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A giant inflatable locust, made by an artist from the land that created Godzilla, floated over a Toronto stadium Saturday during the all-night celebration of the arts called Nuit Blanche.

Just like last year this site has gone Pink for October. I’d like to introduce you to Cherry the new flavour for this blog. With Cherry things around here have changed a fair bit. This flavour was a long time coming and I haven’t updated the site with my usual flavour a season until this[...]

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IANAD… I am not a designer. But I do think I am capable as a user-interface designer. The former involves making pretty pictures and creating an emotional user experience. The latter involves making usable interfaces and creating an enjoyable user experiences. Subtle differences that mean a wh[...]

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A group of Frank Lloyd Wright aficionados in Buffalo, N.Y. has built and opened a boathouse designed by the famous American architect more than 100 years after it was conceived.

In writing these monthly summaries, I’ve mentioned before that I have come to understand how feeble the human brain is. Despite its uniqueness in complex, machine-like terms, it is truly pitiful at retaining information, or at least recalling it. I have always had an excellent memory, but even my [...]

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The Smithsonian Institution, a collection of 19 museums, is in need of $2.5 billion in renovations and repairs according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Yesterday evening Seth Godin wrote a very short (and very meaningless) post titled, CSS. While the post was surly full of good intention, it is the absolute worst thing your boss could read; or the most annoying thing. It promotes ignorance within the workplace and gives justification to those yet t[...]

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Airline sacrifices goats to appease sky god - “Officials at Nepal’s state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft…” Now we know who got the goat. Analysis: UK gun crim[...]

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Philanthropists Alfred and Isabel Bader have donated a painting by 17th century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn to Queen's University's Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ont.

Toronto's second, larger edition of the dusk-to-dawn contemporary arts festival Nuit Blanche will unspool from Saturday night to Sunday morning.