http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs Fearless. Thoughtful. Witty. Canadian. And Opinionated. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:48:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's an observation from the annals of the obvious: everywhere you go, strangers talk about the weather. And if you live in Toronto, where I do, they always talk about how absolutely crappy the weather is or recently has been or will be in the immediate future. The winters are ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/07/24/the-girls-in-their-summer-clothes/ What to wear (Seesmic), what to scorn (GPS, Rogers), and what you'll read WEAR THESE: Seesmic and 12seconds.tv Video interaction isn’t for everyone but it is desperately fashionable to have at least tried it. Seesmic is video conversation. It is a small but now fairly well-formed community that includes every age and ability ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/07/23/socialnet-trend-cheat-sheet/ Talking to people who have no knowledge of and/or hostility towards socialnets and cloud computing I feel like I did when I was hiding by a sewage lagoon as a kid to avoid mulletted Tammy Gough who promised to break my neck because of my Smart Set peach satin pirate ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/07/22/do-you-hate-literacy-too/ In Turn completes its coverage of Morocco’s Master Musicians of Jajouka with a review of their Toronto performance. Photos by Joel Trenaman. (Read the interview/show preview.) The nine men of Jajouka arrived at the Phoenix Concert Theatre for a July 15 performance—their first in Toronto in fifteen years — to almost ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/07/22/review-master-musicians-jajouka/ Last Saturday, Toronto was enveloped in muggy greyness. I was riding my bicycle along Bloor Street West, after being doused in unspectacular rain in High Park, and the street was less appealing than usual. Two women were yelling at each other outside a store with sad appliances in the window, ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/07/22/maze-of-knowledge-entry-five-cents/ JEJU-DO—The sun is broiling, the humidex is high, and in Korea that means it’s time for a nice, hot bowl of chicken soup. Just as people in the West associate certain foods with holidays, so do Korean people enjoy special meals during particular seasons. July 19 in Korea was Chobok, ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/07/20/chicken-soup-for-the-seoul/ It's not fair. I followed the rules. So why am I the one who feels cheated? PARIS—It's not fair. I followed the rules. So why am I the one who feels cheated? Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme, at the outset of this year’s race, was doing and saying all the right ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/07/18/they-tried-to-make-em-go-to-rehab/ The great walled cities of Iraq—nothing ancient here. From Subtopia. Link. Go sit down and read a book! From Boing Boing. Link. Lawrence Lessig's take on swiftboating on Lessig.org. Link. The environmental impact of the Irish and Scottish settlers in Canada and New Zealand. A podcast from World's Fair. Link. http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/07/17/daily-toast-33/ Hercules gets the initial credit for discovering purpura. He was strolling along the seashore with a svelte nymph, Tyros, and his dog was trotting along ahead in the sand. When they caught up with the dog, its muzzle was smeared with a brilliant, deep red-purple colour—a colour neither of them ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/07/16/searching-for-purple/ Discussion about the Kindle and Sony ebook reader on the Oxford University Press blog. Link. The spread of information from blog to blog. From Data Mining. Link Movable type hoax. Interesting—maybe. From The Technium. Link. The magazine layout process in a time-lapse video. From magCulture. Link. http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/07/16/daily-toast-32/