BlogFox

This is very cool. As part of their 10th anniversay, Google has brought back a clone of their 2001 search index. See what the hot web-content of the day way seven years ago! Apparently I was really interested in signing some kind of Star Control petition? Why? No idea! Ah well at least I had […]

[Read more →]

I promise not to make too much of a “thing” of US politics – others do it better and we’ve got enough

[Read more →]

Rob turned me on to worlde.net, a clever little java application that lets you enter a chunk of plaintext (or an RSS feed) and turns it into a tag cloud image (the more a word is used the bigger it is). It’s got a tonne of formatting options to play with and is eerily hypnotic. […]

[Read more →]

Considering I never had a particularly strong response (positive or negative) to Stephen Harper, he sure has done a lot this month to antagonize me, (given that I’ve voted for both Preston Manning and Jack Layton in my lifetime – it takes a fair bit to raise my political hackles given how (relatively) centrist most […]

[Read more →]

John Dickerson has a neat video with his favourite five American political ads from the past sixty years: via Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish – where there’s usually something cool to be found.

[Read more →]

Yes I’m surviving TIFF ’08, thanks for asking. It’s been a great year, but I’m very much looking forward to getting to the weekend and sleeping for several days. More recap later. I just got a brief e-mail from Timothy Karr, the campaing director of the (excellent) SaveTheInternet.com that they are looking to raise $25,000 […]

[Read more →]

Posts are getting scarce – friends and family are sticking “have you seen this blogger?” posters around the neighborhood – it must be time for the Toronto International Film Festival! The question I most commonly get asked this time of year comes in many different flavours but essentially boils down to “how can an average […]

[Read more →]

No I’m not above shameless self-promotion, so I’ll point out there’s only five days left in public voting for the Canadian Comedy Awards. If you’d care to vote for “the Waldo Ultimatum” in the Web Video category, I certainly wouldn’t stop you.

[Read more →]