I'm sure today's lust for high-fidelity and improved data storage on all kinds of medium have addressed some of these failings of sound reproduction. I'll trust the chase-out on that to my audiophile friends.

All right, it's a marketing video and it's got all kinds of marketing schlock going on... Yeah I watched the whole thing.  Kinda cool.

I spotted it on a slashdot post.

In nerfing around on the site for Frankie Manning's 95th birthday (who is Frankie Manning?) looking at the bands that are playing and the Cangelosi Cards caught my eye.  So I clicked through.  Turns out they are an old time jazz swing band, or something the like.  A search yields a link to Down Home Radio where they appear to be a frequent guest band.  There are also a few video's on youtube of varying quality.  All in all there stuff sounds great.  Their vocalist, Tamar Korn, makes the old vocal style sound effortless.  They play some dates around the city (New York City) and so I must go out and find them.  Ive also subscribed to Down Home Radio's podcast and look forward to consuming the back episodes.

Reduce costume and theme parties... ha ha hah.

First of all the piece is hysterical. As I was watching I realized the BestBuy looked familiar. And while I don't have confirmation, I'm pretty damn sure they shot it at the location below. Let's have a look at street view and see.

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Yep, tree, billboard, brick color, narrow street. I'd say that's the one.

I was looking into my analytics and saw a hand full of traffic from China. I had blogged a bit about Baidu's spider being hyper active and I wondered if that didn't get me on the Chinese radar. Then I looked at the landing pages they were hitting it turned out it was comment page. You see where this is going, comment spam. I guess I had turned off my Akismet off when I made some changes a bit ago. Yeah, I've put comment spam screening back in. I am curious to see what happens to my Chinese traffic once the spam door closes.

As you probably have figured out by now, I use my blog as my memory. And in cleaning out my (overly large pile of clippings) I came across this article The Great Escape: How the CIA used a fake science fiction film to sneak six Americans out of revolutionary Iran by Joshua Bearman with illustrations by Tim Burgard.... Yeah see now you're interested. It was in the May 2007 Issue, and it was really amazing. For some reason the permalink doesn't work, but you can link to a PDF from their page here or Here is the link to the PDF . The article is nothing short of riveting and the illustrations are great.

Actually after looking at the page, there is another interesting pieces you can get PDF from the Wired page:

Pop Up Cities
One day soon, a marshy island not far from Shanghai will become home to a half-million new people. Design company Arup and architect Alejandro Gutierrez have created a new urban model for China. Welcome to the high-density, instant-assembly, bright-green metropolis of the future.

And now I have one less piece of paper in my life.

All, right, it's not by much, but still. So it must be pretty tropical for this time of year in Winnipeg, and it's pretty freakin cold here in NYC

When I tell people I've taken up curling I keep getting asked, "Wait, what is curling?"
And so I do a lot of explanation. However, curling's been getting more than the usual press lately - some might say it's 'heating up'. Yeah groaner I know. At any rate, here is a brief video about curling and was shot at my club (available in HD as well).