Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
FedEx, Apple, BMW and tons of other companies have created wonderful interfaces for you to track your order, manufacturing status and shipment of the product you ordered. Today, Dominos launches it’s “WTF, Where’s my Pizza”… Ok.. the ACTUAL trademark is PizzaTracker… If within a 30 minute span, you’re so obsessed [...]
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Posted on January 29th, 2008 by Jobe Roberts
If you’ve ever suffered through a bad job experience and feel you need to rant about it but you also don’t want to be associated with that last awful job choice then JobDud might be just the thing for you. Here you can anonymously tell the world how much you hated (or loved) that [...]
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Posted on January 29th, 2008 by Baxter
As I understand it, the First Amendment will protect a person’s right to communicate anonymously unless the said communication makes a false claim that may harm the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government or nation. Doing so is called defamation (a.k.a. vilification, slander, or libel) and you can be sued for that. [...]
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Posted on January 26th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
A wonderful thing these social networks. Plaxo has been emailing me for the past week to remind me that it’s (SM Friend, iotum CEO)
Alec Saunders’ birthday tomorrow.
Happy birthday, Alec!
The strange thing about Plaxo, is their “zeal” in trying to monetize these birthday announcements. I can send Alec a FREE ecard (which [...]
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Posted on January 26th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
This week, the US patent office published an application by Microsoft for “Lingtweight”.
What’s a lingtweight?? The new Zune? Vista - the Norwegian Edition?? Code name for IE9??? No.
Lingtweight: What happens when Microsoft patent lawyers think they’re too smart to be using spell checkers. Of course Google [...]
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Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Viral web FlareUps are entertaining to watch. This week’s FU began on Fox news. Supposed-psychologist Cooper Lawrence was being interviewed about video games, sex, and violence. She ranted on about the XBox game Mass Effect - claiming that “You’ll see full digital nudity and the ability for players to engage in graphic [...]
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Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
I know there’s misery in the middle east, but at a “safe” distance of 9000 km, it’s difficult to imagine myself there. For 3o euros ($44. USD) I can put myself right on the border of Palestine and Israel.
This intriguing idea comes from ICCO - a dutch NGO that funds [...]
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Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Fake Alec
Those crazy folks at NetLifeResearch have launched this year’s version of the infamous Bad Usability Calendar. NetLife is a usability firm in Norway. The calendar features 12 humourous design tips, poking fun at the over-use of web 2.0 glitz, social net apps, and iTunes interfaces.
I’ve printed out copies for all [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
I was working from home yesterday, so I noticed these two dudes approaching my house. They quickly dropped off their load and ran off to the next house…. A Sears catalog. Sealed in plastic. Do I shop at Sears? no… There isn’t even one in Renfrew… Trust me, I’m [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
I love Industrial Design competitions. DesignBoom is a european site offering online design courses. They also hold monthly design competitions.
This month, the theme is dinner. In 2015. They had nearly 5,000 participants worldwide. Here are some of my favourites:
One of the winners takes the lowly BIC pen to new [...]
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