Annalee at io9 posted a story about a Saskatchewan university student arrested for having a chemistry lab at home. What’s most disturbing to me is that a few years earlier, Saskatchewan police evacuated a Salvation Army community centre after finding chemicals for a darkroom. One interesting and unfortunate side effect of the consumer-electronicsification and digitization …
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Vinyl Nerds Rejoice
I had no idea a wikipedia page existed for unusual types of gramophone records until Music Thing linked to it.
Interface Design: Not Canadian Grant Organizations’ Strong Suit
It’s fellowship season up here in Canada, and more and more of Canada’s granting agencies have moved to an all-online system for their grant applications. While I am in favor of using less paper and streamlining the application process, I do wonder why Canadian granting organizations have such categorically bad web design. Montreal is full …
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The Record Mystique: Mysteries of Vinyl or, the second time as farce
This NYTimes story on vinyl has been making the rounds on various music boards since it came out Sunday. Many of the old writers lament that vinyl has been “relegated” to the Style section of the newspaper. Me, I just sigh every time the old myths are trotted out. [Vinyl] virtually collapsed in the late …
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Mobile Dataspace
Like about a bazillion other people, the iPhone’s worldwide breakout — and the hype around it — has caused me to consider the value of having a convergence device. I experimented once before with the HP iPaq Travel Companion, which is a lovely GPS device but Windows Mobile is incredibly kludgy, especially for things like …
Cutting Edge Technology of the 80s
Wonder what the future of media looked like in Australia in 1986? Make sure your speakers aren’t turned up too loud and then wonder no longer: My favorite part (of course) is the CD, which comes at the end.
Misc.
A quick miscellaneous entry: — the Montréal list keeps expanding. We may need to supplement with a “top 10.” I am trying to convince Carrie to be the curator. — Yesterday I had an interesting discussion about why women finish their books later than men do. Future subject of an academe post, no doubt — …