People have been buzzing at work all day (possibly because of the coffee) about this promotional coupon from Starbucks that has been going around. According to Snopes, it has since been rescinded by Starbucks, but I can vouch for the fact that at 3:30pm today, the Starbucks’ here are still accepting it. So [...]

Now you can have all the fun of riding a horse, without the horse…or the horse shit. Hey, maybe this isn’t so stupid after all
iGallop Horse Riding Simulator and Exercise Device Now in the U.S. - Gizmodo
Yes, the iGallop, the exercise device that sort of simulates riding on a horse, has been [...]

Here’s an interesting way to check out your website visitor’s selective history. See it in action here. At the very least, it would be useful to check if they’ve been to your competitor’s website
Jesse Ezell Blog : Stealing History
…it appears that basic technique involves setting the visited link color via CSS [...]

moderation swarm [mod-uh-rey-shuhn swawrm] -noun
Commonly called: mod swarm

Interactive Web 2.0.1 community content-moderation platform
Prioritization of content based on number of flags/approvals/ratings/diggs based on a sliding statistical average of unique visitors

[Origin: The Box, July 12, 2005]

I almost fell off my chair when I saw this service today. I keep forgetting how far along speech-to-text (and vice versa) have come since good ol’ “IBM Via Voice” was slaughtering the English language for me 10 years ago I’ve heard a lot of people say that searching video (and photo) [...]

This service just goes to show, if you run a website without RSS feeds because you “don’t want people stealing your content” (I’m looking at you Environment Canada), there are many other ways for people to syndicate you Common, join us. It’s not like you have a choice. Wooohooohooohoo *evil laugh*

Dapper: [...]

Lately, a few people have asked me what Bittorrent site is best. I can’t be bothered to use torrents myself anymore, but this search is the best out there that I’ve seen. Have fun downloading all those Linux ISOs on Bittorrent…that is what you are using it for, right?

Torrent Search - ScrapeTorrent.com [...]

This is an amazing photo by Sam Javanrouh of the lightning storm that hit Toronto last week. Makes me think I probably shouldn’t have been walking around outside that night….

It’s nice to see ILM getting some work after those three prequel Star Wars boxoffice bombs I think this may actually be better than Episode 1

(Thanks Ryan)