A great story about the reaction to a photo of a naked model in fashion magazine Glamour which the magazine dared to run with the model looking normal (ack – a paunch!) rather than air-brushed to Hefner-esque visions of perfection.
State of the Art: Apple's Sleek Upgrade – The New York Times raves about Snow Leopard, the new update to the core Apple operating system, Leopard. The most amazing thing? After years of features wars that turned OS's and various applications into larger and larger messes, this upgrade may be the first time in history […]
Sorta interesting but not as cool as hearing what's on his iPod.
I hope you enjoy my presentation at your luncheon today and it doesn't make you do this…
Came across this thought puzzle via a MetaFilter thread which, in turn, comes from a review of a book called “The Idea of Justice” by Amartya Sen.Here's the puzzle…“Take three kids and a flute. Anne says the flute should be given to her because she is the only one who knows how to play it. […]
The power of social media is pretty amazing sometimes. I found the clip below via a Facebook post a couple days ago. I followed the Facebook link to YouTube when the clip was at less than 100 views. It's now pushing 10 000! This really speaks to the way that information can go viral and […]
I don't know much in this life but I do know that my version of the great unfinished Canadian novel begins with this line: “There were two kinds of music in my hometown growing up – Country and AC/DC – so the hymn being played at my grandmother's funeral is unfamiliar to say the least.” […]
Fortune magazine has named Research In Motion, maker of the Blackberry line of products, as the fastest growing company in the world. (Apple came in at 39.)On a more local note, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, came in at #10 due to surging demand for fertilizer in places like China, India and Brazil.
I rarely do Facebook updates so here's a glimpse of how today would be if I did them all the time. 7:11am – Jason is awake before everyone else to attempt to catch up on his usual e-mail backlog. Getting from 130 down to 50 feels like success. 8:27am – some people say leftover pizza […]
Radiohead is no stranger to innovative music practices. Recently, they've done a couple more…– a one-off charity single, “Harry Patch (In Memory Of), to support the British Legion, an anti-war song written using the words of the UK's last surviving WWI soldier, Harry Patch who died earlier this summer.– and a brand new song, “These […]
