05 14 2009
Dead pixel in Google Earth - Helmut Smits - 2008
82 x 82 cm square of burnt grass equaling the size of one pixel from an altitude of 1 km.
A physical landscape alteration that burns an 82 cm x 82 cm…
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04 16 2009
Breaking News (and Making News): Twitter Surges 131% in March to 9.3 Million U.S. Visitors!
Given the breathless adoption, or at least near-constant-mention, of Twitter by every imaginable media outlet it comes as no real surprise that Twitter saw a huge…
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04 16 2009
Interesting to note that, despite the millions of vulnerable desktops and laptops connected to the internet, 99% of the successful attacks happened on the server side. This is somewhat understandable, since that’s where the details are stored, but is a…
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04 08 2009
So initial accounts from ‘independent witnesses’ stated that there was no contact between police and Ian Tomlinson before his collapse.
You’d think, in one of the most heavily CCTV’d places around, there’d be consideration that the scene may have been captured by either video or perhaps someone attending the London G20 protest. Guess not.
Time will tell if the officer, who clearly strikes Tomlinson on the back of the legs with a baton prior to tackling from behind, faces any sort of discipline. Same for the others in riot gear who stood around watching, at a distance.
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04 03 2009
Behind the pretty curves and thoughtful buttons is a good old terminal with a few tricks of its own, including OS X control of the Airport.
cd /usr/sbinsudo ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport
airport -I
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03 23 2009
For a cool C$17bn, Suncor Energy is taking over Petro-Canada. The move has been pitched as a merger but Suncor maintains the board chair and 60% of stock ownership. The new entity has a estimated market value of $43.3 billion.
The…
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03 07 2009
Unlike our federal highway system, which is needed to transport goods across the country, or the “information superhighway†of the Internet, which is the fastest way to carry information around the world, long-distance transmission lines have no inherent value. On…
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02 18 2009
In a cheeky mid-February move (and the lead-up to Obama’s visit), a coalition of environmental groups ran a series of personal ads in US and Canadian papers seeking:
“PATRIOTIC, busy, Chicago-Hawaiian man, must like basketball and know how to do the fist bump. I saw you on TV. You said Yes we can and talked about a clean energy future. Meet me in Canada and we will sweep aside the World’s dirtiest oil, the Tar Sands, and make sweet climate change solutions together. Meet me at www.ForestEthics.org“
Cute, funny, and getting some attention on and offline.
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02 04 2009
Greenpeace International and Greenpeace UK collaborated on a great investigative piece following waste electronic equipment illegally shipped from the UK to Africa. A GPS unit, paired to a GSM device, was installed inside a broken television set prior to being disposed at a UK depot for proper disposal of electronic waste. Note that proper disposal does not include shipping broken electronics outside of the UK.