ISSN 1496-3221
November 11, 2004
Audion is dead. Long live Audion. While I wipe a small tear from the corner of my eye, I’d like to pass along thanks to the boys of Panic for producing such a great piece of software, one that perhaps deserved a more equitable fate. Fortunately, there’s plenty more where that came from. To ease … More
November 9, 2004
Semi trailer storage lot at dusk. Highfield Road, Calgary.
November 1, 2004
It’s one thing to recognise and properly celebrate the undeniably significant milestone of an online resource. However, it’s another pail of wax when that resource has proffered little to the community other than ephemeral internet sputum of arguably dubious benefit. Bearing those two points in mind, I’ll ask you to make your own call regarding … More
October 31, 2004
If as a kid I had ever managed to convince myself to actually go out on Hallowe’en night, I might have considered the following as a possible costume. I had a major Tonka meets Billy Blastoff meets Joe 90 sort of aesthetic going on back in 1969. I probably could have pulled it off too, … More
October 16, 2004
Mark Simonson somehow managed to mash three of my favourite obsessions — typography, computer hardware, and Lego® — into one marvelous example of basement ingenuity. His typositor film scanning jig is not so much a Rube Goldberg-style, single-use contraption as it is simply another example of how Lego is the best and most flexible rapid … More
October 12, 2004
Ah, it’s so refreshing to see respected news outlets such as CNN and Reuters finally using the same “highly reliable sources” that stalwart rumor-mongering institutions such as ThinkSecret have relied on for years. If you’re going to hang it all out and pimp the hype, you better have your facts straight, right?
October 6, 2004
Garage. 2nd Avenue Northwest, Calgary.
October 1, 2004
Through one method of deduction or another, you may have come to the conclusion that there is not much of late that excites the author of this weblog to point of actually writing something about it. Sporadic web publishing schedule aside, there are plenty of things that do (and have been known to) get me … More
October 1, 2004
It’s articles like this one about Daniel Burka’s continuing quest for his favourite favicons that reinstates my belief that the real art of minimalist icon design didn’t die off with the photorealistic dreck dumped on us with OS X. I’m sorry kids, but these are not iconic, no matter how you interpret the definition of … More
September 21, 2004
Coffee shop interior. Kensington Road, Calgary.