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Monday, March 26th, 2007
The sky gets dark as I leave the estate and I can see her standing in the street. I run the other direction and my feet begin to strike the pavement. I’m sweating by the time I reach the turnoff into the vineyards. Never-ending rows of vines line the narrow gravel alley. I take a [...]
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Logo Cities: An International Symposium on Signage, Branding and Lettering in Public Space May 4-5, 2007 Concordia University, Montréal, Québec Cities are awash in ‘public lettering’: street signs, newspaper mastheads, road signs, high-rise corporate logos, store/shop/restaurant signs, engravings on buildings and monuments, etc. They are at once branding and promotional devices; names (of buildings); labels; [...]
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Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
My friend is in a terrible work situation, one which has damaged his body and mind, and has asked me if I can help find someone to fight what is being done to him and his fellow factory employees- not in some sweatshop overseas, but right here in Montreal. The employees of a local Plastics [...]
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Sunday, November 19th, 2006
A short while back the founder of MP3.net went looking for php programmers on Meetup and found my partner (in life, in work, in crime:) Elran, who’s the ostensible head of the Montreal linux meetup. (Which in itself is an interesting story, given that El doesn’t really like to actually go out and meet people. [...]
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Saturday, August 26th, 2006
this is one of my state of the union posts i guess where i fill you in on where we’ve been and what i’ve been thinking about behind the scenes of this hydra headed beasty. Indyish launched with joy and much brilliant art, there were 12 music videos made, and 12 unique garments, and a [...]
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
i received this from robin milette of facil today, who is kind enough to keep me in touch with the local linux commmunity’s goings down. it’s info about a presentation happening this week, july 20th, about an album that was recorded using all open source software, at a recording studio called Studio Cadence in Quebec. [...]
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