Supernatural Collective Nouns: host of angels, tournament of predators, drove of elves
Superb list, and so appropriate for tonight!
posted at 5:10 pm
on Oct. 31, 2009
Vaccines don’t just save you from dying: Brent Simmons’ recalls his chicken pox
And, he lives the results of it every day.
posted at 4:47 pm
on Oct. 31, 2009
New city liquor bylaw may limit sale of expensive wines in Vancouver restaurants
Unintended consequences of lame liquor laws.
posted at 4:52 pm
on Oct. 29, 2009
Review: World’s Largest Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (Candy Blog)
Remember, it's not the size of the cup.
posted at 3:59 pm
on Oct. 29, 2009
Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Vaccination Shots Endangers Us All
Wired's take on the flu shot "controversy". Money quote: "I used to say that the tide would turn when children started to die. Well, children have started to die."
posted at 2:01 pm
on Oct. 29, 2009
The French are the most productive people, but work 300 hours less / year than Canadians
They work 1600 hours per year and have 28 days vacation. We work 1900 hours and have 15 days off. Booooo.
posted at 10:27 pm
on Oct. 28, 2009
Happiness Hat: It Pokes Your Head with a Spike If You’re Not Smiling
Frankly, I think this is a fabulous idea, and I know the first person I'd make wear it. And the second.
posted at 2:28 pm
on Oct. 28, 2009
Daring U.S. Chamber of Commerce hoax exposes limits of instant journalism
Prankster pulls a coup.
posted at 4:20 pm
on Oct. 27, 2009
$7,100: The median price of a home in Detroit, July 2009 (That’s not a typo)
Woah.
posted at 1:26 pm
on Oct. 27, 2009
In Bella Coola Valley, “problem bears’ are killed twice as often as hunted bears
In other words, people who kill a bear that's "threatening them" is the leading source of bear deaths.
posted at 11:22 am
on Oct. 27, 2009
Can you bring an electric razor on a plane?
Yes. But hilarious answers abound like: "Why do you hate freedom?"
posted at 10:50 pm
on Oct. 25, 2009
Should petition signers names be kept secret? Anti-gay rights movement says yes
And the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed with them initially -- but I think that's because if they permitted it initially, there wouldn't be any secret left to protect while the court battles were going on.
posted at 9:57 pm
on Oct. 25, 2009
Surreal music video of Japanese people running at a camera in slow motion
It's so graceful and awful all at once. Watch it, and if you get bored, you MUST watch the 3:50 mark.
posted at 9:33 pm
on Oct. 25, 2009
VanTrash, a great Web tool for reminders about Trash Day in Vancouver
It uses Open Data in a really cool way. But it needs one thing: a way to get it to show up on your Google calendar. I couldn't figure out how.
posted at 5:13 pm
on Oct. 25, 2009
A blog about Macintosh specs and transgender transformation
Interspersed posts, about one woman's social and physical process of going from man to woman, plus her full-on Mac geek talk about the newest iMac specs. This is why I love blogs.
posted at 11:17 am
on Oct. 25, 2009
Awesome. LIke a hot dog? Like 100 billion hot dogs. (video clip)
Eddie Izzard jokes about the original meaning of awesome.
posted at 10:58 am
on Oct. 25, 2009
LEGO recreation of Buddhist temple in Kyoto
It unfolds. Pop-up Lego. Really, really neat.
posted at 1:05 pm
on Oct. 22, 2009
When Parents Are Too Toxic to Tolerate, Sometimes It’s Best to Forgo a Relationship with Them
Sad. Also interesting in the article: "...prolonged stress can kill cells in the hippocampus, a brain area critical for memory. The good news is that adults are able to grow new neurons in this area in the course of normal development."
posted at 9:03 am
on Oct. 20, 2009
Macintosh indie publication TidBITS reaches issue 1,000
I subscribed to issue #304 in 1994.
posted at 7:39 pm
on Oct. 19, 2009
MolsonCoors just bought Granville Island Brewing (via @luckyfish)
Andrew Peller (a wine company in Ontario) had purchased Cascadia Brands, which owned GIB, in 2005.
posted at 4:51 pm
on Oct. 19, 2009
Current price for a 1 bdr condo in downtown Vancouver during the Olympics: $500/night
According to the Vancouver Sun. How much would our place be worth? Worth going on a trip? Maybe.
posted at 11:56 am
on Oct. 19, 2009
The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions
Twitter is highly represented. 
posted at 10:44 am
on Oct. 19, 2009
The Most Useless iPhone App Ever: Knock on Wood
It does beat carrying a piece of wood around with you, though.
posted at 6:04 pm
on Oct. 18, 2009
Trying to put video on the Web? Here’s how the HTML5 video tag works
In excruciating, but very well-written, detail.
posted at 12:14 pm
on Oct. 16, 2009
A list of blogs that became books—what’s the earliest?
This page has better info than the page it links to.
posted at 9:01 am
on Oct. 16, 2009
The Onion makes fun of GOP.com crashing (an ExpressionEngine site)
I wonder what sort of traffic it was getting, and who built it...
posted at 5:31 pm
on Oct. 15, 2009
BC Budget Visualizations: See how poorly Arts & Culture is being treated
These are some pretty revealing graphs.
posted at 3:55 pm
on Oct. 15, 2009
Cool example of the all-one-document Web site design method
Raw Canvas is an art space / cafe in Yale Town
posted at 2:23 pm
on Oct. 14, 2009
Burgerville has the Best Fast Food Receipt ever—I love this chain!
Sadly, the nearest one is about 4.5 hours drive away.
posted at 8:16 am
on Oct. 13, 2009
Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
It's hard to read this as anything more than a big F-U to President Bush.
posted at 9:48 am
on Oct. 9, 2009
WSJ excoriates Cash for Clunkers: ‘Fails to Help Economy and Environment’
At the time, I thought this was an extremely efficient, clever and well-managed U.S. Gov't program, and that made me very suspicious of it. Looks like I was right. :")
posted at 3:44 pm
on Oct. 8, 2009
6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can’t Explain (yes, from Cracked)
The Bloop is #1. Awesome.
posted at 11:59 am
on Oct. 7, 2009
7 Secrets Only Two Living People Know (Coke, KFC and Sea Monkeys)
Cracked is like, well, crack, when it comes to getting links from me.
posted at 11:49 am
on Oct. 7, 2009
Turn first letter upper case off in text input fields in safari on the iphone
I spent 40 minutes looking for this: It's autocapitalize="off" (and autocorrect="off") when you want to lowercase the first letter of a form field. I hope this saves someone else 40 minutes.
posted at 10:56 am
on Oct. 7, 2009
See the front door of Hop Studios on Google Street Map Vancouver
Luckily I'm not passed out on the (front) lawn.
posted at 8:13 am
on Oct. 7, 2009
F.T.C. to Rule Bloggers Must Disclose any Gifts or Pay-for Reviews
I did not get paid to post this. Or the last item. Or the next one.
posted at 2:59 pm
on Oct. 6, 2009
Regretsy - Making fun of bad Etsy crafts
There's a whole category of Michael Jackson stuff, and another of vaginas.
posted at 9:32 pm
on Oct. 5, 2009
Bell, Telus may launch iPhone in Canada in November (Globe and Mail)
"Neither Bell nor Telus would confirm that they would add the iPhone to their lineups. Apple also declined to comment. But people familiar with the matter said the two carriers would announce a working partnership with Apple as early as Tuesday or Wednesday and begin selling the device in time for the launch of their new network."
posted at 5:13 pm
on Oct. 5, 2009
Brightkite (location sharing service) is rolling out big new changes today
And so is down. sigh.
posted at 4:09 pm
on Oct. 5, 2009
2000 people walked Invisible Dogs in New York this weekend
This stunt went far better than the "Invisible Tiger" debacle of 2007.
posted at 10:29 am
on Oct. 5, 2009
Rescuing The Reporters: Clay Shirky looks at how many actual news journalists work at a newspaper
Worth reading.
posted at 8:52 am
on Oct. 5, 2009
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