Monthly Archives: February 2007

A rubber band machine, Island shopping and farewell to Jasper and Sam

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #207 | Aliant.net

links for 2007-02-28

swfIR: swf Image Replacement
(tags: webdev)

Halifax Herald: Version for Persons with Vision Loss
(tags: news visionloss)

links for 2007-02-26

The Merlin Show
(tags: video podcast)

dnScoop
(tags: dns domain)

www.todbits.tv
(tags: yetanothertodmaffinsite geek cbc)

File Under: Mothers in the news

Leaders of the pack: The Guardian profiles powerful Island women who are at the head of P.E.I.’s largest provincial labour unions
Excerpt:
Fighting for rights
Mary MacNeil has been living the labour movement life for more than 30 years. She had her first picket line experience in the 1970s, fought for pay equity in the 1980s and has [...]

links for 2007-02-24

FashionEASTa
= ECMA + NSCAD
(tags: music fashion eastcoast)

UnSpun by Amazon: Best Sushi Restaurants in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(tags: Halifax sushi lists)

MONOCLE
(tags: magazine)

Cat Post 3

14+ Hours of Sleep a Day | halicats!locals

Cat Post II

Love & Hate | halicats!locals

links for 2007-02-23

In-Depth Regional Wii Coverage | Wii.Nintendo.com
(tags: wii)

Resources - Stencil Revolution
(tags: fonts)

links for 2007-02-22

This American Life: the television show
(tags: tv)

Awesomely Free Audio Book

John Hodgman’s The Areas of My Expertise (Abridged Nonfiction) via iTunes Music Store
You may know John Hodgman as either The Daily Show’s Resident Expert, the PC in Apple’s series of commercials, a corespondent on This American Life, dedicated to the hobo, a writer of things, a blogger or Bruce Campbell’s former literary agent.

links for 2007-02-21

PmWiki
(tags: php wiki)

Twitterrific | Iconfactory
(tags: mac software)

Friday, March 16/07 (Midnight) @ BD Riley’s (204 E 6th St, Austin, TX)

Windom Earle: SXSW 2007 Showcasing Artist

links for 2007-02-20

MediaFork
GPL’d, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter, available for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows
(tags: DVD ripper)

The GarageDoor | All Things GarageBand
(tags: garageband)

HOTSHOTROBOT
(tags: eastcoast bands)

Friends of Tom (The Best Show - WFMU)
(tags: radio podcasts)

How Steve Jobs played hardball in iPhone birth | Wall Street Journal
(tags: apple iPhone)

Code Igniter
(tags: php)

A Bird or a Plane?

Here are candid shots by Joshua Szeto and Kristine Richer of Windom Earle rehearsing for FashionEASTa and wearing super hero garb.

The Bob-o-Lynx, the swearing jar goes to school and raises all around

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #206 | Aliant.net

links for 2007-02-19

Transcendental Meditation : Education : David Lynch Foundation
(tags: weird foundations)

Quick Tag | sean mcgrath’s weblog
(tags: iTunes tags folksonomy)

Swivel
(tags: webware charts graphs)

The W

With a nod to Halifax’s sartorial history and a bold salute to its future, young Halifax fashion designers and rising East Coast musical stars wowed a sold-out audience at the first FashionEASTa event.
Billed as “where music meets design,” the event at the World Trade and Convention Centre on Thursday night was a fund-raiser for the [...]

links for 2007-02-16

83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen | Smashing Magazine
(tags: wordpress themes webdev)

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: Joel Johnson Returns…to Spank Us All for Supporting Crap | Gizmodo
“Consumer electronics are a joke. It’s everyone’s fault but mine. You assholes.”
(tags: tech consumerism writing)

messwithtexasparty.com
(tags: SXSW)

Slowcoaster
(tags: eastcoast bands)

Associated with Music from the East Coast

Windom Earle is rumoured to be appearing on tonight’s CBC supper hour news…perhaps in tights with a Gibson Flying V. It’s probably a promo for the FashionEASTa event (wardrobe by dwsage).
The band is also scheduled to play an in-store at Sam the Record Man (Barrington Street) on Saturday, February 16th at 2:30 pm and is [...]

links for 2007-02-15

the tom fun orchestra
(tags: eastcoast bands)

Valentine’s Day Cards for the Geeks in Your Life! | 4 color rebellion
(tags: valentines cards)

links for 2007-02-14

MOSSO :: The Hosting System
(tags: hosting)

Managed Web Hosting by Rackspace
(tags: hosting)

The unofficial Drinking Olympics, bad magic in Barrington and Acadieurbaine.net

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #205 | Aliant.net

The List of Lists

Here are some lists of South By Southwest Performers that got sent to me via Google Alerts…
Guess who’s going to SXSW other than me… | xpalermox
The Good, The Bad and the Queen To Play SxSW | Undercover
SXSW announces initial 2007 lineup! | Brooklyn Vegan
Remember… it’s not for you: That SXSW list | No Rock and [...]

links for 2007-02-13

Make Your Own Mii | Joystiq
(tags: flash wii mii avatar)

links for 2007-02-12

The Magic Behind the ‘Superzoom’ Lens | Pogue’s Posts
Review of Nikon’s 18-200 mm “superzoom” VR lens
(tags: cameras lenses photography reviews)