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WESC
May 31st, 2005 · Comments Off on WESC
Tags: wesc
20 Questions with Vader
May 31st, 2005 · Comments Off on 20 Questions with Vader
From the people who brought you the subservient chicken – Play 20 questions with Lord Vader. He beat me in 16 questions with a “Tomato”. http://www.sithsense.com/flash.htm
Tags: surf + skate + snow
Desirable Items
May 30th, 2005 · Comments Off on Desirable Items
Black Matte Bullet Space Pen with Matching Clip Features Writes at any angle. Even in ZERO GRAVITY Writes through dirt, oil, grease and on shiny surfaces Writes in freezing cold; down to -55F BELOW ZERO All Brass and Steel Components Unconditional Lifetime Guarantee http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001ENZM0/
Tags: design + art + typography
70’s Drug-induced Super Highway
May 30th, 2005 · Comments Off on 70’s Drug-induced Super Highway
Love this … so much so that i’ve put it up at full size for anyone to download. space_lane_full.jpg (I would suggest “right-click” and donwload as it’s large).
Tags: strangeness + randomness
Atari 2600 Slow Ride
May 30th, 2005 · Comments Off on Atari 2600 Slow Ride
Tags: games + diversions
Still a use for OS 9
May 30th, 2005 · Comments Off on Still a use for OS 9
“This tip, while it does not always work, should be given a try first. You would be amazed at how often it does work and saves the bacon. Mac OS X hard drive issues: Sometimes you can’t see the drive or think the drive is fried. Try connecting it to a Mac OS 9 Mac. […]
Tags: tech + the internet
Roadcasting
May 28th, 2005 · Comments Off on Roadcasting
Gibson wrote about something like this in his last novel [Pattern Recognition] … “Roadcasting is collaborative, mobile radio. It is a system, currently in prototype state, that allows anyone to have their own radio station, broadcasted among wirelessly capable devices, some in cars, in an ad-hoc wireless network. The system can become aware of individual […]
Tags: montreal + canada + the world
Reason #35 to pay your web designer more…
May 27th, 2005 · Comments Off on Reason #35 to pay your web designer more…
Read the text under the pictures on the soldiers in the top right corner…. Boston Vacation Packages at Alaska Airlines
Tags: design + art + typography
Mac OS Startup Sound
May 27th, 2005 · Comments Off on Mac OS Startup Sound
“The Mac startup sound wasn’t a $$$ marketing exercise. It was a hack that was quietly dropped into the machine by an engineer with a home studio… ” http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/05/tiny-music-makers-pt-4-mac-startup.html
Tags: tech + the internet
Links for today
May 26th, 2005 · Comments Off on Links for today
Ghetto Flashlight… http://www.freewebs.com/inju1/ Organizing your CSS http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2005/05/03/css-tip-flags.html Great SNL Cartoon… http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/002131.html#002131 Skateboarding is good… http://www.post22.com/ So ahead of it’s time (also spike jonze’s first major video piece) .. http://www.skateboardnaked.com/skateboardnaked_124.htm
Tags: links + bookmarks
Plant 42…
May 26th, 2005 · Comments Off on Plant 42…
Not so stealthy …. Google Maps – Plant 42 in Palmdale, California
Tags: montreal + canada + the world
Park Opens Summer of 2006
May 25th, 2005 · Comments Off on Park Opens Summer of 2006
“Palaeontologists have extracted soft, flexible structures that appear to be blood vessels from the bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex that died 68 million years ago. They also have found small red microstructures that resemble red blood cells..” http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7195
Tags: montreal + canada + the world
Positive/Negative
May 24th, 2005 · Comments Off on Positive/Negative
Stunning photographs. http://www.positive-negative.com/archive/
Tags: design + art + typography
Links for today
May 24th, 2005 · Comments Off on Links for today
Whole site devoted to the Mac Mini as a home entertainment system, http://www.machtpc.com/ Gadsby, a notorious book written entirely without the letter “e”, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby How to Speed Up Publishing in Movable Type http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/articles/how_to_speed_up.html Bookmarks for web-designers and web-developers http://www.alvit.de/web-dev/
Tags: links + bookmarks
Weekend trip
May 23rd, 2005 · 3 Comments
Linda and I took made a trip up to Harrington, in the Laurentians, on Saturday. We wanted to see the Rouge River (Fast currents, Kayaking and River Rafting operations) and the area where i grew up. We made a short stop in Calumet to see an old friend and got detoured on a great little […]