Category: Misc

Opportunities, people, and tools Tools never change anything. It is people seeing opportunities and grabbing them with those tools that change things.

Blackcomb’s Opening Day It has begun… that time of year that we’ve spent the rest of the year day-dreaming about: deep powder, hot tubs, beer, or whatever else gets you going for winter. Whistler/Blackcomb’s 2005/2006 winter season opened this weekend with the best opening wee

Lomography: The Rules, The Society and Why I Want One So Badly! | static photography I’ve been coveting a certain few people’s photos on flickr now for quite some time, Brian Milo, shoegazer and lomokev to name just a few. There pictures have something different about them – a unique quality, colours that pop and Read More …

Google Maps on Your Website There’s only one thing on the net cooler than Googleâ„¢ Maps. What could possible be cooler than that? Putting an interactive map on your own website.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Introducing the Slackstreet Creative Group, a private, new media agency and creative co-operative.

Bryght and Early What time zone is Qatar? GMT 3 for the record.

Static takes photos for Vancouver DJ – Jay Parsons DJ Jay Parsons has been spinning for years but has just recently made Vancouver his hometown and we’re happy to call him a local. We’re also happy that he called static when he needed photos done for his album cover.

Arctic’s “Amazed” Recorded Live on the ScotFree Marcus Martin, aka ARCTIC sent us the first song he performed on the ScotFree 88 last week, called “Amazed” (8 MB). Kirsten at Crows to Burnaby was the sound engineer and Dave the Urban Vancouver Intern interviewed Marcus (he’s already written a review of

Multi User Blog Tools – Overall Ratings and Reviews These are the final ratings of a broader review of the multi-user blogging solutions Drupal, Elgg, Manila, Movable Type, WordPress MultiUser and pLog. These particular applications were selected for review due to the authors familiarity with them, their p

Pig Roast 2005 A pig roast to celebrate Theresa’s 30th birthday and to bid farewell to Theresa and Daniel before leaving for Hogtown (Toronto, that is)

Vancouver User Guide Blog Feeds We subscribe to several syndicated news feeds from Vancouver-based blogs and display them here so we can read them all in one place. Clicking on a story title will take you to the author’s original blog entry.

Why Self Portraiture? Every photograph we make is part of a learning process. We turn our lens on our respective worlds, on the people who inhabit it, on the new places we discover, and on the scenes we’ve created. We find truth and we create fiction with our cameras. It seems a natural thing to Read More …

Truck you! Video Podcasting, Second Life, Slackstreet and more Video iPods and iTunes TV Shows and their haters, Aperature, Seccond Life send a note to Spin Martin (Eric) or Commodore Gretzky (Josh); Bishop Walcott (tonyB) and Smash Gregoire (Grog), Eric’s new truck and mods, an announcement about Slackstreet.

Gastown Graffiti Project In an alley one block east of the Harbor Centre, between between Richards and Homer, running parallel to Hasitngs.

Please go and vote for our Web 2.0 Manifesto over at ChangeThis! Some friends and I decided that we want to write a Web 2.0 manifesto over at ChangeThis. We submitted our proposal to the ChangeThis team and they accepted!

Min Jung Kim Interview We’ve been meaning to interview friend of SFist Min Jung Kim for a while now. We met her way back in the day, when we were regular noobs. Numerous tech conferences, Korean barbecue feasts, nights of karaoke and episodes of Iron Chef later, we’re still in