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Seb's moving on (...more)

My friend and colleague Seb Paquet is moving his family back to Montreal and leaving his post at Canada's National Research Council in the process. Here he outlines some of his special skills and some of the things he may...

July 28, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

The Big Five Oh (...more)

Happy birthday and respect to Dave Winer who turns 50 today.

May 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Views of Earth from Satellite (...more)

Is it dark where you are? From John Walker comes a service that provides realtime views of Earth from satellite. The tool, and a bunch more like it, can also be found here.

April 24, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Musicplasma (...more)

Here's another interesting visual thinking tool. Musicplasma attempts to give a visual representation of like-minded or like-sounding bands and artists. Here's how Musicplasma depicts Wilco's musical neighborhood for instance. Neat. And sorta useful. But, this tool also provides an example...

April 23, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Rasterbator (...more)

The Rasterbator is a web utility which creates huge rasterized pictures out of relatively small image files. The pictures can be assembled into posters like these.

April 22, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Colour Scheme Generator (...more)

From Petr Stanicek comes this useful little colour scheme generator.

April 22, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

PEI beer cooler (...more)

Shaun shows us what a Prince Edward Island beer cooler looks like.

March 2, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Visual Thesaurus (...more)

I found Mike by browsing through my referrer log and through him discovered this awesome visual thesauraus which presents a visual representation of the English Language and reveals relationships between meanings.

February 24, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

The White Juan (...more)

click to enlarge As we like to say on the Island....Some weather eh! Another snowday here. The pic on the left was taken in August. Oh to be summer again. The one on your right was taken this morning. They're...

February 20, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Zen-like Honda Commercial (...more)

Thanks to Shaun for this amazing, almost zen-like, Honda commercial. I'm not sure I believe they didn't use some tricks, but still, watching this sent me thinking about fate and global interconnectedness - how when small pieces are loosely joined...

January 20, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack