I was surprised to learn recently that an important paper that forms the basis of the intellectual underpinnings of the austerity movement is wrong. But more importantly, I discovered that Google needs to do a better job indexing webpages…
“Free handles. It is big and long. It has its own lane. Yeah. It is street.” This video ad is seriously awesome…
This short video featuring the art of Dave Parsanishi is interesting to me, in part, because I’ve seen several of his detailed sculptures, in person. But I’ve also had the pleasure of speaking with Dave about aesthetics and the psychology of presentation…
I love the portrayal of Richard Stallman in this short history of Linux by the Linux Foundation. Going strong since 1991.
Lots of seals out here today.
Winter vacation
Close up of his whiskers in the sunlight.
Some time ago, I published a poster as a reference for folks, such as myself, who are not texting saavy. This post continues to get visits pretty much every day, which is cool. Over the summer, I noticed that the poster still gets some attention and decided to launch a text abbreviation reference website on this basis…
Ha ha. It sounds like a jet taking off!
Given my interest in science, public relations, web design and climate change, I have been thinking for a while about building a site with some social and moral relevance to the world I inhabit. I have been building a website about climate change soundbites.
Some recent blog posts about bias and hypocrisy have got me thinking about how the heck we know stuff. How the heck do we know stuff? What counts as justification for our beliefs. And why are we wrong so often? These are questions that get me riled. They always have…
AMERICAN HUMANE monitored the animal action. No animals were harmed.
I’ve converted to an Android operating system. It’s awesome. It has more than one button at the bottom. I like that.
The officers failed to properly assess and respond to the situation effectively. Then they used too much force. Then they failed to administer CPR. Then the officers lied. Then their superiors and media relations officers lied…
Media coverage of global warming, ahem, has been divisive. If you are a busy person trying to understand global warming, you might get a little confused by reading the National Post, the Calgary Herald, or Russ Campbell’s blog. It’s partly because of the lack of critical discourse about many self-proclaimed climate experts’ credentials…
It’s a user experience failure. I know. Search forms are really important. But until I get a search form that works, here’s a little secret…
Year’s ago when I was an associate member of the Stone Sculptor’s Guild in Calgary, I took a lot of …
Since I seem to be on a kick posting videos, I thought I would post a recentish talk by Clay …
I upgraded my iPhone today to the latest operating system. It took an hour or maybe an hour and a …
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Wow, there is footage in here of wolverines doing somersaults. Who knew? I’ve never seen a wolverine. I would love …
I found these images on Tim Irvin’s blog, here and here. And so striking, they are, I decided to build …
14 Thoughts for Instagramming I really enjoy Instagram. I get joy from posting photos to Instagram and also from…
My mom took this photo back in December from her living room My mom took this photo back in December from her living room
Throw back to yesterday. Photo by my Jim Arnott Throw back to yesterday. Photo by my dad, Jim Arnott
Cool animation Cool animation
Made me so happy to run into this guy and have some… Made me so happy to run into this guy and have some live tweeting back-up…
Kingsley explains how my local library works This is a throwback to a couple weeks ago when Kingsley explained how these privately…