KirbyFerguson (.com) has abused his photo-editing skills and turned what he calls a “dream” in to a horrible nightmare for all of us.
In another flagrant abuse of the tools at his disposal, Kirby may have inadvertently created some prize winning work.
I, being frightfully young, criminally immature and not possesing cable television, cannot say that I knew Al Waxman’s work well. It came as somewhat of a surprise to me then, that I should be at all affected by his death. For this turn of events, credit should go to one Kent Bruyneel. Read his moving tribute to the “King of Kensington” here.
For those who were not fortunate enough to get one of the early pressings of radiohead’s Kid A, I have posted the contents of the booklet that was included (in accordance with the very lose copyright notice on their website: (“NO COPYRIGHT UNLESS YOU INTEND TO MAKE A PROFIT. IN WHICH CASE, PLEASE ASK FIRST.”)
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Check out this great thread on IslandEdition.com.
The chain of events took place as follows:
A real low point in my addiction to the ridiculous game came when a few of my friends were sitting around complaining about our injuries from the playing the game (sore wrists, etc.). As soon as we realized what we were doing, the conversation came to an abrupt end.
This post was not meant to be about my pathetic addiction to a computer game, which appears to have been inevitable, but rather about a triumph of the Internet search technology.
One of the goals in the foolish game is to “Bluntside the Awning”. This meant as much to me as it does to you (nothing) and it was an important goal that I needed to complete in the game (I know, I know). Frustrated, confused, and all the while ashamed of myself, I went to AskJeeves.com and posed the simple but arcane query, “How do I bluntside the awning?”
The first result was my answer. Well done, Internet.
First, let us get some acronym* definitions out of the way:
With that out of the way, aov has setup an RSS channel. RSS is an XML application based on the World Wide Web Consortium’s RDF Specification.
Now in english: RSS is a simple format for web syndication that lets any site make it’s headlines available to be grabbed by any other compliant site. For example, My.Netscape.com let’s you add these channels as custom news on your home page. Headlines from any site that that creates an RSS channel can be added to your my.netscape.com home page.
The people at My.Netscape.com seem to expect those with an RSS channel to include this graphic on their site. Clicking on this graphic will add aov headlines to your My.Netscape.com page. That is if you can bear the buggy and irritating signup process. Seems more like viral marketing for Netscape than an open news standard. The graphic will not be displayed on aov permanently (only in this post).
The format is cool though. An example of a good implementation can be found at Peter Rukavina’s Reinvented.net (which has been nicely redesigned). The News page at Reinvented.net uses RSS to grab headlines from Slashdot.org, The PEI Government website, and (drumroll please) Acts of Volition.
Genius causes both adulation and envy. It also causes confusion and indifferce* in those who are simply too slow, whose brains are too atrophied and stunted** to accept anything they haven’t already seen.
We are familiar with love. We receive it in quantities which would make you blush. Sometimes though, those fearful of our talents, embarrased that they lack our intellect and savoir-faire, send us hate:
Goddamn it Dorrel, you theiving bastard, I will have you balls for this
obvious and out-right theft–even if you said it first . . . and yeah I know dorrel has two l’s,
you bastard . . . Goddamn it, I am so mad I can hardly finish the second period of NHL 2000.
Of course I have no inkling as to what might have set this person, who shall remain unnamed, off. Clearly though, he*** needs help. Being the magnificent human that I am, I bear him/her no ill-will and have already forgiven his/her abuse.
* There is a link to, and description of, aov somewhere on the page.
** The page linked to is filled with text so trite and cliched (imagine an accent on the e) that I cannot begin to think of anything appropriately caustic to say about it.
*** Or she, as the case may be.
**** Abusing footnotes would be more fun if I knew how to make little numbers appear instead of asterisks.
This isn’t typical aov-style material, but this invention is extraordinary (view the video on this page).
aov’s favourite philosophy professor, Tony Couture, to whom we owe a lot of our genius, has had quite a misadventure.
As featured in The Guardian newspaper, Tony’s unreasonably large Sport Utility Vehicle went off the road near Shediac. While Tony seems to have escaped unscathed, the windows smashed and his cat, Casi, went missing. After 18 days lost in the woods a few good Samaritans tracked down the cat and he was delivered home safely.
Tony, we’re glad to hear you are ok and that Casi made it home safely.
After my earlier post about how the news is never pertinent to me, this is refreshing.
Two of my co-workers took the day off to go snowboarding today (we are web designers after all). After getting out of bed especially early and a embarking on a tumultuous drive we arrived at the hill. Alone. The hill was closed.
Well, we weren’t totally alone. There was a staff lady in the lodge (which was locked). She was nice to us (who wouldn’t be, we must have looked pathetic).
With no lift operating, we walked up the hill (which should you an idea of how big the hill is). I had what I think might have been a stoke (I will confirm this on WebMD in a few minutes). We had one beautiful run on powder and corduroy*. Just enough to remember how much fun it is, then back to work.
