Delicious Bookmarks

How to password protect your Mac with the screen saver
I would have never guessed that Keychain Access provides a menu bar item to quickly do this.
Paper Vote Canada
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.
Vancouver tech women to watch in 2008
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.
Under Surveillance with Richard Smith
The SFU professor talks to The Vancouver Observer about cameras tracking your every movement.
Long review of Vancouver+, the Microsoft Flight Simulator add-on for the Lower Mainland
With an interview with its landscape designer, Holger Sandmann.
Let's make January 2nd Introvert Day!
Introverts crave meaning, so party chitchat feels like sandpaper to our psyche.
"the * is going to make the * look like the *"
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."
An interview with "cyclist" Trevor Linden
The interviewer, Amy Smolens, namedrops a guy I went to high school and played on the basketball team with, Geoff Kabush.
Canada Line photos
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).
Chris LaVigne on Young and Sexy's "The City You Live In Is Ugly"
The song is bookended with a sample of Vancouver's SkyTrain leaving and one arriving.
China names two successors to Hu Jintao as President of China
"In a political system that abhors uncertainty and extols stability, this is a significant development."
Worst Hu Jintao pun headlines
His name "offers too ripe a target for unrestrained wordsmiths."
An Introduction to Unit Testing in Drupal
Another in a series of articles in which Richard learns programming concepts from being a part of the Drupal community.
Raincity Studios acquires Bryght - Vancouver Web 2.0 companies join forces to create first full-service, open source web agency
Press release announcing the merger. I'm staying with the company, though in a slightly different role.
Jeffrey Toobin on the CSI Effect and the truth about forensic science
Real life crime labs are not as stylish as in the TV series.
Late risers lobbying for workplace recognition
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).
Mobile Technology Use and Ubiquitous Availability: is agency work "professional"?
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.
Why Women Aren't Funny
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.
Managing a Hyper-local Community with Drupal
Raincity Studios' Dave Olson's great podcast with Olyblog's founders and contributers.

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