Why did the rebels have such a hard time with the Empire? The Japanese cops didn’t have too much trouble taking down Darth Vader… [YouTube link]
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Month: April 2006
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"They Keep Pulling Me Back In!"
Over at the web page recommendation application known as reddit, an article of mine from 2003, The Girl Who Cried Webmaster is currently holding the number 5 position. Perhaps I should write a follow-up sometime.
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The Love/Hate T-Shirt [Updated]
Update, Wednesday April 12, 2006, 14:33 EDT: We’ve got a source where you can order these shirts! See the end of the article for details.
[vis Russereous] Here’s a T-shirt for those of you who are fans of Gödel, Escher, Bach, devotees of Scott Kim or have enough mileage to know that love and hate are often two sides of the same coin.
Update: Where You Can Get This Shirt
Thanks to Neatorama for the tip — the shirt is a creation of Rachel Plefger and you can order it online! The shirts are available in men’s and women’s sizes and in red-on-black or black-on-red.
Be Sure to Check Out Neatorama
Neatorama should be get more credit for the T-shirt story; they had posted about this two days ago!
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They’re Geometrically Delicious!
[via Andrew J. Chinnici] Apparently such a cereal really exists — I think it’s a generic version of “Chex“. Maybe someday they’ll market a generic version of Krispy Kreme donuts and call them “Tasty Toroids“.
I got some really good photos at Hawksley Workman’s gig in December 1999. I really should post these on the blog and to my flickr set.
The first Rails Pub, held last month, was a success with a solid two dozen in attendance. Not bad for Ruby, a programming language that didn’t get much notice until last year, or Rails (or, to call it by its proper name, “Ruby on Rails”), the web development platform that’s changing the rules. I can see the beginnings of a very solid Ruby/Rails development community here.
The next Rails pub will take place next Monday, April 17th at The Rhino, located at 1249 Queen Street West (just west of Dufferin and the railway bridge) at 7 p.m.. I will be there, bearing the coveted Tucows squishy cows to hand out to all. I will also have the accordion with me as well.
It’s events like Rails Pub and DemoCamp that are proving that Accordion City is the place to be for tech. Come on down and say you were there when it all started!
Big thanks to Greg Wilson for doing the legwork and landing us a space for <the next DemoCamp! It takes place at the Bahen Centre for Information Technology, room BA1180, located on the University of Toronto campus at 40 St. George Street, Accordion City. The date is Tuesday April 25th, and it will run from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m..
DemoCamp, simply put, is a “show and tell” for the bright lights of Toronto’s tech community. Presenters have ten or fifteen minutes to show off one of their current projects, whether it’s software, hardware, invention or scientific experiment. They’re not allowed to use PowerPoint slides and bore us with bullet points — it’s all about the demo and showing the project in action. Anyone who isn’t presenting is still a participant: they should ask questions, make comments and contribute to the dialogue. There are no spectators here; life is not a spectator event, and neither is DemoCamp.
The presentations that have been booked so far are:
- BBS for Bell Kids’ Help Phone: presented by Yang Lu, Jonathan Lung, Yimei Miao, and Andrew Reynolds, U of T
- The Power of RJS Templates: Chris Nolan
- The BlogMatrix Platform: A platform for structured blogging and microformats, by David Janes and Tim Desjardins
DemoCamp is open to all. There is no admission; we just ask that you sign up on the wiki page for DemoCamp 5.0. If you’re interested in presenting, you should also sign up on the wiki.
Bonus Reading: Be sure to check out David Crow’s thoughts on DemoCamp.