Here’s one of a set of interesting joke road signs that some designers in Reno came up with:
Click the picture to see more signs!
Want to see more? They’re here.
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Here’s a picture that’s getting a lot of “up” votes on Reddit:
I find it very heartening that there’s a Mexican cantina where friendly security guards help people having troubles with their self-identity.
If you’re looking for work at a company with a good reputation, name recognition, great people and opportunities for you to shine, may I suggest working where I work: Tucows!
On Saturday, February 10th between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., we’re having an open house. We’re looking for people to fill the following positions:
- Customer Service Representatives
- Tecnical Support Analysts
- NOC Analysts
You’ll get the chance to meet our management team from Technical Support, Retail Services and our Network Operations Centre, and you can talk about youself and the opportunities that Tucows can offer you.
If you can make it, we’d love to see you here! We’re located at 96 Mowat Avenue in Toronto, just a block east of the corner of King and Dufferin.
Can’t make it? See your resume to hrdept@tucows.com and let us know which position you’re interested in.
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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Freudian
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Chart: 31 Days in Iraq
You can look at it as either an indictment of the current strategy (or lack thereof) in Iraq or a testament to the power of presenting information in an easily-graspable way, but the chart below, showing the war-related deaths in Iraq for last month only is hard to ignore:
Click to see the image at full size.
This graphic accompanies this New York Times piece.
Update, February 12th, 2007: A week has passed and the attached songs are no longer available.
In the spirit of yesterday’s Toronto Transit Camp (which I wrote about in this entry), I thought I’d post a transit-related song. The problem is that I only have the best-known song about Toronto Transit — the Shuffle Demons’ Spadina Bus (a minor hit here in Canada in the 1980s) — in vinyl format. Luckily, someone uploaded the video to YouTube and I present it below:
Of course, as most locals know, there is no longer a Spadina Bus — it’s been replaced by the Spadina streetcar.
Yesterday, we talked about ideas that were worth borrowing from other cites. Among the transit systems mentioned — Cologne, Montreal’s Metro, New York’s MTA and the “T”, the transit system of Boston, my second home — was London’s famed tube system. The tube, for all its plusses, has it downsides, and they’re captured excellently in a song called London Underground by Adam Kay and Suman Biswas. Be forewarned: there’s swearing aplenty in this song!
If the tune to London Underground sounds familiar, it’s because it’s borrowed from Going Underground by The Jam. As a bonus blast from the past, here’s the video for Going Underground from my high school days, over 20 years ago. Geez, I’m old…
Oh, we’re not done campin’ just yet.
Tonight at No Regrets Restaurant and Cafe (42 Mowat Street) at 6:30 p.m., DemoCamp — Accordion City’s monthly show-and-tell session for its high-tech community — returns for its 12th session! There seems to be a bit of excitement about this one — I can see on the DemoCamp 12 wiki page that 135 people have signed up to attend.
We’ve worked out some slight changes to the DemoCamp format, allowing for shorter presentations for those with smaller or still-in-progress projects as well as longer, pre-screened-for-quality projects because we want to make sure that the Monday night you’ve given up is worth it. As always, your feedback is important — if you like or don’t like something about DemoCamp, please let me or David or Jay know.
Tonight’s presentation topics:
- Updates! Several former presenters talks about what’s been happening with their projects since they made their presentations.
- Albert Lai talks about what’s happening with BubbleShare since their acquisition.
- Will Pate talks about the Flock web browser.
- Mike Beltzner talks about distributed development, Mozilla style.
Looking forward to this one — see you tonight!