I’m very excited to announce the launch of our new website, BabyLolly.com. For the past year I’ve been working along with my friend Andrew Burton, my sister Colleen Geske, and her husband Moses Faleafaga, on this online babybook and social network for families.

Today we were featured in the business section Winnipeg Free Press.

BabyLolly.com is an online babybook for parents to capture & share their baby’s precious moments with family and friends.

• Photo/Video Gallery: no more cumbersome emailing of baby photos. Store and organize all your photos and videos and share them with family and friends.
• Baby Journal: keep an online journal of your baby’s experiences and developments.
• Baby Milestones, Firsts & Favourites: never forget an important milestone again! Capture and share all your baby’s important firsts & favourites.
• Connect & Collaborate: give family and friends the opportunity to fully contribute to the babybook by leaving notes, uploading photos & videos, and sharing in each and every precious moment.
• It’s a private site (so only people you invite will see your babypage) and best of all: it’s 100% free!

We’d love for you to sign up if you have a young family. You can also view a demo account for a fictional family.

If you have friends with babies share the link with them and let them share the joy of their baby! We would really appreciate your support!

I look forward to hearing your feedback on BabyLolly.

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  (sleeping) Enter command: inventory
        You are carrying: a theorem. an axiom. 
                          a postulate. a hypothesis. 
  (sleeping) Enter command: examine postulate.
        It's a basic fact. 
  (sleeping) Enter command: think
        You thought of an idea 
  (sleeping) Enter command: examine idea
        The idea is very vague and not fully developed. 
  (sleeping) Enter command: develop idea
        The idea developed into a contradiction. 
  (sleeping) Enter command: examine contra
        It is true and false, but neither is correct, 
                   and both are right. 
  (sleeping) Enter command: examine supposition
        It's an almost proven fact. It is not proven. 
  (sleeping) Enter command: Prove supp
    With what? postulate
        Somehow a contradiction keeps coming into the proof. 
  (sleeping) Enter command: drop contra
        OK. 
  (sleeping) Enter command: prove supp
    With what? postulate
        The postulate is now a lemma. 
  (sleeping) Enter command: examine lemma
        It's a rather specialised fact. 
  (sleeping) Enter command: examine hypothesis
        It's a complicated statement. It is not proven. 
  (sleeping) Enter command: prove hypo
    With what? lemma
        The hypothesis is now a theorem.
        Suddenly, a hyper-spatial cliff passes by 
        and the lemma leaps to its demise. 
  (sleeping) Enter command: examine theorem
        It begins: 

“The metaphysical existentialism of reality…”

via: trivium

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Suns From Flickr

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Meggy Jr RGB - Open-source handheld game platform with 8x8 pixel screen.

Diagramming the Obama Sentence

Oh brother, a surveillance camera project for Winnipeg.

“The Winnipeg Police Association said earlier the $460,000 cost of a proposed year-long camera project might be better spent on improving police response times and increasing the number of officers downtown.” —source

Last week I saw two cops riding down Princess St. on horses. Let’s trade in the camera project for more horse-back popo. :)

New Theories of Mimesis

“I am looking for writings on Mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures.

I am following the redefinition of mimesis. From Plato’s disregard of oral culture, through his mimesis of Socrates’ dialogues in writing. Following Plato, Aristotle’s theory was always a written mimesis, thus the order and processes of representation and mimicry were fundamentally written.

In essence, I am interested in how the artifacts of oral culture differed in their mimesis to written culture, and thus, how our modern move from a written to a digital/hypertextual culture will similarly impact on mimetic embodiment.”

— 0bvious@MetaFilter

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Daceybassyrappyhappy - Choons from 2007/2008 that made me smile and dance around.

Track List

• Marlena Shaw - California Soul (Diplo / Mad Decent mix)
• My Robot Friend - Robot High School
• Mark Ronson feat. Lily Allen - Oh My God (Chris Lake mix)
• The Ting Tings -That’s Not My Name (Tom Neville mix)
• Calvin Harris - Merrymaking At My Place (Kissy Sell Out mix)
• Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor
• Z-Trip - Something Different feat. Charlie Tuna
• GoldieLocks - Learning To Brap
• Ricardo Villalobos - Enfants (Olin Fix)

I’m not a pirate, I just grog a lot.

Glasnost: Test if Your ISP is Manipulating BitTorrent Traffic

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is required by mandate to make its programming “available throughout Canada by the most appropriate and efficient means.” Using BitTorrent allows the CBC to meet this target. However, when they experimented with this technology last year, many users were blocked by their ISP due to BitTorrent’s association with piracy.

The Glosnost Results show that at least 10 Canadian ISPs block BitTorrent outright. Canadian ISPs are also starting use traffic-shaping techniques to throttle-down the speed of all BitTorrent traffic.

Discrimination ain’t nice in meat-space, and it ain’t nice on the net. If you love the internet, read up on Network Neutrality. Non-discriminatory treatment of network-traffic is essential for an open and participatory internet.

Amish Hackers

Technology and the Amish.

“Over And Out” by Jen Stark [hand-cut stack of coloured paper, 2008]

Jeff Hawkins (founder of Palm) on Artificial Intelligence. Also: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

NFB - Film Archive

The Canadian National Film Board has released 700+ films, clips and trailers from their archive for free download. Ya for Canadian culture!

Engelbart: Augmenting Human Intellect (1962)

A systematic approach to improving the intellectual effectiveness of the individual human being through hci.

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TrackMeNot

“A background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines. It hides users’ actual search trails in a cloud of ‘ghost’ queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data into accurate or identifying user profiles.”