At the Movies…

So, I saw Dark Knight this afternoon. I’ve been looking forward to this movie for a long time, and its been hugely successful on this, its opening weekend, so I had to get to see it. My opinion?
Its ok, but not great. It left me feeling unsatisfied.
Don’t get me wrong, Christopher Nolan is a brilliant [...]

Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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The Story in my Head

When my siblings and I were little, my dad read us the Hobbit, then the Lord of the Rings series. I remember being captivated by the story of the little fuzzy-footed people who fought dragon’s and orcs, and by the spiritual under-tones of the prose. It was an adventure we shared with our dad, and [...]

Posted on May 13th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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I Hate Ma Bell

The only thing more annoying than dealing with Ontario Health Care is dealing with Ontario Internet Providers. It is unfathomably difficult to get uncapped, un-shaped Internet in Ontario. You cannot imagine.
In short, there are only two services (lower than T1) that offer it. Rogers Business High Speed, and Bell Business Ultra High Speed. No independent [...]

Posted on May 7th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Not Getting Twitter

I realise I said this about Facebook not more than 2 years ago, and Myspace not long before that, but I am not signing up for Twitter.
Twitter is like… stripping everything that’s good out of a blog, and increasing the frequency by a factor of 100.
Think about it: the most basic, most boring blogs are [...]

Posted on April 25th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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The Emporer’s New Clothes

We interupt our regular programming to bring you this rant about sunglasses.
Ladies, over-sized sunglasses are NOT attractive. I don’t know who started this trend, but they should be shot.
Now I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not the most stylish person around. The only sunglasses I can wear are the ones that clip on [...]

Posted on April 24th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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How to argue

Having recently been embroiled in an online debate or two, I thought I’d re-post this brilliant diagram explaining the different levels of argument — from most effective to least effective. Anyone who regularly comments on sites that share opinions should probably know this information. Anyone who debates in real life should probably know it too…

Click [...]

Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Natural Anthem

The Case for Connectivity
Here’s a brilliant article, written by a technology pundit in 1995, explaining how the Internet will never amount to anything we hoped for, going into detail to explain all the things that will never work… the things that in 2008 we use every day. Can you imagine how foolish it would be [...]

Posted on April 8th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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8 Things We Will Miss About Living in the States

I read somewhere that people like reading lists. I think it holds true for me, so today over lunch I was brainstorming a list of things I/we will really miss about living in New York. So here it is, in no particular order…
(Note that this is things, not people. The list of people we will [...]

Posted on April 7th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Are you right or left-brained?

Sorry the image is a little suggestive, but I couldn’t find this done with any other image, and you HAVE to try this.
First of all, note which direction the girl is spinning when you first get to the page. If she’s spinning clockwise you’re right brained — or at least thinking with your right brain. [...]

Posted on March 11th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Bringing back the hat?

I want this to be true so that I can wear a fedora…

Who wouldn’t look cool in a fedora? And why aren’t there any celebrities as classy as Old Blue Eyes any more?
Deep thoughts for a lazy Sunday afternoon…

Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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