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Briefly Noted from March 2006

• 30 years of Apple

  Wired has a gallery of Apple’s products over the past three decades.

  Mar 30 2006 at 11:41 AM EST

  Topic: Computers

• From DHTML to DOM scripting

  Christian Heilmann writes a treatise on why DHTML is not DOM scripting

  Mar 29 2006 at 2:19 PM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• Firebug 0.3 is brilliant

  This release officially replaces my belvoed DOM Inspector as the best Web development tool ever.

  Mar 29 2006 at 12:17 PM EST

  Topics: Web Resources, Browsers

• On Morrissey’s boycott of Canada

  The beautiful irony of comment from a globeandmail.com reader comment sums it all up.

  Mar 28 2006 at 3:44 PM EST

  Topics: Music, Canada

• Face(bubble)book’s $2 billion (bubble) dream.

  After looking a gift horse in mouth someone’s going to end up looking like a mule.

  Mar 28 2006 at 1:55 PM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• CNN.com’s new homepage

  It’s wide and fairly minimal.

  Mar 28 2006 at 1:47 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Municipal election campaigns 2.0

  Social Tech Brewing hosts a conference on how to get the next Toronto election more Web-friendly.

  Mar 28 2006 at 9:36 AM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Web Culture

• Alan Rusbridger on newspapers and blogs

  The editor of The Guardian opines on what the newspapers need to do to survive.

  Mar 28 2006 at 9:24 AM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Harper limiting reporter access

  Bill Doskoch summarizes some of the drastic changes the new Prime Minister wants to enforce on the press gallery.

  Mar 28 2006 at 9:13 AM EST

  Topics: Journalism, Canada

• The truth behind retouching

  Online demo of how retouching makes the real hyperreal.

  Mar 28 2006 at 9:12 AM EST

  Topic: Magazine

• Clark on mesh and Web developement in Toronto

  I'm friends with Joe and some of the Mesh organizers, but his attacks on the industry in Toronto ring true.

  Mar 28 2006 at 8:47 AM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Toronto

• Hogtown vs. Cowtown

  A Torontonian takes a wander through Calgary; while a Calgarian does the same in Toronto.

  Mar 25 2006 at 7:03 PM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Canada

• Louie Palu in Afghanistan

  Palu, an award-winning photographer with The Globe and Mail, documented his time with Canadian military there.

  Mar 25 2006 at 6:59 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• “Bugzilla” for Internet Explorer

  Internet Explorer Feedback is a bug database for the browser that Redmond built. Good on them for doing this.

  Mar 24 2006 at 1:53 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Tim Hortons one of Canada’s biggest IPOs

  The donut and coffee chain jumps 40% in its market debut.

  Mar 24 2006 at 10:55 AM EST

  Topic: Canada

• Question the globeandmail.com editors

  The editors of globeandmail.com do a questions and answer session with the readers.

  Mar 24 2006 at 10:53 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Work

• Mesh — Canada’s Web *.0 conference

  Organized by smart people, with presentations by even smarter ones, mesh looks to be a very good conference.

  Mar 23 2006 at 11:12 AM EST

  Topics: Canada, Web Culture

• Cascading Style Shirts

  Ringer T-shirts created in Canada with Web standard messages.

  Mar 23 2006 at 8:29 AM EST

  Topic: Web Standards

• Toronto Star starts tagging

  The online news site dips its toes in the tagging waters by letting users post a story to del.icio.us.

  Mar 22 2006 at 10:43 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• 1,000 little icons

  Silk Icons offer 1,000 nice icons convering nearly every conceivable need.

  Mar 22 2006 at 10:17 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Thunderbird gets a calendar (almost)

  Lightning 0.1 is the first release of the calendar for the Mozilla Thunderbird email client.

  Mar 22 2006 at 10:16 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 released

  This developer release showcases the first tentative steps Firefox is taking as it hits 2.0.

  Mar 22 2006 at 10:15 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Internet Explorer 7: MIX06 Build

  The IEBlog explains what you need to do to get this rendering-engine complete version installed.

  Mar 22 2006 at 9:37 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Prime Minister Ashley MacIsaac?

  Well, fiddle me timbers, the Cape Breton fiddler insists he’s making a genuine run for the Liberal leadership.

  Mar 21 2006 at 1:56 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, Music

• Google Finance’s stock quote page

  Take this page on IBM. Play with it for about thirty seconds. Ask yourself: why would I go anywhere else?

  Mar 21 2006 at 11:07 AM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Google may map TTC

  Service would offer trip times and station locations for the Toronto transit service.

  Mar 21 2006 at 10:48 AM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Search Engines

• Shirkey on groups

  An older (2003) essay, but an excellent one examining group dynamics online.

  Mar 21 2006 at 9:11 AM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• CSS compressor

  CSS Tweak has a nice interface, but if you already use shorthand properties, the savings aren’t great.

  Mar 21 2006 at 9:07 AM EST

  Topics: CSS, Web Resources

• My First Google Page

  The WYSIWYG Web page editor from Google isn’t that bad…

  Mar 20 2006 at 10:32 PM EST

  Topics: Search Engines, Web Design

• BarCampTdot (a.k.a., TorCamp 2.0)

  The second TorCamp will be taking place May 13 or May 14, 2006. Sign-up now.

  Mar 20 2006 at 10:16 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Toronto