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Bloomsday
“Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls.…” -
Sobig.F; Listamatic; Coupland interviewed, Gatenby resigns; Darwinian Poetry; BBC revolution
After returning from a week away, I find my Yahoo email has been (and is being) hammered by Sobig.F (given how the address is used, I think a Canadian journalist might have been patient zero for this outbreak). Although my anti-virus software and Mozilla prevented any damage, it has meant a delay in responding to genuine emails, so apologies if you haven’t yet received a reply. -
Building accessible web sites
Joe Clark’s long anticipated book, Building Accessible Websites has been published. Clark is probably the accessibility expert for electronic communication, and it’s technical editor was Mark Pilgrim (of Dive Into Accessibility fame). If you care about accessibility online, this book is a must read. -
McLuhan’s birthday
Today would be Marshall McLuhan’s 91st birthday. -
Timothy Findley is dead; CanWest damage control
Timothy Findley is dead. He was 71. -
The Armies of the Night
Picked up Norman Mailer’s The Armies of the Night at this year’s Word on the Street, and have been quite enjoying it, though I find it strange reading his observations made while protesting the Vietnam War, even as we attack Afghanistan. For example, his definition of a “bad war”: -
Richler’s book sales soar
Every artist dreads this slice of brutal irony: in a twisted bit of schadenfreude, within 24 hours of Mordecai Richler's death, his books sold out at my local Book City store and the three others in Toronto. Chapters had a big increase in demand with some stores being sold out as well. Not only that, Reuters is reporting that "sales for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz had jumped 1,100 percent since July, while Barney's Version was up 450 percent in the same time frame" at Amazon.com. (Despite my affiliate relationship with Chapters, its just too bizarre to post this item and solicit sales.) -
Mordecai Richler has died
Mordecai Richler, one of Canada's most opinionated and respected writers, has died from what is believed to be complications related to his cancer. Best known for his book The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Richler, 70, wrote a total of ten books (three of which were judged as part of the 100 best English-Canadian books) and hundreds of columns, many of which featured his passion for Montreal and Quebec. If you feel so inclined, you can sign a virtual book of visitation for him…or just raise a pint in his memory. -
The roll of On the Road
On the way to a friend’s wedding Saturday, my own best man began talking about how Jack Kerouac’s On the Road was written on one, big, long scroll of paper. -
Top 100 English-Canadian Books
This list of the top 100 English-Canadian books were chosen by the University of Toronto Bookstore Review in April 1999. -
CBC’s Great Books
The following 15 “Great Books� were discussed by Michael Enright and Dr. Bruce Meyer, on CBC Radio’s This Morning. -
Book Review: Concrete Forest
A review, first published in Mindjack, of a collection of urban Canadian fiction.