Canada is preserving artifacts from my childhood June 23, 2008
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During a recent business trip to Vancouver — my first visit to Canada — I stopped at a Safeway to see if I could find a boxed pastry that a Canadian friend of mine told me to look out for. I saw no Passion Flakies there, but when I took a turn through the cereal aisle I was seized with a sense of profound disorientation as I beheld something I haven’t seen since I was a kid in the 70s: Sugar Crisp cereal.
Sometime after 1979 (Lazyweb?) the cereal’s name was changed to “Super Golden Crisp” in the U.S. But not, apparently, in Canada.
Given how taboo the word “sugar” is in kid’s products now, the Canadian version felt kind of subversive to me. It opened a window onto an alternate world of strange possibilities, where the names of foods highlight their main ingredients instead of concealing them.
Because everything’s better with sac. May 16, 2008
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What exactly am I asking the Cap’n to do here? May 2, 2008
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Microsoft Xune April 25, 2008
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A.J. Kandy wonders, what if the Xbox team had designed the Zune? Here’s his vision of the Xune device enjoyed by the inhabitants of a parallel Earth.
Your strengths and weaknesses, as voted by your friends April 18, 2008
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I’ve received an e-mail from from Facebook’s “Compare People” app, containing the critical data I need to optimize my interpersonal relationships.
Your friends have voted on your strengths and weaknesses:
STRENGTHS:
happiest
best father (potential)
nicest
WEAKNESSES:
best listener
most talkative
So apparently I do not listen as well as others, nor do I talk enough.
Consultify March 26, 2008
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Slide from Merlin Mann’s SXSWi 2008 presentation at the “Worst. Website. Ever” panel/competition. FlockdUp enables Maverick Networking for Thought Leaders. Video at http://www.viddler.com/explore/rooreynolds/videos/17/
Jonathan Coulton sings one of my favorite Billy Bragg songs March 25, 2008
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A cold day in Kirkland January 15, 2008
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Last night the rain turned to snow, then the snow turned to slush, then the slush turned to ice.
IM IN UR PHOTO, WEIRDLY OBSSESSED WITH UR CRUCIFIX MADE BY FRENCH TRAPPIST MONKS January 5, 2008
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