Archive for October, 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-31

October 31, 2010

My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: No Kill I (12), SomaFM (5) & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2) #mm http://bit.ly/d3P3n9 In the 80s, music videos were art and story unto themselves. Exhibit A: “Herbie Hancock: Rockit” | http://bit.ly/arvjXz In the 80s, music videos were art and story unto themselves. Exhibit B: “Thomas Dolby – She Blinded [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-24

October 24, 2010

Making a Facebook clone with Elgg. Have a look. Sign in, even. – http://trl.ca/elgg/ # My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: No Kill I (12), SomaFM (5) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2) #mm http://bit.ly/d3P3n9 # Android users have downloaded Angry Birds over two million times in three days. Me? Considering it. # Bad name, bad [...]

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Bad name, bad placement, bad… bad.

October 20, 2010

IMAG0005, originally uploaded by toddlyons. I saw this at the Uniprix pharmacy near my workplace. I’m not sure what the marketers were thinking when they named the product. I’m not aware of too many runaway best sellers (well, any) where the treatment was named after the disease.  Evidently, someone slept through that semester of university… [...]

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Yes there is!

October 19, 2010

It’s been right there all along! ‘Nuff said.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-17

October 17, 2010

Why the CBC banned Creative Commons music from its shows | http://bit.ly/9ZTiNf # Firefox beta for Android and Maemo phones – http://firefox.com/m/beta # SallyDavies McDonalds Happy Meal Project – a set on Flickr – http://bit.ly/cj8tzN # Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, mvmt. I. Molto allegro (Jaap ter Linden, Amsterdam Mozart [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-17

October 17, 2010

Why the CBC banned Creative Commons music from its shows | http://bit.ly/9ZTiNf Firefox beta for Android and Maemo phones – http://firefox.com/m/beta Sally Davies McDonalds Happy Meal Project – a set on Flickr – http://bit.ly/cj8tzN Thinking of switching to Linux on your laptop, netbook, desktop, or kids computer? Need a friend in Ottawa to help? I’m [...]

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Get a Grip

October 16, 2010

Get a Grip 1, originally uploaded by toddlyons. My wife loves me, This I know, For her gag gifts Tell me so. Just about ever Saturday, my wife brings me home something from the second-hand shop she works at.  Often it’s clothes, but occasionally it’s a novelty gift like this one. Yeah, sometimes I do [...]

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Android Video Player Roundup

October 16, 2010

If you’re like me, you want the latest and greatest apps on your phone, and you want them for free. Linux has spoiled me to expect top quality, nag-free, ad-free software.  In that regard, Android is a bit of a letdown (as are all the mobile phone platforms, to be fair).  In developing a Marketplace [...]

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No Kill I

October 14, 2010

Classic Star Trek punk.  Is that a real genre?  A genre of one, perhaps.  Here’s the eponymous track from the band No Kill I.  Their name comes from the scrawling of an alien life form in the Star Trek episode The Devil in the Dark.  Sad I never saw these guys when I had the chance.

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