Apple iPad

$830 for a giant sized iPhone with no camera, doesn’t do voice calling, and still can’t multitask. Yep… game changer all right. Update: 1024×768 res screen. How can they claim you can watch HD movies on that?

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Best/Most motivational video in the world.

Via Ramanan. VIDEOGIOCO by Donato Sansone is similar it seems.

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Google Nexus One

Except they only ship to US/Hong Kong/UK/Singapore. Canada is a third world country when it comes to technology.

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Rubular

a Ruby regular expression editor

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Industry Minister Tony Clement is a hero today

Federal government overturns the CRTC and allows Globalive to start operating its Wind Mobile brand. Finally some cell phone competition.

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You autocompleteme.com

This blog documents messing around with google search autocomplete.

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The world's biggest wing ever made (190ft long)

November 10th, 2009

And they put it on a boat.

BMWOracle Hard Wing Sail

For scale, the boat is ~113 ft long I think.
More pictures at Sailing Anarchy and the Official BMW Oracle Racing Blog.


Snow Kayaker

It’s exactly as the description reads: AWESOME. He has a lifejacket on! How can you fail?!

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Granite Peak Bans Snowboarders From “Skier Only” Terrain

The resort, which boasts five terrain parks that president and owner Charles Skinner says are used almost exclusively by snowboarders, has been hearing from a “growing chorus of skiers requesting a few ’skier only’ runs,” says Skinner. So ban skiers from the terrain park then? Nobody says skiers can’t go into the terrain park.

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Nicest guy in skateboarding.

Kind of refreshing when you meet somebody that’s never got anything bad to say about anything. Via Pierre Wikberg.

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