I’m not one of those “I don’t own a TV and will now tell you about why” people. But after being a pretty major TV addict for most of my life (hell, I had a job selling cable TV throughout the summers I was in undergrad that I kicked ass at!), the Internet has all […]
This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Scientists have figured out a way to create (blurry, impressionistic) video of what a person is watching by scanning their brain waves! This was accomplished by the researchers watching a bunch of YouTube videos and creating a database of which parts of their brain “lit […]
…you don’t want to hear about the sweeping changes they announced today during their annual developer’s conference! Some of the new features include: Timeline-style profile pages New class of apps that share automatically Watch videos with friends through Facebook Discover new music based on what your friends are listening to Read news articles within Facebook […]
R.E.M., an alternative favourite of the 1980’s who parlayed that early attention into being one of the most successful bands of the 1990’s (and then one of the most uneven bands of the 2000’s) announced their break-up today (given their politics – and the amicable nature of the break – perhaps fittingly on World Peace […]
I recently discovered an awesome sub-Reddit called r/mapporn which features all kinds of really frickin’ cool maps such as “America 1681“, “Flipping European and North American Cities“, “World Map of Railways“, “Map of Facebook Connections” and I have to stop there or else I’ll just link to all their maps – each one is so […]
A recent documentary features a variety of scenes from all around the world captured on a single day. Here’s the trailer: One Day on Earth – Motion Picture Trailer from One Day On Earth on Vimeo.
I’m sure everybody’s wondered where they’d end up if they could dig a hole directly through to the other side of the earth. In fact, I think the official playground ruling on this immortal question, at least for anyone contemplating this question in Canada, is “China”. Now, technology allows you to answer that exact question […]
CNN conducted an unscientific worldwide poll and after getting 35 000 responses, created a list of the 50 best tasting foods in the world. Canada hits the list at 46 with maple syrup but that’s our only contribution. Surprisingly (?) the two top ranked dishes are both Indonesian (did Indonesians scam the poll?), neither of […]
A Redditor asks if a modern battalion of a couple thousand Marines could beat the hundreds of thousands of men in the Roman Legion to take over the entire Roman Empire? That leads to one Redditor writing it up the idea as a very engaging novella, a dedicated sub-Reddit for further discussion of the idea and even […]
Quinn Dupont was one my classmates in library school who was a constant source of what was the latest and greatest in the technology world. That continues to this day. He recently posted Minus.com on his Facebook feed – a new site to simplify sharing of files that allows a huge amount of storage and […]
