August 04, 2004
Even superheros have to go through adolescence.
[short film, via ifilm]
July 19, 2004
London Meetup?
Back in June there was a talk of a UK meetup in the London area when certain Monkeys happened to be in the area. I think late August was mentioned.
(that's London, UK, not London, Ontario, though it is a mistake easily made)
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July 05, 2004
No matter who won, there would be a party somewhere in Toronto
Congratulations to Greece, and party on, Danforth!
May 23, 2004
Exiles: Uncertain times for Iraqi Canadians.
Flash presentation from CBC's Radio 3, profiling three Iraqi Canadians as they talk about their lives, Iraq and the war. [via airgid.com, the designer's website.]
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May 04, 2004
I wasn't doing so good, but now that I'm dead...
He had me sold on just the commentary, but the music is great too. [via Styleboost]
April 28, 2004
Offally good
- an artcle on the growing interest in the rest of the pig, or lamb, or cow, or...
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April 18, 2004
Curious George: Creating Mp3s
I'm looking for a new way/plugin to create Mp3s.
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April 12, 2004
History comes to the life, and to television.
If people will not come to history, then let history come to them.
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April 04, 2004
The Height Gap: Why Europeans are getting taller and taller
This fascinating article seems to be just the tip of the ice-berg for uses of the height to understand history and health. [via A&L Daily]
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March 24, 2004
True inventiveness.
The non-electrical refridgerator.
Mohammed Bah Abba has used imagination rather than technology to create something to improve local lives.
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March 08, 2004
The geek shall inherit the Earth
...but this writer isn't so sure that is a good thing. [via Arts and Letters Daily]
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February 28, 2004
February 25, 2004
Talking bluntly about class, in the context of the debate on women, motherhood and work.
Caitlan Flanagan's article on the issues of nannying gets beyond middle-class obsessions about perfect childrearing to look at the real concerns about the relationship of feminists to women of all classes. [Via Arts and Letters Daily]
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February 06, 2004
Curious George: Laptops
The dreaded expensive computer purchase
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January 29, 2004
I am in my bedroom in the palace.
There is a four-poster bed, and not much else. A portrait hangs on the wall. An exit leads north.
And if you get lost, there is always the Coles' Notes, now presented in ever so convenient Power Point. [via Metafilter]
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January 18, 2004
I'd been meaning to post this for a while, but...
Wise words on making procrastination work.
December 14, 2003
Not so much The Onion, as Onion Bhaji --
Asian Underground, a website covering not so important Asian issues from ghettostan. [via Metafilter]
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December 09, 2003
Uptown theatre collapses.
Though you may have already heard about this from Metafilter, it's still shocking news, both as a terrible accident, and for ex-pat Torontonians who didn't even know that the historic theatre was being demolished, because it was not wheelchair accessible.
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