Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of June 30th…

• Neil Gaiman and Adam Savage and Gollum
  

• Harryhausen Creatures
  

Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of June 29th…

• Canada Day Closures

  Access Winnipeg provides a good list of closures for the 2011 Canada Day holiday. Plan ahead, folks.

• WoW Free Until 20
  

  "We've removed the previous 10- and 14-day trial time restrictions, and players who are interested in trying out World of Warcraft can now play the base game for free up to a maximum character level of 20, including draenei and blood elf characters - all they need is a Battle.net account and an Internet connection," Blizzard explained in a statement.

• Google Authorship

  Google is highlighting the people creating this content in Google.com search results. Now's a good time to read over the Google Webmaster Tools page about tagging authorship for your webpages.

• Internet Predictions From 1982

  Great find by Jason Kottke, "They got the details wrong but many of the broad strokes were spot on."

• Evolving The Google Design

  A post by Chris Wiggins about the latest update to the Google homepage and the evolving Google experience. Retro bonus, a screenshot of the original homepage circa 1997 :D

• Google+
  

  Google is having another go at social networking with Circles, Sparks, Hangouts, INstant Upload, Huddle, and more. Techcrunch has a good write-up as well as collecting several Youtube video about the project.

• Credit Is Due (The Attribution Song)
  

Contributed by Dwayne Kristjanson and Wil Alambre over the course of June 28th…

• Happy Tau Day
  

  No, really, pi is wrong. Stop making excuses for pi.

• Canada Postal Service Resumes

  The Canadian government has ordered Canada Post workers back to work. Mail should start arriving today.

• Coffee, The Greatest Addiction Ever
  

• IMAX Polo Park

  The Cineplex IMAX at Silvercity Polo Park officially opens at midnight tonight.

Contributed by Julian Moffatt over the course of June 27th…

• Pixar's Official Trailer for Brave
  

  I can't wait. My girls need a hero that is not Hannah Montana.

Contributed by Max Chiriac over the course of June 24th…

• Apple releases WWDC 2011 videos
  

  Apple has released sessions from WWDC 2011 in video format. Those who are involved in any sort of development might find it interesting. An Apple ID is required to access the sessions.

Contributed by Doug Ross, Wil Alambre, and Julian Moffatt over the course of June 22nd…

• WInnipeg Hockey Site is up

  The Winnipeg NHL Hockey Team has their site up but there is still no indication what the team name will be

• FBI Seizes Servers

  Popular sites like Eater, Curb, and Pinboard were affected when the FBI raided DigitalOne's facility and, rather than taking the one or two machines it needed, confiscated three full racks of blade servers.

• A Handy Grid Calculator

  This is handy. Designers - bookmark this link!

• GitHub for Mac

  Announced today, and available for free.

Contributed by Julian Moffatt and Wil Alambre over the course of June 21st…

• Happy Summer Solstice
  

  Longest day of the year. Cause for celebration among our ancestors. Cause for worry about what the heck am I going to do with the kids for the next 10 weeks in our contemporary times. Hurray summer!

  photo under CC by Milan G at Flickr

• Canada's New Plastic Money
  

• Is Internet Access A Human Right?

  Michael Geist discusses the United Nations Human Rights Council's new report characterizing internet access as a human right.

• Excellbook

  Yes, it lets you be sneaky. But if you have to be sneaky like this, there's a good chance you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. After all, it's provided by a site called Be Stupid At Work :)

• Why Mobile Web Apps Should Stop Trying To Act Like Native Apps

  To sum up, let web apps be web apps and native apps be native apps. Trying to make either into the other diminishes the whole result.

• Puss In Boots

• Password-less Dropbox

  Oops! A programmer's error caused a temporary security breach that allowed any password to be used to access any Dropbox user account. O_O

• Firefox 5

  Check your preferred method of updating, folks. Also, developers should take a quick peek at the change notes, just in case ;)

Contributed by Wil Alambre and Julian Moffatt over the course of June 20th…

• NY Post Blocks Website Access to iPad

  Another poorly conceived attempt to force a paywall down users throats.

• Winnipeg Transit Summer Schedule

  Bus schedules have been shifted due to seasonal changes in ridership. Be sure to check the list of affected routes and to plan accordingly.

• ICANN Approves TLD Expansion

  Expanding the current 22 TLDs to allow any word. At all. Applications will be accepted Jan 2012, if you have your heart set on one.

• Pseudo Element Roundup

  Chris Coyler lists a whole bunch of amazing things you can do with CSS pseudo elements.

• App Bubble

  Investors are throwing millions of dollars at startups hoping to stumble upon the next Facebook or Angry Birds or whatever else they've heard might make oodles of money. The problem is that they are not investing in a product, they are in investing in an unproven idea. And the internet is a fickle thing.

• The Black Keys On Jools Holland
  

  If you are headed to the MTS Centre to catch them in a few weeks, here is a little preview of what you can expect.

• Jon Stewart on Chris Wallace's Sunday Show

  Go over to the Gothamist and read. I watched the video on Sunday. What I am amazed by is Jon Stewart's knowledge and observations of mainstream media. Mark my words, if Stewart and Colbert somehow managed to run a presidential campaign, they might form a 3rd party in the US. Sadly it would erode too much of the left wing vote to be worth it ... or at this point, maybe not.

Contributed by Julian Moffatt over the course of June 17th…

• Tenacious D for Your Weekend
  

  It is not the greatest song in the world, it is just a tribute. Rock on!

Contributed by Julian Moffatt over the course of June 16th…

• Airbus Re-Imagines The Airplane for 2050
  

  While this is undoubtably mostly sci-fi, I can't get over how cool it would be to be able to see the night sky through the roof of the airplane as you travel. That would be amazing.

Contributed by Julian Moffatt over the course of June 15th…

• CitiBank Has 200,000 Accounts Hacked

  CitiBank has pulled an internet 101 mistake and let a hacker find other user account information by simply changing the URL once they logged into their own account. Seriously. This is a huge bank for crying out loud.

Contributed by Julian Moffatt and Doug Ross over the course of June 14th…

• Washable Earphones
  

  These are needed. I think I might be leading the Apple sales charts for the number of sets of washed iPhone earbuds that I have had to replace. I'm thinking I'll put an order in for myself, for Father's Day of course.

• A site trying to get support to buy the Toronto Maple Leafs

  A man has a dream to own the Toronto Maple Leafs. Even if it happens they STILL won't make the playoffs

Contributed by Dwayne Kristjanson and Julian Moffatt over the course of June 13th…

• Cloud9 IDE
  

  I thought I'd take a look into the current status of Mozilla Bespin (a browser-based code editor) ... turns out it got renamed to Skywriter and then merged with a similar tool called Ace. Ace in turn is the code editor used by Cloud9 IDE, which as the name suggests, is a cloud-based development environment. It's pretty new (you can't even pay for it yet) but already has good support for node.js applications and github integration. I dusted off my github account and gave it a spin. Aside from a few hiccups, it was pretty responsive.

• Cache Busting Bookmarklets

  Nice little bookmarklet to add unique query strings in order to blow through caches when working on a live site. We employ several layers of caching as well as a CDN on most of our live projects.

• Crowd Control
  

  Freddy Mercury is arguably the best front man ever. Watch the crowd at the start of this clip. That is ~72,000 he has in his pocket.

Contributed by Julian Moffatt and Wil Alambre over the course of June 10th…

• iCloud is Coming
  

  Can we have iCloud now? Please? This is the most exciting thing to come of the WWDC for me. Can't wait to have a nice, over the air sync between all my devices.

• Logos From The Mid-Century

  File this under "inspiration", a flickr collection excavated from various design publications.

• Reversing Course On In-App Subscriptions

  All that hub-bub about Apple gouging app subscriptions? Yeah, Apple seemed to have quietly changed their guidelines and agreements without so much as a "mea culpa".

Contributed by Doug Ross, Wil Alambre, and Julian Moffatt over the course of June 9th…

• Day in the life of a Web Developer

  You might have seen this before but it's worth posting again. This cartoon is a true representation our what we deal with everyday.

• @Peanutweeter

  Another great mash-up, this one matching Twitter posts with Peanuts comic strips by Charles Schulz.

• Bon Iver Streaming On NPR
  

  If you are fan of Bon Iver, go and listen now. If you are going to buy the album, buy from one of the links on NPR, so they get a few pennies on the referral.

Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of June 8th…

• Richard Dreyfuss and the iTunes EULA

  You didn't read the new iTunes end user license agreements and terms of service? That's okay, Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss will read it to you.

• Live Transit Updates in Google Maps
  

  Not available in Winnipeg but still a great update to see in action. :)

• Happy IPv6 Day

  Today, dozens of companies are overhauling, switching to the new Internet Protocol version 6. SO if the internet seems sluggish or unresponsive today, you now know why.

• Facebook's Facial Recognition Tool

  Previous launched in the US and soon available in most countries, the facial recognition tool will automatically tag and suggest friends to tag in your photos. And, in case you were interested, here's how to turn it off.

• Bacon Ipsum

  Like lorem ipsum. Only meatier.

Contributed by Doug Ross, Wil Alambre, and Julian Moffatt over the course of June 7th…

• Snickers Shark Ad
  

  Had a good laugh at this latest ad.

• HTML Email Boilerplate

  While not plug and play it will provide some helpful examples and snippets that will keep your email design rendering as true-to-form as possible.

• Apple WWDC 2011 Keynote is Online

  Grab a cup of tea and go watch what the future has in store. Sadly, it looks like the future won't be including Steve Jobs for very much longer. Pretty courageous opening though.

Contributed by Dwayne Kristjanson, Wil Alambre, Max Chiriac, and Julian Moffatt over the course of June 6th…

• Are you ready for IPv6?

  The IPv4 address space is nearly gone. Are you ready for what comes next?

• Sliding Letters with jQuery

  Slick!

• Tron: Legacy on HTML5
  

  This TRON: Legacy interactive experience is a collaboration between Disney Publishing Worldwide and Internet Explorer 9, exploring new ways of story telling using HTML5 and modern web technologies. Using HTML5 Canvas and audio tags, the experience animates a traditional graphic novel to life.

• World Time Buddy

  This might be one of the easiest to comprehend timezone interfaces ever. The best part is that you can add in any locations. Bookmark this one if you need to know timezones around the world.

• Tutorials for Git Beginners

  Git beginner, that's me. I've been meaning to do some research into it, marking this for future reference.

• Awesome People Hanging Out Together

  As described, a tumblr blog of some pretty amazing people hanging out.

• Modernizr 2

  Now contains forty feature detection tests.

Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of June 3rd…

• Canada Post On Strike

  This will mark the first postal strike in 14 years. Canada Post will continue to deliver unemployment and welfare cheques, pensions and other social-assistance cheque – but no other mail or parcels will go through.

Contributed by Julian Moffatt and Wil Alambre over the course of June 2nd…

• Futura Comes to TypeKit
  

  One my all time favourite fonts arrives in TypeKit. Look for all my personal projects to be covered in Futura shortly!

• More TypeKit Fonts You Should Be Aware Of

  To go with my post above, I just realized that ParaType has a an amazing selection of fonts that have been retooled specifically for screen delivery. Check out Schoolbook Web and Baltic Web for a few nice serifs, Pragmatic Web for another really nice sans-serif, and Elina Web for the next time you design up a site about wizards or dragons.

• Windows 8 Touch Interface

  Now that's what I'm talking about! At the D9 conference, Microsoft gave a first look at Windows 8 and it's touch interface, designed for tablets and based on the excellent Windows Phone 7 design.

• George Lucas Strikes Back
  

Contributed by Max Chiriac and Wil Alambre over the course of June 1st…

• Hardware accelerated image transitions using CSS3
  

• A Guide to CSS Colors in Web Design

  Alexander Dawson teaches you more about CSS colors on the web than you ever thought possible. And he's still only scratching the surface.

• Schmidt, Google, and social media

  Eric Schmidt admits he dropped the ball when it came to Google and social networking. "I was busy," was one response. Aren't we all, Eric?

• Gimme Shelter by Playing For Change
  

  Playing for Change, the folks who brought us “Stand By Me” a couple of years ago, traveled the world to bring many artists together for a performance of the Rolling Stones classic “Gimme Shelter.”

• Twitter Debuts New Photo Integration and Improved Search