Contributed by Wil Alambre and Julian Moffatt over the course of June 18th…

• First look at "Frozen"
  

• Battle for the planet of the APIs

  "Once Facebook had proven that it was possible to be the one-stop-shop for your user’s every need, that became the model to emulate."

• CBC's Chicago vs Boston Opening for Game 3
  

  Damn if hockey is not the coolest game on earth. It also doesn't hurt that Neil Young is featured. My motto this playoff run has been "anyone BUT Boston" so go Chicago!

Contributed by Wil Alambre and Lauren Zacharias over the course of June 17th…

• Rogers LTE

  If you live in Winnipeg and you have an LTE enabled cellphone (such as the iPhone 5), then you may see your Rogers wireless internet being super zippier starting today! :)

• Periodic Table of the Muppets
  

  For all your Muppet identification needs. 

• Shirts.io

  What isn't there an API for these days?

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

• Google introduces Project Loon: Balloon-Powered Internet for Everyone

  Pretty awesome if this works.

Contributed by Max Chiriac over the course of June 14th…

• Motion Blur

  Nice Motion Blur effect on page scroll

Contributed by Julian Moffatt and Wil Alambre over the course of June 13th…

• Field Notes: Night Sky Edition

• Ill Submarine
  

  The third and final Beastles album, "Ill Submarine", is now out. Twenty songs mashing the Beetles with the Beastie Boys, by djBC. Dedicated to the memory of Adam Yauch.

• Fez 2

• Ten Questions About Canada's Secret Metadata Surveillance Activities

  After the big surveillance story spilling out down south, it was reported that Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) has its own metadata surveillance program with approval granted through a ministerial directive from Defence Minister Peter MacKay. Michael Geist collects ten questions we want answers for... 

• 300 Rise Of An Empire, trailer
  

Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of June 11th…

• The Hobbit: Desolation Of Smaug, trailer
  

• Google Purchases Waze

  "To help you outsmart traffic, today we’re excited to announce we’ve closed the acquisition of Waze. This fast-growing community of traffic-obsessed drivers is working together to find the best routes from home to work, every day."

• Feedly Transitions To Own Servers

  Feedly offically leaves behind Google Reader, three weeks before the dying service's expected July 1st shutdown.

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

• Brand new Mickey Mouse short series
  

• 100 Meter Scroll

  Someday, browser scrolling may become an Olympic event. Time to start training up! :)

• Videry

  One of those "we should have thought of this" ideas, a site of curated videos for web designers!

• An awesome 404 page

  Pew pew pew...

• Guide to HTML5 inputs

  Six Revisions has a good overview of some of the new input types that'll make building and using forms online way easier!

• HTML9 Responsive Boilerstop JS

  Trend up onto that fad bandwagon, web gurus! :P

• Apple - The New Mac Pro

  Wow. Unreal design of both the new computer and the site to sell it. Love it.

Contributed by Julian Moffatt over the course of June 7th…

• Man of Steel Trailer Number 5
  

  The consensus in the office is that we all, really, really, really hope that this movie doesn't suck. 

Contributed by Julian Moffatt and Wil Alambre over the course of June 6th…

• Designspiration

  Not really the cleverest portmanteau for the name, but nice site for shot of creativity.

• How To Be Happy

  I am really enjoying the quality content that people are contributing to Medium. I think I will start with step 7 here. No more email first thing in the morning.

• DRM and HTML5: it's now or never for the Open Web

  Dr Harry Halpin gives us an inside look at the debate and what he calls a "crisis of representation" as corporations look to close up the open internet.

• The Border And Your Laptop

  The United States say they can search your laptop at the border but they won’t tell you why. No search warrant or reasonable suspicion required :/

• Came Back Haunted

  The first Nine Inch Nails single in five years, from their forthcoming album, "Hesitation Marks".

Contributed by Max Chiriac and Wil Alambre over the course of June 5th…

• Great Books for Free from Readmill

  Great deal from Readmill - many classic books for free, plus some are free for the next 24 hours that usually have a price tag.\nI was thinking of buying Icon Handbook. Guess what?! It is free today!

• The Launch Is Dead

  "After building LayerVault for nearly two years, we have realized that the best way to build a product is to release things piecemeal and to avoid the Big Launch."

• A Couple of Use Cases for Calc()

  If this was better supported, this would be a fantastic solution to many stylesheet conundrums! 

• Design For Breakpoints

  Stephan Hay walks us through some solid advice about laying out sites for responsive responsive design.  

• Stylify Me

  Quickly gain an overview of the style guide of a site, including colours, fonts, sizing and spacing.

Contributed by Wil Alambre and Julian Moffatt over the course of June 4th…

• Make Firefox Show Broken Images

  In case you haven't added it to all your production CSS files yet.

• Stupid Calculations

  This might be my new favourite site!

• Double Fine's MASSIVE CHALICE by Double Fine Productions on Kickstarter

  XCom-like. Game of Thrones style kingdoms at war. Heroes. Blood-lines. Shut up and take my money already!

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

• No More Three Year Contracts

  CRTC released a new consumer wireless code this morning, effectively ending cellphone companies' three-year contracts.As of December, consumers can terminate their contracts after two years with zero cancellation fees.

• Reset or Normalize

  Oli Studholme writes an article about the pros and cons of CSS resets (such as Eric Meyer's ) and CSS normalizations (such as Nicolas Gallagher's and Jonathan Neal's).

• Anatomy Of A Logo

  For its 36th anniversary, Alex Jay examines the original Star Wars logo's evolution, from pre-production to final release to its use in media over the course over the years.

• Cold fusion reactor independently verified, has 10,000 times the energy density of gas

  Wow. I'm unreasonably hopeful this is true. The possible applications are mind-boggling.

• The E-Cat (Cold Fusion link above) is back, and people are still falling for it!

  Well, that was short lived.

• This Is Water
  

  Pretty awesome commencement speech by David Foster Wallace, filmed and animated. Making it all the more powerful given his tragic death a few years later. 
  (hat tip to Guppy's Facebook page)

Contributed by Julian Moffatt and Wil Alambre over the course of May 31st…

• Coffee vs. beer: which drink makes you more creative?

  Justification!

• Coca-Cola Sharing Can
  

• Farewell, Camino

  I think the surprise was less "they're no longer working on Camino" and was more "they were STILL making Camino up until now?"

• Plug Versus Pump

  Good article about Telsa planning to roll out supercharging stations across the US. We need more of this. More of breaking the status quo. More thinking different and doing differently.

Contributed by Max Chiriac, Wil Alambre, and Julian Moffatt over the course of May 30th…

• Crowdin - Translation Management Service
  

  I've tried (participated in translation) Crowdin service out of curiosity on an open source project and I find extremely easy to use. An elegant and intuitive interface makes tedious translation routines a breeze. Give it a try next time you are in a need of translation of your next app or service.

• August Smart Lock

  Clever. Why both carrying door keys when you're already carrying a smartphone.

• First Look At Windows 8.1

  Mat Honan over at Wired gives us a peek at the upcoming Windows update. And if you are wondering, yes, the Start button is back.

• EFF Files Formal Objection Against DRMs Inclusion In HTML5

  "This new W3C standard comes from exactly same roots: Hollywood's desire to supress innovation and quash the wishes of individual computer owners."

• BetterTouchTool

  Um,  is anyone else in the office already using this? Why did you NOT tell me about it? Top left, top middle, top right new browser windows in different browsers. Done! It also comes with Window resizing and snapping abilities. Did I mention FREE?

• Updated Virtual Machines From Microsoft

  If you do any sort of cross-browser development, especially in CSS, you might be interested in this. Microsoft updated their free VMs, covering most of their OSes and most versions of IE. 

Contributed by Wil Alambre and Julian Moffatt over the course of May 29th…

• Live-Action Wacky Races!
  

  Its a french car commercial, but who doesn't love Wacky Races? :D

• TL;DR

  "We’re TL;DR — we give you the summary, the synopsis, the main contention and the entire idea in one simple paragraph. Enough to get you to skim them."

• Designer's Guide to Happy Developers

  Recommended reading for all designers that work with developers. Trust me, they *want* you to take these tips to heart.

• Dear Jr Creative... Earn Your Place. You'll Be Better For It.

  "Kids today come out of school with so much fucking skill it’s crazy. But with all of that skill, in so many, there is equal-to-more parts hubris. An entitled attitude that seems to expect everything for nothing."

• Structured data in Google

  We have been reading up on this. For those that care, here is a link to the help docs directly from Google.

• Uni Jetstream Ballpoint Pen
  

  Having used these Jetstream pens for the last couple of years, I can say without a doubt that they are my all time favourites. Linked here for future purchasing.

• WWDC Expectations from Jim Dalrymple

  Pretty much exactly what I would expect too.

Contributed by Julian Moffatt over the course of May 28th…

• Pure - A Light Weight and Responsive CSS Modules

  Nifty little site with a bundle of CSS modules from YUI. Cool.

Contributed by Wil Alambre, Julian Moffatt, and Max Chiriac over the course of May 27th…

• Social Media Fails

  Nineteen companies that made some bone-head social-media decisions.

• OS X Mountain Lion: Shortcuts for taking pictures of the screen

  Good one to know.

• Tipping conventions around the world.

  Nice little service that provides information about tipping expectations in different countries round the globe.

Contributed by Julian Moffatt over the course of May 24th…

• CPC Address Complete

  Interesting tool from Canada Post. I loved the idea until I got to the $0.06 - 0.10 FEE PER lookup slide. Some investigation will need to be done to find out how often people fail to input their shipping address on a web order to see if this tool has value.

• Conan's Video Response To Taylor Swift's Video "22"
  

  Pretty much my experience at 22 as well. Only I always smelled of fish because I was working in a seafood restaurant.

• BRCK - your backup generator for the internet by Ushahidi

  Damn it I was just talking about this idea on the weekend. I should really start acting on my crazy ideas, but hey, support this one because it is almost ready to roll out.

Contributed by Max Chiriac, Julian Moffatt, and Wil Alambre over the course of May 23rd…

• Can\'t decide where to go to eat?

  Try this truly polite service

• Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet

  Most mortal humans don't need to ever click this link. Bookmarked for reference.

• Escher Reptile Flooring

  Hmm, seems theme appropriate for us ;)

Contributed by Julian Moffatt over the course of May 22nd…

• Bootstrapping the Industrial Age

  Nice article over at Medium on starting up civilization from scratch. This is something we occasionally like to talk about in the office, given our penchant for post-apocalyptic zombie pulp and other sci-fi material.