May 2008
6.6 - Bioscientists photoshop their cultures to... →
The promise (and failure) of Brandtags.net →
MediaDefender's BitTorrent-Based DOS Takes... →
iTunes Canada, UK to get pricier movie rentals,... →
Cool Waters →
MapBlogMap(Blog) →
Revision3 gets DDOSed by Hollywood! →
“ But someone, or some company, apparently took offense to Revision3 using Bittorrent to distribute its own slate of shows. Who could that be? Along with where it’s bound, every internet packet has a return address. Often, particularly in cases like this, it’s forged – or spoofed. But interestingly enough, whoever was sending these SYN packets wasn’t shy. Far from it: it’s as if they...
The Ultimate Yahoo! Pipes Creations List →
WatchThe Video I Set To Autoplay On My Graduate Student Page on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Enable Google Contact Sync Without an iPhone or... →
Michael Geist on Digital Advocacy →
“Another suite of NSA cryptography, Suite A, contains classified algorithms that...”
– Fact Sheet NSA Suite B Cryptography
Backing up iTunes →
A Good Pac-Man Is Hard To Find →
In Twitter’s Scoble Problem, a Business Model →
In Twitter’s Scoble Problem, a Business Model →
language, form and theory of the firm →
“I think Arrow’s the The Limits of Organization is an excellent book — the book ought to be, though isn’t, standard reading for any budding organizational scholar. Here’s a nice piece by Cremer, Garicano and Prat (in QJE) that formalizes some of Arrow’s intuition around “organizational codes,” along with discussing implications for organizational form: “Language and the theory of the firm.”...
language, form and theory of the firm →
The Rock Hard Times: the Wikipedia of Music? →
Rotate This To Close, Move West →
Losing Perspective →
Phlashing attack permanently destroys hardware... →
Severed Relations →
Face to Face →
Did a coding error contribute to the credit... →
It doesn’t say too much, but it’s no surprise that an incorrect economic model or a errant algorithm is behind the credit meltdown. It’s time to start thinking about the ethics of these machines, and follow Latour’s suggestion that they are moral actants.
Cyclists union gets rolling in Toronto →
“ Gil Penalosa, who runs a Mississauga organization called “Walk and Bike for Life,” delivered the morning’s high point: a barn-burning speech calling for a new pro-bike culture.
“Paris has installed 20,400 public bikes,” he said. “And a few weeks ago the mayor of London announced $1-billion for bicycle lanes.
Mexico City plans 450 kilometres of bike...
China diverts billions in funds to rebuild after... →
How to stay very, very dumb / It's a fact: TV... →
The Most Annoying Software Out There →
5.4 - Mac Automation: Get remote screenshots via... →
Phlashing attack permanently destroys hardware... →
Wired magazine is not for geeks anymore →
YouTomb: Where Videos Go to Die →
Draft available: Power and sabotage in the time of... →
Still very much a work in progress, here (PDF) is a draft of an article that I originally wrote during my MLIS at the University of Western Ontario. Eventually I want to tie together some of the…
Xenophobia and the rhetoric of hate: Chinese... →
China has been villified by Americans for a long time (and by Americans I mean Canadians too). There used to be cartoons with buck-toothed goofy Asian folk (Disney, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, etc), now…
Xenophobia and the rhetoric of hate: Chinese... →
I go to town. Yes, I DO have a monopoly on truth, thanks for asking. SNIP: “Today’s Toronto Star includes a large article (editorial?) on the horror of a post-earthquake China. The headline is odd: “Quake loss deepened by China’s 1-child rule”.”
WatchBest quote ever: “without passing judgement, that’s bankrupt”. Yup, the judgement is so thick even the bankruptcy is the part ostensibly without judgement.
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Drop.Io Offers Free Video Embedding With... →
Best description of a technical subject, ever. Brad discusses how to make videos autoplay, and what that means (hint: pictures of bombs and planes)
Draft available: Power and sabotage in the time of... →
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New Wicki Critical of Pundits & Celebrities →
Seesmic Goes Hollywood →
6.7 - Firefox 3 RC1 released: Now we play the... →
10.0 - MrBabyMan: Digg Users Revolt, Against the... →
The Smoky Bar (by a Nonsmoker)
(excerpted from Esquire Magazine) I don’t smoke. Never have. never will. I believe everything I’ve ever read about the dangers of cigarettes. But bars are supposed to be subversive. Uninhibited, noisy, smoky. This was the atmosphere that put you in such a panic to grow up. Once you did, you appreciated the bar even more as one of the few places where the freedom to be an...
Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs by Duchess Says →
Fucking awesome.
“It’s difficult for 21st-century Americans to imagine things any other way. The...”
– Lapham’s Quarterly
Breakaway 1.7 →
7.8 - Vintage aviation hostess photos →
The Lede: A Plague of Ants in Houston →