Ad Campaign: Pork. The one you love
It's real. Oh so real.
posted at 10:43 pm
on Feb. 27, 2009
The Gender Problem in Pixar Movies: Where Are the Women?
Dora? Elastigirl? Eve? Jesse? That's pretty much it.
posted at 8:22 pm
on Feb. 26, 2009
later, comics has some beautiful thoughts
comics don't have to be funny -- in Europe.
posted at 7:48 pm
on Feb. 26, 2009
Growing Rich by Blogging Is a High-Tech Fairy Tale
Does that make me a unicorn?
posted at 6:22 pm
on Feb. 26, 2009
The Top 10 Most Preternaturally Beautiful Men
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Sir Francis Bacon
posted at 3:39 pm
on Feb. 26, 2009
Timelapse: 5 Tibetan monks are making a sand mandala in Vancouver this week
Drop by if you have a chance at the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Garden
posted at 9:54 am
on Feb. 26, 2009
Jeff Jarvis pans Kindle 2 on Twitter. Ouch!
I can't wait to try this in Canada.
posted at 9:20 pm
on Feb. 25, 2009
Joel Spolsky’s Secret to why Start-ups Succeed or Fail
His writing style is better than anything he has to say.
posted at 4:01 pm
on Feb. 25, 2009
Americans watch more than 151 hours of TV a month: an all-time high
That's a hell of a lot. And that's an average. So if you don't watch any, I have to watch *300*.
posted at 3:47 pm
on Feb. 25, 2009
In Canada, Twitter SMSs will cost an extra $0.15 to send AND receive on Bell
Even if you have an all-inclusive SMS plan. What a novel feeling -- to be less pissed at Rogers than at another cell phone company.
posted at 12:22 pm
on Feb. 25, 2009
EMI Music debuts first iTunes Pass with Depeche Mode
Basically, you get all the band's music as it comes out.
posted at 4:59 pm
on Feb. 24, 2009
Excellent Google Maps mashup: 2008 Presidential Election + Demographics overlays
Compare white/black and proximity to Wal*marts to voter preferences. Very cool.
posted at 6:00 pm
on Feb. 23, 2009
GDP in the OECD area fell by 1.5% in Q4: Largest fall since 1960 or earlier
Gross domestic product in the OECD area fell by 1.5% in real terms in the fourth quarter of 2008 compared with the preceding period, the largest quarterly fall since OECD records began in 1960, according to preliminary estimates.
posted at 5:11 pm
on Feb. 23, 2009
BC Premier Campbell wants to repeal Navigable Waters Protection Act
And insists on calling it the "Navigable Waters Act" -- so Orwellian!
posted at 2:36 pm
on Feb. 23, 2009
Using Expression Engine for Google Site Maps
Good stuff for the developer in me.
posted at 2:10 pm
on Feb. 23, 2009
Hard times: A funeral home deals with many more unclaimed ashes of the dead
So sad. Why aren't bloggers writing more blog entries like this? It's not that hard to do this kind of journalism, and it's so important.
posted at 11:28 am
on Feb. 23, 2009
Beijing’s Olympic building boom becomes a bust
Some experts estimate that more than 100 million square feet of office space is vacant in the city.
posted at 1:10 pm
on Feb. 22, 2009
Touching photo essay: Naming the beams for Dana Farber patients
Naming the beams for Dana Farber patients
posted at 12:21 pm
on Feb. 22, 2009
Two guys meet and hang with Shaq at a diner through using Twitter
The Real Shaq really is -- and the dude tweets.
posted at 9:38 pm
on Feb. 20, 2009
Cartoon: How Social Networks Destroyed the Economy
Funny because I HOPE it's not true.
posted at 9:21 pm
on Feb. 20, 2009
Canadian bank, economy and policies are all doing great in this recession
Sorry, U.S.
posted at 11:32 am
on Feb. 19, 2009
Some super cool, creative pillows (bacon, horse head, mac icons, etc.)
The blood stain one is awful.
posted at 3:15 pm
on Feb. 18, 2009
UAE denies tennis star Shahar Peer entry, where she was going to play in the WTA championships
WTA decides to continue with the games anyway. (She's Israeli -- I know there's a lot of story here, it's hard to fit into one headline.)
posted at 2:57 pm
on Feb. 18, 2009
Newest Client: Dirt Du Jour: A gardening community of passionate plant people in Southern California
Fun site to build; I hope it does well.
posted at 2:19 pm
on Feb. 18, 2009
Vancouver city buys out full control of Olympic Village
What's the proper animal metaphor: White elephant? Albatross? Cheshire Cat? Raven? Snuffalufagus?
posted at 12:49 pm
on Feb. 18, 2009
Chris’s Pictures of Japan
Say, I should post *my* pictures some day!
posted at 2:07 am
on Feb. 17, 2009
Woman with record long nails has them broken in car crash
Lee Redmond is expected to live -- in fact, live a little better!
posted at 1:06 am
on Feb. 16, 2009
Using JQuery to pass a Variable into an AJAX page load
So you can do something like create a form on the fly. Handy.
posted at 2:43 pm
on Feb. 11, 2009
Authors Guild want to sue you for using Text-to-Speech
My headline is true; the EFF's headline is false and inflamatory -- but the Authors Guild is still poopy heads.
posted at 1:32 pm
on Feb. 11, 2009
‘80s sci-fi classic ‘V’ starts filming in Vancouver next month
Lizards! Oh my!
posted at 11:50 am
on Feb. 11, 2009
Give Up and Use Tables
CSS should take 47 minutes to do, no longer, apparently.
posted at 2:06 am
on Feb. 11, 2009
My brain doesn’t listen - cartoon from explodingdog
It's funny because it's true for EVERYONE.
posted at 5:06 pm
on Feb. 10, 2009
A wandering generality instead of a meaningful specific
Which should you be?
posted at 11:21 am
on Feb. 10, 2009
A Fantastic Roundup of Opinions from Newspaper Luminaries
The folks punditting are: Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia Journalism School; Joel Kramer, editor of MinnPost.com; Steven Brill, founder of The American Lawyer magazine; Geneva Overholser, Annenberg School of Journalism; Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist.org; Andrew Keen, author; Edward M. Fouhy, founding editor of Stateline.org; Rick Rodriguez, former editor of The Sacramento Bee.
posted at 10:23 am
on Feb. 10, 2009
Darren’s Worn the Same Watch For, Like, Eight Years
This does not surprise me.
posted at 8:23 pm
on Feb. 9, 2009
Folks who make funny punchlines to odd Flickr photos
It's a chuckle.
posted at 1:17 pm
on Feb. 9, 2009
Morgan Freeman Covers Barenaked Ladies’ “One Week”
It's just part of the song, and it's *got* to be an imitator.
posted at 1:13 pm
on Feb. 9, 2009
Article about polyamory in Vancouver
Further proof that Vancouver is the San Francisco of Canada. (And the L.A., but that's another link.)
posted at 11:57 am
on Feb. 9, 2009
Superb animated music video of a woman sleeping in bed
It's Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie
posted at 6:15 pm
on Feb. 6, 2009
Meg Tilly has decided to stop blogging (and using the Internet at all)
"And so today I start the great experiment. When Don gets home I'm going to have him disconnect the Internet from my computer."
posted at 12:50 pm
on Feb. 6, 2009
Interactive Map of Popular Super Bowl Words, on Twitter
Cool. I love the NYT sometimes.
posted at 11:57 am
on Feb. 6, 2009
I know all sorts of things I don’t believe
Interesting Web "comic?" "art project?"
posted at 10:11 am
on Feb. 6, 2009
YouTube - An Engineer’s Guide to Cats
Includes discussion of the cat's aspect ratio. Love it!
posted at 2:20 pm
on Feb. 5, 2009
What Smarties are in America
Not the U.S.'s Favorite Candy, regardless of what the page title says.
posted at 6:38 pm
on Feb. 3, 2009
Metro Vancouver home sales at lowest point since early 1980s
Time to go shopping?
posted at 3:53 pm
on Feb. 3, 2009
Hans Solo frozen in Guacamole
Just like the script originally called for. The rest of the photos are awesome, too: Pac Man ghosts saying guaca, guaca, guaca, for example.
posted at 1:24 pm
on Feb. 3, 2009
This music video by Wolf Parade about the Modern World is chilling
With the stop-motion paper mache puppets.
posted at 11:07 am
on Feb. 2, 2009
Cost for a baby’s battle against leukemia: $3 million
Unbelievably sad.
posted at 11:31 pm
on Feb. 1, 2009
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