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OMG, I cannot tell you how much I love seeing this article. There is hope for me yet that just isn’t me being optimistic about being half as cool as my grandparents in later life. Cause if anyone thinks I want my life to be much, much different from the progress I’ve made up to know is going to be sorely disappointed.

Seeing Old Age as a Never-Ending Adventure

And this is, in fact, dedicated to my super cool Nan and GrandDad, whatever “Monkey Island” they may be on at this moment, as they confound their children trying to locate them. ;-)

Hands down the best (and most fun) Development Manager I’ve ever worked with and former Riptown peep, Core, doing a presentation at Ignite Toronto on how Software Development is like Kung Fu (I should point out that my first ever lunch with Corey first day on the new gig revolved around Asian cinema in a way that frightened both existing staff and newcomers alike who were present).

I am so stealing slides from this presentation. Awesome job Core!

How embarrassing for us all internationally. Not just a Fossil of the Day award, but we beat out all the other shamed attendees to win the overall Colossal Fossil of the Year award (dead link). Will someone please call an election and his ridiculous, lame duck Bush-esque government out of office, please ? It’s making us look like schmucks internationally.

‘Fossil of the Year goes to CANADA, for bringing a totally unacceptable position into Copenhagen and refusing to strengthen it one bit. Canada’s 2020 target is among the worst in the industrialized world, and leaked cabinet documents revealed that the governments is contemplating a cap-and-trade plan so weak that it would put even that target out of reach.

This is unfathomably amazing. A digital map of our known universe by the American Museum of Natural History going all the way from the Himalayas to the edge of our senses and the afterglow of the Big Bang. Humbling hugeness.

If you’ve got a really big screen I recommend going to the AMNH YouTube site and watching this in hidef. It’s incredible on my cinema display.

I don’t know why I find all the news on exoplanets so geekily fascinating. Something about the idea of jumping to a different world to explore. Hmmm… Must be the sci-fi geek in me. I am anxiously awaiting the first near-Earth they find though. How long do you think ? One year ? Three ?

Sultry World Found Circling the Star GJ 1214

I still think one of the cool things about this one is that it’s close enough that signals from the Earth have already passed it.

Want to really make those politicians and bureaucratic weasels suffer as well as making their attempts to pass stupid legislation as costly to them as possible ?

Read Keane’s guide on letter writing your pollies - love the stuff about throwing in random extra issues or questions on unrelated matters so they have to expend resources and can’t use canned responses, cut and paste mail merges or have to pull on resources from other departments.

Utterly brilliant. The mad scientists at Toshiba attached 8 HD cameras to an armchair and weather balloon and launched them to the edge of space.

Stunning visuals of our tiny little fragile beautiful planet. Wow. Wait for the balloon pop at the end.

So makes me want to go into space to see the curve of the planet.

Story of Stuff author Annie Leonard presents her reasons that Cap and Trade is flawed and that the most important thing we need to do is agree on the global cap. Great animation: plain speaking, clear, concise and most of all, understandable.

More info at her website .

Mmmm… Fresh Quicksilver.

I have been waiting for ages for an update to perhaps the most often used application on my mac. Seriously, the time this thing saves me in just allowing me to find, launch, or manipulate info with a simple CMD-space is unreal.

According to Lifehacker, looks like it’s those crazy github coder kids (rather than the creator who is busy working on Chrome OS) who have pushed this one out to the eagerly awaiting masses.

This is so many kinds of awesome.The guy who put this together is a genius.

And please remember to slap a climate change denier today. Hard. Really… you’re doing them a favour. I’m offering a bounty on Stephen Harper.

RAP NEWS - Copenhagen: Gore v Monckton