Super, villian

February 13, 2007

Another fun quiz, via “Dr.Doom” this time: The Supervillian Personality Quiz. I have no idea who “my” character is, but she has colours to die for…! Your results: You are Mystique Mystique 64% Catwoman 63% Green Goblin 60% Dr. Doom 59% Apocalypse 58% Poison Ivy 54% Magneto 54% The Joker 50% Lex Luthor 48% Two-Face […]

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Hatches too tightly battened down?

February 3, 2007

Oops, I’ve been alerted by two readers that they can’t post comments on my blog unless they are logged in. I must have caused/ erected this stumbling block the other day when, in an effort to make it more difficult for spammers to crap all over the place here, I changed the settings. I’ll change […]

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Flickr’ing off, a follow-up

February 2, 2007

After reading several additional blog entries (notably Ken Camp and Shelley Powers) about why or why not people may or may not be upset by flickr’s switch to yahoo-only accounts, I want to explain why I’m upset. I don’t care that it’s yahoo — never had an account with them, don’t care. I’m not anti-big […]

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Flickr, f-off.

February 1, 2007

That’s it. I’m definitely dropping my flickr account. Like so many others, I received flickr’s “dear old skool members” email the other day, and after looking at yahoo’s sign-up requirements (birthdate, gender, full name, postal/zip code, address, etc.), I thought, “how about I bend over for you while I’m at it?” The flickr brand is […]

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What Khrushchev wrote to Kennedy: be afraid of war

January 23, 2007

I’m reading Deyan Sudjic’s brilliant 2005 book, The Edifice Complex; How the Rich and Powerful Shape the World. I won’t even try to synthesise this book, which covers what one might call the architectural impulse — the desire to shape the world according to one’s convictions, the will to stamp evanescence with some sort of […]

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Meanwhile…

January 23, 2007

I can’t retrace my steps to figure out how I came across this site, but Stock Exchange of Visions (as in “for the future, what it has in store for us [maybe]”) has eaten up 10 minutes of my time here, 10 there. I’m especially partial to Bruce Mau‘s clips. They’re funny, intelligent, and he […]

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Trend Blend Map

January 23, 2007

I haven’t entirely figured out why I’m reading a marketing blog, but IF! is a really good one, full of weird and wonderful links. Today, it pointed to Ross Dawson’s blog, who published the Trend Blend 2007+ (PDF!) map on December 18/06. I love visual stuff like this, and just spent half an hour redrawing […]

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Cultural marks

January 12, 2007

On Jan.8, J.C. Scott, a local designer who has “an upcoming role promoting arts and culture through Tourism Victoria,” mused in the local paper about how Victoria might go about being “in search of our cultural mark” (that was the title of the article). He used the article to think out loud about how we […]

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Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival

January 7, 2007

The 13th annual Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival (VIFVF) runs this year from Feb.2-11. The organisers put the “My Victoria” short entries on YouTube. Of the 3 or 4 I’ve watched, I really liked Rachel Smyth’s ironically titled “My Victoria?” (Click the title to go straight to the video on YouTube.) This little movie […]

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Super, girl….

January 4, 2007

Your results: You are Supergirl Supergirl 87% Wonder Woman 87% Robin 87% Green Lantern 85% The Flash 80% Hulk 75% Iron Man 75% Spider-Man 65% Superman 65% Batman 60% Catwoman 55% Lean, muscular and feminine. Honest and a defender of the innocent. Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test (Via Spiderman. 😉 )

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