This gallery of high-speed movies is pretty impressive. Lesson of the Day: bees have wings that flap, instead of my original hypothesis that they hovered in an anti-gravity field created by magnets they eat circling in their stomachs of copper wire. Who knew?!

(Thanks Evan)

In honour of my Veronica-Mars-obsessed friend, Joe, and the launch of The Box Network’s newest blogger, Mad, here’s a photo of Kristen Bell. What does she have to do with these two gentlemen? They refuse to tell me. So here we are. END TRANSMISSION

As the proud owner of a Roomba, I’ve often spent nights alone wishing my Roomba could talk to me. “What defines your existence, Roomba? When you are turned off, do you dream, Roomba?”

Finally, the good folks kids at MyRoomBud have the answer: “that sound you hear is the call of Roombas from all [...]

I know everyone and their mothers (if they have blogs I suppose) have already seen this crazy-assed shark, but LOOK AT THIS THING! WTF!

Since Google released MacFUSE, a virtual filesystem, we’ve all known something is up at Google and it probably has to do with storage. Today, Chris pointed out that Google has just released SpotlightFS that layers OS X Spotlight functionality on top of MacFUSE. From the Google Code wiki:

Using SpotlightFS is as easy as [...]

I really got a kick out of this icon for “cross-platform support” on Songbird’s site today. I may just have to try out this program for the icons alone

“Mommy, what is Tux, the Linux penguin, doing to that bird?”

Under a tsunami of public opinion — well, actually just a bunch of people I work with who have been bugging me for a week now — I decided to put aside my complete refactoring of WhyYouShould, and do a redesign first. Armed with a mock from fuzzz, I think I have now created [...]

Have you ever checked out the search toolbar that appears by default in Adobe Acrobat Reader? It’s a web-search (of Yahoo!) instead of a search of the document. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve used the search toolbar to look for something in the PDF I’m looking at. I guess [...]

I’ve been resisting blogging this for a couple weeks now, mainly because I hate Tiger Direct a little more than Futureshop, and only the former sells this. But I broke down this morning, so here we go: a secure digital (SD) card from Sandisk that you can fold into a USB adapter.

My digital [...]

I couldn’t believe what the CBC was reporting today: there are only two Canadian navy ships out at sea!

The navy had earlier said that all but two ships on the East and West Coasts are tied up. HMCS Ottawa is in the Persian Gulf, and HMCS Charlottetown is out performing sea trials.

I call on the [...]