Even the relatively low-tech field of baking has adopted computers: a number of bakeries can now “print” photos onto a cake with an ordinary inkjet printer, edible paper and food-grade dyes. If you’re not satisfied with posting pictures of your cat on your blog, you can join the ranks of the edible imagers — there [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Jan
17
2007
The Stanford Prison Experiment: Now on YouTube
I’m a little short of time for blogging today, but this is fascinating stuff: video of the Stanford Prison Experiment is now on YouTube. In case you haven’t heard of Dr. Phillip Zimbardo’s infamous psychology experiment, here’s a quick recap by Jake Young at the blog Pure Pedantry:
The experiment randomly assigned male undergraduate [...]
Jan
17
2007
Article on Canadian Health Care: Better than the U.S. System
At a convention in Minneapolis a couple of years ago, a guy was telling me about the time he was ill and had to be picked up by an ambulance. “Cost me $1100 just for a ride to the hospital,” he said.
Clearly I hadn’t had enough experience with the American system of healthcare. “Those rides [...]
Jan
16
2007
Julie Feeney and Her Accordion at BBC 6 Music
Here’s an accordion moment: it’s Julie Feeney at BBC 6 Music radio studio. She’s promoting her new album, 13 Songs and performed some numbers from the album earlier today on my friend Tom Robinson’s show:
Jan
16
2007
Bettering the Better Way
The Better Way
The Toronto Transit Commission — a.k.a. the TTC — is Accordion City’s public transport authority, responsible for operating a city-wide transit system comprising a subway, buses, streetcars and light rail trains. In 2005, the TTC carried about 430 million passengers to their destinations, making it the third most-used mass transit system [...]
Jan
15
2007
A Little Winter Can’t Keep a Good Barbecue Man Down
It took until almost the middle of January, but winter cold and snow have finally come to pay Accordion City a visit. Here’s a shot of Mowat street, as seen from the windows of the second floor of the Tucows offices…
Tucows is located in a refurbished warehouse space in a neighborhood of Toronto called Liberty [...]
Jan
15
2007
Meanwhile, at the Tucows Blog…
I’m one of the luckiest geeks on earth, because I’ve got a very nice job — Technical Evangelist — at a very nice place, the internet services company Tucows. One of my job responsibilities is to contribute to the Tucows Blog, in which we write about the goings-on at the company, how to get the [...]
Jan
15
2007
What I Did This Weekend, The Short Version
The Ginger Ninja and I spent the weekend in Boston for a very happy reason — her brother (and my “brother from another mother”) Andy Ramoniac is getting married to his girlfriend Sue, and it was the meet-the-inlaws weekend. We flew to Beantown late Friday afternoon and high-tailed it from Logan to Smith and Wollensky’s [...]
Jan
15
2007
Gung Haggis Fat Choy!
Here’s one of those “Only in Canada” cultural events that I can sink my teeth into: Gung Haggis Fat Choy!, a cross-cultural event that takes advantage of the proximity of Chinese New Year and Robbie Burns’ Day. It’s an event organized by one “Toddish McWong” that takes place at Simon Fraser University in [...]
Jan
14
2007
Another Remix of "The Shining" [Fixed]
Last month, I showed you this image, which mashed up Sesame Street and The Shining:
And now, I present to you a different kiddie icon coming through the door. Click on the photo to see who it is!
Jan
13
2007
Shopping Cart Circle
I’d like to try this sometime, but I doubt the folks at my local grocery store are going to let me:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele. Click the photo to see it at full size.
Jan
12
2007
Tucows Job Opportunities: Oracle DBA and Data Center Technician [Updated]
In addition to the job openings mentioned in this earlier entry, we’ve got a couple of new job openings here at Tucows:
Jan
12
2007
Your Alpha Nerd Moment of Zen
From a Hooters news release:
(Atlanta, GA) While they surely don’t need the help, the world’s two richest men can now eat for free at Hooters restaurants. On Friday October 20, 2006 Bill Gates and Warren Buffet were presented with Hooters VIP Cards at a Hooters Restaurant in Kansas City, Kansas. The Cards entitle the gentlemen, [...]
Jan
11
2007
Underwear Goes INSIDE the Pants
One of the top items on Reddit today is a link to a “Best of Craigslist” posting titled Underwear Goes Inside the Pants, a funny rant about some of the problems in modern American society (it’s applicable to us here in Canada too).
This part always cracks me up:
I walked behind this guy the other day. [...]
Jan
11
2007
"Garfield" Meets "Jacob’s Ladder"
Continuing with today’s theme of comics, here’s an interesting collision of ideas: Garfield and the movie Jacob’s Ladder:
By the bye, I found the trailer for Jacob’s Ladder on YouTube:
Jan
11
2007
Computer Knowledge to the Rescue!
Regular Expressions to the Rescue!
“Whenever I learn a new skill,” writes Randall Munroe, author and artist behind the incredibly nerdy webcomic xkcd, “I concoct elaborate scenarios where it lets me save the day.” In his latest comic, he illustrates this:
Click the comic to see it on its original page.
(Nerd alert: in order to get the [...]
