I never knew

A superb Flash animation recaps some of the landmarks of the web and seamlessly transforms into a Gibsonesque / Matrixian extrapolation of the interweb from now to the year 2014. Funny, informative in a weird way and quite a bit of it is actually a pretty good guess at a possible future.

Or is it? Why would it even be called a podcast? I don’t like that term anyway. Whatever. Excellent job on this Jon Udell post explaining the use of the umlaut. It’s a flash movie of him talking while showing us what he’s explaining by navigating Wikipedia. Very nice.































































































































[Via dose magazine who’s got some good stuff all the time]

On the off chance that some of my readers are interested in new Montréal blogs but don’t follow Yulblog or subscribe to any of it’s feeds; I just added 13 new ones and made a special entry listing them together so they have the same “time in the sun” as they normally would. (Thanks to Oblivia who seems to be recruiter in chief this year, having “arm twisted” three new ones ;) )

m-c at 3h00pm, Oblivia at 7h00pm.

When traveling I’m usually very interested in what I visit, I haven’t traveled much at all for business so the places I see I know about and want to experience and learn more about. That being said, a good trick I learned a while ago is the scenery suck. When you”re running everywhere, seeing lots of things, sometimes crushed between other tourists. Stop, take a deep breath and take stock of where you are and what you’re experiencing. It’s fun, often helps you appreciate what you are seeing and sometimes constitutes the minute you’ll remember later on.

This morning I came up with something “similar”, the weather suck. When it’s f*cking cold like today. Stop. And through your crying eyes, through the iced up glasses, between the tuque and the top of the scarf; look around, see the naked trees, the dirty snow, the ice, the smoking cars, the people with layers and layers of clothes. Feel your nose going numb, the tears turning to ice on your cheeks, the little needles of cold pinching your knees, your nostrils sticking together, how you’re trying to bunch up, turn in your shoulders and protect from the cold. Hold that moment.

Then this summer, when you’re sitting at a terrasse somewhere, enjoying a cold beer or iced tea, watching scantily clad montrealers walking by, remember that moment and smile. The Weather Suck Summer Smile (pronounce Wuss) is the goal that will get me through this winter.