links for 2007-04-24

Sali Tagliamonte’s Home Page — Home of Gold­varb X (tags: teach­ing edu­ca­tion teaching_philosophy) Con­cor­dia Digital His­tory Lab (tags: his­tory digital_humanities) Cana­dian Design Research Net­work (tags: design research canada tech­no­logy grants busi­ness net­work resource)

Rumi Rocks!

When in Montreal, one must savour the fine eat­ing oppor­tun­it­ies and I am thrilled to report a gem of a spot. Rumi is a Persian/Sufi res­taur­ant loc­ated in Mile’s End at the corner of Hutchison and Fair­mount. It has a charm­ing ter­rasse and abso­lutely stun­ningly yummy food.

links for 2007-04-21

Seat­Guru Seat Map Air Canada Cana­dair CRJ (CRJCL-65) (tags: air­craft ref­er­ence seat_choice) Advanced Com­mon Sense Home (tags: usab­il­ity web­design design web inter­ac­tion test­ing access­ib­il­ity ui) The Scourge of Arial (tags: adobe typo­graphy fonts design his­tory hel­vetica arial font) Found His­tory (tags: his­tory blog human­it­ies) Bits flow­ing through the wires of a com­puter net­work are invis­ible; a “network …

links for 2007-04-20

TIP Com­munity » Field at a Glance (tags: blog hack howto tech­no­logy) bab­ba­ging: Python, Amazon, graphs, oh my! (tags: blogs digital_humanities) Used Car Dealer Nego­ti­ation Tips | Nego­ti­ation Academy (tags: car cars shop­ping money nego­ti­ation buy­ing auto) Bun­gee Labs — Next Gen­er­a­tion Web Devel­op­ment Plat­form (tags: web2.0 devel­op­ment api mashup web­dev frame­work webapp plat­form) News: SiS …

Sovereignty Observed

Accord­ing to a Wash­ing­ton Post head­line, “Cana­dian mil­it­ary rein­forces Arc­tic claim.” Appar­ently this is of more interest to the US than to Cana­dians. Although the CBC did men­tion the trek in the wider con­text of beefed up pres­ence as man­dated by the Tor­ies on, the foray of the 24 mem­ber team did not make it …

Contronyms…Too Cool!

I admit it…I had no idea what a con­tronym was until I saw this fas­cin­at­ing list of examples. A con­tronym is a word which its own ant­onym. Get it. Maybe not. The word cus­tom for example means both usual and also spe­cial . I like that one! Check out this web page where there is …

Classical Creativity

Down the line of totally cool fur­niture comes this rather unique objet d’something. Its called Obelisk and come from Jane et cie. Its simply cool — a set of four chairs and a table that, when stored forms a rather intriguing obeliskish fea­ture for the well turned out living room.