ohhowihateohiostate

That was the bumper sticker on my car for my formative years (high school and uni). The sentiment stays. Go Illini!!! Update: Awe-some. Illini 28 Buckeyes 21

irc can be very entertaining

there was bad eighties music happening in the Toronto office. being in Ottawa, it was hard to share the moment until it was so nicely captured by johnath: <beltzner> and now, “Snow”! <madhava> oh jesus <johnath> o/~ In-for-muh. ajfhadklhfgadlsfjlajf.afj.ajfjaerlkfjaef o/~

lessig on user generated content

Larry Lessig’s talk on user generated content, who’s generating it, how copyright law reacts to it and, most importantly, the effect this has on the content creators is awesome. Take the twenty minutes, and watch the whole thing. His summary at the end addresses an unintended consequence that I had never even considered, and it […]

child’s play charity

Just a reminder that the Child’s Play charity is looking for your help to provide children’s hospitals with games, books, and media to help make stays a little easier to take for the kids. This year hospitals in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax are taking part in Canada, along with several locations in the US […]