Nature, cities and brains
First thoughts on Alexander's The Nature Of Order
( 8 Jan 2009; 2 comments)
Forgery League
Forgery League comprises three separate but occasionally crossposted blogs:
The environment in the larger sense — both natural and human-made.
Running in the family
A discovery at work
( 15 Jul 2008; 1 comment)
A grand opening
Notes from the Open Everything unconference, and a proposal: the Really Open Stage
( 5 Jun 2008)
Electronics, programming and other projects.
Report on an unknown sea cucumber
A 3-D fractal rears its head
( 1 Dec 2009; 3 comments)
Ubuntu on the HP Mini 110
The newest toy—I mean, tool
( 1 Nov 2009; 1 comment)
Oramics
Daphne Oram, Radiophonic Workshop founder and electronic music pioneer
( 24 Mar 2009; 2 comments)
A personal blog focusing on music and art.
Report on an unknown sea cucumber
A 3-D fractal rears its head
( 1 Dec 2009; 3 comments)
Drawing blanks
Music and drawing, plus graphic novels: Scott Pilgrim and Fun Home
( 25 Nov 2009)
Oramics
Daphne Oram, Radiophonic Workshop founder and electronic music pioneer
( 24 Mar 2009; 2 comments)
Elsewhere
Shadley Park
coming soon
Delicious bookmarks
Bay Area entrepreneur sets sights on vacant buildings for hydroponic urban gardens (Grist)
PM pushing out officials, some say to clear the way for Fox News in Canada (Globe and Mail)
Visual language for describing user interaction (Jakub Linowski)
"Live Show Control for Mac OS X"
Bike mapping and directions for US cities and Toronto
Altruists "raise the bar" too much: WSU study (AAAS EurekAlert)
Teens living in public learn to layer meanings in their messages (Danah Boyd)
Twitter updates
What tree species are you? http://evergreen.ca/treeme That'd be Elidus mcilies, in my case...
(Thu 2 Sep at 4:59)
Last night's tell-don't-show first-draft strategy partly inspired by this very funny comic reduction of Firefly: http://j.mp/bh3Hoz
(Thu 2 Sep at 2:14)
Headachey insomnia. But landed on a first draft technique I like: abandon the show-don't-tell rule completely. Tell everything. Fix later.
(Thu 2 Sep at 4:15)
Things you don't usually expect to find by a downtown sidewalk: a new species of bee. http://j.mp/bVNGmA (Toronto Star)
(Wed 1 Sep at 11:34)
Off to Kensington for Pedestrian Sundays. Flickershow plays on St Andrew St at 2pm!
(Sun 29 Aug at 12:19)
That "neighbours vs. parishioners" video? Things are more complicated than that (of course): http://j.mp/bmJL3C (Star)
(Wed 25 Aug at 8:11)