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Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked

One of the songs in my MP3 collection that’s on heavy rotation is Cage the Elephant’s Beck-ish, slide-guitar southern-rock-y ode…

16 years ago

Conflict Minerals and Blood Tech

Say the word “silicon” and chances are, you’ll think of technology. After all, silicon’s relationship to tech – it’s part…

16 years ago

“I’m Comic Sans, Asshole!”

That most hated of typefaces, Comic Sans, gets anthropomorphized and bad-assified in Mike Lacher’s piece for McSweeney’s titled, (in)appropriately enough,…

16 years ago

It’s One of the Perks of the Job

The best antidote for a day full of meetings in boardrooms in a suburban office park is to finish it…

16 years ago

Adobe Photoshop, Literally

This article also appears in Global Nerdy.

16 years ago

GovCamp’s Coming to Toronto: Thursday, June 17th

GovCamp in Toronto! First came GovCamp in Ottawa (May 31st – June 1st), and now GovCamp is coming to Toronto!…

16 years ago

Betty White, Jedi Master

This image actually had me rolling out of my chair laughing. Click it to see it at full size: This…

16 years ago

PressHarbor Rocks!

Here’s a quick unsolicited endorsement for PressHarbor, the WordPress hosting company where my blogs The Adventures of Accordion Guy in…

16 years ago

Getting Paid to Work for Ballmer is Pretty Nice

Me and Ballmer at the Microsoft Town Hall in Toronto, October 2009. David “DHH” Heinemeier Hansson recently wrote in the…

16 years ago

Catching Cory Doctorow’s “For the Win” Book Launch Tonight

Once again, my friend and former co-worker (I worked at his startup, OpenCola, during “The Bubble”) Cory Doctorow is holding…

16 years ago