Using Siftlinks and IFTTT to Aggregate Links From Your Twitter Timeline Into a Slack Channel
Combine 4 different services to get links from your Twitter timeline posted to Slack.
Bare-Bones Sports Alerts in Slack
Instructions on how to get specialized sports alerts in Slack using Twitter.
Introducing Slack-Twitter
Do you like Slack? Do you like Twitter? Would you like to use Twitter in your Slack?
We Can Explore an Endlessly Generated World Freely
John Crowley: “To live at once in a time recoverable by a particular sacred calendar and also by a time without qualities, counted as it passes, involves a sort of mental doubling that is perhaps comparable, in the richness it grants to thought and feeling, to growing up bilingual: two systems, each complete, funny when they collide, each supplying something the other lacks, bearing no command to choose between them.
None of this would likely hold up in a law court, but it was enough for me to be able to report to AVIS with confidence that the charge was spurious.
Vancouver Design Week Bike Tour
As part of Vancouver Design Week 2014, a senior urban designer from the City of Vancouver took us on a 3 hour bike tour of Vancouver's architecture. We started in Olympic Village, made our way north on the seawall to Chinatown, then rode through Gastown to the convention centre, after which we biked to Stanley Park and then to Third Beach, ending at Mole Hill.
The computer lords want to control everything, and central to controlling all things is controlling perception. Perception of the way things are, the way things work, and what’s happened in history so that they can frame their version of events and control the narrative; mind-controlling the masses to make them into better, more compliant consumers.
Alternatives to the Best Way to Discover a Strange City
Google Maps turn-by-turn cycling directions, headphones, and city bikeshares are by far the best way I've found to discover a strange city.
Two Weeks of Ingress
While leaving a BBQ celebrating a friend's 50th birthday party, Richard Smith's tweet pointing out the Ingress app had been released for iOS flowed through my stream. For the last two years, owners of Android-based Internet communicators have been playing the GPS-enabled, location-based massively mouthful role-playing game.