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It took five days. Five days for the ecosystem that is my mouth to free itself of the violent shock I had inflicted upon it on this Wednesday past. I can now actually move my mouth more or less normally...

So it took about an hour, 3 got pulled. The 4th apparently wasn't worth the hassle. Amen. The pain killers are doing their job, but I feel like my jaw is wired shut. And oddly I have a headache from...

Yesterday afternoon, on our way to dim sum in Chinatown, Karl and I drove down Avenue du Parc. At the foot of the mountain, where the street bisects Parc Mont-Royal and Parc Jeanne-Mance, roadwork crews had torn out the sidewalks...

Mark Federman recently posted two rather disturbing entries. And How is One Certified as Sane? Although this story is a year old, one of our students brought it to my attention last evening. According to the British Medical Journal (and...

Laser etched Powerbook! /me strokes chin thinking of his new PowerBook which should arrive next week... ;) via Patrick...

Sheffield rock band the Arctic Monkeys have topped the UK singles charts with their debut track, after building up a fan base on the internet. "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" trumped pop trio the Sugababes after...

Rebecca and Ethan and a few other of the Global Voices Online team were WSIS in Tunisia this week and today gave a workshop presentation on "Expression Under Repression", despite technically having been canceled "by the authorities". Very exciting, awesome...

FlightAware. Wow. (ugly but ... hell there's alot of data, and it is blazing fast.) How live is FlightAware's tracking and status data? The data displayed on FlightAware is typically six minutes delayed from real time. How often does the...

It's flash! It uses email for submission! But it's got tags! Ladies and gentlemen, Madonna 2.0! via Karl via Laurent...

This is very very cool to me and one of those "duh! of course! simple brilliance!" Emulating W3C ,tools with mod_rewrite Basically, it allows a visitor to use their browser's Location input as a CLI (Command Line Interface) to any...

urban street w[e]ar: "Here's what they'll soon be wearing in the banlieues, les territoires abandonnés, of urban France. According to the manufacturers, the Sweat Anticon garment is "simple et élégant comme un sweat à capuche... Que vous soyez graffeur, moche,...

Yuki is selling a bunch of her very cool t-shirts... T-Shirts by MaIL-s: We still have a lot left from the festival.....

La vie est un rêve et je dors. Les moments passent, bons et mauvais, puis je me réveille. Je ne me souviens de rien....

In the process of clearing up a misunderstanding, Ethan points to a great article by one Justin Mason about cellphone repair stalls in the streets of India. Amongst other things, it speaks to how most people in a consumerist culture...

<snip> We are a group of friends organizing a benefit concert on Nov. 11th for the victims of the Pakistan quake. The benefit event will take place at Sala Rosa (4848 St. Laurent). Danette Mac Kay, best known for her...

Friend Hugh started up a neat "sorta Project Gutenberg for audio books" called LibriVox. The project has gotten some good traction and attention - Hugh was invited to the recent Open Library launch shindig by Brewster Kahle - and he's...

On my way home from my last dentist's appointment I got a phonecall. It was them. The first thing I thought, and in fact said out loud was: "This can't be good..." Before leaving, the dental hygienist insisted on doing...