i.never.nu is written by Patrick Tanguay, a freelance web developer and consultant based in Montréal who also blogs pictures and design at Céboça, co-founded the coworking space Station C and is a founding trustee of The Awesome Foundation Montreal.
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He’s been doing it for months, even years now but I’m still very pleasantly surprised at the level of discourse Obama is bringing to the US. When’s the last time you saw a politian tackle such a complex issue as religion in such an even toned, clear eyed, sensical manner? When’s the last time you saw a politician tackling something like that without pandering to anyone, except maybe common sense?
(via The Brad)
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Teh awesome; an iPhone app that provides STM (public transport) times and lines. STM Mobile.
A few of recent projects for which people were pushing for rapid delivery :
It’s like the boy who cried wolf, at some point I just don’t believe anyone. Don’t trust people to know on their own when they need things, always try to get validation for deadlines, especially ones that would result in nights or weekends becoming work days. A lot of people tend to ask for quick deliveries without having taken the time to think through the next steps.
(Even having done that for most of the above projects, you see the result but at least except for one I didn’t end up working overtime for those deliveries.)
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A new video site, 12 Seconds TV is almost exactly the defunct Stars of the Web from a couple of years back… with a better interface.
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Well it’s finally done. More detailed analysis to come, but here’s your quick download of Canada’s 4.25 Billion Dollar AWS spectrum auction.—It’s Over, Final Results of Canada’s 2008 AWS Spectrum Auction
I mentioned this in conversation last week; any subject becomes interesting when presented by a super passionate person. Here are a few examples from the ever excellent TED conference.
If you only watch one of these, make it this one. This is a guy who’s PASSIONATE about his work. Extremely interesting stuff about our oceans and some crazy numbers and examples on what we don’t know about them.
The former Microsoftie and bonified genius on his life of fascinations. (side note : must have made for an annoying sound level when he was having conversations with Bill Gates, how come nerds have voices like these?)
Music, the love of music and how to interpret / appreciate classical music.
He’s got a bit of a weird rythm to his speech but some great experiences and thoughts concerning the Worldwide web of belief and ritual.
I’m not a job board type of blog but this one is just too well written (and Akoha is a good bunch of people) and funny to pass up. Akoha are looking for a community gardener
When you walk past, crying babies begin to burble. You call people and they hear a smile over the phone. Your emails cause people to forget their troubles. When friends ask for help, you’re always willing to lighten their load and brighten their day. You make the sun shine and the grass green and the birds sing.
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Mr. Gore called for the kind of concerted national effort that enabled Americans to walk on the moon 39 years ago this month, just eight years after President John F. Kennedy famously embraced that goal. He said the goal of producing all of the nation’s electricity from “renewable energy and truly clean, carbon-free sources” within 10 years is not some farfetched vision, although he said it would require fundamental changes in political thinking and personal expectations.—Gore Calls for Carbon-Free Electric Power
This presentation by Phil Fish would play very well and fit right in at TED methinks.
[Update] Took out the embedded video, WTF is with the autostart??
Phil’s a co-founder of Kokoromi.
(The video can be found here.)
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Some good coverage of identi.ca on Technology Review, I wonder when Evan sleeps.
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