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Whatever happened to Newfie jokes?

I can remember specific events in my life that have triggered societal change. Whether on a global scale or just within my circle of friends, these are events that I look back on and recall exactly where I was and what I was thinking at the time. Y2K. The 9/11 bombings. The day Pokémon stopped …

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3D box effect with CSS

(For the impatient, here's the link to the live demo with source files.) While we wait (and wait... and wait...) for CSS3 to be implemented across all the major browsers, I thought I'd post my method for creating a 3D box effect using plain old CSS2 and less than 300 bytes of images. Of course, the …

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Straight Outta Saxony

So I spent a week in and around Dresden with my uncle's family over the Christmas/New Year holiday, during which I wrote a long poem-turned-rap about everything that we had gone to see and do. I just had time to record it today. I think I hit all the major points! Lyrics: It's your boy S-Nabs …

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Bikes and buses: friends or foes?

I had some time to kill at the Lausanne metro station today, so like a good planning student I read the fine print of the Lausanne Public Transit bike policy (they had a poster on the wall). It is astonishingly different from what I had expected. Here's the relevant part, translated from French ( …

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