November 2004
Daily Dose of Imagery
Maybe I'm the last person in Toronto to know about this, but Sam Javanrough's Daily Dose of Imagery is an absolutely incredible photoblog in the city. I was actually in BCE Place for the first time today and was going to make a post encouraging anyone who visits the city to take a quick walk …
365 Days Later
As Steven and Peter just pointed out to me, it's been a whole year since Delta Tango Bravo was first published (if that's the correct term to use). Almost exactly one year ago, I was lamenting the untimely loss of my digital camera by means of the wash cycle and... drum roll please... then the …
AdSense for Charity
Several months ago, my friend and coworker Steven Garrity started displaying Google AdSense advertisements on his weblog as an experiment. Thankfully, he's using some simple filtering so the only people who see his ads are those that arrive via a search result, so regular readers never see them at …
A Visit to the Salon
Guest Post by Nick Burka (my twin brother) • I don't quite know how it started, but 3 years on I'm still doing it. Shortly after Salon.com changed their layout to the way it appears now, I became enamored by their clever and well designed front-page category images. Periodically I would stop and …
Firefox One Point Oh
Just to add to the overall noise level around the web today, Mozilla's Firefox 1.0 launched last night to great fanfare. As I'm writing this, the Mozilla site is very slow, but it is eventually loading and the download speeds for actually getting Firefox are fast. Have patience it's worth the wait …
Mapped Pictures
Edward Tufte has posted a chapter from his soon-to-be-released book Beautiful Evidence on his website. The chapter, titled "Mapped Pictures: Images as Explanations and Evidence", contains the type of beautiful data-filled imagery you might expect from Tufte. The Albrecht Dürer woodcut and …
Welcome to the New World
Following the unfortunate1 result of the American election, some witty disillusioned Yankees have been redrawing their maps. Instead of leaving their country in disgust, they're carving it up. Gone are the red states, or at least parts of them, and a new type of nation, filled with liberal …