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Looks like the Zune is *finally* coming to Canada:
http://zuneinsider.com/archive/2008/05/06/zune-coming-to-canada.aspx
That’s good news considering I already own two of them.    I might just replace my Yahoo Music subscription with a Zune subscription.

 
A deadly cyclone has swept through Myanmar wiping out entire villages. Thousands of people have been confirmed dead. Many more are missing and the death toll is climbing.

Hundreds of thousands of children and families are affected and in need of food, safe water and shelter. It’s impossible to estimate the full extent of the […]

This stings a little:
85% Geek

From last year, a great TED Talk by Jonathan Harris showing ways he is visualizing data from the web that tells our individual and collective stories:

Clay Shirky says, "Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat."

Mass media masks the cognitive surplus afforded us by the industrial revolution.

A nice parody of the MacBook Air commercials starring the Lenovo X300.  From the little bit of exposure I’ve had to the Air, I’m not a big fan of it.  But I’m also not a Lenovo fan.  Although they are very well constructed and the various models have attractive options, I’ve just never liked how […]

A funny little time waster for your Friday afternoon:

"The experiment found that out of 576 people questioned this year, 21% were quite happy to reveal their passwords in exchange for candy."
The problem with that quote (and the story it comes from) is it characterizes 120 people as complete buffoons with less self-restraint than a 3-year old.
The byline for the story states that […]

Here’s a video of Canadian MVP and Regional Director Barry Gervin giving his Canadian hockey jersey to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer:
http://www.objectsharp.com/devlounge/videos/playvideo.aspx?movie=ef789e34-f309-48ab-961e-9397ced8f59e
The best part is when Steve rubs Barry’s head and says "Nice haircut."
That’s my head in the bottom-right corner from 0:10 to 0:20.   

Last week I was in Seattle for the Microsoft MVP Summit 2008.  The Canadian presence was impressive.  Although Canadians only made up about 6% of the attendees, we stood out in our red jerseys and created a bit of a buzz by giving away hockey pucks with Microsoft product logos on them.

Kudos to […]