I just arrived in San Fransisco last night for the Mozilla Developers Day with my two cohorts Steven and Stephen. The Mozilla headquarters are hilariously cliché dot-com. Within view there is a set of oversize chess pieces, a huge Golden Gate Bridge made of soda cans, a Gollum statuette, and …

Paul Middlewick has discovered numerous animals, including the pig below, in the map for the London underground. Apparently he discovered an elephant while staring at the tube map during his daily journey to work fifteen years ago and has since found several more. I've been hunting in there for an …

Not only is Wilco a great band, they also gave some of the inspiration for the name of this site with their album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. For those interested in the band, there has been a ton of Wilco news lately. Lead singer, Jeff Tweedy has released a book of his poetry called Adult Head, which I …

Some kiwi friends of mine have made a hilarious video (6.5mb mpeg) of themselves hanging up a poster for a dance festival on a public sculpture and almost getting arrested in the process. Apparently the competition was just to make a poster for Destination and display it somewhere. There are 20 …

Over the past twenty years or so there has been a marked move in the tourism industry to refer to tourists as visitors. I can still vaguely recall the days when local information centers were called tourist information and advertisements in magazines invited tourists to come and visit. Then, there …

Last night Haligonian musician Matt Mays won the East Coast Music Award for best "Best New Artist." I had the good fortune of seeing Matt open for Billy Bragg this past summer at the Marquee Club in Halifax and then again opening for Sam Roberts just last month. The first time he was singing solo …

A number of us silveroranges are heading down to San Francisco for the Mozilla Developers Day at the end of the month. Steven, Stephen, Dan, and I will be in the city from Thursday, February 26th until the following Tuesday. San Francisco is yet another city I haven't had the pleasure of visiting …

I finally got a cocktail shaker and a set of cocktail glasses this past December (thanks to my lovely girlfriend) for my birthday and I've been mixing drinks ever since. My repertoire is still somewhat limited, but the chocolate orange Martini is my latest favourite.  •  1 oz. Vodka  •  1 oz …

I've been lucky enough to be involved in the recent rebranding process of Mozilla's Firefox project. When my cohort Steven Garrity was asked by the Mozilla organization to gather a team of designers to work on the rebranding of Firebird to Firefox a few months ago, I managed to kind of sneak in …

OK, today's topic is the top five greatest movie titles of all time. Like the band names, points are awarded for overall impression but also for the appropriateness of the name combined with the quality of the film.  •  Apocalypse Now!  •  Citizen Kane  •  The Grapes of Wrath  •  Full Metal Jacket …

Browsing Boing Boing yesterday, I discovered Kirsten Johnson's fun oil paintings of sock puppets. Her collection covers the whole range of human emotion from cranky, to evasive, to foolishly optimistic, to rambunctious, to drunkenly amorous. Many of the pieces are already sold, but I think a few …

About a month ago I was toying around with my laptop in my apartment and discovered that a neighbor had installed an open wi-fi access point that enabled me to get free wireless internet access right in my living room. However, only a week later the connection was gone and I figured I had lost my …