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Who doesn’t appreciate a delicious sandwich?

My old friend and recent-torontonian Jody Sugrue (portfolio) has launched a new design blog Eating Sandwiches. You may now add it to your reader. For an unusual project, she is also looking for people to contribute pictures taken at exactly 10:15 a.m. This is much harder than you think. I have thus far forgotten to [...]

Joshua & Gwendolyn at eTech this year

I’m super excited that my friends Joshua Kauffman and Gwendolyn Floyd will be presenting presenting at ETech this year. And presenting something really cool too. All the while, barely 1 in 1000 people have access to the Internet in a form recognizable to the average connected person. Mobile phones are nearly as absent from the [...]

Thank you Air Canada (and Aeroplan)

It`s not so often you read a positive rant about anyone`s national airline on teh blogs. But, thank you Air Canada (and Aeroplan), for changing my ticket at the gate. I had a points ticket from Toronto to Munich to Geneva, and with very little notice, and no reason you had to, you found me [...]

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

I’m really enjoying The New Sheltand Wet/Dry these days asAll I dont want the RIZR, they must 100 free ringtones chocolate without a little tinny screen. an excellent distraction. Reminds me of the heyday of boingboing in it’s prime. Recommended.

Aside: There Will Be Blood. mini review

There’s actually not that much blood, in there will be blood. But it’s awfully menacing nonetheless. I came out with this feeling as to why people *really* want this to be a Great Movie, to win an Oscar if not all of them. To give the film meaning. If you’ve seen it, you desperately want [...]

AMD reports tonight, how bad will it be?

Poor AMD, I’ve been following and trading in this company for nearly a decade. If there’s one thing that always (has) been true about this company it’s that they always come back – and then blow it all away again. AMD is down a staggering %85 from their highs two years ago when the Athlon64 [...]

Technologies to look forward to in 2008

A truly portable subnotebook from apple. SSD flash storage in laptops, for portables with lighter weight, longer battery and fewer fragile moving parts (see also #1) 9000 series blackberries (because the 8000 series were already really nice 3G iphones A service pack for Vista (short of something involving and axe and a woodshed, SP1 will [...]

Your Indie-Punk-Ass Christmas Mix is back up [edit/repost/fixed** etc.]

It is with some pride that I can tell you that my famous indie-punk-ass christmas mix is back up*. Just this time of year, you want that festive joy, but maybe you’re a little sick of the classic versions and need to shake up christmas a little. Each of these tunes are certified awesome. You [...]

A Clever Disguise

We’re changing our appearance over here at thomaspurves.com. Those (most) of you on rss haven’t even noticed, but anyone browsing the old fashioned way will be noticing a lot of visual and layout changes. Please bear with and forgive intermittent ugliness other wierdness. Still a lot of work to do on different blocks of this [...]

Give ‘em hell Al!

photo by Guido Van Vispen, awesome bag worn by Francesca. Nobel Peace Prize by Al Gore and the United Nations’ climate panel.

Flight

I love the French word for liftoff décollage – literally to unglue the aircraft from the tarmac. As though this whole matter of gravity had just been an issue of so much children’s glue stuck to the bottoms of our shoes all this time. To land the recollage. Ladies and gentlemen, patiently return your tray [...]

Need a job?

Everyone seems to hiring these days. A few posting that have crossed my inbox this week: # Online Banking/Retail Banking Senior Analyst & Consultant, Aite Group (They do good work), Boston or virtual # Web/eMarketing Specialist and Webmaster at Infoway which is a Canadian Heath Records/Info sort of company thanks Jyotika # Meanwhile Navantis is [...]

And the crowd says Yaaar. How Hollywood is losing the War on New Media

On Monday, it started with a few scattered pranksters shouting Arrr at the opening screen of the film premiers at this year’s Toronto International Film festival. By week end the meme had caught on. I just caught the best part of it mid-yarrr, but I love this piece of film I shot, of the screen [...]

iPhone would cost $300/mo in Canada while U.K.’s 3 launches 10£ mobile broadband

Thanks to Michael O’Connor Clarke for the tip: The biggest game-changing element of the iPhone, however, is that Apple is reportedly forcing operators to offer generous voice and data plans along the lines of AT&T’s, so that the customer’s experience isn’t hobbled. AT&T’s basic monthly service plan offers 5,450 voice minutes and unlimited data for [...]

FaceBookCamp is going to be massive

260 people signed up on the wiki already and still a week to go. Significant amount of media and corporate engagement as well. This will make an interesting “camp”. It’s no joke that Toronto is crazy for Facebook. Are you signed up yet? I’m on the list but it also falls on my vacation time [...]

Negative Space in Product Design – Value from things that things don’t do.

I figure the single sound that must bring the most collective happiness to people the world over is exactly the sound your alarm clock doesn’t make as soon as you hit the snooze button. I’ve been trying to think up, ever since my alarm came back on this morning, some other examples of this principle [...]

The trouble with truely open-ended software

Is that it’s a bit like trying to sell blank canvases on the grounds that any canvas could be a Renoir.

Congrats to David Crow on a new Day Job

My friend David Crow has joined Microsoft. Oh my. Other gossip: he confessed that he negotiated with them to let him keep using a Mac (heh). Anyway this is cool news, and interesting as I was just beginning to think that Microsoft was turning a corner… Now Dave, if you could just ask them to [...]

 

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