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W Lifestyle salon, Toronto
For Google: W Lifestyle Salon 721 Queen Street West Toronto ON M6J 1E6 416-361-9777 (Daniela, formerly of Xtraordinaire, works Saturdays.)
free Macworld Expo passes
free Macworld Expo passes, courtesy of Peachpit Press.
luke doucet is brilliant
“One day you’re gonna miss me / but you’ve gotta have a heart to have a broken one.” —Luke Doucet, Broken One
enjoying your hotel stay
over at signal 15, we hear: So, I’m in Milwaukee at ye olde Holiday Inn Express. They have a wireless internet connection here and it’s been suckin’ all night, like I couldn’t even do anything on it. I suspected someone running a p2p program and taking up all of the bandwidth, so I fired up …
Marquette U doesn’t believe in free speech
A dental student at Marquette University got in a bit of trouble over a blog posting. I’ll let the Marquette Warrior sum it up: But this is the first case we know of (there probably have been many we don’t know of) when a precipitous and emotional reaction from University administrators led to a punishment …
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gawker + nyt remix
If the New York Times editors were given Gawker’s content, you’d get this.
moneyball for college football
Michael Lewis, chaser-down of those who make good use of limited resources, found Mike Leach at Texas Tech: Four years ago, Hodges was a high-school senior with just one other offer to be a college quarterback, from the University of Wyoming. Now, two-thirds of the way through the 2005 N.C.A.A. football season, and with a …
academia expands
My friend Leigh has a chapter in an anthology of academic works on Harry Potter. Now I’ve stumbled across a collect of student essays from a class called “Games for the Web: Ethnography of Massively Multiplayer On-line Games.”
Jason on software
More smart writing frm 37signals: Jason Fried on why good software is simple software: Less as a competitive advantage and why functional specs aren’t helpful.