this morning marked kingston’s first day that officially smells like winter! (and yes, i am somewhat of an authority on the subject) if you were up and about outside this morning – provided you don’t have the sniffles – you probably know what i’m talking about. and dont try and tell me that a lack […]

i just read an article describing the difficulties in attempting to label our nuclear waste sites in a way that will stand the test of time. i have to admit, they were very creative when coming up with their scenarios for failure: “feminist corporations that disbelieve WIPP warnings because they were written by men”, and […]

the period before the singularity / introdus / collective-consciousness. the time before whatever comes next…

that is why i stand ʎɯ ǝʇsɐdɥʇooʇ

if you’ve ever tried to “roll” a d4, you may have noticed that tetrahedrons don’t. besides, who doesnt like spinning their dice?
i foresee an entire new genre of roleplaying games… and i like it.

the day has finally arrived. i had hoped we might have been able to avoid it altogether, but bill-c61 is here. the initial analysis by the internet’s favourite canadian copyright lawyer michael geist indicate that the bill even worse than than our neighbours-to-the-south’s infamous dmca.
but it is not yet too late! this bill can still […]

an observation of commuting on the ttc and leaving the subway via the escalator at king station during rushhour:
the hordes of shuffling people funneling into the escalator reminds me of a zipper. a very strange zipper that takes a jumbled mess and forces it into a two columned interlocking pattern (as opposed to the usual […]

i’ve come across one of the best sentences ever while reading gödel escher bach: and eternal golden braid (aka geb):
“yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation” yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
this operation of preceding a phrase with it’s quotation was invented by willard van orman quine and is hence called “to quine a […]

i have to say that two firefox plugins that i couldn’t imagine working without are my del.icio.us buttons and the session manager. for the uninitiated, del.icio.us is a web2.0 bookmarking tool. your bookmarks are available from anywhere on the internet; you can share them with anyone, and see what other people are saving. the buttons […]

as you may already know, canadian copyright reform is an issue that is very important to me. so much so that i wrote a letter that i sent to multiple members of parliament to voice my concerns. this was back in early december before i had created this blog, but a digital copy of my […]