http://77percent.com/wordpress ... just right Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:11:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Excuse me, friends, I must catch my jet I'm off to join the Development Set; My bags are packed, and I've had all my shots I have travellers' checks and pills for the trots! The Development Set is bright and noble Our thoughts are deep and our vision global; Although we move with the better classes Our ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/682/development-set/ I´ve just returned from the salt flats (Salar) de Uyuni. As follows are my raw, unedited writings from the two nights we spent in this rather awe-inspiring abyss. I´ve noticed that the words have a tendancy towards a rather comically exagerated explorer-writer styling, mostly just for my own amusement I´m ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/614/salar-de-uyuni/ this lovely city was required by law (during colonial times) to have all of its buildings painted in different colours, the result is incredible (even more so in contrast with Sucre, where everything painted white in accordance with the law, or even La Paz, particularly El Alto where walls are ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/615/potosi/ well just thought that I ought to make it official (as in Published) ... for the coming half year I'm quite preoccupied with a Bolivian exhange trip working at an organic farm and/or Habitat in rural canada for the first half and then living in another host family in Bolivia where ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/613/outta-here/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Envelope, originally uploaded by KellyLWatson. I got myself a pad of about a dozen blank 4×6 postcards yesterday on the way home from the dentist’s. They’re very hefty (watercolor 140lb) and ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/608/first-class-mail/ is the rise of philanthropic fashionistas decked out in Red T-shirts and iPods really the best way to save a child dying of AIDS in Africa? market share power drill acrylic pipe water analize medicale biologie plante statiuni tratament accesorii revista acasa love story sign language nature photography "The Red campaign proposes consumption as the cure to the world's evils," said Ben ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/607/brand-red-no-good/ Congratulations, We are pleased to inform you that you successfully completed your evaluation session. You have been recommended, by your session leaders, for placement in Canada World Youth 2007-2008 programs going to Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean or Eastern Europe. The 'evaluation session' was last weekend ... [more to be ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/605/next-year/ announcing tumble77 It's what they're calling a tumble log these days. Really it's just a clean place where I can toss all sorts of interesting junk for your viewing pleasure, updated more often 77percent even in its youth. I think you'll find it's almost even worth your while, particularly if you're relatively bored or in need ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/603/tumble/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } tracyanne campbell, originally uploaded by jenny. I missed them, a couple weeks ago at Barrymore's playing with the Essex Green albeit on a tuesday night, but I've found this very nice ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/600/camera-obscura/ each bit deserves its own individual post in good time and I will try to include photos, for the sake of interestingness, wherever possible; it's been a while since 77percent was last updated and I'm going to start apologizing but I just wanted to get this out there, I'm considering ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/597/shrove-tuesday/ originally uploaded by plemeljr. there's more in 11 Spring group pool on flickr A couple weeks ago, number eleven spring street was torn down to be turned into condo building. This is a Bad Thing. I've been meaning to post on this for a while now, but I've wanted to give ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/569/11-spring/ I'm very interesting in working with polaroid at some point in the near future. in other news, I'm going to being in Montreal for a few days after christmas / before new years. drop me a line if you'd like to get together or something. I'm really looking forward to my year ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/565/montreal-polaroid-more-maybe/ JPGmag is a very cool (print) magazine concept, it's grown out of what was a flickr group and is now running their own site. (free) members get to submit one photo for each theme and can vote (yeh/neh) on submissions. The really nicely printed version of the magazine comes out ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/563/jpgmag/ 'all made on whiteboard so...no undo/redo' ... enjoy www.minilogue.com http://77percent.com/wordpress/562/hitchhikers-choice/ it's getting dark really early these days. it feels like winter has been a long time coming, but it's just cold, windy and dark outside. more importantly, I saw Tie Me Up Tie Me Down (¡Átame!) at the Bytowne thursday night, again with morgan and dhebi, and it was a great ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/561/tie-me-up-tie-me-down/ Hello everyone who was photographed by Christina on the night of the Anniversary Party at La Petite Mort Gallery. [that's us] This is to formally invite you to see the photographs exhibited at the gallery on November 24th, Friday evening from 7-10pm. The prints will be available for sale. Tunes by Big ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/559/did-halloween/ the bytowne has got a few films showing in the near future (unfortunately probably too near) that sound like something I want to see, so here's a list of them if you're looking for something to do one weekend (link to Lullaby by The Cat Empire [an only slightly relevent ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/557/playing-at-the-bytowne/ many thanks to melly for dragging along her camera when I'd forgotten my own. http://77percent.com/wordpress/556/halloween-at-lapetitemort/ http://77percent.com/wordpress/560/560/ for anyone presently taking or having once taken any course on twentieth century russian history : [an mp3 (from the late-70s)] anyone needing any explanation (this is not to be unnexpected) can read either this article on stylus titled Top Ten Things About "Rasputin" By Boney M or the song's ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/558/ra-ra-rasputin/ threadless is having another one of their flash sales now through wednesday. http://77percent.com/wordpress/555/threadless-flash-sale/ a big happy birthday to olga, we had a pretty chill get together last night and it was a good time. also, since I'm naturally backlogged on news, the cat empire (oct6) was very awesome and a great night, I'm sorry to anyone who wasn't there for their second encore. ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/554/more-importantly/ plaxo is up to it's usual mischief, spamming on my behalf for youtube. I'm real sorry to anyone (pretty much everyone) who got an email yesterday from me via youtube ... the world shouldn't have to put with things like this. spam is annoying and I hate to contribute to ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/553/plaxo-and-youtube/ so I got my tickets for the cat empire (friday night at barrymore's) yesterday and I'm very glad to say that I bought them, in cash none the less, at the bar of the venue (barrymore's) and not through ticketmaster or, as we (the revolutionaries) will now refer to them, ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/552/ticketmaster/ I know I know , I'm still really neglecting 77percent. more importantly though, a bunch of us are going to the cat empire at barrymore's on the oct6. it's going to be very cool. if you don't know them, they're a jazzy-reggae aussie band and they're a whole lot of fun ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/551/the-cat-empire/ so I was planning on dropping by DC this week sometime. I was flying to nyc (this morning) and then flying back from dc (night of sept2) and I figured I'd take the train in between sometime. united airlines and air canada cancelled my flight this morning, I'm booked out a ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/550/i-know-its-been-a-while/ school's now over, exams weren't all that bad. i'm missing canada day, which is a huge blast (from all i've heard from friends and lawrence), this is a major bummer. in other news sri lanka should be a lot of fun, and a really interesting trip .. going to get into ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/549/soon-to-be/ just around the corner ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/546/summertime/ tomorrow is Towel Day. what to do ? carry [flaunt] your trusty towel around with you all day long. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/544/towel-day/ st. elsewhere danger mouse. pretty funky. some i like more than others, on the whole very good quality. also in case you missed it the go! team .. pretty hard to describe very very upbeat and divery, quite enjoyable. from great britain. first seenheard here. in other news, my awesome collection of past ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/542/gnarls-barkley/ happiness the chinese zom a fascinating first person account by/for greenpeace an interesting bit on decrepit anchored chinese fishing boats. "These fishing ships are loaded, supplied and collected form at sea, without any dock-time for maintenance (or for their crews to desert)." http://77percent.com/wordpress/529/zhang-yuan-yu/ flowerman Originally uploaded by jeevs. a print from dc probably in august had a lot of fun shooting every morning and printing in the afternoons those days were fun. the flowerman was a cool shot (also this shot's gotten some attention from some cool photographer folk on flickr) i'm ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/539/flowerman-print/ definitely worth watching or at the least listening hosted by google video enjoy ... also available in (much) higher quality via torrent (you'll first need utorrent to download this link) and a copy of the transcript after the jump Here with a special edition of the Colbert report, Stephen Colbert. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Before ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/540/stephen-colbert-speaks-in-character-for-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner/ what ever happened to silence being golden ? i've always thought together-ness was way more fulfilling than having something witty to talk about. http://77percent.com/wordpress/538/silence/ this is canada’s goal for the percent of our gdp spent on international aid 0.7% of the GDP closest we’ve ever gotten was .49% under the mulroney gov't we're down since then , i honestly don't know if there's good reason for me to mention that it was under mulroney that this was accomplished, i ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/537/point-seven/ everyone knows you can't have too good a backup scheme or too many last resorts mozy is a very robust, simple and automated backup solution, not to mention secure the backups are securely hosted but mozy's got pretty quote generous with an initial gigabyte plus an extra quarter gig for mentioning my ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/536/mozy/ please drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life. http://77percent.com/wordpress/535/this-moment/ yea so i'm looking to make some (big) mounted prints done from some of my recent digital work (some going as far back as sailinginnyc) see the flickr set of potential prints please leave comments on the photos you like the most if you think any of them are print-worthy .. ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/534/printing-season/ the long way back walking the long way backfrom the busy bazaar,we see rows of rickshaws.men, both young and oldsweating in the heavy humidity from their labours: of cycling for someone elsesitting in a carriage.each is hoping for a customer ,(ideally someone skinny),amoungst fierce competition.:each is hoping to make ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/532/streets-of-dhaka/ in drinking bottled water, i figure it’s best to have my spending not just work its way into pepsico’s profits; instead of drinking dasani or aquafina, i buy fiji and ethos water. Both are fine-tasting bottled watersbut more importantly the profits end up in Fiji (where they are invested in ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/531/make-it-worthwhile/ damn cool system using a couple of motors, some string and a can of spraypaint. the can of spray paint is suspended by two strings (attached to motors suspended from opposite ends of the top of the wall) this way the spray can is moved around in 2d on the wall ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/530/hektor/ a $10 sale at threadless.com a whole lot of really awesome reprints including nuts (looks great on yellow), pandamonium, and loch ness imposter. http://77percent.com/wordpress/528/threadless-sale-ending-wedn/ rumour has it (thanks to a couple of confusing voicemessages) lawrence has found a 77% chocolate, and it's thus in the mail headed my way. for those of you not old enough to remember, 77percent originated as a concept for a chocolate factory, my chocolate factory. Our mission was the production ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/527/three-sevenths/ the fellow from the set shawarma deluxe a bunch of photostuffs from around the market this evening, i ended up at a shawarma place on dalhousie next to milano's before walking home. take a look through the shawarma deluxe. http://77percent.com/wordpress/525/shawarma-deluxe/ LolliLove is the first feature film I produced. It's about a wealthy but severely misguided married couple , who set out to make a difference in the lives of the homeless by starting a charity that hands out lollipops to homeless people. Not just any old lollipops, mind you, but ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/522/lollilove/ a few interesting commencement speeches i ran into recently, for your motivational reading pleasure Jon Stewart w&m'84 Conan O'Brien harvard'00 Guy Kawasaki harker Steve Jobs stanford'05 http://77percent.com/wordpress/524/commencement-speeches/ later on in the meanwhile : relevent links : http://getdemocracy.com/ http://tapeitofftheinternet.com/ http://tribler.org/ http://77percent.com/wordpress/523/democracy/ do it. (web-based voicemessage thing (from odeo, the best place for podcasting), give it a try if you're bored. http://77percent.com/wordpress/520/sendmeanodeo/ there's a secret sale on threadless ending this saturday it's not published anywhere on threadless.com but if  you enter tenbucks87 as the coupon code on any order of at least three tees, they'll each cost only $10 a few other codes also exist, supposedly tenbucks20, tenbucks45, tenbucks34, tenbucks85 enjoy. http://77percent.com/wordpress/519/secret-sale/ announcing the brand new spanking talking-place for wikib at talk.wikib.org if you ask me it's pretty damn cool and well worth checking out enjoy ... every one who signs up real soon will get one free favour from me speaking of which, wikib is still storming along, we still haven't reach our goal of 100% ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/518/talkwikib/ a few more artists that i've been digging recently : Animal Collective (british version of broken social scene) broken social scene (canadian chillout) the new pornographers (canadian indie rock at its finest) arctic monkeys (in case you haven't heard, is thestrokes meets franzferdinand) Feist (kind of folksy female vocal jazz) some new albums worth mentioning: ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/517/a-little-bit-of/ yea, pandora's great for discovering and also just for quickly putting something on that you know you'll probably like but also probably won't be able to see coming ... it's just that it can be very limited by having such little information to go by, i'm very impressed with how ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/516/pandora-lastfm/ does anyone else know the decemberists ? i heard some of their stuff a few days ago (on last.fm), and i'm really digging them give them a listen, i'll pando you some of their stuff if you'd like (just ask) although i'd really urge you purchase some merch (perhaps including a cd) ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/513/decemberists/ i'm thinking that we're going to use 30boxes for sharing calendar information in wikib (homework and whatnot) .. it's nice and cleanly designed, very simple and perfectly functional if you're looking around at these sorts of things, i would look at rememberthemilk.com (more of a powerful todo list with duedates+reminders) and ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/512/30boxes/ alright well in case you've never noticed, wikib is hosted by pbwiki.com (pb:peanut butter), now they're an awesome bunch who've made it as easy and simple as is concievably possible to run your own wiki. i would highly recommend them anyday and now that they've offered to double my storage ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/511/pbwiki/ in the past i avoided signing up for riffs because i was idealistically against the whole centralisation of opinions thing , but well i tried it out (and i'm hating that they've tagged me as having signing up in february when i've known them for many months now) well anyways, riffs ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/509/personal-dna-riffs/ very cool socially driven site all about people's beliefs real nicely done, well worth checking out. http://77percent.com/wordpress/505/standpointcom/ the postal service is going to happen we've got our head developer on task (rule#1 no one's working over the break) and i'm looking forward to a launch well before spring break, it's gonna be great but it'll need great content in order for it to be anything, so let's do this. anyone ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/504/postal/ been meaning to post on them they're a great sound out of the UK, made number one before they got signed by Domino (debut platform of franzferdinand and others). if you'd like a copy of their album email me and i'll get it to you the same applies for the new strokes album, ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/503/arctic-monkeys/ another thing, if anyone wants an invite to newsvine (a very cool social news website) let me know and i'll hook you up. http://77percent.com/wordpress/501/newsvine/ because i've decided the run wikib.org as my 'project' for IB/ITGS i'm going to be unavoidably investing way more time than i have in the past (because it's success determines a portion of a portion of my diploma), so keep your eyes open and i'm also hoping this might spur ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/500/the-postal-service/ in other news i had some illness going on and off since thursday, but i'd say that i'm better now. so i'm in canada, in need of active hours (we love you IB) and i like microbrews : hence curling this evening, should be hilarious. another thing, billmonk.com went live, it's a ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/499/curling/ a little discussion with the civil netizen folk, in case you're interested (probably not) it's all about social direct p2p file transfer, starts off with me just comparing them with pando with the goal of discovering what really made them different (besides the stated ideals behind the project), and now i've ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/498/netizen/ civilengines http://77percent.com/wordpress/497/civil-netizen/ well it turns out, i've had something wrong with my comments posting php it's been fixed and i'm thinking that the bug has been there since we upgraded to wordpress2.0 the comments never made it to the database ; so if i missed yours, i'm sorry and please do try again. http://77percent.com/wordpress/496/comments/ This is powered by BubbleShare - add to your blog the story (read:rumour/unverified) sometime ago , the Norwegian diplomat Charung Gollar was asked to make a presentation at the UN focusing on the main problems affecting the world (2004). his presentation consisted ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/494/stars/ http://77percent.com/wordpress/491/pando/ |electric sheep| definitely the cleverest and most beautiful screen saver conceivable. It is an electronic dream that continuously evolves (in flocks with other computers through interweb) to be aesthetically pleasing, very very cool indeed. As electricsheep plays the random but magically intertwined CG renders , the viewer determines the survival of each render, ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/469/electric-sheep/ yea so i've been really neglecting 77percent for a long while and it's an awful shame ... i've been pretty happy in recent days, despite getting out a whole week later than the luckier folk in dc. the snow is some crazy stuff; surely it's a pain a lot of ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/468/the-dailies/ in celebration of the holidays, the city of Zurich has, in the past, .... most enormous timepiece .. fibre optics ... slowly gaining brightness as time passes until new years eve. 275 lamps each including 28 individual light sources http://77percent.com/wordpress/467/luminance-in-zurich/ Chateau Laurier Originally uploaded by Jason Prini. the chateau laurier seen through xmas lights on someone's phone http://77percent.com/wordpress/466/466/ Originally uploaded by HanSolo77. speaking of christmas and lights ... ottawa is lovely lookin', loaded with christmas light and snow http://77percent.com/wordpress/465/luminance/ posting has been pretty erratic since i got to canada, i'll blame the climate. anyways though i've been putting off writing about some really cool things including but not exclusive to photography at chernobyl]undeniably extraordinary Royal Underground Bunker] with pub Code-named Burlington, it was never used. rusting WWII off-shore defense stilt-towers now abandoned, they were used ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/464/bangladesh/ wonder what this is about, don't you? http://77percent.com/wordpress/462/pongclock/ just so everyone interested and anyone else knows , wikib is coming along. being inevitably understaffed we're still playing catchup (as we had originally hoped to avoid) but it's a'happening and momentum is naturally building up : so anyone who missed the ground floor is still welcome (we're friendly[not desperate] ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/460/wikib-2/ posting has been pretty erratic since i got to canada, i'll blame the climate. anyways though i've been putting off writing about some really cool things including but not exclusive to photography at chernobyl]undeniably extraordinary Royal Underground Bunker] with pub Code-named Burlington, it was never used. rusting WWII off-shore defense stilt-towers now abandoned, they were used ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/461/been-meaning-to/ fall from grace octopus i haven't seen much goodness on threadless in a long while. when i was reminded of their annual $10 holiday sale, i figured i'd give them another chance. now while i still would recommend them over bustedtees or defunker (these two are both a part of 'connected ventures( ... http://77percent.com/wordpress/459/threadless-2/