Student threatened blowing up UBC to avoid giving a presentation
Question: Why was the FBI involved in finding this guy? Don't we have our own RCMP officers who can do this law stuff?
posted at 6:10 pm
on Mar. 31, 2009
Rocker ‘Chosen Chick’ Super Soft Jewish T-Shirt
I just like the phrase 'chosen chick'
posted at 3:34 pm
on Mar. 31, 2009
Another side-scrolling EE site
It's in Dutch, but I think it's awesome.
posted at 1:48 pm
on Mar. 30, 2009
Photos of the rebuilt Turing Bombe
It was the Nazi codebreaker which shortened the Second World War by two years
posted at 12:07 pm
on Mar. 30, 2009
cityrag: Mysterious Celebrity Tattoos
If you get someone's face on your arm -- for goodness sake, get it properly done.
posted at 5:39 pm
on Mar. 28, 2009
A cool animated ad for Google Chrome
I like the Chrome logo bouncing around like a block deleting game.
posted at 12:25 pm
on Mar. 28, 2009
Ball Gymnastics is a pretty amazing sport, and here’s a great routine
Wowsa.
posted at 10:33 am
on Mar. 27, 2009
Trailer for The Clean Bin Project - a year making no trash or garbage at all
I watched this while wiping my mouth with a paper towel and drinking from a soda can. Can you say: guilty?
posted at 1:28 pm
on Mar. 26, 2009
Kids today… teen paints giant shlong on his parents’ roof
Then flees the country. True story!
posted at 5:13 pm
on Mar. 25, 2009
Latincouver.ca is coming
It's based in Francouver.ca, which we built. Except theirs has more rhythm. 😊
posted at 12:32 am
on Mar. 25, 2009
The stunningly amazing story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Makes me want to buy it.
posted at 11:25 pm
on Mar. 24, 2009
MindHabits: A mood improving video game
I dig it. Click on the happy faces!
posted at 5:24 pm
on Mar. 21, 2009
What Do Women Want?
Mostly they seem to want attention. As opposed to men, who seem to want women. All in all, a good system, don't you think?
posted at 2:44 pm
on Mar. 21, 2009
Bas Jan Ader: Artist who does videos of himself, falling
Amazing. Try clicking on Selected Works, then on Fall 2. Sadly, he disappeared in a small sailing boat while trying to circumnavigate the earth.
posted at 2:36 pm
on Mar. 21, 2009
On the new Shuffle headphone control, and Apple’s punishment of tech journalists who don’t conform
Please read, and republish, this editorial. It's the most thoughtful attack on Apple's policy relating to journalists I've read in a while.
posted at 10:05 am
on Mar. 21, 2009
steven berlin johnson’s talk about Old Growth Media And The Future Of News
I *so* wish I had been at this panel at SXSW.
posted at 3:43 pm
on Mar. 20, 2009
Review of “The Foie Gras Wars” talks about life as a fattened duck
Deliciousness!
posted at 7:49 am
on Mar. 20, 2009
Video: why no one wants to fight Dr Manhattan (NSFW)
This is kinda offensive, if you think large blue glowing penises that look like light sabers are offensive.
posted at 6:07 pm
on Mar. 19, 2009
Here’s some secret extra Skype Emoticons & Flags
I like (finger) and (bandit) the best, but (rock) is cool, too.
posted at 4:49 pm
on Mar. 19, 2009
Walking, talking female robot to hit Japan catwalk
Stupid article has no picture. How dumb is that?
posted at 12:26 pm
on Mar. 19, 2009
Another great column from Chris Erskine
I don't know if his wife laughs at these, though.
posted at 10:10 am
on Mar. 18, 2009
Wake someone up quicker than caffeine with *this* coffee stencil
heh.
posted at 4:25 pm
on Mar. 16, 2009
Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
A long, long, great essay that says way more and way better what I've been saying: newspaper folks saw the Internet coming 15 years ago, and yet still could not have avoided being basically and totally hooped.
posted at 1:10 pm
on Mar. 14, 2009
YouTube music mixups by Kitiman: Funk-y
Here's Kutiman's "The Mother of All Funk Chords"
posted at 11:33 am
on Mar. 12, 2009
Iraqi Shoe-Thrower Gets 3 Years in Prison
Where he will practice his aim.
posted at 11:09 am
on Mar. 12, 2009
Pork, bacon ham, and sausage mashed into the shape of a pig and cooked
Thanks, Shane. Awesome porkitude.
posted at 10:45 am
on Mar. 12, 2009
CC Zero: A uiform way to put material into the public domain
It's a good idea.
posted at 9:36 pm
on Mar. 11, 2009
What can you do with a pound of duck fat?
All sorts of good things.
posted at 10:07 pm
on Mar. 9, 2009
Ever had a Web form lose what you were typing? Try Lazarus
It's a Firefox add-on that does one amazing thing: Save your Web-form work. Yay!
posted at 11:30 am
on Mar. 9, 2009
We Are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction
Don't read this if you're generally having a good day today. Sample quote: "Perhaps the chaos and bloodshed will be so massive that overpopulation will be solved through violence, but this is hardly a comfort."
posted at 10:44 am
on Mar. 9, 2009
Which of the 4 Gregs are you?
Sci-fi greg, open source greg, japanese culture greg or D&D greg?
posted at 3:24 pm
on Mar. 7, 2009
When Daughters Run Away ... an interview
Really flip-flopped perspective on teen runaways. Worth a read.
posted at 3:20 pm
on Mar. 7, 2009
How to Buy an iPhone App From the Cydia Store
Cydia is one of the installers available on jailbroken phones. So basically, this is a way to get around the iTunes store but still buy/sell apps for the iPhone.
posted at 1:01 pm
on Mar. 7, 2009
Kama Sutra chocolates (NSFW)
I found them searching for images of "barbarians" -- go figure.
posted at 12:17 pm
on Mar. 7, 2009
Time lapse of the street crossing at Abbey Road, all day long
No one seems to get the angle just right.
posted at 11:37 am
on Mar. 7, 2009
One clever bit of advice from his mom about job hunting
It's a good one.
posted at 2:56 pm
on Mar. 6, 2009
Amazing video of people jumping off cliffs in flying suits
Base jumpers are terrifying. Check out at 3:20 -- flying past a road.
posted at 2:43 pm
on Mar. 6, 2009
Coping, Helping & Supporting When Someone is Depressed
I hope you never find this useful.
posted at 12:59 am
on Mar. 5, 2009
Is this poster the most sexist advertisement of 2008?
Warning: Shows a woman in lingerie being trangled on the hood of a car by a well-dressed man in a suit..
posted at 7:54 pm
on Mar. 4, 2009
Guy gets fooled into thinking he made a Half Million Dollar basketball shot
It's part 7 of a prank war by the college humor guys
posted at 7:14 pm
on Mar. 4, 2009
“These Come From Trees” stickers will cut paper towel usage by 15%
Good little campaign
posted at 10:55 am
on Mar. 3, 2009
Good design: The ten commandments of Dieter Rams
Good design is ...
posted at 2:54 am
on Mar. 3, 2009
ratio of Canadian consumer debt plus mortgage debt is now above what the U.S. rate was in 2006
It's a video clip.
posted at 9:19 pm
on Mar. 2, 2009
You can tell if two people are in to each other or not in 10 seconds with 60% accuracy
Nevertheless, it's not polite to walk out on a date after 10 seconds. So inefficient.
posted at 4:31 pm
on Mar. 2, 2009
In Canada, the most commonly smuggled illegal drug at airports is: khat
Do you know what khat is? I didn't.
posted at 9:37 am
on Mar. 2, 2009
Rob Cottingham of Social Signal delivered a hilarious keynote at Northern Voice 2009
The video's great. The speech: greater.
posted at 2:13 am
on Mar. 2, 2009
Half-billion dollar downtown Vancouver Ritz-Carlton project dead
That lot seems to be CURSED, I tell you, haunted!
posted at 1:29 am
on Mar. 2, 2009
Canada defeats U.S. to win sledge hockey tournament
Has any one else noticed the Vancouver Sun's Web site is actually getting better?
posted at 1:15 am
on Mar. 2, 2009
The author of 20 books about death, now 90, waits to die
An arresting L.A. Times profile of Edwin Shneidman.
posted at 3:38 pm
on Mar. 1, 2009
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