Our record is almost done. Almost. All-most. All/most. Most of All. It is called Les Dangereuses…
Yes, I’m making up for a dearth of recent Lenni Jabour content. Can you tell she and The Third Floor are playing again soon?
Will I be there? Mais bien sûr!
Apparently Technorati will soon roll out a list of the top MP3s being discussed in the blogosphere. I bet it doesn’t handle Ogg Vorbis files like this clip of John Mann’s American TV though. Anyway, I guess now’s as good a time as any to get some visibility for a few of my favourites…
Presented almost without comment, some maps of the new North America
(all via Tim Bray): one, two, and three.
The comment? Kinda funny, kinda sad… but aren’t they all forgetting something?
In the comments of How did you name your blog? people are sharing stories about blog and domain naming. Rather than clutter Mark’s comment page, my contribution is right here.
First, Petroglyphs. It’s right up there at the top of every entry page. Every good Sunday school student can tell you that Peter means rock; what they mean to say is that the name is a form of the Greek word petro, which in turn means rock. Glyph is also Greek in origin and refers to a carving, or the act of cutting. A petroglyph, then, is a rock carving, usually ancient… so what better name for a weblog, something that’s not only ephemeral but entirely virtual to boot?
My category names are also explained on each category archive page: they’re taken from quotations about the subject matter. For example, Living mythically is about technology, based on a Marshall McLuhan statement. (Despite what some of you may think given the plethora of posts about her, Sweet compulsion is about music in general, not just Lenni Jabour. But since it’s been a while since I’ve had anything to say on that topic, I’ll point out that I’m going to see her again in a week and a half.)
Finally, the domain. That it’s eponymous is fairly obvious, but the namespace was deliberately chosen. On the surface, it’s a more appropriate area than the generic (and abused) .com, .net and .org. More than that, though, it flaunts the fact that I am proud to be Canadian (and, today in particular, almost as proud not to be American). Using my full name wasn’t my first choice, though–I wanted janes.ca, but it’s being squatted on by a guy who thinks he can make a buck by selling it to Ontario-based Janes Family Foods.
So, there you go. In response to an innocuous question, more than you ever wanted to know about the origins of Petroglyphs.
I wish you all could see this big goofy grin on my face.
The curse of the Bambino is lifted… and now they can celebrate like idiots.
An editorial cartoon published by the CBC, drawn by my sister’s boyfriend. Not a bad place to get picked up, even if they did post a broken link to his site….
That’s one of those coincidences that’s so coincidental it’s not a coincidence any more, you know?
While talking to another dancer from Toronto this weekend, I was reminded of Turn on the Tap, a troupe founded by Paula Skimin (whose ZeD appearance I wrote about last year). On the site I found her neat demo reel, which has footage from the ZeD clip… that includes yours truly again. Wish I’d had a slightly more appropriate expression on my face; at the time I thought she was the coolest thing on two legs, and I still do! I wonder if there’s any chance of getting the group to come here?
Wouldn’t it be more appropriate if Eric Meyer’s Complex Spiral Consulting were called Complex Spiral Services?