On Tuesday, I had the pleasure of meeting with Kris Inwood, Director of the 1891 Census Project at the University of Guelph along with his staff at a review of this exciting project. Census project staff have been entering data…
I started collecting those wonderful Nigerian letters and emails soliciting your co-operation to smuggle huge amounts of money out of the country. I thought that maybe the collection might provide an opportunity for analysis and crafting some sort of paper.…
We had a short spate of conversation at the TAPoR meeting on forms of disaggregation (and I guess corollorarily demand aggregation) when looking at online swap/consolidation sites. I cam across a further swap site this morning that illustrated this concept…and…
I vaguely remember some mention that many of the work from the Champlain Society are now available online in a digital format. I could not find mention of how many of the works are now available in this format. I…
English Russia has posted some great footage of a Stalinist video showing the wonderful architectural rewards that the populace was about to reap. I was particularly impressed by what must have been a rather impressive technique for the time of…
This is a just really cool. Knutz.net Thomas Broome has a series of pictures drawn entirely with words…really. Interior landscapes composed of chandeliers drawn only using the word chandelier. Wonderful little details to appreciate.
I got the little Nike+ pedometer for my iPod last year to track my running progress. Yeah, that’s right its was purely for exercise sake…yeah. Yes, its a gadget. I like gadgets. And this one is very cool. If you…
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Having now discovered how easy it is to simply hit the back key on your keyboard and simply loose the longest blog entry that you have ever made…I start to rewrite this post. I am sure, you, the reader, will…
From bestdesi.com comes a top ten list of the most annoying alarm clocks in the world. I like the selection of clocks. All are pretty much annoying which of course is part of the deal, but what the better ones…
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