http://www.shoppingcartsinravines.com Free lifestyles, fringe culture and delicious home cookin' Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:07:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have very few complaints about Apple products. Largely fitting that pattern, the iPhone 3G is the best phone I've ever owned and has exceeded my requirements as a digital organizer. Similarly, Safari on OS X has consistently been a fast, stable and standards-embracing browser and while any browser lacking ... http://www.shoppingcartsinravines.com/2008/11/19/safari-on-iphone-is-nearly-unusably-buggy/ I'd just like to point out that the commonly accepted RSS logo, first popularized around 2005-2006, bears a remarkable resemblance to disembodied mystery-solving literatus Ghostwriter from the same-named television series of 1992-1995. The RSS logo, if you're unfamiliar, is depicted on my avatar's shirt in the sidebar and will also appear ... http://www.shoppingcartsinravines.com/2008/11/17/tv-ghostwriter-rss-feedreader/ Nutrition consultant & educator Karen Hanrahan has kept a plain McDonald's hamburger from 1996 without doing anything in particular to preserve it and it is in nearly the exact same shape as when it was sold 12 years ago: That's 1996 on the left, 2008 on the right. She writes, "Ladies, Gentleman, ... http://www.shoppingcartsinravines.com/2008/11/15/mcdonalds-lasts-like-plastic/ When I reference Urban Hiking, what I'm thinking of in my mind is occasions where I've walked long distances through unfamiliar areas to reach a far-off destination (say, across a city) without ever having felt a sense of being lost but instead retaining a sense of exploration and enough focus ... http://www.shoppingcartsinravines.com/2008/11/14/urban-hiking/ For me, one of the definite highlights of the trip to NYC was visiting The Village Petstore and Charcoal Grill, an animatronics-based non-graffiti exhibit by infamous street and guerilla artist Banksy, who also happens to be my favourite contemporary artist. (Although for the record, Tom Green did the hang-your-own-painting-in-a-big-gallery ... http://www.shoppingcartsinravines.com/2008/11/12/nyc-pt-2-banksys-pet-store/ So, I recently took a trip to New York City, leaving from and returning to Toronto via Megabus, a company that seems to mostly rent Coach Canada / Coach USA's buses out and drive them themselves. Our first driver was very conscientious and genial, and counted heads to make sure everyone ... http://www.shoppingcartsinravines.com/2008/11/11/nyc-pt-1-never-ride-anywhere-with-megabus/ One infamous guerilla art stunt that got Banksy some fame was installing his own works in major art galleries. I just want to state for the record that Tom Green did this first in Ottawa. http://www.shoppingcartsinravines.com/2008/11/11/tom-greens-less-anonymous-banksy-esque-tiger-zebra/ While at my friend Mike's house, it struck me as unusual that his wifi network had no password on it... but by the time I finished getting the question out of my mouth, it was obvious to me that there wasn't really any good reason for protecting it in a ... http://www.shoppingcartsinravines.com/2008/11/06/open-access-wi-fi/ taken in Brooklyn by Greenpoint station http://www.shoppingcartsinravines.com/2008/11/04/fingers-crossed/ I was killing time and wanted to see if this Google trick to find open surveillance cameras worked on Flash-less Safari on the iPhone, and it did. The feed refreshed at a faster rate than that, this was just the screenshots I could manually snag. As of right now, the camera is ... http://www.shoppingcartsinravines.com/2008/10/24/surveilling-foreign-public-spaces-on-my-iphone/