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Stupid spammers
0March 31, 2009 by Colin
Installed a new WP theme yesterday, fresh from the webhost’s directory, and immediately noticed six lines of horrific spam code were hard wired into the main page template. With help from Greg Brooks, got rid of it in 45 minutes.
Still, the Google cache for canuckflack.com is polluted with garbage medicine and pr0n links. How long does that take to get washed out?
Gaaaah.
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You know religion is all about a good show
2March 30, 2009 by Colin
“We just had a group show put on by the Church of Satan, actually,” he says. “They had pretty good PowerPoints.”
- David E. Williams, owner of Philadelphia’s Germ Books, mentions one of the gimmicks he’s used to draw more crowds into the store.
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When adequate apparently is enough
0March 26, 2009 by Colin
Spotted these two restaurants in Leslieville, a neighbourhood in Toronto. I have no idea whether they deliver on their admittedly cautious brand promise. Has Leslieville been stung by high flying and high promising food options in the past, or are they simply looking for a predictable dinner time option?
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New York’s Coke Tax
0March 18, 2009 by Colin
” … Pragmatically speaking, if we imposed a tax on the 50 billion places now hawking small plates, handcrafted artisanal cocktails with antique bitters, house-cured salumi, and featuring servers who call the customer “dude” or “bro” while texting on their cell phones, we could probably put enough dough in the state till to end obesity for generations …”
Gabrielle Hamilton, a NewYork chef, commenting on the proposal to tax non-diet soft drinks in New York City.
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The problem with Iceland
0March 15, 2009 by Colin
” … The rocks beneath Reykjavík may be igneous, but the city feels sedimentary: on top of several thick strata of architecture that should be called Nordic Pragmatic lies a thin layer that will almost certainly one day be known as Asshole Capitalist. The hobbit-size buildings that house the Icelandic government are charming and scaled to the city. The half-built oceanfront glass towers meant to house newly rich financiers and, in the bargain, block everyone else’s view of the white bluffs across the harbor are not …”
- Michael Lewis pretty much lays out his thesis in this excerpt from an essay on the collapse of the Iceland economy in April’s Vanity Fair.
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Tips for soon to be fired media execs
1March 12, 2009 by Colin
” … Unsolicited tip for media company c-levels: if your reaction to this crate of magic is “Hm. I wonder how we’d go about suing someone who ‘did this’ with our IP?” instead of, “Holy crap, clearly, this is the freaking future of entertainment,” it’s probably time to put some Ramen on your Visa and start making stuff up for your LinkedIn page …”
- Merlin Mann, talking about Kutiman’s remixes.
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Where desktop publishing destroys it all
1March 6, 2009 by Colin
These are two signs, on the same apartment building, down the street from my office.
The top sign is obviously an original from the 1970s, with a cut metal facing over a plastic lightbox. And a really cool font.
The bottom sign is some P.O.S designed on a desktop and stuck to the overhang on the front walkway. It has an unnecessary set of nested frames to distinguish it, and that remarkably unimpressive abstract apartment building clipart thing is actually a really poor attempt at branding by the property management company that now runs Centretown Place.
I’ve never found anything remarkable about the building but its sign – and now they’re screwing that up.
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Does not contain any lobster
0March 1, 2009 by Colin
Aside from the two giant red lobsters that take up half of the packaging, there is no reason why you would think this package of fish balls would contain lobster, you fool!
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Blood Stains from the slaine Monks of Lindisfarne in the Viking attack of 793AD. Folios 191v and 192r of the Lindisfarne Gospels - written and illuminated by the Anglo-Saxon Bishop Eadfrith in 698AD.
Liber generationis Jesu Christi
“Lo, it is nearly 350 years that we and our fathers have inhabited this most lovely land, and never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race, nor was it thought that such an inroad from the sea could be made. Behold, the church of St. Cuthbert spattered with the blood of the priests of God, despoiled of all its ornaments; a place more venerable than all in Britain is given as a prey to pagan peoples.”
Alcuin, Letter to Ethelred, King of Northumbria
Images: British Library
I had a Brooks Brothers 15 1/2 - 35 shirt and we used its front pocket to determine when the Pilot design was “pocket sized” - Joel Jewitt, discussing the invention of the Palm Pilot
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130408043926-7298-early-employees-joel-jewitt-palm
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