Jun

X-actly

Posted by MGK Published in The Miscellaneous Sciences And Crap Like That

The folks over at Balloon Juice are mocking John McCain’s proposal of an “X-Prize”-like monetary prize incentive for developing more efficient batteries. The general thrust of criticism is that if you’re going to have government investment in business, better to have it targeted for research efforts that pay off faster than as an undirected, unorganized […]

6 comments

Jun

The Internets Is My Thing

Posted by MGK Published in TV, The Internets

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

3 comments

Jun

Bad habits.

Posted by MGK Published in Here's A Lot Of Photoshops, Gaming, Photoshopp'd, Bad Comedy

ME: You know, I rather think the whole Photoshopping thing is getting a bit predictable these days.
MYSELF: I was thinking that myself. I mean, it’s almost getting to be a schtick, isn’t it?
ME: And you’ve got to figure there’s more interesting things to Photoshop than just grabbing a selection of some element of pop-culture nostalgia…
MYSELF: […]

72 comments

Jun