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Making sense of "sense of place"

In Planning school, we're taught that an area's sense of place can make or break a neighbourhood. It's that elusive uniqueness that ties a place to its history while forging an identity of its own. We often explore this through design, where the use of visual elements is the go-to method for …

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Now it's easier than ever to fine-tune your Bandcamp players

Is your player not working? In October 2012, Bandcamp changed the way they handle layout files. If you created a custom layout prior to this time and it's not working, you'll have to make a new one, I'm afraid. Back in 2010, I created a handy little app to generate JSON code for the Bandcamp API. …

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"Arctic Ready" Shell website is almost certainly a hoax

A new website has popped up, purporting to be an attempt by Shell Oil to win over public support for drilling in the arctic. They've apparently set up a make-your-own-postcard tool to encourage people to share the message of "Let's Go". I was duped by it. I joined in the schaedenfreude and …

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Imprint: The Trials of International Development

For those who haven't read it yet, my piece on the University of Waterloo International Development program is finally up on the Imprint website. It's been out in paper format for a couple weeks now, but for those who haven't been around campus, here you go: INDEV students are a tight-knit group. …

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