I never knew

Premier de classe canadien, le Plateau-Mont-Royal, qui comprend le Mile-End, n’a pas une réputation surfaite en tant que bassin culturel, puisque la proportion d’artistes y est 10 fois supérieure à la moyenne nationale.—La culture foisonne à Montréal

Galloway challenges US senators. I Love that guy!

Jean-Pierre Jeunet preparing for Life of Pi. Good match.

Colrpickr. Excellent color wheel to browser Flickr pics.

Hilarious chinese students making Back Street Boys of themselves

Weird 21st Century Furniture made with a bunch of bubble cushions.

Long Tail Camp. Funny parody of Foocamp

Allright, should do for now. This is a redesign for CSS Reboot. I started wayyyyy later than expected so not everyting is in place yet and, honestly, it’s not as big a departure as I hoped but hey, whachagonnado? Don’t go looking at the code too much, accessibility, etc. But, visually, it should be pretty much the way it’s supposed to be. Tested on Safari, Firefox Mac and Windows and IE 6.

A Time cover story from last week. A look at Apple, Steve Jobs and his cohorts.
[Update] Link doesn’t work anymore. Crappy old media mentality, the article was online only for 2 weeks.

Apple does all of them at once. Apple makes its own hardware (iBooks and iMacs), it makes the operating system that runs on that hardware (Mac OS X), and it makes programs that run on that operating system (iTunes, iMovie, Safari Web browser, etc.). It also makes the consumer-electronics devices that connect to all those things (the rapidly multiplying iPod family), and it runs the online service that furnishes content to those devices (iTunes Music Store). If you smooshed together Microsoft, Dell and Sony into one company, you would have something like the diversity of the Apple technological biosphere.

You know how you see a show car, and it’s really cool, and then four years later you see the production car, and it sucks? And you go, What happened? They had it! They had it in the palm of their hands! They grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory! (Steve Jobs)

“Sure enough,” Jobs recalls, “when we took it to the engineers, they said, ‘Oh.’ And they came up with 38 reasons. And I said, ‘No, no, we’re doing this.’ And they said, ‘Well, why?’ And I said, ‘Because I’m the ceo, and I think it can be done.’ And so they kind of begrudgingly did it. But then it was a big hit.”

Apple employees talk incessantly about what they call “deep collaboration” or “cross-pollination” or “concurrent engineering.” Essentially it means that products don’t pass from team to team. There aren’t discrete, sequential development stages. Instead, it’s simultaneous and organic. Products get worked on in parallel by all departments at once—design, hardware, software—in endless rounds of interdisciplinary design reviews.

Some very good stuff in this post by Hugh. He’s comparing the movement of free software, free content, creative commons, etc. vs sold and copyrighted stuff to lively cities like London, Paris, Rome, Hong Kong, Sydney Australia, New York and Montreal vs boring ass corporate ones. This thing’s been in a tab for a month and I haven’t taken the time to think through anything to add so… yeah, just read it, it’s good.