Turn Left at the Blogspot

Ok, so I am capping off this blog for now. I have found a new home.

http://boostventilator.wordpress.com

It took awhile to get the content moved and it is going to take even more time to tag and categorize everything, but I am happy with the move to Wordpress and media temple (turns out I am not alone).

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #173 (Mar 27, 2006)
Fighting in a cage, messaging in a parlor and a dog in a park.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Music

Ron Sexsmith "All In Good Time" [MP3]

Windom Clips

Windom Earle - Stage Nine
March 25, 2006

Windom Earle - Touched by a Transvestite
March 25, 2006

Windom Earle - Get On Into It!
March 9, 2006

Windom Earle play that Greg song
March 9, 2006

Random Bits

All Televisions tuned to FOX News | The Smoking Gun

"Quiet Town" by Josh Rouse [MP3]

Kill the Moonlight DVD | Plexifilm

Word!

Metro-technical: n. Someone who's willing to try ANY piece of software or hardware for at least a week until the shine wears off and they go sniffing for the next buzz. The metro-technical is to the far left of the tech scale, equidistant from the suspender-wearing sys admin and the nervous iPod upgrader. (Mule Design Studio's Blog)

Film

The C.S.A.

Religion

Inside Scientology: Unlocking the complex code of America's most mysterious religion | Rolling Stone

Word!

Neurologism: a word created by prefixing "neuro" to almost any normal word | Mind Hacks

Film

The Top 100 Overlooked Films of the 1990s | The Online Film Critics Society

Freelance

"From Idea to Air" Workshop in Halifax | I Love Radio .org

Muzak

Bing Crosby, Gwen Verdon, Bobbie Gentry, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Dick Shawn sing a Beatles Medley | WOW Report

Shaving Technology

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #172 (Mar 20, 2006)
Gymnastics, petitioning and meat packing.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Robots Part Deux

Exceptionally Memorable Movie Robots | The A.V. Club

Toys

Kurt Cobain Action Figure | Toy News International

Career Alert

Therapeutic Clown | CareerBeacon.com

Robots

"Maybe I was the only one that saw Small Wonder and decided to get a PhD" - Daniel H. Wilson ("How to Survive a Robot Uprising" Reading | Google Video)

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #171 (Mar 13, 2006)
A holy face cloth, Sunday moose killing and death by piercing.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

German Word of the Day

Geisterfahrer: A person driving on the wrong side of the road. Literal translation: Ghost Driver.

Music

Jeff Tweedy with Special Guest Nels Cline Live from Mandel Hall at the University of Chicago | Wilco

Quote

"Jon Stewart did a capable job, but I didn't feel like he was embracing the movie business. Jon doesn't have the basic understanding of show business that Johnny Carson had. Jon's fresh and irreverent, but I don't think it worked." - Tim Allen Reviews Jon Stewart | Defamer

Nerd Alert

"We are thoroughly surprised at how accurately Microsoft and Intel have targeted a segment of the computing market completely barren of potential customers." - Origami: Buzz Killer? | Gizmodo

Criticism

Art statements, Pitchfork, and fancypants analysis | Signal vs. Noise

Stopped Holding My Breath

From William Morrow/An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers: We do not plan to publish FREAKONOMICS in paperback until September 2007.

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #170 (Mar 6, 2006)
Twin tower controversy in Halifax, two moose deaths in New Brunswick and heavy helmets.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

The State of Real Estate

"Thanks to various market pressures and especially some recent online innovations, the real-estate agent seems poised to join a list of endangered service-worker species that includes stockbrokers and travel agents." Endangered Species by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | NY Times

Shopping

"Many Europeans use platform beds without box springs. Do you hear them complaining?" - Seth Stevenson (Going to the Mattresses | Slate)

Film

Hollywood By The Numbers | The Smoking Gun

Commercials

2005 Awards | Best Ads On TV

Windom Watch

March is shaping up to be quite a music month:

Thu, Mar 9: Books on Tape (Los Angeles) + Windom Earle + Mark Black @ Gus' Pub

Sat, Mar 18: North By North End - Karaoke Brunch curated & hosted by Jeff Coll and Stephan MacLeod. Sing for TOAST (toast by Stephan MacLeod) @ Gus' Pub ($1.99 brunch, does NOT include coffee/11AM-1PM)

Sat, Mar 25: Akron/Family (New York) + Windom Earle @ Stage Nine. $7/10pm

Sat, Apr 1: [Expletive] the Junos w\ The Sweet Tenders, BA Johnston, the Jeff Coll 5, Mr.Plow (Vancouver) @ Gus' Pub

Post

Self Imposed Restraining Order | Halifax Locals

Cult

What You Didn't Know About Scientology
by Mark Owen

Dueling Reviews

On "Magnificent City" by Aceyalone Accompanied by RJD2 [Project Blowed/Decon; 2006]

"Aceyalone's most accomplished album...[he] hasn't felt this vital in ages, and RJD2's creative winning streak continues unabated." - Nathan Rabin (A.V. Club)

"This should be great...[it's] lazy and inept, devoid of force and inspiration and chemistry...We deserve better from these guys." - Tom Breihan (Pitchfork)

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #169 (Feb 20, 2006)
Stormy weather, pond hockey and square footage.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #168 (Feb 13, 2006)
New ministers, paclitaxel production problems and driving yourself to emergency.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Link of the week

Report your Saint John crime in Chinese

Comedy

San Francisco Chronicle TV critic Tim Goodman interviews Stephen Colbert (4 parts) | Chronicle Podcasts

Unfrying Things

ThinkFilm has acquired all worldwide rights to "Strangers With Candy."

"At this important stage of our company's development, we were looking for a film that combined all of the best qualities of 'Crash,' 'Brokeback Mountain,' and 'Capote.' "'Strangers with Candy' has ethnic slurs, clandestine gay sex, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. What more could we want?" said THINKFilm's head of U.S. theatrical, Mark Urman | IndieWire

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #167 (Feb 6, 2005)
Documenting a trade mission, Nigerian bank scams and focusing on small houses.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #166 (Jan 30, 2005)
McKenna for leader, ice-o-lation and the new crystal methodology.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Stuff

The Pitty Card (dir. Bob Odenkirk) | Sundance

Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) | Grandaddy

DVD

Wholphin DVD

Event

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #165 (Jan 23, 2005)
Co-op closures, plunger attack and votes for sale.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Meetings

Meetings considered harmful | Signal vs. Noise

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #164 (Jan 16, 2005)
Manure management, historic Barrington and reserved restaurants.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #163 (Jan 10, 2005)
Dusty hospital machinery, whale bones and video game violence.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

The Paper

Flying Cow fined $239k | The Herald

Local Media Watch

Plagiarist suspended from Halifax Chronicle Herald | Regret The Error

Program Bits & Bobs

The tools we use to run and build 37signals | Signal vs. Noise

Startup kit | Nick Denton

Running your company on web apps | Evhead

Favorite Macintosh OSX Applications | matt.makalumedia.com

Essential Mac OS X Applications | Mac Specialist

Geek to Live | Lifehacker

Demo Gods

"I certainly know better than to try to re-record or recreate things that sound cool. Record companies used to do demos, and that's something Mike and I always fought against early in our career. When something sounds great, it's done. You don't want to go back and re-record something that sounds great. The way we recorded with computers in our history, the quality was always good enough. You don't want to repeat golden moments. We always felt like 'We don't do demos, we only do finished product." - John King of the Dust Brothers (Sound on Sound)

The Future

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "We live in a world with too much music," writes Joe Nickell at Missoulian.com. He's bothered by the fact that everywhere he goes, there are tunes pouring from cell phones and mp3 players and TVs and radios and live bands. As far as you're concerned, though, Nickell is utterly off-base. In 2006, you should take advantage of the profusion; you should immerse yourself in music more than you ever have before. To do so will be instrumental in helping you accomplish your top assignment in the coming months, which is to feel deep, rich, interesting emotions as often as possible. (courtesy Free Will Astrology)

Canadian Innovation

Designer invents winter snow skirt | CBC

Books

"Thanks to Oprah Winfrey, author James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" has sat atop best-seller lists since the TV star picked the nonfiction memoir for her powerful book club four months ago. Winfrey has called Frey's book, which chronicles his years as an alcoholic, drug addict, and criminal, "gut-wrenching" and "so real." Well, not exactly. A six-week investigation has determined that Frey's blockbuster is filled with fabrications, falsehoods, and other fakery. In a related note, a "rattled" Frey has lawyered up and is threatening to sue us for millions." Details at The Smoking Gun.

Event

"Also on tonight, Gus’s Pub has one of the quirkiest lineups in recent memory, with The Jeff Coll Five (with members of Windom Earle, Death by Nostalgia and Stiff Kitty/Catholic Gaydar), Ceti Alpha (named after the planet that Captain Kirk stranded Khan on) and street poet Jack MacDonald backed by Dartmouth’s Hotel Faces.

As an added bonus, the show will also feature special guest speaker Mark Black delivering an illustrated talk about . . . well, what it’s about is anybody’s guess but it’ll likely touch on growing up in Cape Breton, major league baseball and Star Trek (which is why I know what Ceti Alpha is)." - Stephen Cooke (Chronicle Herald)

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #162 (Jan 3, 2005)
Civic bribes, volleyball courting and hypnotism for the holidays.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Film

'This Film is Not Yet Rated' given NC-17 Rating | Yahoo! Finance

Film

Movie report card : Palermo Ranks 2005 movies | The Coast

News

Yearly Review | Harpers

Recipe

1 bag of party mix + 1 bag of all dressed chips = a bowl of indecisive mix

News

100 things we didn't know this time last year | BBC NEWS