I’ve taken the New Yorker staff writer websites and put them into del.icio.us.

If you read the facsinating article in The New Yorker last week about Poppa Neutrino and his attempt to sail a “scrap raft” across the Pacific Ocean, you might want to check out floatingneutrinos.com, especially the FAQ page.

From the description of the Sony Clie VZ-90 available for sale in North America from Dynamism (emphasis mine):

Since the native OS is Japanese, it is very difficult for English users to navigate. Therefore, we DOT recommend it for anyone who is not Japanese-comfortable, or just incredibly brazen.

It’s almost enough to make me buy one.

Here’s the advertising policy for Mother Jones magazine; it doesn’t seem to be online, so I’ve scanned it and include it below. I was struck with how well-written and sensible it is.

MasterCard has an audible brand:

The audible MasterCard brand is a short, memorable combination of three musical tones which enhances the visual and verbal dimensions of the MasterCard brand.

While Air Canada seems fairly successful in flying planes around, they’re not really good at running online contests. Witness today’s quiz in the “Win the Whole World” contest:

As I compose this blog post, I am also:

• Having a Skype chat with Johnnie Moore about social networks.
• Having a Skype chat with Olle Jonsson about Open Bread.
• Updating the Open Bread wiki page.
• Writing the intro and extro for a Plazes radio piece I’m taping for the CBC tomorrow.
• Reading an email from my man at Xerox about using a Docutech to do a 60,000-postcard “mail merge.”
• Monitoring the RSS newsflow.
• Trying to fix Johnny’s phone.
• Doing actual paying work.

There is some danger that my brain might explode.

Today’s “Feminist of the Day” is Helen Adams Keller. Olle Jonsson pointed the way to this RSS feed; it’s excellent daily content: every morning I learn about a new woman, with a brief bio and a pithy quote. Today’s quote from Keller:

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

Olle Jonsson and I have started a project that we’re calling Open Bread. The question we’re exploring is “do open source practices and principles have application in creating and managing non-digital ‘real world’ projects?”

Charlottetown needs a good bakery: you hear people say this all the time, especially when they’re talking about “downtown revitalization.” The usual route for a bakery to be founded would be for some plucky entrepreneur to come along and invest their time and money in starting a business. But that hasn’t happened. Can open source step into the breach: can the energy of the community, and interested others (like Olle) be harnessed to do what private enterprise hasn’t?

We don’t know. But on the Open Bread page of the Rukapedia we’re going to explore the idea.

I’ve uploaded a set of photographs of Copenhagen washrooms that I took while in Denmark for reboot. Everything in Copenhagen is beautiful, the washrooms especially so.