June 2009
17 posts
Watchblownspeakers:
cameronr:
No Fun City (trailer)
So these girls have been filming and interviewing myself and a few other promoter/community-organizer types (like Obama!!!) in Vancouver for this documentary they’re making. I have a brief word in here filmed at last year’s Victory Square Block Party, the annual free concert in the park I organize. I remember having a solid buzz-on during it...
May 2009
31 posts
Twitter Analytics using Mathematica →
lambdalog:
Twitter has an open api, and Mathematica is the best analytical tool out there.
On Cadence Weapon's selection as Edmonton's Poet... →
First of all, let me unequivocally state that selecting a rapper for a city’s poet laureate is crazy awesome. Let me unequivocally state that selecting Cadence Weapon for Edmonton is crazy awesome. And the fact that he didn’t know what Rotary Clubs were is also crazy awesome. But if he’s going to have a title with either “poet” or “laureate” in it, he...
On the "Banned Books Library" Student
Reblogged because he talked about reblogging.
brownpau:
Before you reblog or link to that thing about a student running a banned books library:
you did check her Yahoo Answers profile first, right?
And you did note that she’s a writer who likes working on screenplays? And novels?
And that she previously asked for a list of banned books?
And that Yahoo Answers isn’t exactly the most...
unconsumption: the wiki →
Forthcoming: Unconsumption the Flamethrower.
(via unconsumption)
I enjoyed this mix last Saturday afternoon, which...
The Vancouver Sun: It’s starting to sink in for... →
Ohlund, as we all know, is a robot masquerading as a Swedish defenceman. Should the Canucks retire his number (after he himself retires)?
blownspeakers:
Honestly, this sort of bums me out more than getting bounced from the playoffs:
As Mattias Ohlund peeled off his jersey Monday night in Chicago, he was a jumble of emotions. The Canucks had lost. They were out of the playoffs. The season was...
A harder, better, faster, stronger version of the... →
YooouuuTuuube is so simple yet so profoundly cool.
WatchTetra Vaal, a robot patrolling South Africa (via Joe Clark via Boing Boing in 2003)
