Buggin Out 09’ by Consequence featuring KiD CuDi [via]
Shan and I met this happy angler by the Assiniboine river on Friday night.
In 2006/2007 I emailed various levels of government to see if it was safe to eat fish caught in our Winnipeg river systems.
Also: Assiniboine River Water Quality Study 2001/2002 - Water Quality Mgmt Section, Manitoba Conservation [pdf]
Related: More Photos - Early Summer 2009 (Flickr Set)
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MoreCowbell.dj
Add cowbell and Christopher Walken to any song you upload.
Powered by the Echo Nest Remix API. Algorithmic remixing.
“George Boole was the inventor of a logical calculus of truth values which provided a basis for modern computing. The binary digits ‘1’ and ‘0’ are often used to represent true and false in boolean algebra.”
I am working on a new Introduction to Programming Logic course for RRC, afloat in a sea of Boolean logic.
Teach a Kid to Argue
“An argument is good; a fight is not. Whereas the goal of a fight is to dominate your opponent, in an argument you succeed when you bring your audience over to your side.”
Argument by logos, ethos, and pathos for children.
The Dice-O-Matic mark II
A 7 foot tall, 104 pound, dice-eating monster, capable of generating 1.3 million dice rolls a day.
Let’s Hear It for the Bees
Honey Bees keep time using molecular clocks, “a series of feedback loops in which the proteins produced by several genes feedback to repress their own production. […] The end result is a near-24-hour cycling in the levels of various proteins that in turn result in the cycling of the secretion of hormones and other substances.”
See: The Setup or The New Best Friends
Ted Baryluk’s Grocery - John Paskievich, Michael Mirus, 1982, 10min 19s
Ukrainian-Canadian Ted Baryluk’s grocery store was a fixture in Winnipeg’s North End (Point Douglas) for over 20 years.
Danger Mouse to release blank CD
The music cannot be released (legal dispute with EMI) so fans can download the music P2P and burn it to the CD-R.
The album can also be streamed in full from NPR.
LampHead - experiments in surrealistic shading
AskMefi: "You must ____ in ____!"
Quintessential Cliché Experiences Around the World
Ned Raggett Reads the Almanac
Download the entire album
Manitoba Bans the Bottle - March 13, 1916
Prohibition in Manitoba. (Via: The Winnipeg Time Machine)
