September 2008
The new CBC Radio 2 schedule →
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That’s 94.1 in the Tee Dot.
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Dining with girl geeks at Google →
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Our very own Toronto Girl Geek Dinner is September 10.
So on my first visit to the London office of Google last Thursday, I’m mostly remembering the food experience as much as…
listening to "The Way That He Sings - My Morning... →
Yup. Love My Morning Jacket. Anyone else disappointed by their latest album (as a whole)?
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-31) →
Led Zeppelin
The Tragically Hip
Sloan
Pearl Jam
Feist
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August 2008
As a woman, I'm offended. →
Shared by Leona danah boyd: “Our sisters, mothers, and grandmothers did not fight for women’s rights only to have a woman toted around as an accessory in federal politics. I am confident that…
Pew Internet: Podcast Downloading 2008 →
“Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they could listen to it or view it later. … podcasting has yet to become a fixture in the everyday lives of internet…
The Google Alphabet, 2008 edition - O'Reilly Radar →
:Now in honor of Google Suggest graduating from labs here is the annotated Google Alphabet, 2008 edition:”
Computing In The Cloud: Who Owns Your Files? : NPR →
Harry Lewis, a computer science professor at Harvard, says what’s in those agreements may turn out to be no laughing matter. He warns that most online companies reserve the right to shut users down…
listening to "Flamenco - The Tragically Hip" →
Somber & sweet. Great lyrics from one of my all-time favourite bands and the highlight of the second encore of the Feb. 22, 2000 show at the ACC.
listening to "The Cedar Room - Doves" →
Stars leave the morning
Sleep clouds my view
Don’t let them come round here
And call to you
*******
Quite possibly the best Doves song.
Listen to my station on Blip.fm! →
“Blip.fm - It’s like Last FM and Twitter had a baby.” - Shinykatie at Shiny Shiny (a girls guide to gadgets)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-24) →
Doves
The Tragically Hip
Sloan
k.d. lang
Pearl Jam
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Download MP3s from Streaming Music Sites - Wired... →
WatchFresh! Embed slideshows from Flickr. Naturally, I’m testing it out with my Scotia set.
Update: I uploaded some new photos today. They’ve been added to this slide show. Interested? Scroll through to the end.
Exclusive: 'Rock Band 2' offering new slate of... →
On September 14, “Rock Band 2 debuts, and with it, the promise of 500 tracks by year’s end. Stocking the digital bins, EW.com has learned exclusively, will be seminal full albums by Foo Fighters (The Colour and the Shape), Red Hot Chili Peppers (Blood Sugar Sex Magik), Jane’s Addiction (Nothing’s Shocking), Megadeth (Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying) and Stevie Ray...
Gizmobies: Pocketable iPod Protection with Style →
I bought one of these today, and fell back in love with my iPod. Sigh.
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” - Henry...”
– via Brain Clark
Personal idioms
I’ve been thinking about the idioms I use and where the heck I learned them. For example:
Drop kick through the goal posts of life
Dry as a popcorn fart
Good enough for jazz
Picking the fly shit out of the pepper
OFFCON: The Office Terror Alert | Put Things Off →
Awesome. Fortunately, things tend to stay at OFFCON level 5 at my office.
What Obama’s Text Message Campaign Reveals -... →
has:
What it does reveal is that this is probably the smartest marketing campaign we’ve seen in decades.
“The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but...”
– Inside the label of today’s Honest Ade Orange Mango with Mangosteen.
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to...”
– via Brian Clark
The Count: In a Downturn, but Still Spending On... →
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“Of all spending categories, software and services are set to show the healthiest growth”
Companies are in the middle of an upgrade cycle that will continue beyond the end of the…
Bits: Netbook Prices Are Now Falling →
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As far as consumers are concerned, Mr. Doherty said, analysts seemed to think the prices will continue to fall. In the near future, netbooks could sell regularly for $299, and…
Email Apps: Email Innovations You Want in Your... →
“as people rely on email as a primary means of communication, and everyday users deal with a mounting level of new messages per day, even more advanced features can help all of us keep our inbox…
Being Lightweight: Business Design | Common Craft... →
Ultimately, we want to wake up each morning and know we are choosing what we do that day.
How To Launch Software (Aaron Swartz's Raw... →
NetBooks: A Comprehensive List of Ultraportables,... →
Prices coming down… a big ol’ list of tiny cheap laptops to choose from.
How to Be Laid Back - wikiHow →
I need to remind myself of these lessons. I like to *think* I’m laid back. I’m fooling myself.
5ives » Five terrible fake Jane Austen novels →
Hee hee. “Fried and Credulous”.
“Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.” -...”
– The back of the label from the Honest Ade Cranberry Lemonade I drank at lunch.
