August 2000
shampoo instructions and other such nonsense
Posted by on Thursday, August 31, 2000
As a token of the recent anniversary of my birth, a very cool person bought me ‘soft foam’ toy planes*. The planes are very cool and can easily achieve the advertised 10 meter + flight distance. What struck me as odd was the included illustrated instruction sheet that you see here. • Also …
the colour of excitement
Posted by on Thursday, August 31, 2000
The images in the news photo section of excite.com are helpfully divided by keyword. Thus one can click on blimp, or profile for example, and see appropriate images. • Currently the black images contains three images of black Americans, as well as a picture of a black bear. The white image …
Apple (seeds) and Oranges
Posted by on Wednesday, August 30, 2000
A beautiful look into the history of the desktop operating system: Check out these hand drawn prototype sketches of the Apple Desktop Interface starting in 1979. • Meanwhile, in a parallel universe billg was working on Microsoft Windows Version 1, Version 2, Version 3, and Version 3.1 …
Steve's Age Increases
Posted by on Wednesday, August 30, 2000
Here's to you, Steve. I'm raising a glass.
To Kill 15 Minutes
Posted by on Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 2 comments
Matt suggested I try something, so I spent a few minutes doing this and I discovered something odd. Goto your favorite domain registering place and type three letter acronyms totally at random. I did this for a significant amount of time and never got a single three letter domain. • I was so …
More Microsoft Madness
Posted by on Tuesday, August 29, 2000
A few amusing details about Rob's 'Hello Microsoft' post below: • Their server name was tide70.microsoft.com. How's that for brand synergy? • They were using Netscape 4.x. • Don't worry, we only publicize your personal information when it amuses us.
Hello Microsoft
Posted by on Tuesday, August 29, 2000
While scouring our hightech counter information, it has come to our attention that somebody from microsoft.com is visiting us. I would like say “Hello!”. • I would like to give you big ups on some of your fine software products such as Notepad and Minesweeper. Neither have crashed on me and have …
free wisdom on the internet
Posted by on Monday, August 28, 2000
“ • Normally when I talk about how I am an unappreciated genius no one takes me seriously which I can understand in my wisdom but perhaps you could take me a little more seriously as I discuss another unappreciated genius who is not myself: Kirby Ferguson. • ” • Kirby's final issue of …
a few quick (i.e. poorly done) reviews
Posted by on Sunday, August 27, 2000
Magnolia: • Long + Involving + Depressing + Very long + Inexplicable events + Extremely well written, and acted = Pretty damn good really • Documentary on Canadian Women's Waterpolo: • I don't care what anyone says, CBCTV rocks. It does not however rock quite as hard as the Canadian Women's …
this is why I love the Internet*
Posted by on Sunday, August 27, 2000
Mike from Superfunk.com earns my respect with picnic table art. • Check out Boxlor while you're there. I have reason to believe that I made these shorts in grade 7 Home-Ec class. • * I do not actually love the Internet.
taking aim at the brand bullies
Posted by on Saturday, August 26, 2000 in
Just finished reading No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein. It was an interesting book about the “brands, not products” phenomenon and provided a balanced historical look at the culture-jamming movement. Klein was careful to distance herself from organizations such as Adbusters …
if, and when, I become famous
Posted by on Saturday, August 26, 2000 - 9 comments
If I am ever famous, and I say this not in a hopeful or expectant way, but rather acknowledging that anything, even the most implausible can happen, I will try my utmost not to be Ben Affleck. Which is to say, in a slightly less longwinded and round-about way of saying things, that I hope I am …
Some Days I wish I was an Engineer
Posted by on Friday, August 25, 2000 in
This has always been a dream of mine, how cool would it be to build little robots and pit them against each other? • Very cool. (at least I think so) • I'd watch it on TV if it was on.
My nomination for Executable of the Millennium
Posted by on Friday, August 25, 2000 - 5 comments
A program that knows it's limits (56 Kb files), is frugal on features and resources, and is elegant in it's simplicity: Microsoft's Notepad. • Don't get me wrong. I love Photoshop as much as the next person, but Notepad has never crashed on me.
“steven = idiotic comments”
Posted by on Friday, August 25, 2000
After making a post on the IslandEdition.com message board suggesting that ExaComm's websites PEISearch.com and IslandAuction.pe.ca where horrible Yahoo and eBay rip-offs, respectively, I was surprised to find out that I was unable to convince the mob that some form of theft has taken place …
the inevitable inaugural post
Posted by on Friday, August 25, 2000 - 10 comments
The stress and pressure involved in making the first post on acts of volition is, as you can surely imagine, enormous. The very thought of millions upon millions of Internet users’ greedily drinking in every word is nearly paralysing. Nonetheless, it must be done. • I would like to thank Steven …