The Mozilla visual identity team, which I'm lucky enough to play a small role in, has just released the new Thunderbird logo! Jon Hicks was the illustrator behind both this new logo and the Firefox logo released a few months ago.  •  I've been using Thunderbird as my primary mail client for the …

I stumbled across our local internet service provider Eastlink's terms of service yesterday and noticed some confusing and maybe disturbing points in it. I can understand them wanting to ensure people aren't sharing copyrighted material to reduce the company's liability, but does point 'e' not …

Any true Canadian will remember with a sigh of nostalgia hearing the haunting opening theme from Hinterland Who's Who and the incredible monotone voice describing our national wildlife. Every one of the advertisements is available online, including perennial favourites like the beaver, the muskox …

If you're in or around Charlottetown in the next few weeks, there are some great art and graphic design exhibitions to be seen. On Saturday I was at the Confederation Centre of the Arts where they are still displaying a very diverse collection of photos by George S. Zimbel. They stretch back over …

It's been a couple of weeks since I was in New York and I figure a brief post about it is in order. Thanks to everyone who offered their great advice before the trip. It was much appreciated. The following are my incredibly concise impressions of the city garnered from a whirlwind trip. Please …

Google announced that they're launching a web-based email service called GMail that will allow people to store a gigabyte of emails and will enable them to search through their mail using search technology. Sounds cool... but can you trust any news report on or around April 1?  •  Google got in …

A number of us at silverorange went through difficult addictions to one or more of the Tony Hawk skateboarding games over the past few years, characterized by ridiculous muscle memory for key combinations and detailed knowledge of each and every level. Many of the maps are based on real-world …

I just got back from an all-too-brief week-long road trip to New York last night. It was a fantastic trip and I'll try to compile my impressions of the city and put some of my photos in my gallery in the next couple of days.  •  While on the road, I was pretty much out of touch with online …

I'm quickly working at reducing my list of cities I've always meant to visit. Two weeks ago it was San Francisco and next week I'm heading off to New York with my girfriend for a vacation. The kindly Ian Williams and his readers have been very helpful with some great and contradicting suggestions …