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Seems this week is shaping up to be a pretty busy one – gonna be on training for four days, so I don’t know how much I’ll be able to get around to posting… will try, for sure – at least a link or two. My roommate and I rented A Nightmare on Elm Street…
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This story on Salon has brought back some fond memories from my early days of BBSing in the basement of my parents home. Somewhere in the early-to-mid-eighties, my cousin Chris and I had been messing around for a number of years on our VIC20’s and Commodore64’s, learning the ins-and-outs of computers the hard way: line-by-painstaking-line……
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FROM : Dave Samojlenko (dave@blogbynight.com) SENT : Wednesday, June 05, 2002 11:04 AM TO : Mac Harb (Harb.M@parl.gc.ca) SUBJECT : The Federal Liberal Party Dear Mr. Harb, I have been a resident of your Constituency for over 25 years. I have been of legal voting age for the last 11. You have never received a…
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Amazon.com is planning to launch a Canadian on-line site towards the end of this month. I have mixed feelings about this news: I love the technology behind Amazon.com’s site, and have maintained a wishlist there for the last year or two – their recommendations system has pointed me towards some great books and products that…
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Inneraction, a local training/production centre launched their new site today. What a horrible disaster. This site epitomizes everything I detest about Flash and Flash Developers. My first complaint is the fact that it takes over your entire screen, obscuring your desktop and taskbar at the bottom of the screen. From a usability standpoint, this is…
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You can be David Still! Mr. Still has offered up his identity for anyone who would like to use it. You can send random email using his identity if you’d like… or you can reply to email that has been sent to him. He gives you all of his background information so you can really…
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“Our entire culture has fallen into the hands of a few multinational corporations, taking with it our right to tell our stories, our right to exchange our information, even our right to heal our sick. It’s time for us to take back what is ours.” Read this article. Just do it.
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David Cronenberg has a new movie coming out: Spider. yay!
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Irreversible, directed by Franco-Argentinian director Gaspar Noe, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this week. The film, which describes a woman’s rape and her boyfriend’s bloody quest for revenge, proved so shocking that 250 people walked out, some of whom required medical attention. wow. A movie that inspires physical ailments – that’s my kind of…
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Maverick and Vivendi Universal want to sell you an MP3. In what appears to be a giant leap in the right direction for the recording industry, the label giants are going to offer a dance version of “Earth” by Meshell Ndegeocello online for 99 cents. What makes this step particularly bold is that they will…