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If you’re in Accordion City, you might want to check out the really good book sale taking place at the offices of Canadian Manda Group (they’re independent publishing sales agents) at 1 Atlantic Avenue. They’ve got a large selection of books, especially “coffee table”, “guide” and “how-to” books, the sort that make really good Christmas gifts. The deals are really amazing — they take the American price for each book, halve that, and charge you that value in Canadian Snow Pesos.
They were open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow. There’s plenty of parking in the area.
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The Victorian Inter-Net
b3ta.com asked: What would the Victorians have made of the Internet?
For starters, being such hyphenation maniacs, they would have called it the “Inter-Net”. After that, b3ta readers came up with a hilarious set of graphics depicting the Internet, had it been created by the Victorians. Some examples:
(Click on any of the pictures to see the whole collection.)
Today, we have RateMyRack.com [Not safe for work!]. The Victorians were — at least in public — considerably more prudish:
Here are TLDs (top-level domains, such as .com, .net and .org) in the Victorian era:
An iPod ad:
When I mentioned b3ta’s “Victorian Internet” gag to Boss Ross, he replied that the Victorians did have an Internet of sorts — the telegraph. Was it like this?
…or like this?
(The Morse Code in the window shown above actually deciphers into real text. Deciphering is left as an exercise for the reader.)
It was the heyday of inventors:
And here’s what my employer, Tucows — formerly an acronym for The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software — would have been like:
Other goodies:
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GTABlogger news
Accordion City’s blogging group. the Greater Toronto Area Bloggers, has some events coming up. If you’re located in the Greater Toronto Area and have a blog — or even if you just enjoy reading them — you’re welcome to join us!
GTABlogger Autumn Pub Night TONIGHT!
Sorry for the late notice, folks, but I just found out myself.
Tonight (Thursday, November 20th) at 7 p.m., the GTABloggers will meet at Pauper’s Pub, located at 539 Bloor Street West, located just east of Bathurst Street (and Bathurst subway station). We’ll be on the second floor.
Normally, I tend to show up a couple of hours into the pub night, but I’m going to break that habit and attend the evening from start to finish. I’ll be fresh from a workout at the gym, so you ladies should arrive early to feel my still-bulging muscles.
GTABloggers Christmas Party
If there’s one thing my house excels at, it’s throwing a party. What better place to throw the party for the best damned blogging group ever than the best damned party house ever?
The GTABloggers Christmas Party will take place on Saturday, December 6th starting at 8 p.m. at “Big Trouble in Little China”, better known as my house (email me for the address).
I’ll provide some food and drink, but the party is a potluck dinner and BYOB. As usual, the bathtub will be converted into a giant ice bucket for your drinks, so bring some to share! There’s be a Kris Kringle game — We will also be doing a Kris Kringle game — bring a wrapped fun gift (it should be around $10) to join in the fun and games.
Music will be provided by the ever trusty iTunes-based DJ system that served my birthday party so well; if you have any tunes you’ll like to hear, bring MP3s and we’ll feed them into my laptop.
If you’d like to attend, please email Rannie “Photojunkie” Turingan, who along with being the heart and soul of the GTABloggers, is also organizing the event.