Teresa and I took our sons Ethan and Aidan to Science World yesterday after some furniture shopping in Yaletown.
One thing that caught my eye was an amazing plasma display. I’ve been looking a little at large flatscreen TVs lately. I almost certainly won’t get one this year, but it’s always fun to look.
But I haven’t […]

Oddly, very few optical illusions actually work, at least for me. Perhaps my eyes are different than others - or maybe my brain is wired up a little differently.
However, here’s one that I saw the other day that actually does.

Saw this on Boingboing just a few minutes ago: a photo tour of Volkswagen’s Phaeton factory in Dresden, Germany.

Unbelievable. This is no factory, it’s a work of engineering and aesthetic art. I’d work in it any day.
Glass, steel, laminated wood flooring: it’s a modernist dream factory made real.
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Of […]

How do you passionately articulate what you know and believe while remaining calm, professional, and pleasant?
This can be a huge challenge for me.
Today Bernie, Rastin, and I had a 90-minute conversation about an aspect of our websites. Bernie and I felt one thing, Rastin probably agreed, but we differed on how to address it.
A couple […]

OK, this is cool. It’s a new way to experience what’s new and hot and interesting online on a daily basis (which is one of the things I visit delicious for).

What is it?

“Phylotaxis”, created for Seed by artist Jonathan Harris, illustrates the delicate balance between science and culture in our world.
Without the randomness of culture, […]

Very good post on corporate blogging on Alan Gutierrez’ blog.
Here’s a key bit from the section I liked best:

Does your firm do anything that makes for good television? Anything that is steeped in technical lingo, particulars?
Give a blog to the team that crash tests your automobiles, or conducts the taste testing of your snack foods, […]

I’m leading a new business initiative for my company that has potential for huge and almost instant scale due to our massive installed base in education.
But only if we do it right.
And I’m wondering how/if we can do something like this: inviting our clients to be part of our product development department, marketing department: […]

A buddy of mine in Calgary, AB, just called and asked if I knew of some kind of solution for a web-accessible contact database. His church needs a simple, cheap way of creating shareable, maintainable records of those who contact them asking for resources or information.
I took a quick look at Google Base. It’s perfect […]

The big US telecoms don’t want to play with the neighborhood kids anymore. They’re basically taking their ball and going home, and asking the US Congress for permission.
This, of course, has caused a major kafuffle among the techgentsia, who are worried that the Internet will balkanize into tiny little 1980s-ish feifdoms … a little piece […]

Saw this nasty little bit of automotive news today:

Among automakers, Ford Motor Company is the worst. Every year since 1999, the US Environmental Protection Agency has ranked Ford cars, trucks and SUVs as having the worst overall fuel economy of any American automaker. Ford’s current car and truck fleet has a lower average fuel efficiency […]