Government of Canada RSS feeds
I just stumbled across the wealth of RSS feeds that the Government of Canada provides: Choose Your News.
Very impressive.
iPod sock
The iPod Sock.
I only have two things to say to Apple about this: “wtf?” and “core competency”.
This will make you chuckle
And really, when was the last time you had a good chuckle? Yup!.
(Warning: it’s political.)
iTunes in Canada?
David Akin almost off-handedly mentions in his recent post about PureTracks moving into the States:
But here in Canada, Apple’s music store has not yet been switched on (although my friend and former colleague Robert Thompson of the National Post reported last week that Apple was ready to light it up any day now).
To Apple [...]
Make it bad
Words of wisdom from a designer:
When I said “don’t worry about it” I didn’t mean “make it bad”.
Yo.
Windows software often confounds me
All day long I work in two worlds: Mac on my laptop and Windows on my desktop and often I can transition between the two seamlessly, I rarely think about it at all anymore.
But sometimes on the Windows side I’ll stumble across something that makes me stop, think “WTF?”, and then turn back to my [...]
Installing calc.pl under OS X
Over on Forwarding Address: OS X I was looking for a command line calculator and was pointed to the Astronomy-aware Unix calculator. I installed it and it kicks some major calculatory ass.
Figuring others might want to install it to I wrote up detailed installation instructions here: Installing calc.pl under OS X.
You can read the whole [...]
If architects worked like web developers
A fantastic post over on Software is too expensive to build cheaply…: If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers…
Dear Mr. Architect:
Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make [...]
CherryOS real or fake?
I was avoiding commenting on CherryOS because everybody and their dog has done so but Wired has written a fairly decent article on the CherryOS controversy, which is basically this: is it real or fake? And if it’s real is it a wrapper around PearOS or is it a completely new product? (If you’ve never [...]
Damn, Shatner, you rock!
As you may have heard William Shatner recently released YA-album. This news probably made you roll your eyes and groan and, in the past, you’d have been right to do so. But I’m hear to tell you: Has Been is a damned good album!
From the cover of Pulp’s “Common People”, easily the best song on [...]