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TIL William Gibson wrote an episode of The X-Files
in CultureI’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 […] Continue Reading
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Tim Hortons printing news tweets on sleeves in the UAE
in DesignOK. 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 […] Continue Reading
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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 […] Continue Reading
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Facebook Security Force
in WebsitesA neat little tidbit about Facebook security in this post from The Verge. Good Guy Facebook proactively scans lists of hijacked account and warns users if they appear on one of these lists. Facebook cross references credential dumps with its entire database of user credentials, then alerts any users that match to change their passwords. […] Continue Reading
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Inspired
in Site News…by Jeffery Zeldman, I trimmed my blog down to one column. Now off to bed. Continue Reading