Author: Johnny Canuck
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Palm Centro – $100 Smartphone and I want one
This is the new Palm Centro. It’s basically a $ 100 dollar Treo. I’ll have one in black thank you. It’s Already with Sprint and their are CDMA so there is a very strong chance that Bell or Telus will also get it up here in The Great White North soon enough. Do you know…
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Spoke POV – Persistence of Vision for your Bike!
“Spoke POV is an easy-to-make electronic kit toy that turns your bicycle wheel into a customized display! The project includes a free schematic design, open software for uploading and editing stored bitmap images, and a high-quality kit with all the parts necessary to build your own. This would look super cool with a fat bike since…
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Fix Your Facebook Profile Now
If your on Facebook, you really should read this article by Chris Brogan about making yourself a little easier to find and keep up to date with on Facebook. Of course, all of this can be done without giving up any of your own security issue. But just in case you hadn’t looked into your…
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UK’s NHS Cies Foot Fowl Over Sensible Shoes
On the Beeb A hospital has banned theatre nurses from wearing popular Crocs shoes – suggesting they might be dangerous. [Not to mention comfortable]. At the medical center Bayless Phoenix AZ it seems talks are taking place to see if they will implement this rule as well. The dangerous aspect of these shoes is not…
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200 meter long spider web found in Texas
This is a cool story that Steve posted on Digg so I had to post here too. I like spiders for killing flies and squeeters and also for giving Peter Parker his powers and all that but this story has me more than a little creeped out. Steve added “yeah, social spiders. what if they…
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Helvetica A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit
As a web developer, I often hear can you use something like Helvetica but not Helvetica… I know it just sounds stupid, but the truth is everyone wants a fresh clean site that looks like the Gap or Ikea but they don’t want to be mistaken (i.e. sued) for the Gap or Ikea. I really…
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So You Think You Can Dance: Laporte & Dvorak
These two could give Jerry Springer a run for his money any day! You gotta love JibJab for this kind of stuff
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Apple finally cuts canucks a deal.
There has never been any doubt that this Fat Dad and his big old Canadian bacon is an Apple Fanboy. But when I saw that iLife'08 and iWork'08 are also selling for 79 loonies, same as what our southern cousins are paying in U$ greenbacks, I was floored. But it gets even better, the 20…