i.never.nu covers a bit of everything tech related with a dash of environment and world issues, it is written by Patrick Tanguay, a freelance web developer and consultant based in Montréal who also blogs pictures and illustrations at Céboça and is editor in chief for NextMontréal. He works out of Station C, a coworking space he co-founded.
Une amie qui travail en télé est à la recherche de 24 – 35 ans pour un documentaire :
Les producteurs de la série primée aux Gémeaux, Les Ruraux du 21e travaillent au développement d’une série documentaire sur l’évolution des rapports parents/enfants.
Ce projet est réalisé par Jean-Louis Côté et diffusé sur Canal Vie.
La série (3×60min) questionne, à partir d’histoires tirées de la vie de divers protagonistes, ce qu’est la nouvelle dynamique familiale qui résulte de la cohabitation prolongée au domicile parental.
Nous cherchons des jeunes entre 24 et 35 ans, qui n’ont pas encore quitté la maison familiale. Nous voulons comprendre les raisons pour lesquelles les jeunes décident de quitter plus tard, que ce soit culturel ou autre.
Si vous êtes intéressé à discuter avec nous et vous voulez en savoir plus, n’hésitez pas à entrer en contact avec moi.
Kottke has a very collection of what fast looks like, I especially like the Veyron one but it might be because I’d already seen C’était un rendez-vous and the wingsuits which are also insane.
Imagine a place—perhaps a shrinking city, or a badly savaged brownfield neighborhood—where laws were set up to strip rules and regulations down to a do-no-harm minimum (maintaining criminal laws and protecting health, safety, workers’ rights and civil liberties, but perhaps limiting liability and certainly slashing red tape and delays) allowing for wild deviations from existing patterns for buildings, systems and operations. Imagine a free-fire zone for sustainable innovations, where new approaches could be iterated and tested rapidly, and, when they work, sent to proliferate outside the Zone. Conversely, some of the freedom might paradoxically come from imposing boundary limitations that can’t yet be made practical or survive politically outside the Zone, such as bans on broad classes of chemicals or strict greenhouse gas emissions limits.
—Special Innovation Zone
I often bitch about IE (Microsoft’s Internet Explorer) and with good reason but in recent years they’ve gone from 6 to 7 to 8 and with good standards support progress. For a little while now I’ve been using conditional statements to give each IE which needs it a separate CSS file with the appropriate tweaks. Often I only need one for IE6 but in the case of the project delivered last week I had to feed a separate one to each. Comparing the lines of CSS code for each gives a good idea of the progress:
IE6: 138
IE7: 64
IE8: 30
Interestingly (and disapointingly) half the bugs in 8 weren’t in 7 but were in 6 so they mostly progressed but had a few set backs to old bugs. Weird.
Also note that the original which works perfectly in the most modern browsers, Firefox and Safari, weighted in at 1261 lines so the 138 lines for IE6 give a good indication of the ratio in development time; roughly 10% more for IE6. That’s for a creative but somewhat corporate design. For clean simple designs it’s sometimes non existent and for more twisted/artsy/original designs it can shoot up quite a bit.
With the ecombust some of the people who created interesting projects and companies after the dotcombust have gotten out of their corporate deals and starting new ventures. They also seem to like small teams and are not only restarting with the same people. And using similar names. Four of the Flickr founders, including Stewart Butterfield are now at Tiny Speck Inc. and working from Vancouver again while Jeff Veen formerly of Adaptive Path and Measure Map is getting the band back together with Small Batch Inc.. Although we know a lot more about their current project, both should bring exciting things.
I already mentioned it on Twitter and the Station C blog but we will have regular business hours for July and August. Monday through Thursday 10 to 5pm. No need to book or fill in the form we are normally using, just head over to 5369 St-Laurent #430 and come for a visit.
Our summer intern Megan will be hosting the space for those hours, welcoming dropins and showing the space/ explaining the membership to visitors. If you have been wondering how it feels to work from Station C, now’s the perfect time to try it out. For a few random hours it’s free but the actual hourly fee is $3/hour.
We might announce something else membership related in the coming weeks, we still have to decide if we are adding it and then the exact details but if you have a specific membership combo you would like to see added, please drop me a line and tell me what you have in mind.
Is this real or some kind of messed up Google ad à la Microsoft? If real, people who don’t know what a browser is should not be let on the internets. And you were wondering how come spammers find value in doing what they do? Those would be the people getting caught.
There are already quite a few such wells, including Google Search and Chrome, that profile user interests and surfing habits: Gmail, which gives the company access to our email conversations, and Google Voice, which gives the company access to our spoken ones. Add to this Google Street View and Latitude, a service that tracks the physical location of its users, and mobile and desktop operating systems and, well…that kind of consolidation of Internet-based services around a single dominant company should give us all pause.
—Chrome OS, Huh? Will It Be Based on a Google Analytics Kernel?
