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Democamp 25 in pictures
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Democamp moved from one Rogers building to another — tonight’s event was hosted in the relatively brand new Rogers School of Management at Ryerson.
This month’s theme: Facebook.
To kick things off, serial entrepreneur Gurbaksh Chahal — whose tagline seems to be “became a multimillionaire at 18” — gave a pep talk. He just launched gWallet, a virtual currency platform which aims to bring some ethics and legitimacy to the industry.
Democamp 25 in pictures
Democamp moved from one Rogers building to another — tonight’s event was hosted in the relatively brand new Rogers School of Management at Ryerson.
This month’s theme: Facebook.
To kick things off, serial entrepreneur Gurbaksh Chahal — whose tagline seems to be “became a multimillionaire at 18” — gave a pep talk. He just launched gWallet, a […]
Hohoto 3.0: The one year anniversary edition
One year ago, Toronto’s Twitter crowd came together to raise money for the Daily Bread Food Bank. In the summer, it happened again. Yesterday: a third edition of Hohoto!
For a lot of us, this was an anniversary of sorts. Sure, this community didn’t come out of nowhere but Hohoto was where so many of us […]
A foggy night in Toronto
I was sitting at home reading fascinating tales about the Yakuza in preparation for my trip to Japan (exciting news, dear readers. The next blog post will be coming at you from Japan. I’m leaving Thursday) when I saw an update from my friend Emery:
Awesome night for a fogwalk.
Fog? My ears perked up. I’m a […]
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Democamp 25 in pictures
Democamp moved from one Rogers building to another — tonight’s event was hosted in the relatively brand new Rogers School of Management at Ryerson.
This month’s theme: Facebook.
To kick things off, serial entrepreneur Gurbaksh Chahal — whose tagline seems to be “became a multimillionaire at 18” — gave a pep talk. He just launched gWallet, a […]
Hohoto 3.0: The one year anniversary edition
One year ago, Toronto’s Twitter crowd came together to raise money for the Daily Bread Food Bank. In the summer, it happened again. Yesterday: a third edition of Hohoto!
For a lot of us, this was an anniversary of sorts. Sure, this community didn’t come out of nowhere but Hohoto was where so many of us […]
A foggy night in Toronto
I was sitting at home reading fascinating tales about the Yakuza in preparation for my trip to Japan (exciting news, dear readers. The next blog post will be coming at you from Japan. I’m leaving Thursday) when I saw an update from my friend Emery:
Awesome night for a fogwalk.
Fog? My ears perked up. I’m a […]
A few things I learned at the Macallan Scotch tasting
(Remember how I said that my next post would be from Japan? Well I lied. Blame the phenomena of jet lag. For the anxious, I have some photos here and will start posting full entries by next week.)
Last month, I attended a tasting for The Macallan Scotch. As Pam said:
Going to learn about “The Macallan.” […]
Halloween Team Fortress 2
Last year, my friends from computer science decided to do something geeky for Halloween:
What could be geekier than going to Halloween as video game characters from TF2? (If you don’t know what TF2 is and have a winter break to waste, click here.)
Close enough?
This certainly wasn’t the first time it’s been done. Heck, it’s even […]
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Outline of Newsweek’s ‘Secrets of the 2008 Campaign’ report
If I had to give a single example of why traditional journalism won’t (shouldn’t?) disappear, I’d point to the series of articles that Newsweek just released about the 2008 presidential campaign. Entitled “Secrets of the 2008 Campaign,” the 7 chapter (!) report is based on extensive reporting which they had to promise not to release […]
When the economy goes down, packaged food sales go up
During economic bad times, interesting things happen. Package food sales go up, for instance. According to Advertising Age, it’s been a “banner year”:
Campbell Soup’s sales rose 13% in the most recent quarter, a phenomenon CEO Douglas Conant said was aided partly by strapped consumers embracing condensed soup as an inexpensive meal alternative. Kellogg Co.’s second-quarter […]
Technorati’s plea for restraint
While wandering around Technorati in a hopeless quest to figure out why exactly it’s still still relevant, I came across this gem:
Tip: Please do us a favor and upload a photo that does not show your very special but also very private parts. When you do that, we have to take time away from making […]
X-Plane gets an inside peek into Apple HQ
X-Plane is a simulator that’s nearly as good as Microsoft’s Flight Simulator but developed with a fraction of the programmers: in fact it’s basically a one-man-show run by a guy named Austin Meyer.
So what happened when he called up Apple and asked if it would be possible to port his simulator to the iPhone? They […]
Latest reads
- Soul on Ice (Eldridge Cleaver)
A series of essays, reflections, and vignettes on race, written smack in the middle of the 60s.
If you investigate Cleaver’s own personal story, you’ll discover it meanders as much as this book. He dabbled with Mormonism, moved on to conservative Republican causes, had his own fashion line, succumbed to a crack addiction, and recovered just […] - The Thin Man (Dashiell Hammett)
Not nearly as good as a Raymond Chandler tale; in particular, the dialogue is much weaker. Still a fun read though.
Wikipedia describes something that I also noticed myself:
Somehow, after drinking a lot of alcohol, Nick never seems to get a headache or even seem seriously drunk, aside from a little wobble every now and then.
Or […] - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
Took almost 300 pages for the plot to even start unfolding but it eventually came together. I enjoyed it but not as much Hardboiled.
Latest movies
- The 39 Steps (1935)
The best part was seeing how Hitchcock danced around the riskée plot scenario in which the male and female leads are handcuffed together and have to spend a night together.
- Young People Fucking
There’s a good chance this movie wouldn’t have made it to theatres if it had a different name. It’s also embroiled in the whole Bill C-10 controversy since it got $200k in tax credits.
I thought the title was compensating for a mediocre film but that turned out not to be the case. - The Dark Knight (2008)
The Good: the darkness, the grit
The Bad: explosions, explosions, explosions
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