A number of readers found yesterday’s “Calvin and Hobbes on Ritalin” comic depressing. Luckily, I have a follow-up. Hope this makes you feel better…
Comic courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Jan
09
2008
Calvin and Hobbes — Off the Ritalin and High on Life!
Jan
08
2008
Calvin and Hobbes — Now with Ritalin!
Comic courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Update: This comic made some readers feel very sad, so pleas be advised that there is a follow-up comic.
Jan
08
2008
Oops
Rupert Murdoch on the Iraq War and oil prices, February 2003: “The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be $20 a barrel for oil. That’s bigger than any tax cut in the any country.”
Oil prices, today: About $100 a barrel.
[via This Modern [...]
Jan
08
2008
Mark Kingwell’s Essay: “Toronto: Justice Denied”
BlogTO pointed to Mark Kingwell’s essay in The Walrus, Toronto: Justice Denied, which is subtitled Is Toronto being taken over by hucksters, fauxhemians, and the “knowledge economy”?.
Here’s an excerpt:
Suppose we are an idea city. Suppose being so means everyone is somehow better off. We could go on chasing our own tails as a leading creative [...]
Jan
08
2008
Really, It’s Safe to Take Off That Winter Coat
Riding the subway today, I saw a number of people still wearing winter coats and sweating bullets, despite the fact that we’re in the middle of an unusually warm January thaw. It was already 12 degrees C (about 54 degrees F) and will climb to 15 degrees C (just shy of 60 degrees F) by [...]
Jan
08
2008
TSOT’s Ruby/Rails Project Night
Tonight is TSOT’s first monthly Ruby/Rails Project Night, where we invite the local developer community into our offices to see presentations on Ruby and Rails development and socialize. We’ve got a great lineup of speakers:
Yours Truly, on the lessons and challenges of Zed Shaw’s rant
Andrew Burke on the business and technical aspects of his current [...]
Jan
07
2008
Facebookers Playing Fast and Loose with Canada’s Youth Criminal Justice Act
For the second time in a week, a group of Canadian Facebook users may have broken the law by publishing the names of youths charged under Canada’s Youth Criminal Justice Act. This law puts limitations on the publication of the identity of people charged under it; the basis for this is that revealing their names [...]
Jan
07
2008
Boing Boing Bingo
This is amusing: BoingBoingBingo.net generates Bingo cards in which the squares contain the Boing Boing editors’ pet topics, which include:
A post by Xeni Jardin about some crisis in another country
An XKCD reference
Disney (that’s Cory’s thing)
A link to Make (that’s Mark’s thing)
“OMG Gama-Go!”
Mr. Jalopy
Coop
“Robots are cool”
Flying spaghetti monster
[via Laughing Squid, which I found via Jeff "Coding [...]
Jan
06
2008
Rant Said Zed: I’m Too Sexy for My Rails
The resemblance is uncanny, isn’t it?
By now, most Rails developers — and even a number of people who couldn’t care less about Rails — have read Zed Shaw’s infamous rant titled Rails is a Ghetto. It’s given me a lot to think about, and as a result, I’m changing my presentation topic at Tuesday’s TSOT [...]
Jan
06
2008
High Heels’ Many Downsides
Oh, the sacrifices women make for fashion…
Click the diagram to see it at full size.Image taken from Sociological Images.
[via Boing Boing]
Jan
05
2008
“A Homosexual…or WORSE!” (Scene from “Putney Swope”)
Here’s an except from Ozus’ World Movie Reviews’ write-up on Robert Downey Sr.’s movie Putney Swope:
Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson), his voice dubbed by a gravely speaking Downey, is the story of a token black man on the board of directors of a large Manhattan advertising firm who is accidentally voted Chairman of the Board when [...]
Jan
05
2008
“Putney Swope” on How Not to Negotiate Price
In Robert Downey Sr.’s movie, Putney Swope, there’s a scene in which the title character meets with photographer Mark Focus (great name!). Things go badly for Mark when they start negotiating price…
As the blog Photo Business News & Forum puts it, it’s “further evidence of the negotiation axiom “whoever speaks first loses” after price is [...]
Jan
04
2008
That’s Because Chicks Dig Carpenters
Here’s a sign that was outside a church on Dowling Avenue in north Minneapolis:
Click the photo to see the original article.Photo courtesy of The Daily Mole.
Remember: it helps to have another pair of eyes review your work.
Chicks Dig Damien
Jesus’ diametrically-opposed counterpart was also a hit with the ladies. The scene from Damien: Omen II at [...]
Jan
04
2008
TSOT’s Ruby/Rails Project Night — Next Tuesday!
Don’t forget: TSOT’s first Ruby/Rails project night takes place next Tuesday! Admission is free, but space is limited, so sign up now!
The Quick Version
TSOT Ruby/Rails Night
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 (and the second Tuesday of every month)
@ TSOT’s office — 151 Bloor Street West (on the south side, just east of Avenue Road)
11th floor
Door open and [...]
Jan
04
2008
2008 Batman, Meet 1966 Batman
In case you haven’t seen it, here’s the latest trailer for The Dark Knight, the upcoming Batman movie with Christian Bale in the title role and Heath Ledger as the Joker:
Better still, here’s a trailer that mashes up the audio from the trailer above with scenes from the 1966 Batman movie, in which Adam West [...]
