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The Geography of Hope

Chris "Turner" Turner, my fellow DJ at Clark Hall Pub back in my days at Crazy Go Nuts University, is…

20 years ago

Ferris, Saved

Nobody believed Damian Penny when he insisted that there was a Ferris Bueller TV series, but I'd have backed him…

20 years ago

Star Wars Takes on Drunk Driving

[via Miss Fipi Lele] Here's an odd bit of Star Wars-related promotion work: a circa 1979 anti-drunk driving public service…

20 years ago

Damian Conway’s Talk Tonight: "Fun With Dead Languages"

(This article also appears on Tucows Farm.) If you're a techie in the Toronto area and are looking to have…

20 years ago

Filipino-American Friendship Day / The Independence Day That Wasn’t

July 4th, in addition to being America's Independence Day, is also Filipino-American Friendship Day. As a friend of the Philippines,…

20 years ago

Happy Independence Day!

To my American readers, friends and relatives: Happy Independence Day! Bill Pullman played the president in Independence Day. In honour…

20 years ago

RailsConf 2006: why the lucky stiff and the Thirsty Cups

(This article also appears on Tucows Farm.) The Ruby community are a bunch of lucky stiffs because why the lucky…

20 years ago

Blogging Has Officially Jumped the Shark

Back in the Archie Goes Goth entry, I wrote "It's a little-known fact that your subculture is over the minute…

20 years ago

A Sense of Scale

My best math teachers and professors used to encourage the class to get a better feel for numbers by playing…

20 years ago

Starbucks, Sustainability and Livability

I'm going to be talking about Starbucks, gentrification and related issues for the next little while, and I'm even going…

20 years ago