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March, 2010:

Tecmo Super Bowl Is Making a Comeback

I could take my entire three weeks of vacation and all of my flex days and just play this game.  Details here.  Quite an improvement over the original graphics for the NES. Not only is Tecmo Super Bowl coming back but take a look at this.  NBA Jam is being remade. Boom-Shaka-Laka indeed.

The Sandpit

Take five minutes today and make sure you watch this tilt pan video of New York in HD (make it full screen).

Donate to Station 20 West

It’s easy to join a Facebook group supporting Station 20 West but put your money where your mouth is and make a donation to make Station 20 West a reality.  Their goal is raise $6 million by May. Why does Saskatoon need Station 20 West.  According to their website. Limited access to healthy food Many [...]

March 11

As is the tradition around here, I generally liveblog the day to save it for posterity.  (2009| 2008 | 2007| 2006 | 2005 | 2003).  I didn’t feel like doing that today so instead I am going to play around with my Kodak Zi8 camera and shoot some video of my day.  I have a [...]

Seattle Post-Inquirer: One Year Later

It’s been a year since the Seattle Post Inquirer stopped publishing a print edition and moved to being an online only newsroom.  They released this video on YouTube explaining the process. Before you get uncomfortable about losing your daily paper, the Star Phoenix’s national and international coverage comes from the wire services and most of [...]

Large Hadron Collider to Shut Down for a Year

Apparently they are working out the bugs in the design… but it’s not a design fault. He said the second problem is not with the most complex technology but involves the copper sheaths around the superconducting joints in the tunnel. The copper sheaths are a failsafe mechanism designed to take up the current if one [...]

The Source of Obama’s Trouble

From Bob Herbert in the New York Times The economy shed 36,000 jobs last month, and that was trumpeted in the press as good news. Well, after your house has burned down I suppose it’s good news that the flames may finally be flickering out. But once you realize that it will take 11 million [...]

Canada at 150

The Liberal Party is meeting in Montreal on March 26-28 to think about the future of Canada and Liberalism.  The Toronto Star has their own ideas as published in an infrequent series that can be found here.  Some interesting reading on how liberals across Canada envision the future of Canada.

Blue Jake

I have been a long time fan of Blue Jake and WNYC has a great video profile about Jake Dobkin.  I don’t know why but lately I have become a hug fan of these kind of videos on YouTube.  Simple one camera videos that tell a good short story.

Municipal Matters get a new look

While I liked the old version of Sean Shaw’s blog, Municipal Matters, I am really liking the new look and feel to his blog on Saskatoon politics and governance.  If you get a chance, check it out along with a couple other Saskatoon civic blogs that are a lot of fun reading, even when we [...]

Why Ad Blocking Is Killing the Sites You Like

From Ars Technica If you read a site and care about its well being, then you should not block ads (or you subscribe to sites like Ars that offer ads-free versions of the site). If a site has advertising you don’t agree with, don’t go there. I think it is far better to vote with [...]

The Decline of Mayfair?

Wendy has a post on the supposed decline of Mayfair and talks about the violence and crime that is happening in the neighborhood and puts it into some context.

Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats”

Mark Andreesen was in New York yesterday and sat down with TechCrunch Andreessen once famously put the New York Times on deathwatch for its stubborn insistence on trying to save and prolong its legacy print business. With all the recent excitement in media quarters recently over Apple’s upcoming iPad and other tablet computers, and their [...]

Contextless Sports Links

Charles Robinson is right on, Chicago’s spending spree is a sign that both the coaches and management are fearful of losing their job.  $91.5 million for Julius Peppers is insane. If I am Jake Delhomme or Troy Smith, Denver may be an attractive landing spot for me.  Chris Simms didn’t impress anyone.  The coaches apparently [...]

Project Grizzly

This post in honor of Mike Todd’s tweet today.  For those of you who have been terrified by grizzly bears in the past, this cult favorite documentary by Peter Lynch about Troy Hurtubise shows you how you can survive a Grizzly Bear attack.  More seriously, this is kind of what Super Dave Osborne would be [...]