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Making a deal with the devil

Iluvitar — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:03:33 +0000

The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement.

Probe may have found cosmic dust

Iluvitar — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:23:46 +0000

“So far this particle is unique… if we drop it on the floor, it will cost $300m to get another one.”

Oh how times have changed.

Iluvitar — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:22:11 +0000

Image found by Mezan.

City of Toronto Archival photo. Westward view of the Bathurst/Lakeshore intersection.

The modern day version of this picture would include 10+ condo towers, a townhouse complex, community center and two new roads: Queen’s Quay and Fort York Blvd. Sad but I miss the cement factory the most. RIP Cement Factory;;

Aerial view looking East at Lakeshore and Bathurst intersection.

There used to be a Baseball stadium where a Condo/entrance to an airport exists today.

Spadina bridge (Spadina and Front) looking south. Future home of Cityplace, MegaCondoComplexExtraordinaire.

Some part of me wishes it was still like this.

Apple fears the droid and sues HTC.

Iluvitar — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:20:33 +0000

700+ pages of exhibits. Sounds like they just want to clog the courts and get an injunction to scare other Android handset makers. Why innovate to beat your competition when you can just sue them with stupid patents that you shouldn’t have gotten in the first place? More info over at Engadget.

Apple iPad

Iluvitar — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:03:32 +0000

$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?

Best/Most motivational video in the world.

Iluvitar — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:36:38 +0000

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

Google Nexus One

Iluvitar — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:08:20 +0000

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

Rubular

Iluvitar — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:51:26 +0000

a Ruby regular expression editor

Industry Minister Tony Clement is a hero today

Iluvitar — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:07:28 +0000

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

You autocompleteme.com

Iluvitar — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:22:38 +0000

This blog documents messing around with google search autocomplete.