NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is celebrating its 10th birthday and to commemorate, NASA has released a timelapse of the past 10 years of pictures from June 2, 2010 to June 1, 2020.
I was chatting with some friends, and my friend Troy mentioned a TED talk he had recently seen, and someone else in the group had never heard of TED. Â Well, always up to help a friend, we proceeded to...
Between the close pass of the 2012 DA14 Asteroid this afternoon, and viral videos of a meteor exploding in the air in Moscow, we all need a distraction!
How about this:
Molson's just released a new Molson Canadian ad on Youtube, and at this time it already has gone viral with 1.1 Million views and it hasn't yet aired on TV. What do you think of it?
The long-awaited Pebble Watches are arriving soon! They have been trickling out since January 23, and if you are one of the 85,000 kickstarter backers of the Pebble Watch, then like me, you are obsessively checking your email for...
A lot of people ask me how I make sense of the river of information flowing from Twitter. I currently follow over 8000 people, yet I can usually pick out the nuggets of information that matter.
I use it extensively to...
Looking around the world, how many countries haven't yet adopted the metric system?  ZME Science points out that there are exactly 3 countries that haven't yet adopted it.  That would be:
Liberia
Myanmar
United States of America
Well, that would be the "official" adoption....
Thanks to everyone who attended my talk this morning at Wordcamp Toronto! Here are the slides, although they are light on textual content. I've added some scalability resources and links for more information below.
Not many sites need...
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Yesterday, we at b5media launched the third of our unique look at the blogs within our channels. Splendicity is a new portal which pulls content from over 70 Beauty & Style blogs within the network, and pulls it all...
We've heard how todays economy affects Joe the Plumber and Joe Six-pack, but what about JoeTek? :) This economic downturn has been compared to the Great Depression in the 1930's, but the technology sector as we know it...
Those annoying telemarketing calls are almost a thing of the past! Canada has adopted a Do Not Call registry so that you can tell those companies that you don't appreciate recieving random calls everyday!
The main registry
You can add...