Italian restaurant like Spuntini is even more ill-advised. Worse still is throwing a temper tantrum because you’re not getting the B-list celebrity respect to which you believe you entitled, especially when someone is capturing the whole [...]
