A Three Page Site
Client: “Can you quote me for a three page site?”
Me: “Sure. What are the three pages?”
Client: “Home, Contact, and Login.”

via clientsfromhell.net

Wow... http://www.martinwilson.net/index.html
Be sure to read the stories behind the images.

Every genius is allowed a horrible product every 10 years or so.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html

Today I noticed that insideniagara.com redirects to Yahoo! Canada. Strange. I check that site regularly for movie listings...

Update: As a result, I built a quick movie reference page for Cineplex theatres in the Niagara Region: miklos.ca/cineplex_niagara.

This is crazy!
http://jui.cc/ZA

It was treated as an oddball twist in the otherwise wrenching saga of the BP oil spill when Kevin Costner stepped forward to promote a device he said could work wonders in containing the spill's damage. But as Henry Fountain explains in the New York Times, the gadget in question - an oil-separating centrifuge - marks a major breakthrough in spill cleanup technology. And BP, after trial runs with the device, is ordering 32 more of the Costner-endorsed centrifuges to aid the Gulf cleanup.

via news.yahoo.com

via: National Post

I remember driving through the town of Edelény (starting at photo #22 in the gallery) ... crazy stuff.
http://jui.cc/lN

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/celebrating-pac-mans-30th-birthday.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20005528-52.html

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/spring-metamorphosis-googles-new-look.html

^{Photo by: Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse}

I got the idea when I tried to find out more about some photos I found on a flea market. Trying to discover where they were taken I looked around my city, found the locations and took photos to compare then and now. Mixing them was just a experiment and because I was happy with the result I decided to do the same with other historical photos. I am a historical consultant for film, tv, authors, museums, etc. and I even have a 1930s lifestyle. History is part of my daily life, I can’t help but see the shadows of the past.

Found in a PetaPixel post.

http://blip.tv/play/hKN7gc3AGAI

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/21/business-card-is-a-t.html

I don't know how I missed this video up until today...

We're going to Hungary next month, and we have to jump through hoops to get Nikki's passport. They didn't accept her birth certificate, it was "void", so we have to wait until one arrives that cost us $65 because we added an extra $30 to the price to make sure it gets here in 5 business days. Anyway, back to the passport thing... Here's a beautiful document justifying why a Canadian passport costs $87CAD: http://www.ppt.gc.ca/support/faq.aspx?lang=eng&id=540

The fee for an adult passport is CAN$87. Of this amount, CAN$25 is used to recover the costs incurred by the Department of Foreign Affairs in providing consular services to Canadians abroad.

As for the remaining CAN$62, the breakdown is as follows:

- 47% towards security fees (e.g.: examination, guarantor checks)
- 43% towards production fees (e.g.: material, printing)
- 6% towards administration fees (e.g.: business sustaining)

Couple of questions arise:

1) Isn't the abbreviation for Canadian Dollars "CAD"

2) "For the remaining $62, the breakdown is as follows" ... 47%+43%+6% = 96% ... What? Where's the extra 4% going?

3) Let's forget the mistakes on the site, do our taxes not already pay for government employees to sit on their ass and do their job? Or is their job strictly to sit on their ass and collect good money? Any "actual" work gets added on and broken down into 47%=THEIR already paid manual labour, 43% WE pay for their ink and paper and 6% administration fee a.k.a. just to round it off to 100% .. or wait...

What a bunch of bull.

Coolest signup form: http://huffduffer.com/signup/

Inspiring photos.
http://www.dawnleblanc.com/index.php

http://golang.org/

I would've never thought that a place like this exists.
Map: http://jui.cc/ub, Homepage: http://pimaair.org/

Nikki found her sleeping like this today.

She's been known to sleep in weird positions.

This static site probably took a long time to build. But beyond that, note this guy's résumé.
http://www.galenfrysinger.com/the_traveler.htm

Miles of MUTE photographed the 2010 Canadian International Autoshow for a Torontoist article. Great job, Miles.

I had the Salmon Teriyaki -- delicious!
http://www.princesteakhouse.com/

Peter and his coworkers over at Virgo have been working all week to get a flash project working that will stream their former prime minister's speech live (2010-02-05 14:00 GMT).. It has a live twitter feed and has voting capabilities. As a programmer, stuff like this is exciting when it's on such a large scale: http://backchannel.virgo.hu/

A1, A2, A3, A4 .. etc etc. My cousin asked for some A4 size prints today and I had no idea what that actually is... so for the North American folk, here's a conversion chart lifted from Wikipedia:

ISO paper sizes in inches

Format	A	B	C
0	33.1 × 46.8	39.4 × 55.7	36.1 × 51.1
1	23.4 × 33.1	27.8 × 39.4	25.5 × 36.1
2	16.5 × 23.4	19.7 × 27.8	18.0 × 25.5
3	11.7 × 16.5	13.9 × 19.7	12.8 × 18.0
4	8.3 × 11.7	9.8 × 13.9	9.0 × 12.8
5	5.8 × 8.3	6.9 × 9.8	6.4 × 9.0
6	4.1 × 5.8	4.9 × 6.9	4.5 × 6.4
7	2.9 × 4.1	3.5 × 4.9	3.2 × 4.5
8	2.0 × 2.9	2.4 × 3.5	2.2 × 3.2
9	1.5 × 2.0	1.7 × 2.4	1.6 × 2.2
10	1.0 × 1.5	1.2 × 1.7	1.1 × 1.6

Awesome site design too.
http://www.learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk/

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/12/holden-caulfield-is-unactable.html

http://www.yahooanswerfail.com/

I first heard about the Monty Hall Problem in grade 10 finite class... And I never understood it... Then I forgot about it. Somehow I just thought of it and realized I still don't understand. Thanks to the Wikipedia article and its illustrations, I finally get it.

Welcome to yet another "duh" moment of my life! :)