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MJ on the "Lifecycle of Bloggers". While I don't for one second believe there is any such thing as "one type of blog/blogger", this sums up very nicely what many many go through. I'm at step 12 myself. Again. Not...

Visual display of how choice of tags on a URL stabilizes over time on Del.icio.us. I blame "suggested tags" ;)...

I did not share the words that came to me at that moment, watching a car turn a corner, a leaf fall from a tree, a cloud overhead. one of those moments where the smallest event can take on unprecedented...

Himiko water-bus, originally uploaded by chipple. I want to live in a plce where anime artists are commissioned to design public transport vehicles... Not that I am a big anime fan or anything, it's just... I mean damn, look...

Best iPod skin... evar....

... a collection of 1-inch buttons featuring replicas of the tile art and visual landmarks of Toronto's subway stations. Buttons are sold in packages of their respective subway line, or you can purchase a package of five stations of...

This morning I dreamt of a fire. About 12 or 13 years ago, we moved out of my childhood home. The day of the move, I was the first one with all my stuff out, and the first one all...

bopuc:what is aloft, George currency?sven:Oh, thou art aware how we proceed in this district.sven:How goes?bopuc:oh, merely striking the vixens and pleasing the strumpets...sven:Very well; carry on good fellow!bopuc:may I "notetaker-connected-by-electric-means" this conversation?sven:Indeed, daring would not I be to forbid thee...

Ado passed on a blog meme my way and ... I "plead the 5th". Carry on....

photo-852 07May05Originally uploaded by sylvaincarle. Sylvain moblogged this quite funny "men's room" symbol. C'tait où, man?...

David Bernal, a.k.a. "Elsewhere". The newest iPod commercial features this guy who's style is totally unmistakable. He's the second dancer, when the background turns green, also the very last, and 3 times during. You may recognize the fluid, biokinetic...

Michael is in Winnipeg participating in a UNESCO sponsored conference in preparation for it's presence at the WSIS summit in Tunisia in the fall. This is serious, big boys stuff. ;) He just reported something VERY disturbing: The Tunisian ambassador...

Playing Flickr For one week in May, the diners in Restaurant 11 will be confronted with the photos the users of Playing FLICKR select. By sending a keyword through SMS, users can request all photos on the flickr.com database that...

The New Yorker published a new short story by HARUKI MURAKAMI, and graciously posted it, in print friendly format, on their weblog...er... I mean website... (Whaaat... they appear in "reverse chronological order" and have permalinks... ;) (Oh and please do...

For the last 6 months it's been "Flickr this" and "Flickr that", "like Flickr does it!", "we want it more like Flickr..." Don't get me wrong, I do so very very much love Flickr. Really. I'm just saying Backpack will...

"I find your lack of" disturbing -faith I Find Your Lack of Star Wars Tattoos... Disturbing I find your lack of wires disturbing I Find Your Lack Of Banjo Disturbing I Find Your Lack Of Cream... Disturbing I Find Your...

It always seemed rather strange to even myself that I thoroughly enjoyed watching this British political satire situation comedy. The writing was simply superb, the characters equally profoundly witty, when not nit-witted, and the clever pace helped via laughter, one's...

It's not April Fool's is it? Damn, I didn't think so. Talkr provides a service that allows you to listen to your favorite text-only news sources rather than read them. If you can point us to an RSS feed (a...

"On May 11th dodgeball.com was acquired by Google!" The people at Google think like us. They looked at us in a "You're two guys doing some pretty cool stuff, why not let us help you out and let's see what...

I mean that in both the sense that I am getting way too much way to fast on way too many different topics / related to way too many projects & tasks, and that my current email "solution" - hah!...

This is sick, sick as in incredibly-insanely-cool-oh-man-I-want-it-so-bad. Volkswagen Jetta // R32 - Daily progress reports This project as you can see from these first pics is going to be a complete ground up build, I'm starting with a 100% straight...

Who woulda thought that one afternoon back in February would produce TWO photographic coincidences? First, Karl and I. Then, Jim and I....

A quick email of the above screenshot - with message "One of you has a lifestyle/sleeping problem of some sort... ;)" - later: After reading Jim's entry about what time he actually did wake up at and why: Love...

I found this funny. Looking at my "montreal" tag flickr stream I notice a picture of Guy Kawasaki. Hunh? Oh I see, it's one of these blog/flickr marketing tie-ins. I've done one or two of those myself. Feels slightly dirty...

Ok so I've been running Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" for a bit over a week now. Generally, it is smooth, and actually does feel quicker (apparently due to a once again totally revamped GUI rendering process). While I haven't...

We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the...