Amazon.com is planning to launch a Canadian on-line site towards the end of this month. I have mixed feelings about this news: I love the technology behind Amazon.com’s site, and have maintained a wishlist there for the last year or two – their recommendations system has pointed me towards some great books and products that…

Inneraction, a local training/production centre launched their new site today. What a horrible disaster. This site epitomizes everything I detest about Flash and Flash Developers. My first complaint is the fact that it takes over your entire screen, obscuring your desktop and taskbar at the bottom of the screen. From a usability standpoint, this is…

You can be David Still! Mr. Still has offered up his identity for anyone who would like to use it. You can send random email using his identity if you’d like… or you can reply to email that has been sent to him. He gives you all of his background information so you can really…

“Our entire culture has fallen into the hands of a few multinational corporations, taking with it our right to tell our stories, our right to exchange our information, even our right to heal our sick. It’s time for us to take back what is ours.” Read this article. Just do it.

David Cronenberg has a new movie coming out: Spider. yay!

Irreversible, directed by Franco-Argentinian director Gaspar Noe, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this week. The film, which describes a woman’s rape and her boyfriend’s bloody quest for revenge, proved so shocking that 250 people walked out, some of whom required medical attention. wow. A movie that inspires physical ailments – that’s my kind of…

Maverick and Vivendi Universal want to sell you an MP3. In what appears to be a giant leap in the right direction for the recording industry, the label giants are going to offer a dance version of “Earth” by Meshell Ndegeocello online for 99 cents. What makes this step particularly bold is that they will…

An excerpt from Geeks by Jon Katz: “For me, writing this right now, being a geek means being a willing member of a growing community of social discontent, an intelligent community of libertarians, artists, dreamers, and builders. Technology is just the ticket in, the magic is the discontent and imagination, never being satisfied, and being…

Had quite the weekend… took till today to fully recover, absorb everything, and write about it. At some point in the last few months I decided that it was time to find something new and challenging to devote my time and energy to. I’ve spent the last year getting myself into good physical condition, I…

Mike Figgis is well on his way to being considered one of the most important filmmakers of our time. Unfortunately, most people will probably never see his recent and arguably most important experimental works. Never one to shy away from challenging his audience, in 1995 Figgis brought us a gritty, harrowing tale of love and…