Back in January, when I spent a couple of days in Toronto, I wound up with a great view of Toronto City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square from my hotel room window. And as I came back to the room at different times of day and night, I took a series of pictures of the [...]
To me, this is one of the most dangerous web sites around. It threatens to swallow me whole regularly, when I go back to its text-only succession of short paragraphs, set into three columns. Doesn’t sound terribly exciting, when you describe it that way, right? Yet those tiny paragraphs are terrific teasers, wonderful windows into [...]
If you’re using Twitter or Facebook, you’ve probably seen a lot of these “dailies” pop up in your stream. Everybody with a particular interest in a particular topic seems to be publishing the “something something daily”, with a selection of news items picked up from selected accounts in their Twitter and/or Facebook stream. From the [...]
No matter how strange the subject, someone has probably written a book about it. Why do I vomit? There’s a book about that. How to make your own sex toys? That too. A book on beer can collecting? Of course. And how could you not want a book of join-the-dots erotic pictures? Or a book [...]
It’s simple, really. I’d been thinking about creating a site where I could bring together everything I publish online – and what I’ve written and has been published online by others. In the sidebars on the right, you’ll find RSS feeds to all four of my blogs, as well as the feed for Palate Press, [...]
