iTunes AppStore & The Tyranny of Choice
When I'm looking to buy a new video game, I have 2 primary sources: The first is Video Game blogs (I generally read Joystiq & the IGN Xbox feeds), the...
9 years ago today
Having recently been to New York for the first time since the mid-1990's, and all the furor over the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque", this 9th anniversary...
The Great Canadian Ultimate Game
On Saturday night I participated in the Great Canadian Ultimate Game, a 25-hour, cross-Canada ultimate relay organized by Ultimate Canada where players in...
MEC Paddlefest 2010
A few weeks back I won a tickets to 2 events at MEC...
LCD Soundsystem at Malkin Bowl: my review
My first show of the year last...
A Day Apart Seattle - my thoughts on the workshop
Last week, I posted my thoughts on Day 1 of An Even Apart (Seattle). I had fully planned on writing on both day 2 & the 3rd-day workshop, but after...
An Event Apart Seattle (2010) - Day 1
I spent the first 3 days this week at An Event Apart (Seattle). This is a conference that I'd been wanting to attend since its inception, but somehow...
Announcing: Vancouver Stories 2010
Last year, Think City held the first annual "Vancouver Stories" fundraiser event at Heritage Hall here in Vancouver. This event is a fundraiser for our...
Canadian islamophobia
Listening to CBC's The Current this morning I heard the Québec immigration minister Yolande James state that a woman cannot wear the niqab to learn...
How to improve the Oscars
Like (based on the evidence of my Twitter feed) a lot of people, I watched some of the Oscars on Sunday night. It was a pretty horrible telecast, as is...