Today's Links
Saw a restaurant on Queen St. with the best name I've seen in a while: Syrian-dipity. Just thought I'd mention it. It's a pita place, of course.
-- I've posted this to BoingBoing but I might as well put it here for official-dome's sake:
"Norman Elder, explorer and exotic animal owner and one of Toronto's legitimate eccentrics, died in 2003 of an undisclosed cause. I knew Norm on and off from the time I was 12, as he lived around the corner and I was a kid on a CCM exploring the neighborhood. I helped with his "From Polar Bears to Penguins" Saturday morning class at Dufferin Collegiate, and later on I lived in his gigantic museum/rooming house in the Annex when I was in my early 20's - along with four or five of my friends. I visited his house last year as it was being gutted (!) to make way for a Yuppie family to move in - the pictures are at http://hame.ca/norm04/ -... since then, I have received a few emails from people who lived at Norm's over the years asking for info on what happened to him, etc... I don't have the answers. What I do know is my site is the only link to him on the web at the moment, and I want to assemble a site devoted to remembrances of him, collecting pictures from people's files, etc. I don't know how far the project will go but the first step is to ask for help and see who's out there and who has what. Pictures are most important to begin with. I can be contacted at bigdaddyhame@gmail.com. Thanks for your help!"
Ratzinger Pope is more of the same on AIDS in Africa situation - abstinence, not condoms, is the solution. Sheesh.
Christopher Breen at Playlist magazine asks the question "How do I make a copy of the new Dave Matthews Band CD if it's copy-protected with Sony BMG's new scheme?" - well, the CD comes with a FAQ that explains one interesting thing: "Apple’s proprietary technology doesn’t support secure music formats other than their own, and therefore the secure music file formats on this disc can’t be directly imported into iTunes or iPods." - except that when you put the CD in a Mac, it plays, rips and burns as if there was no protection at all. Question answered.