Month: October 2008

Tonight is Nuit Blanche — literally “white night” in French — a night of public art projects ranging from installations to performance art and taking place all over Accordion City’s core. Here’s a blurb from the Live With Culture site:

I’ve got a date this Saturday night and it’s with ART, ART, ART. Nuit Blanche takes over the Toronto night with public art projects by local, national and international artists in museums, alleys, train stations, warehouses, parks, arenas and more. City Hall as a massive interactive screen, an immense corridor of screams, a waterfall spouting building, slacking mascots and gruesome zombies — this will be a date to remember. So ditch the gallery chic, put on your walking shoes and tell mama NOT to wait up.

To find out more about Nuit Blanche, check out their site. The fun starts tonight at 6:52 p.m. (sunset) and goes on until sunrise.

Robin Senior sent me an email telling me about Stereoscope, one of tonight’s installations. Created by Project Blinkenlights — they’re the people who have turned building windows into giant pixel displays in Berlin and Paris — tonight’s project turns the curved towers of Toronto’s City Hall into twin pixel canvases. Better still, people can create graphics and submit them for display on City Hall tonight!

For more details about this project, see Project Blinkenlights’ Stereoscope site.

David “Chiamattt” Matte pointed me to this classified ad in the Los Angeles Craigslist:

NEED SARAH PALIN LOOKALIKE ASAP FOR ADULT FILM (LA)

Looking for a Sarah Palin lookalike for an adult film to be shot in next 10 days.

Major adult studio.

Please send pix, stats etc. ASAP

Pay: $2000-3000

No anal required

I would love to see Tina Fey take that role. Rrrrrrrowr!

“Drill here, drill now!”

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

In the previous post, I announced that I was giving away my old 12″ 867 MHz PowerBook G4 and said that I’d give it to the person who emailed me with the most compelling reason to give it to him or her. The most compelling one came from Sue from CARD — that’s Community Association for Riding for the Disabled — who requested it for her organization.

CARD’s mission is to improve the lives of children and adults with disabilities through therapeutic horse riding programs, which helps with their mobility, communication and social skills, and self-esteem. All riders are assessed to ensure the program will benefit them, and to ensure they are placed appropriately in a hippotherapy, psycho-education, therapeutic riding or horsemanship class. Some of their riders who have progressed through the ranks and competed internationally at the Paralympic games and in other ParaEquestrian events.

CARD is 100% self-funded. They rely on grants, donations, sponsorship and fundraising efforts and don’t get any government support. They need to update their office equipment and are looking for donors and donations; they’re currently running on 8 year old iMacs. Of all the people who emailed me, CARD sounded like the people who needed the PowerBook the most, so it’s theirs.

I’ve got another machine to give away, so watch this space!

Update: The PowerBook has been given away.

Last time, I gave away a Mac clone from the ’90s. This time, I’m giving away this machine: a 2003-era 12″ PowerBook G4:

Some specs:

• 867 Mhz PowerPC G4 processor
• 640K RAM (the maximum)
• 1024 * 768 screen resolution
• 40 GB hard drive
• “Combodrive” (Reads and burns CD-ROMs, reads DVDs)
• AirPort Extreme card

Here’s a peek at the ports on its left side:

The right side has just the CD/DVD slot:

And yes, it can be yours…FREE!

How Can You Get This Machine?

Alas, you can’t anymore; it’s been given away.

When I got this photo, it came with the caption “The ice cream truck is here!”. Feel free to come up with one of your own and post it in the comments!

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

I try not to bore the readers of this blog with overly technical stuff; that’s why I started my programming and technology blog, Global Nerdy.

In my latest post there, I comment on the recent TechCrunch post in which influential tech blogger Mike Arrington reports on changes to the way my former employer b5media pays its bloggers in a post titled b5media’s Changes to Blogger Pay: Right, Fair and Still a Sweet Deal.