Was Typing class in school so much fun that you want to go back and relive it? Do you have an unhealthy obsession with keyboards? Do you like competing at everyday, normal tasks? If any of these apply, now you can compete online against random people at typing thanks to TypeRacer. [...]

The Toronto Transit Commission was on strike this weekend. Not to get into the politics of it, but they have now been declared an essential service by the Ontario government and directed back to work.

What an example this weekend was of how essential the TTC is for the City of Toronto. I doubted [...]

In the never-ending stream of people launching web operating systems while everyone waits for Google O/S and Windows Cloud, comes Cloudo. As well as having one of the funnier names, it seems (it’s on private alpha at the moment) to boast some neat features. You can make the GUI look like Windows, OSX, [...]

In my aimless Internet-wanderings today, I ran across Start Your Tube. Want to start your own YouTube for your dancing sheep videos? That’s now an option…and with revenue sharing to boot w00t.

Or you can just set-up your own video site in 10 steps on Debian, but it’s really your option. [...]

This weekend there was tonnes of ice flowing down the Niagara River. They released their ice booms this week, so there’s a constant parade of mini-icebergs

Everyone’s been writing us with lots of great suggestions for the next features of the Shift Edit liveblogging tool. We are burning through the ever growing list, but one thing that we definitely wanted to jump on was liveblogging from email.

I am not, and have never been addicted to a Blackberry But [...]

Our new Google Search Appliance arrived today. This decal on the front caught my eye

As you can already tell around here, I’m a pretty big Battlestar Galactica fan With BSG season 4 episode 1 premiering this Friday (FRAK YAH!), I thought it might be fun to liveblog the show over at ShiftEdit.

If you know your basestar from your raider, and you want to be an author with [...]