is france taking cues from hérouxville

isn't unsupervised machine learning essentially trying to mimic evolution (or more precisely natural selection of some sorts)?

i know people raved about invictus. i was underwhelmed. sorry clint. maybe my expectations were too high having watched most of that world cup live and seen the final many times. beyond the expected hollywood clichés - i found it REALLY didn't do the rugby justice. i don't understand how movies can make american football look more exciting and rugby look less so. especially the football style interjections of scuffles. it also really didn't do lomu justice - maybe he wasn't the uncanny force he was in the rest of the matches...but he wasn't as lame as they make him. at least it makes me want to watch that final again 15 years later. i can verify if my claim about lomu is true. still - that world cup was an excellent one.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy_2010.html

why does this not happen in china?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10567761

the craziest thing done with a browser to date
absolutely crazy
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

i like dave barbour's guitaring....

Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Autism

Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Autism

media spin

Imaginary Larry from Erika Lindhome on Vimeo.

george harrison sounds like don everly

$37 and 3 demerit points for crossing a red light on a bixi (a couple of days ago). my only other "moving" violation (with demerit points as well) in 25 years of driving was for not wearing a seat belt in the BACK seat many years ago.
some day i will actually get a ticket while driving a car....

a nice review of HV

what is with this swedish indie folk rock explosion. do they think they are in montreal?

"star wars kid" is studying law at mcgill (great comeback) AND jishnu got a mention in this article

these kids (5th grade) do a good version of my favourite school house rock song

good interview with ravi shankar

silophone

I don't understand why the ghosts are not totally pissed that the ghost whisperer always changes what they say when speaking to their families.
"Tell him he gave me my freedom"
"She says she is happy now"
"That's not what I said"
"She says she never wanted to be a dancer"
"You're not even trying"
"Do you see the light?"
"I'll show you a $%^&^* light"

the farside cartoon is true. the oldest living tree and hence the oldest living organism was cut down to inspect its age rings. 4900 - 5100 years old. the guy who did it.

book entertainment for a private gig

justin timberlake composing

i always waited for miss diane to see me through the magic mirror but she never said "i see prasun"....

Band to watch http://www.myspace.com/coralred

after seeing this last night i am starting to think socalled is the most brilliant (and least pretentious) artist in montreal these days

want to make it into a recording device and tuner - so i will have to solder together my own adaptor

went to see the buzzcocks last night - excellent show. as mike pointed out with a smile - once again they are "relevant". the punk rock kids were emphatic in their texting and cell-phone picture taking. i noticed one girl even had a punk blackberry (it had a shatterred screen)

israeli human rights organization

an instrument invented 10 years ago that i've just discovered

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ok go nicking bob marley element's from mr. brown? that's what i thought the first time i heard the song and i guess i am not alone
anyways - all the interviews with the lead singer about the state of the recording label model are very interesting

heard in this context - the theme from taxi sounds like a lyle mayes composition - with the guitarist owing a bit to pat metheny hisself.

Pat Metheny with his orchestrion

Better explained by WIRED

The builder Eric Singer

i just realized lonely island ripped off flight of the conchords

Photos by Kirk Wight - Divan Orange Feb 28, 2010

enjoy it while it is still available for free streaming

robot chicken's take on if frank miller did american history

this is actually what i have been thinking about doing with music. sita sings the blues....question copyright

This lightbulb has been on since 1901 (I think it's only been off for 22 minutes).

The phase when people thought I was half-Black (it really happenned all the time)....

আপনিকি আমাকে বাসতে পার্চেয়্ন?

mel gibson asking "you have a dog in the fight?"

i got a fedex attampted delivery notice - tracking shows this is the current voyage the package has completed (montreal to sun valley back to montreal):

Jan 8, 2010 12:07 PMAt local FedEx facilityST LAURENT, PQ

Jan 8, 2010 11:00 AMDelivery exceptionST LAURENT, PQCustomer not available or business closed

Jan 8, 2010 10:35 AMOn FedEx vehicle for deliveryST LAURENT, PQ

Jan 8, 2010 9:34 AMAt local FedEx facilityST LAURENT, PQ

Jan 8, 2010 8:21 AMAt dest sort facilityMIRABEL, PQ

Jan 8, 2010 7:53 AMInt'l shipment releaseMIRABEL, PQ

Jan 8, 2010 3:45 AMDeparted FedEx locationINDIANAPOLIS, IN

Jan 8, 2010 2:02 AMArrived at FedEx locationINDIANAPOLIS, IN

Jan 7, 2010 8:23 PMLeft FedEx origin facilitySUN VALLEY, CA

Jan 7, 2010 3:57 PMPicked upSUN VALLEY, CA

Jan 6, 2010 12:04 AMIn transitMIRABEL, PQPackage to be cleared by FedEx broker

mj talking about why pigeons bob their heads while walking (on quirks and quarks)
as always - amazing ability to explain things understandably (and with humour)

when bus fare was 8 cents you knew it was going to be a good week when donny and marie switched roles. he became a little bit country and she became a little bit rock'n roll - and wore black leather.

SUCH a good show on stochasticity

more blasts from the past

ck one

the gmail spell checker was making me second-guess myself until i realized it was americanizing my english. i've changed the setting to uk english.

this clip is always amusing
i just noticed jian's screen says "if this really goes sideways, i have new neil, new metric standing by" - obviously a message from his producer.

Apparently I am still in the top 25 without the error. I estimate I did about 1000km on BIXI (pronounced bike-sie in English according to Kevin). This was all done in 8 min trips.

I just got the below email. There was an administrative error that said I had a bike out for 3 months - I asked them to verify that I am still in the running when discounting this mistake. If so - since I am a HUGE fan of BIXI - I think I'll do it...
Letter:
Hello Mr.

For the end of our first year, our team is analyzing the possibility to do year-end review in the media and on our website. We would love to present to top 25 BIXI BIGGEST USERS, the members that most frequently used our system.

By getting this email, you can guest…that you are part of the TOP 25 most frequent Bixi users. We would like to know if you would accept to collaborate with us so that we can present you on our website, at www.bixi.com.

glad i'm not alone in my feelings about 300

Jingoist Frank Miller should listen to this episode of This American Life.
300 pissed me off.

one of my favourite concerts this year

amar from the anokha album (the voice from jaan) - singing dolly parton (i think as a kid)

after all these years my creation of a swear word has still to catch on:
de la visitation
as in
'stie de la visitation y m'fait chier!

the best jean leloup song and video

MyRobotHead

MyRobotHead
Originally uploaded by prasun

First pass robot head

i don't get all the voice correction effect on every pop single that comes out. it is as if you put a phaser on every single vocal on a 60s pop song...

death letter blues

jonathan goldstein and david rakoff's correspondence between gregor samsa and dr seuss is on of the most brilliant things i've ever heard

some nice words and pics about montreal

google with its hosted apps is becoming what vjungle was (trying to be) 10 years ago

guy moved back to india

i remember emailing with him back in the day - very nice guy

Such Great Heights got cut off - hopefully will be uploaded soon

those swedish kids sibling harmonies are just crazy.

grodin explains his mystique on letterman after all these years

Charles Grodin at The Late Show
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can't help myself
listening to her on npr and had to check out the vid of her doing this all alone

i never new *what* charo was celebrated for (originally)...what made here a celebrity. she was twice named best flamenco guitarist by guitar player magazine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgpAlKKftG0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfVf7N8CJEA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whErwOotGSY

blogging overload

why are there no comparisons made between nina simone's chaffeur and the beatles' drive my car?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3SPPTlN_Ys

wow - delhi, ontario is not the only place that doesn't know how to pronounce its own name (they say del-high)... there is also one in new york

Delhi, New York — /ˈdɛlhaɪ/

chords of fame

pics from osheaga

why has allen klein (abkco) not gone after neil young for borrowed tune (lady jane)? not worth it compared to bittersweet symphony?
oh - i just read he died a few days ago - neil is safe.

Now it makes more sense - the original Mr. Potato Head used *real* potatoes...and other fruits and vegetables....

i think david bowie is the only person who can consistently pull off tucking his shirt into his pants

It seems Google sites (Gmail, Youtube) are getting successfull in making IE and Firefox consistently crash. A little push for Chrome?
(I'm surprised Blogger is allowing this post)....

Danger Mouse, Sparkelhorse and David Lynch?

1977? Crazy foreshadowing

Buffy Ste. Marie is so cool

bixi and sympatico should have gotten their acts together in the first few days of bixi (probably mostly sympatico's fault). when bixi servers are overloaded they redirect the site to 70.38.15.10 - an ip that was being blocked by sympatico. seems to be ok now.

quickme

quickme
Originally uploaded by prasun

5 min twith a tablet

seeing bell orchestre the other night placed them as my number 2 montreal band (just behind priestess) - truly amazing. but also made me remember i have to be on the lookout to catch another show by plywood 3/4

you can undo send on gmail now....and no it isn't april 1

wow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/21/george-galloway-canada

hmm - listening to the everly brothers' walk right back i realize that neil young lifted (paid homage) to the riff

i guess i could have figured it out with a tennis ball and light-bulb but why the moon looks different in india from here

euler's formula intuitively explained by pictures

I found this song on my computer - I recorded it late at night on October 16, 2007. I have vague memories of doing so....I would have to figure out the song from scratch by listening to it....but I know it is in "Nick Drake" tuning. I guess I was thinking about music for soundtracks....

This is it

i love the graphics in fancy pants

finally made a jr myspace page