This 103.08 TiAlN Urwerk looks like a nice watch
I wonder how many iPhones I could buy for the same price.
posted at 11:15 pm
on Nov. 29, 2008
An interesting charity angle: Menu for Hope
I'd be interested in this.
posted at 5:48 pm
on Nov. 29, 2008
Time-lapse video of a guy sleeping, and the cat that pesters him all night long
Been there.
posted at 5:24 pm
on Nov. 28, 2008
3 Cool Tricks You Can Only Do In Photoshop CS4
The 3D stuff seems like overkill, but the other two things are really powerfully easy to use.
posted at 4:53 pm
on Nov. 27, 2008
Retired B.C. woman’s travel dream dashed by being on the U.S. no-fly list
And she can't get her name removed. Awful story.
posted at 4:29 pm
on Nov. 27, 2008
Graph: 7 wonders of the modern world.
Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? Ha!
posted at 6:10 pm
on Nov. 26, 2008
Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition site, runs in ExpressionEngine
Cool!
posted at 5:51 pm
on Nov. 26, 2008
Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over their Canadian shortcode
This probably has something to do with Rogers. Them being the devil, I mean..
posted at 2:33 pm
on Nov. 26, 2008
Susanne Klatten: the billionairess and her blackmailing gigalo
It reads like the plot to an airplane novel. But it happened
posted at 10:26 am
on Nov. 25, 2008
Why Are Christians Having Better Sex Than the Rest of Us?
Because God has a sense of humor.
posted at 10:20 am
on Nov. 25, 2008
12,000 laptops go missing annually in airports, but 70% of those are turned in by good Samaritans
Hard to believe.
posted at 9:03 am
on Nov. 25, 2008
A javascript that makes an ASCII heart out of whatever word you pick
Pretty .... cheesy, actually.
posted at 11:47 pm
on Nov. 24, 2008
cool video about the exponential age of information we live in. 5 min long
Worth watching.
posted at 10:17 pm
on Nov. 24, 2008
Beautiful writing, about the anniversary of a friend’s murder
So sad and touching.
posted at 12:32 am
on Nov. 24, 2008
Simple Features Can Be Very Hard to Code: Why Estimates aren’t Promises
An example, using favicons.
posted at 12:29 am
on Nov. 24, 2008
Video: Base jumpers sneak in and jump off the world’s highest building, Dubai
Pretty amazing. It's not even done yet - they jumped off it at 650 m, it will be 800 m at completion. They walked up 160 floors in 40 degree heat, to avoid security in the elevator.
posted at 2:14 pm
on Nov. 23, 2008
Comprehensive guide to iPhone 2.2 upgrade
I'm weakening. I sense I will install it soon.
posted at 12:02 am
on Nov. 22, 2008
A great collection of “The End” screens from movies
Totally cool.
posted at 12:01 am
on Nov. 22, 2008
pervious: There ought to be a law about rare words too much like real words
Pervious is the perfect example. Make a type spelling "previous," and you expect your spell checker to catch it, but it can't because there's this useless little-used but real word, "pervious," that stops you from being informed you made a typo. Damn!
posted at 7:40 pm
on Nov. 21, 2008
Video capture of a large meteor burning up over Edmonton, Canada
Truly neat. Great capture.
posted at 4:16 pm
on Nov. 21, 2008
Travis Smith runs a red light, crashes into two police cruisers
I claim the 5th.
posted at 12:32 pm
on Nov. 21, 2008
In Orange County, a 5-member family committed suicide, motive unknown
How odd.
posted at 4:05 pm
on Nov. 19, 2008
Une douche ?cossaise - interesting French expression
You have to read French to understand it, but it's basically the idea of having a shower that's both hot and cold, heightening the effects of both, and it's used in a dramatic or metaphorical sense, like a horror scene that has some black humor in it to make it seem even more horrible, or a love relationship that has strife in it, or in cooking when you encounter two flavors that oppose but bring out each other.
posted at 12:01 pm
on Nov. 19, 2008
Italian Leather computer sleeves made to look like interoffice mail envelopes
This won't help the Mac stereotype, folks.
posted at 11:21 am
on Nov. 19, 2008
Unsold Foreign Cars Hogging Space at a California Port
The photo is interesting, but the story is worth at least 1,000 words.
posted at 10:23 pm
on Nov. 18, 2008
Canadian housing slump deepens as prices drop most in 26 years
That is for October, over last October, Canada-wide. Vancouver's drop is not as large.
posted at 12:03 pm
on Nov. 17, 2008
A Superstar Chef Closes His Michelin Three-Star Restaurant
Cross it off my list.
posted at 9:00 am
on Nov. 17, 2008
Vancouver’s Plan for 2010 Winter Games Hits Financial Snag (NYTimes.com)
Snag being: Olympics cost a CRAPload of money.
posted at 3:11 pm
on Nov. 15, 2008
Word of the Day: renoviction
Evicting people so you can renovate and charge much higher rents.
posted at 12:55 pm
on Nov. 14, 2008
Apple’s Time Machine doesn’t back up MacOS X Server properly
It leaves out, for example, all your email accounts and log files. D'oh!
posted at 6:06 pm
on Nov. 13, 2008
List of the top 20 ‘Twitterers’ in Vancouver unveiled
Attention media: Despite what his "About" page says, Darren Barefoot does not live in Vancouver! Geez!
posted at 2:59 pm
on Nov. 13, 2008
He Threw a Facebook Friends Party, and No One Came
I'm not surprised.
posted at 3:50 am
on Nov. 13, 2008
Six Apart Fires 8% of Its Staff, Disables Comments for That Blog Entry
I'm sad to see any company go through cuts. But leave the comments on, guys -- isn't that the whole point of blogging?
posted at 7:13 pm
on Nov. 12, 2008
Patriot Act deja vu: Tax legislation snuck through during market crisis will cost $140 billion
That's $140 billion missing tax dollars that has to come from tax payers like me.
posted at 1:32 pm
on Nov. 12, 2008
American military cemeteries in Europe honor heroes in both world wars
For Remembrance Day.
posted at 4:14 am
on Nov. 11, 2008
Packs of robots will hunt down uncooperative humans
But don't worry, it's being built by the best minds the mililtary has to ... agg oockk get away zzzaapp! Ahhhh!!
posted at 4:05 pm
on Nov. 10, 2008
Mediasaurus: Crichton’s 1993 article about the impeding extinction of mass media
Money quote: "The media are an industry, and their product is information. And along with many other American industries, the American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it's sold without warranty. It's flashy but it's basically junk. So people have begun to stop buying it."
posted at 4:02 pm
on Nov. 10, 2008
That huge voter turnout? Didn’t happen
Basically, some more voters because the population has grown, but about the same percentage of the "eligible voter" pool, came to the polls. Many Republicans stayed home.
posted at 6:11 pm
on Nov. 9, 2008
How he bought a foreclosed house
Interesting, if anecdotal, account of an L.A. Times reporter.
posted at 6:11 pm
on Nov. 9, 2008
Amazing search for smileys: Twitter search
What makes it amazing? If you search for a smiley like : ) it finds OTHER smileys, like : D and : - ) -- it's that sort of necessary attention to detail that makes competing in search so hard.
posted at 7:19 pm
on Nov. 8, 2008
A profile of Seymour Hersh, the most-feared investigative reporter in Washington
Rachel Cooke meets a prototype.
posted at 10:44 am
on Nov. 8, 2008
MUST READ: Black butler from the White House: A story of years of change
READ THIS WHOLE ARTICLE. It's fairly short, and has among the most amazing endings of any newspaper article I've ever read. (Talk about burying the lead.)
posted at 6:43 pm
on Nov. 7, 2008
More Friday fun: Build a quick Tower from Bloxx
Just click, and you're a slum lord. Tah dah!
posted at 2:26 am
on Nov. 7, 2008
Write or Die: A Web app that forces you to write
If one could wire it to one's gonads -- then he'd have a sale-able product!
posted at 1:09 pm
on Nov. 6, 2008
What One Word Describes Your Election State of Mind? - Interactive NYTimes Feature
Really, really neat. Like Twitter, but easier. 😊
posted at 1:37 pm
on Nov. 4, 2008
This. Fucking. Election. in one tall image tower of words
Tomorrow, it will all be worth it.
posted at 12:37 pm
on Nov. 3, 2008
101 Celebrity Photos by The Los Angeles Times
Fun way to spend a few moments. Great shots.
posted at 3:09 pm
on Nov. 2, 2008
Americans increasingly go abroad for affordable medical treatment
A knee here, a heart there, it adds up.
posted at 2:58 pm
on Nov. 2, 2008
music video with smiling music knobs and dials
It's bomb the bass -- and super cool.
posted at 1:13 pm
on Nov. 2, 2008
Why People Participate on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
They forgot white slavery as a category.
posted at 1:08 pm
on Nov. 2, 2008
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