January 2006
Actual press release from Canada's Department of National Defence: NORAD prepares for Super Bowl XL
Posted by on Sunday, January 29, 2006
Election Day: Hive Mind Politics
Posted by on Monday, January 23, 2006 in - 6 comments
Having voted earlier this evening for the Green Party in the Canadian federal election, I left the poling station with a strange sensation. • Given all the talk (some of it my own voice) of how little a vote counts, and how ineffectual a partisan political system can be, it is easy to be cynical …
CNN/Netscape Synergies
Posted by on Thursday, January 19, 2006 in - 14 comments
I’ve long found CNN.com to be at least as funny as The Onion. The robots that control their homepage “top stories” have a knack for ironic juxtaposition, amusing corrections, and being just plain wacky. • All along, though, there was been an odd little blob of pixels floating in the top …
There's a sweet new captcha WebTwenny.com
Posted by on Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Posted by on Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Google Talk is now open to communicate with other Jabber servers (like the one I use at silverorange) - awesome
Posted by on Tuesday, January 17, 2006
This music video created on an old Apple II is strangely beautiful (found via Digg)
Posted by on Wednesday, January 11, 2006
David Holtzman, former CTO of Network Solutions has a summer home on Prince Edward Island, a great weblog called GlobalPOV, and is a fine lunch date.
Posted by on Tuesday, January 10, 2006
SVG in the Browser
Posted by on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 in - 1 comment
For any interested web-geeks, I’ve posted a brief tutorial (a micro-tutorial, perhaps) about How to Include Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) In-line over at the silverorange labs weblog. Exciting stuff.
Posted by on Monday, January 2, 2006