July 2010
143 posts
I just interviewed someone from Prince George taking part in this. Good lord. Canadian Death Race 2010 Brochure
Pipe Dreams →
Great little slideshow and narration from CBC’s Mark Forsythe about the Enbridge pipeline.
Battling aboriginal tradition - The Globe and Mail →
The ideology of contemporary aboriginal Canada is about self-government, self-determination and allowing people to remain on their traditional territories. Against this ambition are the facts on the…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25) →
Sloan (53)
OutKast (39)
K’naan (16)
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet (14)
Blondie (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Canada is a French country - Andrew Coyne -... →
Shared by Andrew
There seems to be a general move towards framing Champlain as the spiritual founder of modern Canada. See: “Champlain’s Dream” by David Hackett Fischer
Canada is a French country
Period Speech →
The Five-Second Rule Could Actually Apply, But... →
Validation.
Just painted part of the living room bubblegum...
More to follow.
Hark, a Vagrant: croquet →
Working, working, weddings Just to let you know! This week’s comic will be late, but hopefully not skipped. I’m working on a few things and have a big ol’ wedding to…
Counting people: Leviathan's spyglass | The... →
Shared by Andrew
With all the census debate going on in Canada, the Economist takes a look at the medium elsewhere in the world.
Leviathan’s spyglass The traditional census is dying, and a good…
Parks Ontario piloting wireless Internet →
Parks Canada said last fall it was considering adding wireless service in some areas to help counter a steady drop in the number of visitors to national parks, but the Ontario experiment is believed…
I love this song. Hits the sweet spot between...
Storyboard Meeting Notes
I keep a notebook with me most of the time to jot down ideas and notes. Here’s some I took yesterday during a storyboard meeting: This isn’t as bad as it looks.
Geek Drift →
Four years ago, Facebook was a site with simple and useful features. Today, Facebook is bloated with tons of applications, a complex user interface and simply strange features (even I don’t know…
“I want to take this opportunity to comment on a technical statistical issue...”
– - Resignation from Munir A. Sheikh, Head of Statistics Canada
Music That Moves You - Literally - in Fort St John
Here’s a cool event from “northern BC’s music capital” (not sure when they got that designation, but events like this certainly help make the case). Essentially, in order to encourage people to try out bus routes they offer free transit that includes local musicians playing on the bus. Would love to see that here in Prince George. Via fortstjohn.ca: Music that Moves...
Jean-Louis Gassée’s Customer Service Kung-Fu →
Jean-Louis Gassée on customer service:
A customer complaint dialogue is structured around a two-position toggle: a) it’s terrible, b) it’s nothing. The first one to grab a position forces the…
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The Personal Relationships of Radio
I went to going-away shindig for a coworker earlier this week. That’s not altogether unusual. What is unusual is the number of people outside of my workplace who are aware of and care about the fact that this going-away is happening. You see, it was for none other than Daybreak North host Chris Walker who, after three years manning the microphone here in in PG, is heading off to a news...
A Rare Sighting of the 1up Mushroom in Northern BC
they don’t usually grow past the lower part of Washington State, I understand
It's Thinking?
= on the way up to UNBC
Somebody's 60....
I have no idea who, mind you. The university should release balloons all the time. It would make it more whimsical.
Ferrets on the Radio
In my bio, it says that I have “way too many pets.” Of course, I enjoy having those pets and it’s worth mentioning once in a while that the reason we have so many is both myself and my partner are suckers the sort of people that stray animals sort of come to and we have the inability to turn them away. Case in point: we got two of our cats and our dog while living in China and couldn’t bear...
Get Ready to Overdose on Your Daily Cute Quotient
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11) →
The New Pornographers (6)
Hot Hot Heat (5)
The Shins (4)
The Decemberists (3)
Weezer (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Belly-buttons key to success in sport: study →
what?
It's the End of the Web as We Know It - The Steve... →
the app is to the internet as the internet is to old media
Celebrate Curb Appeal
“Nominate Your Neighbour’s Fabulous Front Yard! Front yards with curb appeal don’t just increase property values – they enrich our neighbourhoods. That’s why Prince George Communities in Bloom (CIB) is asking the public to help recognize those who create and care for attractive front yards (or business frontages), by nominating friends, neighbours and businesses through a fun...
Listen Later: How to create an Instapaper-style...
via andrewkurjata.ca
Every Version of K'Naan's Waving Flag
click here
Kitchen Myths →
baking soda doesn’t absorb odors, alcohol never evaporates and other things you didn’t know about cooking
The Atlantic :: Magazine :: The End of Men →
“In the ’90s, when Ericsson looked into the numbers for the two dozen or so clinics that use his process, he discovered, to his surprise, that couples were requesting more girls than boys, a gap that has persisted, even though Ericsson advertises the method as more effective for producing boys. In some clinics, Ericsson has said, the ratio is now as high as 2 to 1.” “Men...
Overwhelmed? Welcome the Age of Curation |... →
Yep.
“1) Facebook curated the web. When given the option to create our own webpages online, most of us recoiled from that open-ended freedom, though many embraced it initially. Even if you took the time to learn HTML and keep your page updated, there was no guarantee that your friends would be able to find it. That’s why personal websites remain the domain of geeks while Facebook (and...
The Walrus | This Right Here Is Rich Terfry →
Another article about the challenges of CBC’s recent revamp, this time focusing on Radio 2.
The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures « OkTrends →
An interesting review of effective profile pictures from dating site OK Cupid. They reviewed the numbers on how many people users connected with and found the following: Women should look flirty at the camera and men should not smile and not look at the camera. Both genders should ‘self-shoot’ (take the picture themselves)— especially women. Men should take the shirt off, at...
“Windsorites didn’t define themselves by their jobs. That’s probably why I don’t...”
– - Requiem for a Union Town
This applies to a lot of non-urban cities, I think: people choose them because of the opportunities it affords them outside of the workplace.
“Many historians argue that the Galileo affair was, in fact, an anomaly, and that...”
– the Glad Scientist
“Are you truly prepared to survive a rampage of the undead? Because it’s not just...”
– Zombie Workout: Get Fit Enough to Fight the Undead
Beyond Repair :: Ryerson Review of Journalism →
A in-depth look at the last few years of the CBC news desk and the challenges it faces. Some key thoughts: “In the mainstream of the Western democratic tradition, public broadcasting has a distinctive something. It’s not something that follows, apes or mimics the private sector. It’s something that goes into more depth, covers things longer, tries to get behind the news to explain what’s...
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine - The... →
Shared by Andrew I agree with much of this article and I have to say that this is where I’m really a fan of Instapaper. I take long-form articles (like this one) to consume offline, without hyperlinks and pop-up ads to distract me. I take physical notes for later review and then add them to Google Reader and/or Delicious for future reference. If you feel these challenges, definitely...