A great way to solve disputes
Courtesy of our friends down in Seattle, a fun story on how we should try to resolve disputes — with cardboard tubes.
Courtesy of our friends down in Seattle, a fun story on how we should try to resolve disputes — with cardboard tubes.
On the False Creek Flats is an industrial area of Vancouver that is like the land that time forgot. All around you see shiny new buildings, but in this little patch near the train/bus station on Terminal Avenue the old warehouses still stand. Central Street, which runs only one block in Vancouver, is not the […]
First of all, I’d like to send well wishes to those individuals and families displaced by the wildfires happening in southern California. Nobody deserves to lose their home, or their community, to natural disasters. You can argue that during a crisis is not the best time to discuss the causes of that crisis, but to […]
I just discovered that The Onion has a TV news network. This is a hard-hitting report from this quality outfit.
During one of the rare warm evenings this month I got out in the neighbourhood for a walk before dusk. I’ve always loved the practice of time-stamping sidewalks, which you see all over the city. The street names and in some cases a unique logo are embedded in concrete, particularly in residential neighbourhoods. At age […]
A short WSJ video about a new electric car from Tesla Motors co-founder Martin Eberhard. While the story is light on specifics, the automaker makes an interesting point. Why start at the bottom of the market and try to ‘save the world’? He’s right, new technology when it arrives is always priced high, attracting early-adopters […]
Nothing compares to the rock produced by these English lads in tight trousers during the 70s. Ladies and gentlemen, The Sweet.
Cover Flow in iTunes turns your computer monitor into a jukebox, provided you have the correct album art. Since it's been implemented in this music application, I've been frustrated by its shortcomings. The changes to me seem simple enough, so here are a few suggestions. When Cover Flow is enabled, show the song title for […]