Category: links + bookmarks

Love this shot Nancy (fellow Planker) took of the building across from our windows at work. Thankfully Montreal is a beautiful city and we all get to enjoy views like…

In case you missed this; Steven Colbert had a guest spot in the Op-Ed of the Sunday NYT’s. Well played. “Surprised to see my byline here, aren’t you? I would…

I want posters of all of these. F, O and Z are especially hot. My kinda kids book. Space Alphabet (1964) by Irene Zacks. Pictures by Peter P. Plasencia.

This company out of Seattle puts their ‘money where their mouthes’ are in terms of being Mac/Computer experts. Every week they send out an awesome newsletter with 2 or 3…

When you spend as much time using the Mac OS X finder as I seem to, then these small innocuous tips can save me from my finger joints locking up…

I only really like 3 or 4 TV shows, and BSG is one of them. This makes me happy to think that Ron Moore will be able to go out…

I am opposed to the IRAQ war. The Boston globe over the weekend put up a simple comparison of what the current price tag of the war, at 456$ billion…

Update: She got a great review here! A very old friend of mine has published her first novel entitled “Bottle Rocket Hearts”. She grew up in the west island of…

Found this fun little “Spanish language learning podcast” to get a couple of my ultra-basic-spanish back into my head for next week. The podcast is free and currently is up…

It has been 50 years since it was first published. I have read ‘On the Road’ a couple times. As Bob Dylan said “It changed my life like it changed…

Update: Michel, who’s very good with this stuff, suggested this lens – Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM and suggested that Futureshop might be okay due to their “returns” policy…

PBS had a nice little piece about Black Star ship-lines which was owned by Marcus Garvey in the early part of the century. Interesting man, with some questionable practices and…

A nice little local site with a couple great writers (Nika among them) .. feed worthy… “Montrealers need Midnight Poutine. It’s a personal ongoing account of the city’s happenings. It’s…

Well, seems this is the 200th post on this site since I’ve put wordpress to use. Amazing at what started as a simple test of WP for work ended up…

This to That (how to glue) http://www.thistothat.com/ A List Apart 4.0 http://www.alistapart.com/articles/ala40 Time to plan out your moon bases http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn7880 Adam Savage Interview (Mythbuster) http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000408.php Panorama from the top of…