I’m an adult and have been for several decades. Every time someone say “it’s the former”, or “it’s the latter”, or “more the former than the latter”, I have to stop, and think: “Which one is first, fo...

Former Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien drew thunderous applause on Friday during a fiery and patriotic speech in Gander, N.L, where many had gathered at a sports arena to commemorate the 25th an...

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If you enjoy some piece of media (a story, a song, an image), and then find out it was created with AI, is it reasonable to have your enjoyment impacted in retrospect? It sure is. John Gruber wrote on...

There’s a tribute album of Smashing Pumpkins covers that has some gems. Smashing Pumpkins were a formative band for me, and Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness will always be amon...

I have invented a new rule for swimming at the beach: When swimming at the beach, you can never be the furthest from the shore. Frequently asked questions (probably): Q: What if I’m swimming with a fr...

I must have made some good choices in my life, because I have a duck reserved for the harbour run rubber duck race more than a week ahead of Naufrage Harbour Day.

An expedition almost 400 metres below the surface of the Labrador Sea is revealing the first images of Quest, the sunken wreck of the ship that carried famed Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton o...

The most difficult position in soccer must be the goalkeeper’s parent.

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In this edition of the silverorange digest: Nathan from Manitoba A new CEO at EM:RAP The Pitt, season 2 Mozilla’s mail migration Carplay & Android Auto Recommended reading Nathan from Manitoba Af...

For a long time, front-end developers had a limited number of layout styling options. This resulted in some creative hacks around the existing browser features. The float property, in particular, was ...

Saying “I always review what the AI gives me and I don’t let it write for me” is the new “yes, dentist, I do floss every day.”

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I was talking about sound design for user-interfaces with some colleagues today and remembered this gem. Back in 2004, I asked Brad Sucks to help with some sound design for the open-source instant mes...