Author: Ryan Neudorf
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TIL William Gibson wrote an episode of The X-Files
I’ve been re-watching The X-Files on Netflix. 1997’s season 5 has an abnormally high number of good monster of the week episodes. Today I watched Episode 11, “Kill Switch,” a story in which rouge AI has sexy-time with Mulder. I was pleasantly surprised (then not surprised at all in hindsight) to find out that the…
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Tim Hortons printing news tweets on sleeves in the UAE
OK. This is cool. Gulf News (the #1 English language newspaper in the region) is partnering with Tim Hortons to print breaking news on coffee cup sleeves. The campaign is the brainchild of Y&R Dubai, who claim they’ve increased website traffic by 25% and subscribers 1.5% [case study. video]. I have to admit, this is a…
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Joe Black Coffee – Laptop Friendliness Rating
Website: joeblack.caAddress: 2037 Portage Avenue, WinnipegHours: M-T: 8a – 10:30p; F-S: 8a – 11p, Sun: 8a – 9p Joe Black is located on Portage Avenue, across for the foot path to Assiniboine Park, I imagine this keeps them extremely busy on warm evenings and weekends. To my knowledge, the storefront has been a cafe for over a…