A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #33 (Sept 30): New Brunswick men of adventure, people who live in concrete houses and military technology that will help you digest. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #32 (Sept 23): A new name, tales from the sea and religious wrangling. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #31 (Sept 16): Blowing smoke, baring it all for booze and by-law proposals. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #30 (Sept 9): A fire in a bird's nest, sleeping through a sentence and tearing down "The Barn." By: Iain K. MacLeod

The Coast - Halifax's Weekly
Volume 10 Number 14 (#367)
September 5 - September 12, 2002

Just brain folks
This squad of competitive computer scientists -- Steven Perron, Jonathan Sharkey and Chad West -- is the brightest team in the SuperCity. By: Iain K. MacLeod

Pick up your free copy of The Coast around Halifax to read the story or visit the Saint Mary's Department of Mathematics and Computing Science to learn more about the sport of programming!

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #29 (Sept 2): Tourism is Turning Japanese on PEI, Police Professionals meet in NS and Befriending Belugas in NF. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #28 (Aug 26): Unidentified Floating Triangles, different dunes and taking a gamble on horse racing. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #27 (Aug 19): People protesting, police protecting and parishioners paying. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #26 (Aug 12): Humanity, humiliation and hazardous husbands. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #25 (Aug 6) Taking a financial risk, getting really sick and smelling something funny at the town hall. By: Iain K. MacLeod

Possible career change? I doubt it. I did my first voice over work for a co-worker's short film called Rise of the Empire. It's a fake Star Wars trailer for Episode III done completely with Lego men (and women). I play a storm trooper that says "Halt!" It was submitted for competition at BrickFest 2002 and won the Audience Choice award.

I finally got around to scanning some older pics for the mirror project. I have a lot of mirror pictures, but only a couple of them have me in them and follow the site specifications. This one is a self-portrait using a series of mirrors at the Delta Prince Edward in Charlottetown, PE. It was during the ECMA weekend last year. This one was either en route or returning from a white water rafting expedition in Maine. We stopped in Fredericton and I snapped this picture. Ah, fun with mirrors.

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #24 (July 29): Parading around Halifax, people against pepper spray and hundreds of messages in hundreds of bottles.By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #23 (July 22): The masculine minority in Nova Scotia, racial tension in New Brunswick, dead fish in Prince Edward Island and ducking the law in Newfoundland. By: Iain K. MacLeod

My MeFi post on "Braincandy" (My first post was last week for Phil's Rockin' Blogroll).

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #22 (July 15): Bears, bonds, beaches and a bunch of support for Northern Exposure. By: Iain K. MacLeod

"The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form -- www -- takes three times longer to say than what it's short for," the late Douglas Adams on abbreviations (National Post)

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #21 (July 8): Glorious green spaces, mysterious Molotov cocktails and we are all bound to fall down sometime. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #20 (July 1): $2 million worth of hockey scores, over six thousand books read and a rare glimpse of "The Christmas Shoes." By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #19 (June 24): Rioting in the streets, anthrax hits the books and a downright hairy situation. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #18 (June 17): Promising prosperity in 2020, firefighting arsonists and an apple scab a day. By: Iain K. MacLeod

Revenge of the rap nerds
Freestyle champ ADeeM Sweet Talks Halifax.
by Iain K. MacLeod

Last summer, a spliff-smoking reporter from the Australian indie hip-hop publication Stealth referred to ADeeM as "possibly the nerdiest white rapper" at Cincinnat's Scribble Jam. ADeeM went on to freestyle his way past dozens of well-respected MCs like Sage Francis (Non-Prophets) and Slug (Atmosphere), and took home top honours during the hotly contested MC battle.

Pick up a copy of The Coast to read the rest of the story or visit The Dorian Three to get the latest news on underground hip-hoppers ADeeM, DJ MF Shalem and Adverse.

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #17 (June 10): Smelly situations, mechanical bug-eaters and a naughty flash on the tube. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #16 (June 3): Underground midwives, runaway spools and the notorious bloodworm wars. By: Iain K. MacLeod

Idiots say the darndest things.