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Comment on which analysis is worth paying for? by woolslain

woolslain — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:34:54 +0000

Is this analysis useful? The example seems to showcase the difference between good and bad writing, but how is this relevant to newspaper vs. blog reporting. As a counter-example – Damien Cox, sports columnist for the Star, offers oddles of analysis. The Toronto Sun, a certifiable rag, also packed with good sports analysis. Whether newspapers will be able to continue to afford such good reporting…that remains to be seen.

Comment on listening to @kexp and all i c… by Josh

Josh — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:59:29 +0000

+10 for radio3.cbc.ca

Comment on go programming language by ramanan

ramanan — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:30:55 +0000

The syntax is a bit weird, but the language looks to be all kinds of awesome.

Comment on france at night by tyler

tyler — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:52:28 +0000

alright. no more comments on this post.

Comment on france at night by ramanan

ramanan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:20:39 +0000

Yeah, I think Canada is pretty awesome too.

Comment on france at night by interruptgate

interruptgate — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:10:00 +0000

err that lone “uso” should read uso! (japanese)

Comment on france at night by interruptgate

interruptgate — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:08:39 +0000

canada is only one of 193 widely recognized sovereign states. canada’s criteria for accepting an individual as a member of canadian society is lax relative to say iceland, japan, or switzerland. for example, there exist generations of japanese-born “koreans” living in japan who cannot vote because they refuse to adopt japanese names. are these “koreans” japanese? they don’t consider themselves japanese and japan doesn’t consider them japanese either. if you apply your ethnocentric canadian criteria to these “koreans”, like you’ve done with our “french” friends, you arrive at the conclusion that these “koreans” are japanese. uso while canada’s accept-all policy is romantic, in most cases, xenophobic europe included, to be “french” is to accept france and for france to accept you. so, you’re right — but only in canada, as they say.

Comment on building a twitter filter with sinatra, redis, and tweetStream by Mirko

Mirko — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:27:36 +0000

Hmm, that might be my next project… :)

Comment on the butler residence by sea

sea — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:39:37 +0000

if that’s where the butler lives, imagine his employers’ house!

i love how that house is built in what seems to be normal suburbia. fuck you neighbours! your houses are BORING.

Comment on building a twitter filter with sinatra, redis, and tweetStream by ramanan

ramanan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:14:34 +0000

You should build a webapp that generates post titles by pulling popular words from ruby related RSS feeds using …

Comment on france at night by ramanan

ramanan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:20:39 +0000

I didn’t say they love France. I mean, they were rioting so they probably don’t. That doesn’t change the fact they are French, your ridiculous notions of what that means aside. When I apply for a Canadian passport, there isn’t a spot on the form to ask me how much I like Hockey and Poutine. What’s up with that, AMIRITE?

Comment on building a twitter filter with sinatra, redis, and tweetStream by Mirko

Mirko — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:10:13 +0000

That wasn’t my intention, but now that you mention it… Well, at least I guess my title is buzzword compliant. ;)

Comment on france at night by interruptgate

interruptgate — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:21:20 +0000

yeah i’m sure they love france. i’m sure they spent their summers driving around europe with papa visting the battefields of the napoleonic wars. and i’m sure they don’t miss a chance to cheer on les bleus. but of course you’re right. you’re still schelpping on about this 4 years running, so i have no doubt you interviewed all the detainees, reviewed all the footage, and reenacted all 20 days in your bigoted backyard — i mean picketed backyard.

Comment on france at night by ramanan

ramanan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:57:53 +0000

Except, they weren’t fucking immigrants. They were FRENCH.

Comment on france at night by interruptgate

interruptgate — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:04:18 +0000

i never saw this french infitada so to speak as something rooted in discrimination or racism. i didn’t see it as anything other than poor people rioting. to me it was just a coincidence that the poor people in this case were immigrants. really i was hoping for a sequel to la heine.

Comment on vidafine guide toronto by ramanan

ramanan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:48:29 +0000

Cool site. Uncle Otis used to be on Queen West. Probably in a shop a few doors down from where Unspace is now.

Comment on france at night by ramanan

ramanan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:38:11 +0000

“When I get stuck on something I usually take a walk in the woods. Trees are older than us. Being around that much wisdom can rub off on you. Spend less time in your mail client and more time talking to trees.” – Jason Fried

Comment on listening to @kexp and all i c… by ramanan

ramanan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:33:35 +0000

I’m telling you man, Radio 3 is the bomb.

Comment on listening to @kexp and all i c… by woolslain

woolslain — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:55:53 +0000

listening to The Drive on CBCRadio2 and lovin’ it.

Comment on france at night by ramanan

ramanan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:39:45 +0000

That guy totally had my number.

This way my blog post about that post, from way back when. http://funkaoshi.com/blog/web-20-vs-the-islamofacists