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  • Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul

    [vimeo http://vimeo.com/15841377 w=640&h=360]
    Skateistan is one of my favorite causes to support. One could argue there are better ones out there, but this one is near and dear to my heart.

    There’s nothing like watching an Afghan woman go down a ramp for the first time and she’s achieved something that she never thought she would.

    Visit skateistan.org for more information, and please give generously. And if you need something to “show for it”, they have some nice t-shirts. Always makes a great holiday present. 🙂

    See also: Skateistan, the Movie

  • Frozen Street Light

    Taken from our living room, through the window, no post-processing.

  • Ubuntu 10.10 Looking Spiffy on our Acer Aspire One


    I’ve upgraded our household netbook to GNU/Linux Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat (10.10, from 9.04), and the latter is now the default boot-time option instead of Windows XP.

    Twenty of the drive’s 160GB are dedicated to Linux, as ext4. The rest is divided between the legacy NTFS partition for Windows, and another partition (~5GB) with Acer’s eRecovery tool, so I can reset the machine to factory defaults if ever needed. Since I was able to resize the partition dynamically right in the installer, I didn’t even need to move the files we had under Windows. The NTFS partition mounts in full read/write mode, so why bother for now?

    Teagan (11) has been using it for a few days now, with Chromium/Chrome as his default browser and VLC as his default media player. The latter two being the apps he spends 99.9% of his time in.

    For the record, I did try Ubuntu Netbook Edition, but I couldn’t get used to the dashboard-type UX, being a long-time Gnome user… The rest of the family would have probably been fine with it, but I figured I’d stick with the original for now. We can install the netbook remix interface on top later anyway.

  • Laundry Sphinx

    Laundry baskets need protection? Never fear, Geronimo is here.

  • ♬ Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow ♬

    That’s what up in my Montreal backyard at the moment. Glad I didn’t have to pickup the kids by foot tonight. It’s really not *that* bad for our part of the World, and it’s so pretty. Plus, when it snows, it’s never really that cold either (all things considered).

  • Google eBookstore is Live (in the U.S.)

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKEaypYJbb4]

    Pardon the analogy, but I think my wife might actually have an intellect-gasm when she finds out (and once it’s available in Canada). :p

    Today is the first page in a new chapter of our mission to improve access to the cultural and educational treasures we know as books. Google eBooks will be available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore. You can browse and search through the largest ebooks collection in the world with more than three million titles including hundreds of thousands for sale.

    Source: Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices

  • YoBeat and Souney Media T-shirt Radness

    Just received a couple of t-shirt I ordered from YoBeat. They came with some stickers and a complimentary Souney Media shirt, courtesy of the always excellent Jared, which I’m totally stoked about. Thanks Brooke, Jared and crew! 🙂

    Perfect timing too: right in time for me to take them with me to Mexico. Cuz, you know, you gotta have some snowboarding shirts when in the tropics. Same reason I wear surfboarding shirts in Montreal. 😉

  • 1,000th Desktop Image, Acquired

    I’ve been collecting desktop images, aka wallpapers, since around 1994. Some are my own photos or artsy experiments, most have been found online. As you can probably tell by the 16 years it took for me to get 1,000 of them, I’m quite picky when it comes to what I give so much screen real-estate. To celebrate, here are 20 of my favorite ones for your enjoyment.

  • G.W.F. Hegel Quote as Skateboard Artwork

    Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished withouth passion.

    Design by Heads of State, for the Bordo Bello fundraiser. More info on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel can be found on Wikipedia if you’re not familiar with his work.

  • Awesome Concert Posters and Flyers Reference Site

    Just discovered GigPosters.com and I’m having a blast browsing through the listings for all my favorite bands/singers/musicians, finding gems such as the 1992 Beastie Boys flyer embedded above.

    GigPosters.com showcases gig posters, handbills and flyers from around the world. Great for artists, musicians, bands, designers, venues and music collectors.