Optimized Firefox 2.0 Builds

October 27, 2006

If you’re a Firefox Mac user, you might be interested in trying out the customized builds of 2.0 that have just been released. I’m using the Intel Mac build and so far haven’t noticed a difference, but your results may vary.

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Staying the Course

October 26, 2006

Many were stunned to hear President Bush and Dan Bartlett deny recently that U.S. policy has ever been to “stay the course”. The Democrats have quickly put a video together that nails the lie; YouTube will bring it to the masses.

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2006 U.S. Elections Blogging FAQ

October 26, 2006

Student Fellows at the Stanford Law School Center for Law and Society will be compiling a FAQ for bloggers intending to cover the U.S. elections. Questions are invited. Details here.

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U.S. 2006 Elections – A Battle for Google

October 26, 2006

As the U.S. moves into the final days of the 2006 campaign, it’s become evident that independent voters could hold the balance of power over the next Congress. And it’s become evident also that when independent voters look for information about their candidates, they will go online – to Google, and, I expect, to Wikipedia […]

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Digg-numbers

October 25, 2006

TechCrunch posts today on failed efforts by Digg to sell the company for at least $150M. Another day, another hundred million dollars. What caught my eye was the reference to one of the reasons why: One point of controversy was around Digg’s claim of 20 million unique monthly visitors and steep monthly growth, whereas the […]

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A Pernicious Confusion

October 24, 2006

The launch of “The God Delusion” by ‘Darwin’s rottweiler’, Richard Dawkins, has me thinking of the nonsense that Macleans apparently features on its cover this issue – a seeming drive-by titled “The Internet Sucks”. I haven’t read it (and were it not for ITBusiness.ca’s coverage, probably wouldn’t have learned of it – the last Macleans […]

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New Reseach on Male Infertility Effects of Heavy Celphone Use

October 23, 2006

The Daily Mail reports on new research suggesting a worrying link between heavy celphone use and male infertility.

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Jack Black on Piracy

October 23, 2006

Via Boing Boing, Jack Black has recorded an anti-PSA on digital piracy.

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mesh 2007 – It’s Alive!!

October 23, 2006

After such a fantastic time at mesh 2006 we’ve been looking forward to announcing a repeat performance. We’re very happy to announce that we now have dates and location nailed down – mesh 2007 will be held Tuesday, May 30 and Wednesday, May 31 at MaRS – the superb facility that hosted us last year. […]

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TWiT Flatlining?

October 22, 2006

In recent weeks the superbly excellent and audacious podcast TWiT has taken to somewhat more commercial support than its original style would have suggested. But this was perhaps not a surprise, because the growing podcast empire of Leo Laporte was surely consuming all hours of his day, and more besides. And sooner or later, baby […]

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Ode to the Pearl

October 22, 2006

Om writes on slim phones and confesses his love for the new Blackberry Pearl. I’m confessin’ my love as well – this is the best phone and PDA I’ve ever owned. I also get, after switching from Bell Mobility to Rogers, the added benefit of better call quality on GSM – which, after everything I’d […]

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Waiting for Scrybe

October 21, 2006

Scrybe is beginning to look like the best piece of Ajax work in ages – what a gorgeous interface, and what a clever implementation. I’m very curious to give it a spin, but, for practical purposes, the likelihood of me using the tool is nil if it won’t sync to my PDA.

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