Category: tech + the internet
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Day 2 of SXSW
the talented mr. mendelsohn (Photo: Another great shot from Nancy) The highlight of my day was the core conversation that Allen and Eric lead; “Core Conversation: Growing Pains: Your Web…
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SXSW Day 1
texas shadows (Photo: Great shot from Nancy) Planes and air travel has this smell, something between brand new plastic garbage bags; roasting coffee / almonds and disinfecting santizers. It gets…
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SXSW starts tomorrow
Heading off to Austin, TX tomorrow AM — Should be a hell of a time! I’ll post as much as I can from there. So far I have the following…
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Furni updates for 2008
The talented team over at Furni has updated their product lineup for 2008. All Montréal made. Go check it out. Furni
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Pitchfork TV
Pitchfork picks up where others have failed… and sounds like they’re knocking down all the stops that the TV channels have faced.. They launch a 24h online-music-full-screen-network on April 7th….
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Design the GWB library
The Chronicle Review had a “Back-of-the-Envelope Design Contest” to get some ideas for the “George W. Bush Library”, “We thought that Chronicle readers would have their own ideas about how…
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Electrical hack
Reading this Lifehacker Post about traveling with a laptop; ran into this very smart system/hack to prevent hotel guests from leaving the lights on and wasting energy… “The one electricity…
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Fische und Schiffe
The winning animation in the 2007 Adobe Design Achievement Awards titled “Fische und Schiffe” by Axel Broetje is worth watching. Beautifully subtle with great music. Just wish they offered a…
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New iPod case
With the purchase of my new iPod, I needed a new case. I’m pretty picky about cases, logos, and styling. I wanted something that just act like a protective envelope…
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Hex colour silliness
Made me laugh — If you get what’s going on here; 2 HTML nerd strikes against ya! “Plus a few missing ones; c-o-l-o-r.net/C0FFEE, c-o-l-o-r.net/DECAFF, c-o-l-o-r.net/CABB1E” View full size
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Chris @ Office Booyz
Lovin’ this shot of Chris who took part on the ’08 Office Booyz @ Bear Mtn. Check the full post at the IS Design Blog
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A glass on my desk
I have always thought of this as my first insight in a GTD approach to work; It’s worth going back and reading “Time Management: The Pickle Jar Theory” from 2002,…
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Forbidden shifting and the Canadian DMCA
I’m a huge fan of “shifting”, which can be hard to explain to some people who aren’t as tech savy as some of us. This little video from some Canadian…
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A quote from Gandhi and sad video
“You can judge the moral stature of a nation by the way it treats its animals.” – Mahatma Gandhi Stumbled upon this today – to be honest I could only…
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Encrypt your Torrents
You like torrent’s for TV shows and other stuff. You recently found it’s been slower than usual. Is this you and you’re wondering why? Turns out almost all Canadian ISP’s…