R.I.P. iSquint

iSquint, the fantastic free video compression tool for the Mac has been discontinued along with its big brother VisualHub and second cousin AudialHub.

I know Tristan used iSquint to prep every single episode of Jim Dupree for the web.

It’ll be missed.

(Via Wayne MacPhail)

C’est What WiFi password

The password is “hempale”

Toronto Centre All Candidates Meeting this Sunday, October 5, 2008

Saw this in the CRBA Google group, and thought it was worth reposting (links added are mine). Jenna and I plan to attend.

Toronto Centre All Candidates Meeting

Sunday, October 5, 2008

5:00 – 7:00 pm

at

C’est What

67 Front Street east of Church Street

You are invited to an informal gathering to meet your riding candidates for the upcoming election. Listen to candidates opening statements and ask questions about the issues important to you and your community.

Candidates:

• Johan Boyden (Communist Party of Canada)
• Gerald Derome (Independent)
• Philip Fernandez (Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada)
• David Peter Gentili (Conservative Party of Canada)
• El-Farouk Khaki (New Democratic Party)
• Ellen Michelson (Green Party of Canada)
• Bob Rae (Liberal Party of Canada)
• Liz White (Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada)

If All Movies Had Cell Phones

Earlier this month, I heard a great piece on NPR’s podcast of On The Media. It was an interview with Zachary Pincus-Roth, a freelance journalist who wrote a piece in the LA Times all about the effect of cell phones on movie plots:

While cellphones appear to help storytellers, since they allow anyone to talk to anyone at any time, “that seeming freedom only makes it all the more difficult,” says Robert McKee, the screenwriting guru and author of “Story.” “It takes away a possible source of conflict — the difficulty of communicating, the difficulty of calling for help.”

Today, via Gizmodo, a link to this CH video, If All Movies Had Cell Phones:

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Favourite moment? The Fight Club scene (second to last).

GRTTWaK update

My little reading series, Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids, got a nice mention in the Toronto Star today.

Also, I’ve cut several more episodes of the GRTTWaK podcast, which will roll out over the next few weeks.