Monthly Archives: January 2006

McKenna for leader, ice-o-lation and the new crystal methodology

Atlantic News Perspective #166 | Aliant.net

Stuff

The Pitty Card (dir. Bob Odenkirk) | Sundance
Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) | Grandaddy

DVD

Wholphin DVD

Event

Co-op closures, plunger attack and votes for sale

Atlantic News Perspective #165 | Aliant.net

Meetings

Meetings considered harmful | Signal vs. Noise

Manure management, historic Barrington and reserved restaurants

Atlantic News Perspective #164 | Aliant.net

Dusty hospital machinery, whale bones and video game violence

Atlantic News Perspective #163 | Aliant.net

The Paper

Flying Cow fined $239k | The Herald

Local Media Watch

Plagiarist suspended from Halifax Chronicle Herald | Regret The Error

Program Bits & Bobs

The tools we use to run and build 37signals | Signal vs. Noise
Startup kit | Nick Denton
Running your company on web apps | Evhead
Favorite Macintosh OSX Applications | matt.makalumedia.com
Essential Mac OS X Applications | Mac Specialist
Geek to Live | Lifehacker

Demo Gods

“I certainly know better than to try to re-record or recreate things that sound cool. Record companies used to do demos, and that’s something Mike and I always fought against early in our career. When something sounds great, it’s done. You don’t want to go back and re-record something that sounds great. The way we [...]

The Future

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “We live in a world with too much music,” writes Joe Nickell at Missoulian.com. He’s bothered by the fact that everywhere he goes, there are tunes pouring from cell phones and mp3 players and TVs and radios and live bands. As far as you’re concerned, though, Nickell is utterly off-base. [...]

Canadian Innovation

Designer invents winter snow skirt | CBC

Freyed Not

“Thanks to Oprah Winfrey, author James Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces” has sat atop best-seller lists since the TV star picked the nonfiction memoir for her powerful book club four months ago. Winfrey has called Frey’s book, which chronicles his years as an alcoholic, drug addict, and criminal, “gut-wrenching” and “so real.” Well, not exactly. [...]

Jack MacDonald & Friends

“Also on tonight, Gus’s Pub has one of the quirkiest lineups in recent memory, with The Jeff Coll Five (with members of Windom Earle, Death by Nostalgia and Stiff Kitty/Catholic Gaydar), Ceti Alpha (named after the planet that Captain Kirk stranded Khan on) and street poet Jack MacDonald backed by Dartmouth’s Hotel FacesAs an added [...]

Civic bribes, volleyball courting and hypnotism for the holidays

Atlantic News Perspective #162 | Aliant.net

Viewer Discretion Is Implied

‘This Film is Not Yet Rated’ given NC-17 Rating | Yahoo! Finance

Palermo Round-up

Movie report card : Palermo Ranks 2005 movies | The Coast

News

Yearly Review | Harpers

Indecisive Mix®

1 bag of party mix + 1 bag of all dressed chips = a bowl of indecisive mix

News

100 things we didn’t know this time last year | BBC NEWS