Here’s the latest news item I could find on the case of Alexandra Flanagan, who’s been missing for over a month, courtesy of the Barrie Examiner:
Friends and family members of missing Barrie woman Alexandra Flanagan are leaving no stone unturned in their search to find their loved one. Most recently, they set up [...]
Amidst the merriment at Pete Forde’s 29th birthday party last night (Happy birthday, Pete!), I got a bit of news that concerned me: someone I know is missing.
“Take a look at this,” said my friend Rochelle as she unfolded a piece of legal-sized paper. It was a flyer with the word “MISSING” in [...]
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
I got my first real-life look at one of the One Laptop Per Child laptops at the CommandN party last Thursday. While noodling with it, I got the idea to get a picture of it beside my accordion to show just how compact it is:
The OLPC XO and my accordion. Click to see more photos [...]
Here’s a nice Friday time-waster for you: a Flickr photoset of vintage men’s magazine covers. A sample:
Just another Saturday night, back when I was single.Click the picture to see the full set.
Man Hands!
It’s all about the giant hands:
Photos from Esquire, courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Here’s what these wonders are:
Fist Crushing U.S. Fighter Plane, Libya
Monument to President Laurent Kabila, Democratic Republic of Congo
Lenin’s Mausoleum, Russia
Monument to President Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan
Mao Leading the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, China
The Hands of Victory, Iraq
Monument to the [...]
We all have days where we feel like this guy:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
I enjoy both smart-assery and dressing up, so this snarky-but-spot-on piece in Magnificent Bastard, titled Ten Ways to Look Like a Total Toolbag, amused me to no end. Here’s a preview:
Click the picture to see the article.
The ten ways, which are elaborated upon in the article, are:
Backwards baseball cap
Oakley Blades sunglasses
Bluetooth headset
Gold necklace
Tommy [...]
Facebook’s Caitlin O’Farrell gets the ball rolling at FacebookCamp Toronto.
Accordion City loves Facebook — we’ve got 725,000 Facebook users (out of a population of around 3 million), and until recently, we were the number 1 city in the world as far as Facebook users go.
It’s not just ordinary Toronto Facebook users [...]
Tonight’s the night: Facebook Developer Garage (a.k.a. FacebookCamp) happens tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Mars Discovery District (101 College Street, Toronto). This will be the first of a series of Facebook Garages/Camps; there’s already talk of holding another one for the fall. If you’re interested in developing applications to run on the [...]
Now that we know the identity of the blogger known as Fake Steve Jobs, I am compelled to infomr you of something: Fake Steve Jobs is a Dick. See Global Nerdy for details.
(This article was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.)
Here’s an infographic explaining how a record gets leaked from a Spin article titled Days of the Leak:
Click the image to see it at full size.
According to the infographic, there are a number of opportunities for an album to make it into the public’s hands [...]
(This was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.)
More tutorial goodness for those of you who are getting started writing Facebook apps, and especially if you’re attending next Tuesday’s Facebook Developer Garage [here's the wiki page | here's the Facebook event]: I’ve got another Facebook developer tutorial up on the Tucows Developer Blog. This one covers [...]
From 1999 to 2005, I lived on Sullivan Street, a five-minute walk from Accordion City’s Entertainment District — a.k.a. Clubland. Although my friends and I preferred to do our clubbing at the alt-rock clubs farther west on Queen Street (Velvet Underground, Zoo Bar/Zen Lounge/Funhaus, Bovine Sex Club, Savage Garden and the first place I’d ever [...]
Back in high school, after reading Space-Time and Beyond for the umpteenth time and drinking one too many zombies with my friend Henry, we came up with a theory:
In the infinite set of universes, there had to exist a particular universe in which the events in our lives were being watched as a TV show.
We then made a solemn vow to live the kind of life that got high ratings.
This is the continuation of that story.
