Category — Daily Links

This is just too funny:

http://www.spinner.com/2008/11/24/billy-corgan-blames-eddie-vedder-for-cubs-loss/

Great article from the CBC on deflation, inflation, the current trend in Canada, and how it will affect you:

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2008/11/20/f-deflation.html?ref=rss

Checkout the recently launched change.gov. A website that basically outlines what Obama’s agenda is, and also adds the opportunity for people to be heard about the issues facing America. Nice to see Obama continue to use new media to be heard, and get his issues out to the people:

http://www.change.gov/

Great explanation of the credit crisis:

http://vimeo.com/1933993

Great little indie film/video out of New Orleans:

http://fiftypeopleonequestion.com/

Seen on Authentic Boredom.

Nice little video on the Cons:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3dVG8R7qVE

Type in your postal code, and it tells you based on the most recent polling data who to vote for. My guess is, is that it is picking the candidate most likely to win the riding that is not a Conservative.

http://www.voteforenvironment.ca/

Pretty badass video made on a preproduction Canon 5D Mark II:

http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=2086

And for you Nikon fans out there, checkout the video of Chase Jarvis trying out the D90:

http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2008/08/chase-jarvis-raw-advance-testing-nikon.html

Pretty wild if you ask me:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/02/alternativeenergy.solarpower?gusrc=rss&feed=environment

Especially this quote:

“Concentrated solar power mirror arrays covering just one per cent of the Earth’s deserts could supply a fifth of all current global energy consumption. And one million tonnes of sea water could be evaporated every day from just 20,000 hectares of greenhouses.”

Especially if you are a command line junky like me, or like to increase your productivity and usability of the web.

Check out the demo here and install the damn thing:

http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/

Then go here to run through the tutorial:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity_0.1_User_Tutorial

Prepare to have your mind blown.

A 2 day festival in honour of poutine? How am I not going to this:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/08/22/mtl-poutinefest0822.html?ref=rss

A really cool mashup that takes photos from flickr of sunsets that were taken at the same time as it is now. So you can see photos 24 hours a day of the sun setting from somewhere in the world.

Check it out: http://www.constantsetting.com/

There is Little Gordon:

http://littlegordon.com/

Good article by Naomi Klein on the Olympics:

http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2008/08/olympics-unveiling-police-state-2-0

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