The Blork Blog

Downtown Montreal, as seen from inside the "Buckyball."

Podcasting, in the wrong hands, can be inane and a waste of everyone’s time. In the right hands, it can replace radio. Todd Maffin’s got it down, with his "How To Do Stuff" podcasts. They’re fun, informative, not too long, and have excellent production quality.  Here’s a fun one to launch your weekend: "How to [...]

Hot on the heels of the article that Martine linked to, which claims that TV is actually good for you, comes a study (via The Register) that claims email destroys the mind faster than marijuana does. While the headline focuses on email, the article implicates all online technologies, claiming that “doziness, lethargy and an inability [...]

I’m not an alarmist, and I tend to be annoyed by our society’s over-reliance on safety warnings. All those helmets and safety straps and vacuum seals and other manifestations of paranoia are of course useful in keeping us safe and sound and unpoisoned, but at the same time it fosters, I think, a false sense [...]

The risk of putting your photos online is that people can very easily take them and use them without acknowledgment or authorization. On the other hand, why is that a risk? Unless you are a professional photographer and you stand to lose revenue by having people use your images without payment, does it really matter [...]

Yulzine is here! Check it out!

Pope Fester? (I’ll spare you the Jabba the Hutt comparison…) OK, I confess: I cribbed this from Manolo’s Shoe Blog. (Don’t ask…)