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My Desktop & The Side Effects of Spam

March 5th, 2008 Mitch Brisebois 3 comments
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Well here... on my desktop lives the face of my common spam. Mostly drug-related: soma, ultram, phentermine, valium, topomax, fioricet, cialis, levitra, carisoprodol, ambien, xanax, and of course viagra. Once in a blue moon... phone sex. Does that even exist anymore? Based on diligent research (wikipedia) here's the TOP TEN ...

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March 31: DemoCamp8 Ottawa

March 5th, 2008 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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It's snowing like CRAZEE up here in the frozen tundra! There's no better time than to dream of a cozy get-together at Ottawa's favourite geek-pub for the eighth installment of DemoCamp. Circle your calendar - Monday, March 31st 7-9pm, downstairs at the Clock Tower Pub. So far on ...

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The Wiggles show you how to use Russian GMail

March 3rd, 2008 Mitch Brisebois No comments

By and large, creating effective non-boring "how-to" videos for software is difficult to do. The Russian marketeers for Google have come up with an awesome twist! (and maybe it's not really the Wiggles... but it sure looks like them!) via AdArena [tags]GMail, product-videos, Russian-Google[/tags]

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So ya wanna be an inventor…

March 3rd, 2008 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Here's a contest being promoted by Canadian Business Magazine and sponsored by Nytric, Rogers and some Bearskin Lawfirm... The second annual Next Great Canadian Invention has a top prize of $50,000 - mostly in services like feasibility studies, design, and prototyping. It's an interesting opportunity, and unfortunately, lots of limitations. You do have ...

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Geek pic of the week…

March 3rd, 2008 Mitch Brisebois 1 comment
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...ok - somebody's gonna write in saying they don't get the joke... via Photo Basement [tags]Features, Not-A-Bug[/tags]

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The Evolution of LOGOs

March 2nd, 2008 Mitch Brisebois 1 comment
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A few weeks ago Neatorama published a great review of the evolution of company logos. It's hard to believe that Google is 10 years old! It's logo has evolved, and is probably better than it would have been had they kept the original "Back-Rub". On the Ottawa startup scene we have iotum. ...

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The Code Factory Sets Up Shop: Open source papaya

March 2nd, 2008 Mitch Brisebois 1 comment
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SM friend Ian Graham has just announced the lease signing of The Code Factory in Ottawa. It's located downtown above the Green Papaya - a Queen street Thai restaurant. The two story factory will be a permanent and temporary home for a bunch of local startups. As a bonus, we like the ...

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Repurpose Your Waste

March 1st, 2008 Jobe Roberts No comments
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If you're looking for the ultimate eco-friendly fashion accessories, you should have a peak at the handbags and jewelry available at Ecoist. These cleverly designed products are made from re-purposed materials such as misprinted candy wrappers that were headed for the dump. No, they did not reuse the wrappers after they ate the candy bars ...

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Another Window Closes

March 1st, 2008 Baxter 3 comments
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This week another window closes to our visitors. Our comments are now open only to registered users on our site. I know! How unfair! WTF? Yeah, I've had it with the enormous waste of our server bandwidth just gobbling and tracking spam. We just can't take it anymore! ...

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