Brian Griffin

We went hiking at Black Creek Park. We got lost and discovered a creepy spruce forest. There is a nice trail along the creek, if you can find it


More photos from Black Creek Park here

West Chili

• The Yahoo! Style Guide
• What is elegance? – “Here’s my incomplete and disorganized list of details that, to me, contributes to creating impalpable elegance.”
• Magic Tricks Amuse Even In Extraordinary Times – “We live in a time where we expect to see amazing things before our eyes, like space ships streaking between stars. Dinosaurs returning to life. Whole planets blossoming with beautiful blue people. So how do you expect to impress people just by sawing someone in half or picking the ace of spades out of a deck of cards?”
• iJot – a public Web site creation service based on OPML and RSS
• What Vint Cerf Sees In the Internet’s Future

More photos of Tall Ships here.

I tried some of the 8 time champion ribs at the Etobicoke Rotary Club Ribfest and was underwhelmed. But I enjoyed the Carnie atmosphere

• IT’S 2010. WHERE’S MY INTERNET DASHBOARD? – Why isn’t there a single, web based dashboard for all my internet-based communication? It should act both as an aggregator and as a messaging centre– a sin­gular launch-point from which I can see the latest news and quickly compose mes­sages that can be sent to any of my connected platforms: email, twitter, blog post, whatever.
• The man who’s tutoring Bill Gates – He detests our sound-bite culture, which shrinks enormously important and complex subjects into meaningless bits of info-kibble. “All I want is to be left alone to write my books,” he insists.
• acconci studio + ai weiwei: a collaborative project
• Karim Rashid about Information Aesthetics in Industrial Design
• Soccer Kids – Since the beginning of this inexplicable World Cup madness, I keep thinking: Where did all the soccer fans come from?

I just finished reading Brian Fagan’s fascinating book Cro-Magnon. I particularly enjoyed the brief descriptions of the music and body adornment of the period. I have often wondered: how would Cro-Mag tunes sound, and although some jewelery survives, how did they accessorize? There are numerous examples of CM art, but what role did it play in daily life? Here are some supplementary links related to CM art and music:

• Christian Jegou – illustrator known for his beautiful portrayals of early humans. See: Libellés:Origines de l’homme
• Picture Gallery of the Paleolithic – Illustrations and text Libor Balák. Nice illustrations/recreations of Cro-Mag clothing and adornment. See esp. The Gravettian.
• Lascaux – a visit to the cave
• Music in the Paleolithic
• Paleolithic Flutes – These flutes represent the earliest known musical instruments and provide valuable evidence of prehistoric music. The presence of these flutes demonstrates that a developed musical tradition existed from the earliest period of modern human presence in Europe.
• Bullroarer – The bullroarer, rhombus, or turndun, is an ancient ritual musical instrument and means of communicating over extended distances. It dates back to the Paleolithic period, being found in Ukraine dating from 17,000 B.C.
• Venus Figurines
• Ice Age Art – gallery of paleolithic sculpture

the more you are able to hear.

I wanted a simpler reading pane for Liferea that displayed less metadata and without the horizontal bars that separate the feed items. To use, just copy the file into ~/.liferea_1.4/.

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See also: Sage Custom CSS Styles

“I’m wasted on cross-country! We Dwarves are natural sprinters, very dangerous over short distances.”

• Talk to Me – This journal documents the process of organizing the exhibition Talk to Me at The Museum of Modern Art, from its early stages in the winter of 2010 through its opening in July 2011 and beyond. People are very curious to know how a show happens–and we, the curatorial team, are thirsty for feedback and suggestions. This website will keep us organized, connected (with you), and honest. After all, communication is what this show is about.
• Web 3.0 – A story about the Semantic Web
• 50 Reasons to Love Toronto
• The Evolution of the World Cup Ball
• Reflections on Teaching with Social Media – I believe that teaching humanities students to use different tools in the classroom teaches them transferable skills; and I like to experiment with how technology can change the classroom space.
• Tips and Tricks with Dropbox

again; event horizon

Like it’s some kinda festival for the citizens to enjoy, WTH?

/poor man’s paella

But I really can’t stand wires. Why do all these damn things come with 8 feet of cable coming out of each end of a brick I had all these cables bundled nicely in one of these, but inevitably I need to add a new device or move a hard drive or something.