The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

A self-employed friend of mine is looking for shared office space here in Toronto. I expect that demand for such a thing — where people rent out desks with phone and internet connections and shared faciilties rather than an entire office — will increase as a result of technology and the current business environment making it possible.

I pointed my friend to the Centre for Social Innovation, but if you have any suggestions as to where else he can look or know of anyone who wants to share some office space, please post them in the comments!

Oh, great. Now I’ve got the damned song stuck in my head.

A guy in Utah just got a crash course in Wifespeak:

Ad courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

Rodrigo Piwonka has come up with a clever idea: using those CD/DVD spindles to carry bagel sandwiches. I’m going to have to try this trick sometime:

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An excerpt from the article If We Taught English the Way We Teach Mathematics…:

Imagine that your only contact with “English” as a subject was through classes in school. Suppose that those classes, from elementary school right through to high school, amounted to nothing more than reading dictionaries, getting drilled in spelling and formal grammatical construction, and memorizing vast vocabulary lists — you never read a novel, nor a poem; never had contact with anything beyond the pedantic complexity of English spelling and formal grammar, and precise definitions for an endless array of words. You would probably hate the subject.

[via Reddit]

For those of you who are new to this weblog, I’ve got a “Best Of” page which lists my favourite articles all the way back to 2001.

I know you’re probably working right now, but go ahead and read it! AFter all, isn’t it some someone else contributed to the gross domestic product for a change?