Archive
June 2005’s Posts.
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Does sIFR enable piracy?
Jonathan Snook launches FONTSMACK only to realize distributing fonts in Flash for sIFR may be illegal, and mean sIFR users are violating their font licences, too.
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Internet Explorer hasLayout
Ingo Chao (whose site is simple, and elegant) has dissected the cause of many of IE’s layout problems.
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Where (or where not) to buy marijuana in Chicago
ChicagoCrimes shows a disturbing concentration of arrests around, ironically, Humbolt Park.
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The Art and Science of Web Design @ 5
Veen’s second book, which outlined today’s Web design philisophy when tables and font tags ruled the Web, is now available as free download.
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Karla Holomoka’s letters
The Globe and Mail has published Stephen Williams’ correspondence with the killer — the cuteness her letters is macabrely ironic.
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Topix comes to Canada
The news aggregator entry into Canada should make some media companies worried.
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Bad brand brings broken band
Broken Social Scene play Dundas Square courtesy of Toronto Unlimited.
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Nvu 1.0
The Gecko-based Web design program (based on the old Mozilla Composer) has officially hit the 1.0 release and is available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX.
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Google opens maps to all
Google has released an API for its GoogleMaps product, opening the door to a whole bunch of oppurtunities like ChicagoCrime.org.
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Syntax highlighter
Dean Edwards (again) releases his very borad syntax highlighter for code examples on Web pages.
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Packer packs JavaScript
Dean Edwards has a pretty efficient JavaScript compressor available at his site.
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Great writing in Steven Johnson profile
Written in the second person (difficult to pull off) the intro sucks you into an enagaging profile review of the author and his work.
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Google Earth freely available
Nathan Weinberg reports on some of the features in this program which once cost a bundle.
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Getting rid of the QuickTime pop-up
From a Slashdotter comes a helpful tip for a big pet peeve.
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TO Unlimited? Try TO Ugly
The new brandmark for Toronto is unbelievably awful.
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Wikinvestigative journalism
Sure, the wikitorial failed by using a wiki to collabratively do the grunt work of investigative journalism could be interesting.
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Every New Yorker published, coming to DVD
Eight DVDs containing searchable electronic reporductions of every New Yorker from February 1925 to February 2005 will be available in September.
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TSN.ca does RSS
Not sure when they launched it, but its one of the few Canadian mainstream media properties to have RSS.
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TSN.ca embraces Web standards
Worthy of praise even were it not for my rant a few weeks back!
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Those eyes…
How that iconic photo of murdrer Karla Holmoka came to pass.
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Rick Mercer’s Blog
If you know the name, visit, elsewise you probably won’t get it.
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Grocery Store Wars
Learn the ways of the Farm from Obi-Wan Cannoli.
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Why the wikitorial failed
Clive Thompson nailss the reason why the L.A. Times wikitorial experiment failed.
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Ben Kerr dead at 75
The Toronto busking legend and perennial mayoral candidate has died — and just a few days ago I was wondering how much longer he would be around.
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Yawn…Live 8 in Barrie
Will I be rushing to see Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, Great Big Sea, Tom Cochrane, and Motley Crue in Molson Park on Canada Day weekend? No.
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microformats.org
Your one-stop shop for microformat specifications (including such hits as XFN and hCard).
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Writing efficient JavaScript
Although targetted for those writing Greasemonkey-like scripts, it has some good tips for normal scripts.
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Questioning the satellite radio ruling
Sure for CHUM it may be sour grapes, but the point about a lack of exposure to Canadian music rings true.
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Pumping up the praise
Canada is without a feedback loop when it comes to online developments and this is an attempt to adjust that.
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Now even less choice of movie theatres!
Cineplex is buying up the Famous Players movie theatres — can you spell monopoly?
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Rico: an open-source Ajax library
Seems to cover a lot of items designers and developers are starting to need.
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Publishers to sell books online
Smart move to service a need, but booksellers shouldn’t fear.
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Universal Child Selector
Eric A. Meyer explains a child selector-type rule that works in Internet Explorer
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Lovin’ Loverboy
A fan makes a tribute video to the greatest rawk song ever!
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CBC.ca to run ads
Should be interesting to see how that goes over with its audience.
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Podcasting CBC Radio 3
Well, although I’d like to take the claim for it, it likely has more to do with the podcasting being the meme-of-the-moment: CBC has unveiled a CBC Radio 3 podcast.
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The not-so National Post
The National Post will no longer be delivering printed newspapers to the Rock, only those horrible “e-paper“ ones.
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Webby winners
The New York Times covers the Webby winners for 2005.
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Base64 images for Internet Explorer
Dean Edwards comes up for a client side solution to yet another Internet Explorer bug.
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Are they selling me?
Eric Reguly thinks BCE is ready to sell the company I work for, Bell Globemedia.
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Jonathan Dube joins CBC.ca
This is a big coup for the Mother Corp. and should help to reinvigorate the online journalism game in Canada.
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Mac OS X already Intel-compatible
Blimey, that's quite clever. Surprised no one found out Apple’s Mac OS X could run on Intel since day one.
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Pedals and paint
Colourizing Toronto’s abandoned bikes.
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Next steps for JavaScript
Web-Graphics surveys what the future holds for JavaScript.
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Becoming Deep Throat
Bob Woodward explains how Mark Felt Became “Deep Throat”
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Dot-xxx finally a reality
ICANN approves a worthwhile top-level domain.
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hCard creator
Tantek has created a quick and easy tool for creating to hCards, and points to an hCalendat and hReview creators.
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Vanity Fair drops the online ball
In its Deep Throat scoop, the magazine forgets about the online-side of things in a very 1998 way.
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2005 Canadian New Media Award winners
Just in case anyone is interested…
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