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The world’s most expensive scissors
Great brands *must* begin with great products. Great products stand the test of time, and almost always have a fascinating story behind them. Here’s a perfect example: the world’s greatest (and probably most expensive) Bonsai scissors, crafted for 50 years by Yasuhiro...
Jony Ive to Depart Apple
Chance Miller, reporting for 9to5Mac: Apple’s chief design officer Jony Ive is leaving the company after more than 20 years. Ive will form his own independent design firm. Apple will be a client of Ive’s new design firm, but he will not be an Apple employee. In a...
Radiohead gets hacked, releases over 15 hours of demos from OK Computer era
Radiohead, one of my all-time favourite bands, has posted over 15 hours of previously unreleased demos and other recordings from the years leading up to the release of their seminal album, OK Computer. A hacker stole frontman Thom Yorke's minidisc collection and...
Inside Information Reimagines a Vox AC30 Guitar Amplifier as Stage for 40 Iconic Rock Shows
An intricate and delightful piece of art that reminds me of stuff you'd see in old MAD Magazines, particularly Sergio Aragonés' work. Dorothy has released “Inside Information”, a detailed cutaway print that imagines various iconic concerts and scenarios occurring...
Throw Throw Burrito, A Hilarious Dodgeball Card Game From the Guys Who Created ‘Exploding Kittens’
I backed this game from the creators of The Oatmeal and Exploding Kittens. I've had a blast with Exploding Kittens, both the actual card game and the mobile version on iOS. Can't wait to toss some burritos around when this arrives. I do find it interesting that they...
Macro Photographs of Ultraviolet Lit Flowers Display a Dazzling Array of Neon Colors
Kate Sierzputowski, writing for Colossal: Slava Semeniuta, the Russian photographer known online as Local Preacher uses ultraviolet light to capture plants in electrifying shades of pink, yellow, and green. For his recent series, Granular Creatures , Semeniuta used...
A cliched post
I'm going to be short and to the point, here. I swear I am. This is a cliched bit of writing I am about to do, so I am apologizing upfront for it. I am sorry. I am sorry for what I'm about to say. Now, here we go. It's been a long time since I last posted anything to...
On Community
When I was a socially awkward teen, one of my main hobbies was playing around on computers. I didn't just want to run programs or play games, I wanted to understand everything about them - how they're built, what each part of the hardware does, how they communicate...
The New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer
After a year of teasers and trailers that reveal little of the plot of the new Star Wars movie, we finally get a broader look at Episode VII, which comes out in theatres December 18. The new trailer also marks the opening of online ticket sales....
Marco Arment to podcasting community: Big Money is coming
Marco Arment, writing on his site marco.org: This time, I’m not too worried about Pocket Casts and Castro. Well, a little — that instinct never fully leaves a person. But even after Pocket Casts ships their silence skipper and volume booster shortly on iOS and Castro...
It’s Kindergarten Eve. Here are my thoughts.
Tomorrow, my son Adam will take his first step into a larger world. Much to my chagrin, he's not becoming a Jedi (yet), but he is attending his first day of kindergarten. Adam, his mom and I met with his teacher a few days ago, forked over some cash for supplies and...
Phil Schiller confirms USB-C was an Apple Invention
Back in March, John Gruber mentioned on his podcast The Talk Show that he heard the USB-C port Apple announced they were using for their new MacBooks was an invention of Apple that was given to the standard bodies for USB. Gruber also said that the politics were such...
7 Years Ago in My Personal Music History…
A fan on the Broken Halo facebook page posted the following video from a show (I think it might have been from a show we played in the theatre at the deaf centre here in Winnipeg ... don't ask). It's fascinating to me looking back at myself performing - I forget it's...
The Scariest Cry You’ve Ever Heard is Right on The Horizon
Casey Liss on Tuesday wrote a story on his site about an incredibly trying time in the life of every parent of an infant - when your baby is sick, inconsolable and you feel helpless. I am no stranger to this feeling; when Adam was a wee baby, he had bouts of...