A tumblelog, by Gabriel Mansour. Because I couldn’t come up with a better name on such short notice. Tumblr (3.0; @gabrielmansour)http://gabrielmansour.com/<a href="http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/">Panic Blog » The Panic Status Board</a>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/437389262http://gabrielmansour.com/post/437389262Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:40:59 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Uzl6LEfouEE&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Uzl6LEfouEE&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>The great Canadian comedy duo Wayne & Shuster present: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzl6LEfouEE&feature=related">Shakespearian Baseball Game</a>.<i> “A hit, a very palpable hit!”</i></p>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/430888735http://gabrielmansour.com/post/430888735Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:20:00 -0500shakespeare<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jXLHaMh1cDo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jXLHaMh1cDo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXLHaMh1cDo&feature=digest">RetroBites: Robertson Davies (1973)</a></p> <p>Robertson Davies, who is probably my favourite Canadian author, shares his thoughts on critics. (via <a href="http://youtube.com/user/CBCtv">CBCtv</a>)</p>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/430884319http://gabrielmansour.com/post/430884319Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:17:30 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kys79tk9nL1qz541no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a title="@smack416 on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/smack416/status/9986779337">@smack416</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>So @qasim sees me last night and says, “Ha! I bet you got that shirt for free from some web 2.0 company, right?”</p> </blockquote>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/427062069http://gabrielmansour.com/post/427062069Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:44:17 -0500<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/">WordPress › Regenerate Thumbnails « WordPress Plugins</a>: <p>Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to regenerate the thumbnails for all of your image attachments. This is very handy if you’ve changed any of your thumbnail dimensions (via Settings -> Media) after…</p>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/424456109http://gabrielmansour.com/post/424456109Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:46:47 -0500<a href="http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/">New in WordPress 2.9: Post Thumbnail Images « Mark on WordPress</a>: <p>How to enable post thumbnail images in WordPress 2.9 themes</p>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/423823970http://gabrielmansour.com/post/423823970Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:15:06 -0500<a href="http://cjohansen.no/en/rails/multi_staging_environment_for_rails_using_capistrano_and_mod_rails">Multi-staging environment for Rails using Capistrano and mod_rails</a>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/416833250http://gabrielmansour.com/post/416833250Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:40:42 -0500<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/feb2010/sb20100216_621672.htm">Budgeting and Tax Advice for the Self-Employed - BusinessWeek</a>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/412451532http://gabrielmansour.com/post/412451532Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:22:10 -0500<a href="http://www.yoxigen.com/yoxview/">YoxView - jQuery image viewer plugin</a>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/403115529http://gabrielmansour.com/post/403115529Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:16:20 -0500<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9621541&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9621541&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9621541&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>It went down last night at Podcamp Toronto: <a href="http://vimeo.com/9621541">Rochelle Raps</a> <i>The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air</i>.</p>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/404952276http://gabrielmansour.com/post/404952276Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500pcto2010<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YtGSXMuWMR4&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YtGSXMuWMR4&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Charlie Brooker of the BBC demonstrates <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4">How to Build a Visual News Story</a> (<a href="http://anastasiatubanos.com/?p=25">via</a>)</p>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/400788370http://gabrielmansour.com/post/400788370Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:22:23 -0500<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/madrobby/i-cant-believe-its-not-flash">I Can't Believe It's Not Flash</a>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/399787252http://gabrielmansour.com/post/399787252Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:52:13 -0500<a href="http://www.yongestreetmedia.ca/features/hacklab0210.aspx">Play leads to innovation at Toronto Hacklab</a>: <p>A write-up on our very own HacklabTO.</p>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/383974656http://gabrielmansour.com/post/383974656Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:10:51 -0500<a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/rails-3-0-beta-links-2966.html">Rails 3.0 Beta: 36 Links and Resources To Get You Going</a>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/380247663http://gabrielmansour.com/post/380247663Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:49:10 -0500<a href="http://jhop.me/ie8-bugs">James Hopkins » IE8 Bugs</a>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/375619603http://gabrielmansour.com/post/375619603Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:58:06 -0500<a href="http://beverlyhsu.com/cookies.html">Helvetica Cookie Cutters</a>: <p>Kern your cookies with these Helvetica-shaped cookie cutters!</p>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/373819960http://gabrielmansour.com/post/373819960Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:14:41 -0500<a href="http://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash">contrib/completion/git-completion.bash at master from git's git - GitHub</a>: <p>Very awesome Git tab completion</p>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/357982899http://gabrielmansour.com/post/357982899Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:08:11 -0500<a href="http://www.khanacademy.org/">Khan Academy</a>: <p>The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. They’ve got over 1000 videos on YouTube covering everything from basic…</p>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/354520604http://gabrielmansour.com/post/354520604Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:12:49 -0500<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.uctv.tv/player/player_uctv_bug.swf" width="400" height="327"><param name="movie" value="http://www.uctv.tv/player/player_uctv_bug.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="flashvars" value="previewImage=http://www.uctv.tv/images/programs/16717.jpg&movie=rtmp://webcast.ucsd.edu/vod/mp4:16717&videosize=0&buffer=1&volume=50&repeat=false&smoothing=true" /></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.joeydevilla.com/2010/01/05/sugar-the-bitter-trut/">Joey Devilla says</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><b>You might not think that a physician-delivered lecture would be interesting viewing</b>, but I’m having trouble pulling myself away from this presentation from <a href="http://www.ucsf.edu/">University of California, San Francisco’s</a> <a href="http://www.osher.ucsf.edu/">Osher Center for Integrative Medicine</a>, <b><i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjxyjcvW7RE&feature=channel">Sugar: The Bitter Truth</a></i></b>. In the presentation, Dr. <a href="http://www.chc.ucsf.edu/coast/faculty_lustig.htm">Robert H. Lustig</a> argues that fructose – especially in the form of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup">high-fructose corn syrup</a> – is so bad for you that it should be classified as a poison; he also likens the way your body reacts to it as alcohol without the buzz.</p> </blockquote> <p>I knew sugar and soft drinks were bad, which is why I tend to abstain from them, but this shines a whole new light on the matter.</p> <p>Also viewable in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjxyjcvW7RE&feature=channel">nine 10-minute segments on YouTube</a>, that can easily be watched spread across the course of a week.</p>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/347550850http://gabrielmansour.com/post/347550850Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:24:02 -0500<a href="http://pelfusion.com/tools/20-must-have-wordpress-cms-plugins/">20 Must Have WordPress CMS Plugins | Tools | PelFusion.com</a>http://gabrielmansour.com/post/346482047http://gabrielmansour.com/post/346482047Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:53:21 -0500