ragingly ambivalent. or something. whatever.
From the category archives:
Here’s some of the things I’ve Saved in my RSS reader over the last few days. If you have a few minutes to kill, these links should fit the bill.
The Online Photographer – A Gift Waiting at Every Corner: Notes from a Life in Photography
A great article about a career photographer’s life, and how they [...]
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I finally saw Avatar, and left the theatre with lots of conflicting reactions to the movie.
cinematically gorgeous
amazing visuals
fascinating biology
but… why are the Na’vi simply caricatures of humans?
but… in a fully 3D-modeled-and-rendered world, why are the Na’vi so human?
why is Cameron so heavy handed in his Gaia-theory stuff?
this is largely just a mashup of every Cameron movie I’ve [...]
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I’d actually held some hope for meaningful change brought about by the discussions in Copenhagen this month. But everything I’m seeing and reading lately sounds like it’s pretty much just political greenwashing and crushed peaceful protests.
Elizabeth May has been blogging from Copenhagen (see comments by Hugo Chavez – who would have put him in the [...]
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It’s award season yet again, and it’s time to bestow the highest honours available to the blogosphere: The Inaugural Bava Blogging Award.
This year’s nominations list is rather short:
That is all.
Vote early, vote often.
This year’s awards were organized by Martin Weller, who has been granted the “Most Important Tweet” award by acclamation.
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Jaymie Koroluk asked the twitterverse about the proper spelling of “eLearning”.
I responded back, a bit snarkily:
@jaymiek learning. There is no e.
It’s too much to describe in 140 characters. But I can’t stand the “e” in eLearning. (I can’t stand the “m” in mLearning, either.)
It’s just learning. The “e” is counter-productive. It forces people to focus [...]
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I just heard about TEDxYYC – an independently organized TED-like event to be held right here in Calgary. This should be awesome. I can’t wait.
I have no idea how many people will be able to make it. From poking around on the internets, it sounds like it might be held in the Karo warehouse, with [...]
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On UCalgaryBlogs, I’d modified the adminbar to include a link to the current site’s dashboard if a person was logged in, making it easy to get to the members-only side of WordPress without having to go through My Blogs and finding the right blog, then mousing over the pop-out “Dashboard” link. Most people never found [...]
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If you haven’t watched Lessig’s fantastic, passionate keynote yet, watch it.
(link to the video, in case it gets stripped from the RSS)
It’s worth it, if for no other reason than to get your own Certificate of Entitlement, signed by Lawrence Lessig:
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Scott Leslie posted a link to Charter for Compassion, and I can’t think of a better thing to support. Compassion is so painfully lacking in the world today. It needs to be universal. We are all connected.
This is something I struggle with as well. I need to try harder. A LOT harder. Compassion is essential. [...]
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If you can read this, then the move to a new server at CanadianWebHosting.com is complete. They had to disable SSH on the existing servers because of an apparent hack attempt, so I asked to be moved to a server that had SSH available. They moved stuff over the weekend, and DNS took a bit [...]
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