Today there was a significant Google map update for Canada
Biggest different I can see: Building outlines everywhere! It'll take a bit of getting used to the new look.
posted at 7:28 pm
on Apr. 28, 2010
Hewlett-Packard to Buy Palm for $1.2 Billion (they bought 3Com this month, too)
Question: What's worth more: the Pre, the Palm brand, or the patents?
posted at 2:28 pm
on Apr. 28, 2010
Modern psychology’s focus on meds over therapy (because they work, but…) (A great NYTimes article)
The teachable assembly line ascends again.
posted at 9:56 pm
on Apr. 25, 2010
wild.flower in Oklahoma City is Gowalla’s 1,000,000th spot
It's a florist: inspires. romances. beautifies. your life and home.
posted at 6:02 pm
on Apr. 25, 2010
Men Who Go Without Sleep, and the Insomniacs Who Hate Them
A nice little essay in the New York Times...
posted at 2:48 am
on Apr. 23, 2010
Earth Day 2010: Too Big to Fail (from @Truthdig)
Editorial cartoons are sometimes so insightful.
posted at 12:40 pm
on Apr. 22, 2010
McAfee’s latest enterprise update causing dead (rebooting) XP machines worldwide
How odd that a crappy anti-virus product would have a conflict with a 9-year-old operating system.
posted at 2:23 pm
on Apr. 21, 2010
NYTimes article and cool interactive calculator: Is buying better than renting these days?
Remember, if a headline asks a question, the answer is always "Yes" so don't bother reading the article.
posted at 9:20 am
on Apr. 21, 2010
5 tips for preparing perfect pasta: use fresh, use salt, no overcook, no rinse, use saucepan
See there, I summarized the whole article for you in 140 characters. Don't even bother reading it.
posted at 9:15 am
on Apr. 21, 2010
Here’s some smoothilicious image transition effects code written in jQuery; slices, folds and fades
This would be great if you were directing an action movie from 1964. 
posted at 3:17 pm
on Apr. 20, 2010
REAL photos and description of Apple’s Next iPhone
Front-facing video camera, flash (bright light not Adobe software), extra mic, micro-sim, flatter, and it's full of ponies.
posted at 10:25 am
on Apr. 19, 2010
This music video of Grizzly Bear’s “Two Weeks” was made by a fan. A FAN. It’s amazing.
Hat tip to Scarlet Division, and to Gabe Askew who actually made it.
posted at 12:18 pm
on Apr. 18, 2010
A good marriage is good for your health; a bad marriage, not so much
Interesting.
posted at 12:00 pm
on Apr. 18, 2010
Paris has entered a new generation of casual fine dining (NYTimes)
Wish I was there to see if this reporter got it right
posted at 11:45 am
on Apr. 18, 2010
Retro Friday: The sound of a 14.4 modem connecting.
Or maybe it's 28.8. But those had more of a "zweep" at the end.
posted at 1:57 pm
on Apr. 16, 2010
Take a coffee break and look at these photos of strangers, who are posed touching each other
They're by Richard Renaldi
posted at 10:10 am
on Apr. 16, 2010
Art piece “A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter” is now auctioning itself for $6,858
Interesting concept: a piece of art that sells itself on eBay every week.
posted at 2:14 pm
on Apr. 15, 2010
Just updated Hop Inject, the dynamic content insertion tool for ExpressionEngine
It's most useful for putting photos, pull quotes or ads into the body of a story.
posted at 8:12 pm
on Apr. 14, 2010
Twitter donates the entire archive of (our) public tweets to Library of Congress
Why not to the Internet Archive, I wonder?
posted at 2:05 pm
on Apr. 14, 2010
U.S. Congress may have inadvertently excluded itself from any health coverage in new healthcare bill
If they didn't know what they were doing to themselves, how do they know what they were doing to everyone else?
posted at 10:06 am
on Apr. 14, 2010
If you watch only one “New York is destroyed by old school video game characters” video today…
... make it this one. SUPERB. Watch for logos on billboards, too.
posted at 7:36 pm
on Apr. 12, 2010
General Electric and ExxonMobile paid no U.S. taxes in 2009
Yep. (Corrected).
posted at 11:07 pm
on Apr. 11, 2010
I created a new custom trip: Chinatown Exploration (Vancouver) on @Gowalla
It's a fun little walk. Give it a try!
posted at 11:05 pm
on Apr. 10, 2010
I like people writing about language, and about Microsoft sucking. This column has both.
It helps that I agree with it, too.
posted at 10:37 am
on Apr. 9, 2010
New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of, among others, Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler
I don't think this is anti-competitive. I think this is a strategic decision to ensure that developers are required to learn and use Apple core technologies, in hopes that they will leverage that knowledge into further iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Mac apps. It's restrictive, so misguided and will likely ultimately backfire, but it's not an unjustified business decision.
posted at 9:56 pm
on Apr. 8, 2010
The @georgiastraight was ranked for integrity as top newspaper in the world (With a score of 71.7%)
If the highest integrity of any newspaper in the world is 72%, that leaves a lot of room for improvement, to say the least.
posted at 2:37 pm
on Apr. 8, 2010
If you have a project that’s going awry, don’t be sad. Think of Burke and Wills. It could be worse.
They were two Australian explorers who died crossing the interior of Oz.
posted at 12:47 pm
on Apr. 8, 2010
Spirit Airlines announces plan to charge $30-$45 for carry-on bags
By the way, I'm charging you $0.80 for reading this.
posted at 9:43 am
on Apr. 7, 2010
People review site Unvarnished gets another controversial review
Just cataloguing the articles about the mixup of domain names.
posted at 1:06 am
on Apr. 7, 2010
Unvarnished, The Media Obssessed Social Media Site? Not Unvarnished.com
Just cataloguing the articles about the mixup of domain names.
posted at 1:05 am
on Apr. 7, 2010
Simon Hogsberg and his 100-meter wide picture of strangers on a bridge
Nice interface, too. I like the woman with the bedazzled skull pushing the baby carriage.
posted at 8:39 am
on Apr. 6, 2010
“Unvarnished Website” is #2 most searched term on Google today. Guy should have bought my domain.
Ah well.
posted at 6:17 pm
on Apr. 5, 2010
Someone just launched a Web service called “Unvarnished.com”. I’m, um, flattered?
I'm confused because, like, I still own and use "unvarnished.com" and have no plans to sell it. So maybe just maybe they ought to have picked a different name... But good luck with your new company, sir!
posted at 12:28 pm
on Apr. 5, 2010
BC’s lower tax rate doesn’t make up for having the nation’s crappiest minimum wage
It's not like BC is the nation's cheapest place to live, either. Time to raise that minimum wage, pols!
posted at 9:05 am
on Apr. 5, 2010
Third earthquake hits: Haiti, Chile, now Mexicali has a 6.9.
I hope lots of people are OK.
posted at 3:23 pm
on Apr. 4, 2010
Video: If Boys Were Girls. (I hope not just boys laugh at this…)
I think I've found a new sketch group to love.
posted at 12:59 pm
on Apr. 2, 2010
Like Taking Pointless Surveys? XKCD’s color survey is the most pointless I’ve found
But it's easy and fun.
posted at 12:47 pm
on Apr. 1, 2010
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