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Taking Advantage of U.S. Short-sightedness

There’s a hole you could drive a truck through in U.S. economic development  and immigration policy, which represents a substantial competitive advantage for Canada in furthering its own economic development and the growth of its knowledge-based industries. ...

Palm Kills the FOLEO

As Om reported yesterday, Palm killed the FOLEO.  Great!  It was a still-born project from the start, as I pointed out (among a long list of others) in May when it launched at D3.  Fundamentally it speaks to the ability of companies to be overrun by rock star...

William McDonough’s Talk @ TED

Through various chicanes and twists I stumbled today on a 20-minute talk from TED 2005 by architect and designer William McDonough. There is of course much discussion of sustainability at events like this, but moreso than most he’s a guy who’s walking the...

The Mike Myers Hockey Movie

Hockey and Hollywood have never been comfortable bedfellows.  Perhaps the main reason why, is that every American’s perception of the beautiful game has been conventionalized by a certain movie-that-shall-not-be-discussed.  Hockey’s been a minor backdrop...

The 300 baud club

If you don’t know what it’s like to hand dial your computer’s connection to the outside world, you probably missed out on some of the early lessons that have steered some of the internet’s most successful people.  Or so says James Hong.  I...