New comic series typically take months before they produce a strip that makes you sit up, take notice and say “hey, that’s interesting”, and that goes double for webcomics. So when I discovered that the Home on the Strange strip shown below is only the fourth one in the series, I was completely surprised. The [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2006
Jan
31
2006
Blogstravaganza! (and a bit about echo chambers, too…)
Blogstravaganza in full swing! From left to right: Andrew Coyne, John Bowman, Yours Truly. Photo from A North American Patriot.
Let me begin with a shout-out to all the attendees of last Friday’s Blogstravaganza…
Greg “Sinister Thoughts” Bester
John Bowman
Damian “Babbling Brooks” Brooks
Jason “Cherniak on Politics” Cherniak
Andrew Coyne
Maria “Naked Knitgirl” Davo
The Flea, author of Ghost of a Flea
Huge [...]
Jan
30
2006
In Case You Were Looking for Reading Material…
Here’s a “Best Of” page, featuring the articles from this blog which I liked the most. Enjoy!
Jan
30
2006
Kung Hei Fat Choy!*
(* That’s “Happy new year” in Cantonese.)
It’s been a busy weekend, with Blogstravaganza on Friday, a Chinese New Year’s party on Saturday and a big Chinese New Year family outing on Sunday. Today is turning out ot be a very busy day, It’s a busy day today an busier day, so today’s posting is a [...]
Jan
27
2006
Happy Birthday, Mozart!
The Google logo has a powdered wig and a musical staff today because it’s Mozart’s birthday. Happy birthday, Amadeus!
Falco and Mozart — together at last!
I don’t have any Mozart here at the office, and it was much easier to find an MP3 of a fan remix of Falco’s Rock Me Amadeus [7.3 MB MP3] than [...]
Jan
27
2006
The Disturbing Truth About the Wonder Twins
In response to the Monkey Knife Fight graphic that I posted along with my original announcement about Blogstravaganza (it’s the one pictured above), Damian”Babbling Brooks” Brooks wrote in the comments to Bob “Let it Bleed” Tarantino’s blog:
OK, the monkeys going all Jets-and-Sharks doesn’t bug me. Batman
standing over the little guy like that is [...]
Jan
27
2006
Blogstravaganza (a.k.a. "Monkey Knife Fight") Tonight!
The preponderence of images of knife-wielding monkeys should be a hint to you that tonight is the night of the Accordion City (a.k.a. “Toronto”) Blogstravaganza, a gathering of this fine city’s bloggers. It takes place at a pretty convenient location: Fiddler’s Green, a pub located at 27 Wellesley Street East, just east of Yonge and [...]
Jan
26
2006
Katamari Hijinks
The “Katamari Idiocy” video [10.4MB Windows Media] shows the misadventures of a guy who tries to be the prince from the quirky and addicitive Japanese PlayStation videogame Katamari Damacy in real life. In the video, we learn that neighbourhood cats aren’t too keen on this idea, it’s no good for picking up girls and attempting [...]
Jan
26
2006
The Annotated "Paul’s Boutique"
Pure funky music geek gold: The Paul’s Boutique Samples and References List site examines every song off this seminal Beastie Boys album, sourcing its samples used in every song and explaining every reference in its lyrics. Shhhhake your rump-ahh!
Jan
26
2006
0100
(0100 is one possible binary representation of the number 4.)
Mathew Hoy at HellaBoss got tagged to make a few lists of four items. He then tagged Grant Hutchison at splorp, who made his lists. Grant then tagged John Martz at RobotJohnny, who made his lists. Johnny tagged Deenster at pony, who made her lists and [...]
Jan
25
2006
Accordion City Geeks Gather at DemoCamp 2.0
(This article was also posted to Tucows Developer.)
Last night, the second Toronto
DemoCamp — a monthly series of meetings of
developers where they show the projects they’re working on — was held
at the offices of Radiant
Core in the “Liberty Village” area of town (the same
neighbourhood as Tucows). [...]
Jan
25
2006
Interviewed by Canadian Press
Yesterday, Michael Oliveri from the Canadian Press conducted a phone interview with me about the election and Sam Bulte.
“So, judging from your blog, I take it that you’re pleased with the outcome of the election?” he asked.
“If you’re talking at the federal level, I wouldn’t say ‘pleased’. Maybe ’satisfied that the outcome was the least [...]
Jan
25
2006
Funniest Picture of the Election: "Spot the Liberal"
The picture below comes from Stephen Taylor’s blog — it’s a shot of strategists from the three major Canadian political parties: Susan Murray (Liberal Party), Brad Lavigne (New Democratic Party) and Sandra Buckler (Conservative Party). If I had to sum up the election results using only one picture, I’d use this one.
Jan
24
2006
Blogstravaganza This Friday!
The Preamble
Back in 1999 — this is the pre-accordion — I lived in a condo at the corner of Yonge and Carlton and sometimes got together with friends and friends-of-friends at Fiddler’s Green and talked over beer and pub grub. One particular night at the Green stands out in my mind: I think we all [...]
Jan
24
2006
Sideshow Bob Explains the Conservative Party’s Appeal
A couple of days ago, Damian “Daimnation!” Penny wrote a blog entry in which he speculated how various characters on The Simpsons would’ve voted in last night’s election. It’s an amusing read, and the comments range from the funny to the foamy (I suspect that that commenter is shopping for Asian mail-order brides and some [...]
