Weekly Review #189 - Canada, Community Canvas, and Dedotated Wam
Not much this week as I'm in Canada with the family. What have I learned?
Eastern Canada is beautiful in that rugged desolate rural way, but there's really nothing there. Even the Hopewell Rocks, where the tide raises 7 meters in 6 hours every day, isn't quite worth the trip on it's own, I'd say.
Toronto is a beautiful clean version of New York, hipsters and all. But they don't have much unique for travelers either.
Niagara Falls itself is impressive, but the touristy conglomeration of mini golf and laser mazes in the adjoining city is not. Go to Niagara on the Lake for a better experience.
Tech
The Community Canvas — community-canvas.org
The people behind the Sandbox Network are open sourcing the ideas they used to run this international network. It looks a bit corporatey - but these are the right questions to ask to run communities, it seems.
Lifehacks
Controversial U of T professor making nearly $50,000 a month through crowdfunding | Toronto Star
This professor doesn't support the idea of gender neutral pronouns, and he found lots of internet strangers who agree with him enough to pay. Interesting to see when political correctness and crowdfunding converge.
Fun
Dedotated Wam? - YouTube — www.youtube.com
At the Minecraft conference, one young man with a lisp and stutter asks a question about 'Dedicated RAM,' and becomes internet famous. I can't stop watching.