• This is a bit old (from two weeks ago now), but I’m enjoying the read. Steve Jobs addresses graduates of Stanford at their commencement. Some insightful things, and some eyebrow raising things. Beautiful typography on computers exists only because he took Calligraphy once? Not so sure I subscribe to that theory.
• Centretown Movies is back up and running again for 2005.
• After much debate and waffling, I’ve decided that I *would* like to see Howl’s Moving Castle, even if only to see if I like it as much as Spirited Away.
• Travel ads to show *real* pricing. Finally – a change for the better. Now if only they’d go the other half of the way and make airlines and railways do it too. That $99 flight? Really $179. The whole price-pre-fees and surcharges and taxes gets ridiculous after a while.
• The Rooms opens today in Newfoundland.
• Baby froggies! On Holmwood Ave. Watch.Your.Step.
• From Anatole – an interesting bunch of segments from a recent U of O panel on copyright legislation. There’s some great debate and statements in the final video of the q&a section.
• A little note here, but a BIG deal: Canada Approves Same Sex Marriage. On a related note, Steven Harper sucks about as much as I thought he did.

I need to work on my night photography. Though I am starting to like contrast-shadows. This is Maman, taken last night in the dark.

Update: Molly & Nelly both got adopted!!

I don’t know *how* this happened, but I got nominated for a Golden Cherry Award!

I’m nominated as one of a number of great “crafters” in the “Best Crafter” category: > Mady Carlea, Stina B. (Christina Ballhorn), Carol Moffat, and Malcolm Zander.

For those of you not in the know (this includes me, for the most part), the Golden Cherry Awards is one of the biggest award shows in town to showcase local talent, with 10 emcees, live voting by the public (scary + volatile….does bribery work?), competing bands and over 200 hot local artists looking for attention.

The awards gala is going to be held at Club SAW on Saturday, July 9, 2005 from 7PM to 2AM. There’s a $10 cover, and a cash bar. And I *know* that is also happens to be the best night of Bluesfest for many of us, but if you’re bored and feel like wandering around the corner for a loud-sound-broken-social-metric-stars-daniel-lanois break, stop by and vote!

You can find out more info on the Golden Cherries at www.galeriesawgallery.com