This isn’t a rumours site, and I’d hate to receive one of Apple’s famous cease-and-desist notices… but when you get a scoop this huge, you have to pass on the word.

Here it is: Steve Jobs’ Macworld keynote will include a new addition to its wildly successful Macbook line.

The news product takes its cue from the popularity of the smallest notebooks. There is a large consumer (and… Read more...

A comment on a year-old post of mine has led me to PVR Source: to the best of my knowledge, the only Canadian source for TiVo, the industry-leading personal video recorder.

They’re strictly e-commerce, and their site still lacks any contact info other than an e-mail address for the Calgary-based company. And since a Whois lookup on their domain name yields an anonymous registration, my antennae… Read more...

Pints of Drivel is shutting its doors.

It’s too bad… I’ll miss Tim’s words of wisdom and wit… Read more...

• If all stories were written like science fiction stories
  This killed me. Even my favourite SF authors lapse into this sometimes…
  (tags: sf fiction funny parody)
• CSS turns 10
  #css {age: 10 years; usefulness: tremendous; standards-compliance: uneven; internet-explorer-grief: high; birthday: happy}
  (tags: css webdesign w3c history)

Buying stuff is like voting (except with money, they’re more careful with the counting). Buy a company’s product, and you’re implicitly endorsing the choices they made to get that product to market at a particular price.

Hence the furor over blood diamonds, or, as some call them, “conflict diamonds”, or as the diamond industry calls them, “post-excitement diamonds”. The focus of a recent big-budget movie, the proceeds… Read more...

• Yet Again, DHTML Menus
  Merlin at Angry Donuts has a clever Drupal 5.0 module that creates dynamic menus – the kind that expand when you click on them.
  (tags: drupal module menus dhtml)

Lee and Sachi LeFever have made it home to Seattle, after embarking on a trip that lent new meaning to the term “world-wide web”. Throughout their year-long globe-spanning odyssey, they maintained a photographically-rich chronicle via their custom-built online community, The World Is Not Flat.

TWINF not only allowed them to blog stories and images from their journey, but also invited friends, family and onlookers to offer comments… Read more...

Hockey player fired for not signing flag for troops:
A junior hockey player has been ousted from the Saint John Sea Dogs after he did not sign a Canadian flag that the team was sending to troops in Afghanistan.

Dave Bouchard — a 20-year-old from Jonquière, Que., who played left wing on the Quebec Major Junior team — said he thought someone else had already signed his name… Read more...