Delicious Bookmarks
I would have never guessed that Keychain Access provides a menu bar item to quickly do this.
Iceland is very photogenic! [Laughs.]
Dedicated to preserving the existing Canadian paper-based, hand-counted voting system. I was already convinced, but Richard Akerman is spreading the word through an infrequently updated (though still active) blog.
Did we miss anybody? We hoped to restore balance to the universe (in response to the Techvibes Blog watchlist being exclusively men) by pointing out some people we're watching this year.
The SFU professor talks to The Vancouver Observer about cameras tracking your every movement.
With an interview with its landscape designer, Holger Sandmann.
Introverts crave meaning, so party chitchat feels like sandpaper to our psyche.
A search inspired by Huey Walker's quote from Flashback: "The 90's are going to make the 60's look like the 50's."
The interviewer, Amy Smolens, namedrops a guy I went to high school and played on the basketball team with, Geoff Kabush.
Wish they were posted to Flickr, though, so people could comment on them and better link to them (and so they could add them to the Vancouver Flickr group).
The song is bookended with a sample of Vancouver's SkyTrain leaving and one arriving.
"In a political system that abhors uncertainty and extols stability, this is a significant development."
Another in a series of articles in which Richard learns programming concepts from being a part of the Drupal community.
Vancouver sun article about the merger.
Press release announcing the merger. I'm staying with the company, though in a slightly different role.
Real life crime labs are not as stylish as in the TV series.
Researchers have found that about one in four people carry the short version of the Period 3 gene, a physiological difference that delays their natural wake-up time by a couple of hours. By contrast, little more than one in 10 carry the early-bird form of the gene (the rest of the population falls somewhere in the middle).
Sam Ladner on how mobile technology has blurred the line between work and private time, especially in interactive agencies. Almost everything she writes in the article applies to me.
Christopher Hitchens:
Humor, if we are to be serious about it, arises from the ineluctable fact that we are all born into a losing struggle. Those who risk agony and death to bring children into this fiasco simply can't afford to be too frivolous.
Raincity Studios' Dave Olson's great podcast with Olyblog's founders and contributers.