We work on the Internet. As such, we are constantly consuming information. Believe me, there is a lot of it out there. Sometimes we even forget things unless we write them down. Our blog covers everything from web standards to the muppets, php to comic books, music and everything else that we find interesting. Leave us a note when you drop by.
Contributed by Max Chiriac over the course of December 23rd…
In the spirit of holidays - remember to bring happiness to people around you. And whole year around too…
Contributed by Max Chiriac over the course of December 21st…
Researchers at MIT have discovered a new state of matter with a new kind of magnetism. This new state, called a quantum spin liquid (QSL), could lead to significant advances in data storage. QSLs also exhibit a quantum phenomenon called long-range entanglement, which could lead to new types of communications systems, and more.
Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of December 20th…
Fullfilling a promise made by Dick Costolo back in September, Twitter now allows you to download your entire back history of tweets in zipped-up JSON or CSV formats.
Compiled by Henry Jones, a handy list of plugins that scroll portions of pages, arc any amounts of text, provide multi-touch suport, and more.
Cornell University Library installed a ”green sward” which remained there through December 14. Preety cool.
Warren Ellis wonders if the likes of Twitter and Facebook have peaked for the time being, where social media seemingly now calcifying into Big Media.
Contributed by Max Chiriac over the course of December 19th…
Shopping online is meant to be easy…
Contributed by Lauren Zacharias, Julian Moffatt, and Max Chiriac over the course of December 18th…
An interesting look at how Winnipeg's street system came to be the way it is today.
Nice little set of icons. Bookmarked for future use.
The year in review as far as failures in tech are concerned. I agree with most of them. Although I still have yet to get a wrong address out of Apple maps in iOS 6. I guess I'm just travelling in known routes.
For typography and language curious individuals.
Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of December 17th…
W3C published today the complete feature complete definitions of the HTML5 and Canvas 2D specs.
Originally purchased in 2003 for half a billion dollars, Cisco is offloading Linksys as it exits the consumer space, looking to focus on enterprise equipment.
Internet Exchange Map maintains a map with the infrastructure of the internet, with info on 274 exchanges and 512 buildings.
Next year, Instagram will start sharing all your data with Facebook and Facebook-owned entities. Give it a read over... and remember that Flickr just released an update to its own iOS app.
Contributed by Lauren Zacharias, Julian Moffatt, Wil Alambre, and Max Chiriac over the course of December 14th…
The Hobbit part 1 comes out today. Here's a flowchart to help keep track of who's who.
Following yesterday's link over to Panic, here is a link to Lukas' work porting the underlying functionality to JS/CoffeeScript. Bookmarked to check out as soon as time permits.
One more marked to check out when time permits. This time with HTML 5 and JS.
An interesting article by Anil Dash, about modern web-services actually becoming more web-hostile over the last couple years, or as Jason Kottke put it, transforming from "brand to rand".
Apple has updated System Status page with more services and detaild timeline
"In fact, we shouldnÂ’t be optimizing for search engines at all. We should be optimizing for people. After all, that is what Google is trying to do." Yup, pretty much sums up what we advise people when the subject of search engine optimization comes up.
Contributed by Wil Alambre, Julian Moffatt, and Dwayne Kristjanson over the course of December 13th…
If you've been having issues with Apple Maps, your long-awaited solution has finally arrived. Turn-by-turn directions, vector art, better esrach results, transit results, street view, and more.
AgileBits has pushed up a new version for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. 1Password is a particular favourite here in the office, and the new interface is definately appreciated!
Put together by TBWA\NEBOKO, its an online-only museum featuring the internet, starting all the way back with the Pentagon's ARPAnet.
This is all kinds of awesome! Hope they keep it on display in a room dedicated to other Indiana Jones references over the years.
The folks at Panic take inspiration from iTunes 11 and look into what it takes to automatically select a colour scheme from an image file.
Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of December 11th…
Every wish you could search the web using an IBM System/360 mainframe and punchcards? Now you can bring out the Mad Man in you.
Contributed by Wil Alambre and Lauren Zacharias over the course of December 10th…
Eric Meyer writes about the recent CSS hyphenation support in several browsers, and asks whether this is a feature we should actually bother with.
Where products are audited before the campaign is launched, and buyers can insure their pledge.
IN the old 1980s style, complete with blister packs. Lucky these weren't out when I was a kid, as I would have been buying every one of them! :D
University of Portsmouth researchers have made a database of bombs dropped on London during the WW2 blitz, and organized it onto an online map.
Google and Apple are teaming up to bid US$500 million for some of Eastman Kodak Co's 1,100 imaging patents.
Contributed by Wil Alambre and Lauren Zacharias over the course of December 7th…
Pantone, in its annual tradition, has announced its official colour of 2013.
Google has given YouTube a redesign, bringing it closer to Google+ and Google Now in look, and pushing original channels to the forefront.
I... I don't know if I can resist buying these... and turning all our office supplies into adorable cartoon characters! :D
Science!
Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of December 6th…
Visual Lizard has 2 laptops for sale with the following specifications:
2 - matte screen
These machines have been formatted and restored to factory bootup with OS X 10.6 ready to roll. They have been our trusted work machines for the past 3 years. They are in excellent condition. We would love them to have a nice, new home rather than collecting dust.
If you are interested, please use the contact form below or give us a call at (204) 957-5520 and ask for Julian or Doug.
UPDATE: SOLD!
Contributed by Wil Alambre and Julian Moffatt over the course of December 5th…
During the American Geophysical Union’s annual conference, James Cameron presented initial findings, which include giant crustaceans and a possible alzheimer’s drug.
Um … my house will be FULL of 3D printed characters. I'm not going to tell my girls that I have this app and plan to just start leaving 3D creations about the place!
Contributed by Wil Alambre and Dwayne Kristjanson over the course of December 4th…
The project is simple. A $50 a month budget, access to the Wordnik API, Phantom JS, and some randomly made purchases. Darius Kazemi doesn't know what he's got until the package arrives.
John Gruber looks at the tablet-only publication and why it didn't work out. Or, looking at it another way, how it taught us what could work.
Lots of new features in the long awaited update, but the biggest one (or, at least the most appreciated) has to be support for retina display.
Cory Doctorow makes the case for treating regular expressions as a foundational skill. So, basically reading, writing, arithmatic, and regexps.
Contributed by Wil Alambre and Lauren Zacharias over the course of December 3rd…
A unique gigapixel image of the Babbage Difference Engine at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Beautiful.
The pope has his own Twitter account. I really want to see @DalaiLama start taking advantage of the #AskPontifex hashtag, to see where that conversation would go :)
Sam van Doorn's design grad project uses a pinball machine as a semi-random plotter to make some pretty awesome posters.
An open-source HTML5 game
