tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:44:10 +0000http://www.15posts.com/noreply@blogger.com (jrb)Blogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-2346990032767264566Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:40:00 +00002008-06-17T08:43:49.578-04:00 My brother Dave started a vintage leather jacket blog. This jacket in particular is very very cool. I mean who couldn't use a daffy duck vintage jacket? In Dave's words "The loud colors and threatening studs served a dual purpose; to make one visible on the bike, and like modern day punkers, to say fuck you to everyday fashion by being as noticeable and dangerous looking as possible!" http://www.15posts.com/2008/06/daffy-looks-cool-in-leather.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Leigh)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-3131189981302079455Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:38:00 +00002008-04-30T11:40:08.238-04:00Outsourcing, insourcing, crowdsourcing, sourcesourcing ... seems like everyone's *sourcing everything, everywhere. But today, I had a most amusing situation brought to my attention. A friend, owner of what I will call "Company D" writes and asks if I know anyone who has a depth and breadth of experience with a certain product. After a little investigation it turns out that "Company D" has http://www.15posts.com/2008/04/infinate-sourcing-chains.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (jrb)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-7896636699323331674Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:29:00 +00002007-12-09T20:00:23.733-05:00Flash Marketing Milk 3D Game Mid-last week, a very appealing advertising campaign was brought to my attention. I was surprised by the depth of interactiveness, and pure entertainment this Flash-based 3-D game that is bringing awareness to a commonly used food; Milk! Get a look at this piece here, and let me know what you think.http://www.15posts.com/2007/12/got-milk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Daley)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-2885611836899678802Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:43:00 +00002007-12-08T20:45:19.151-05:00I've got a thing for starship design - whether from sci-fi or reality matters not, I could stare at them for hours. Inspired by Van Plexico's Ten Coolest Spaceships of TV and Movies, here's my top 10 list of starship designs: My fav by far: B5's Shadow Vessel, dubbed the Battle Crab by fans. Species 8472 Planet Killer bioship from Voyager The Lexx, and not just because Xenia Seeberg was http://www.15posts.com/2007/12/cool-starships.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (jrb)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-4557232440021247610Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:10:00 +00002007-12-03T16:21:18.768-05:00 Oh, ok, not real roadkill - but the next best thing. Roadkill plush toys! If nothing else, it will be fun to get a dirty look from grandma as little bobby or little suzie open up their special gift box. (found via ananova)http://www.15posts.com/2007/12/for-kid-who-has-everything-road-kill_03.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Leigh)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-2220494349922097678Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:45:00 +00002007-11-23T15:49:55.030-05:00For so many reasons.... Gaming the viral system post on Tech Crunch. I always knew this stuff went on and also knew many of the techniques this guy is talking about, but how viral spammers sleep at night is beyond me. And whle I don't trust the validity of any of the over 350 comments, just reading some of the justifications makes me ill. It is the kind of thing that makes me want to leave http://www.15posts.com/2007/11/this-makes-me-ill.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Douglas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-3820309526702321351Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:06:00 +00002007-11-01T20:25:01.072-04:00programmingsecurity Its not often that you bring both of these words together -clever and porn - but today I came across a posting on Read/Write Web (www.readwriteweb.com) that illustrates just this. The contest spammers have come up with a very clever way of circumventing CAPTCHAs - and yes ? using porn. How? Well they have linked their robots to a web page which provides the user with a visual of a woman who http://www.15posts.com/2007/11/is-there-clever-use-for-porn-oh-yeah.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Daley)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-5695754880279824748Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:47:00 +00002007-10-10T23:10:23.860-04:00There's been a lot of hype over the referendum question being posed in today's election. Should we stick with the current First-Past-The-Post system? Should we migrate to the proposed Mixed-Member Proportional way of doing things? Both sides have been arguing long and strong for many months now, and there's great passion for both sides of the issue. All this vehemence and hurrah, however, has http://www.15posts.com/2007/10/provincial-referendum.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (jrb)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-4755933413766912806Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:09:00 +00002007-09-20T17:09:40.571-04:00Two very awesome looks at internet culture, via collegehumor and Meth Minute.http://www.15posts.com/2007/09/some-perspectives.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (jrb)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-7562602549739028797Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:17:00 +00002007-09-08T09:19:07.161-04:00 You're One Hundred Years of Solitude! by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Lonely and struggling, you've been around for a very long time. Conflict has filled most of your life and torn apart nearly everyone you know. Yet there is something majestic and even epic about your presence in the world. You love life all the more for having seen its decimation. After all, it takes a village. Take the Book Quiz http://www.15posts.com/2007/09/what-book-are-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Leigh)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-1994243706566498462Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:41:00 +00002007-09-06T22:45:54.238-04:00Online profiles suck. Sure, filling them out is a tedious chore, and often an impediment to the actual task you're trying to pursue, but that's not what I'm talking about. I mean the structure and functionality of them suck. Over the course of my career, I've implemented roughly a bizillion of them - all sorts, all shapes, all styles. But there's one thing they have all had in common: they've http://www.15posts.com/2007/09/good-profiles-gone-bad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (jrb)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-5895154020321388512Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:51:00 +00002007-08-10T21:54:20.579-04:00Jason's post on the increased cost of public phones was the impetus for this, so here's to you mr JRB....... Last weekend I took James and Evan (my sons) to the OSC to see the Titanic exhibition, which by the way was extremely well done, the kids enjoyed it immensely. That however is not specifically what brings me to this writing. The cost was seventy dollars plus some eight dollars to park, http://www.15posts.com/2007/08/jasons-post-on-increased-cost-of-public.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (philip)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-3551616459843144357Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:49:00 +00002007-07-24T17:18:20.709-04:00 This marks a seminal moment in history folks! Legendary web meme "Goatse" made a surprise appearance on YouTube and CNN last night during the live democratic candidate's debate, bringing together the very best and very worst aspects of the internet for 1/24 of a second. Apparently both Obama and Hillary winced at the image, though it's not clear if they recognised the famous photo or not. Eitherhttp://www.15posts.com/2007/07/goatse-crashes-debate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (crispin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-9010755640659063788Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:57:00 +00002007-07-08T14:00:57.542-04:00Delayed by a problem on a subway at Yonge station, I was prompted for the first time in ages to find myself a pay phone. Prior to my wife's recent pregnancy, I was a dedicated pay phone user; and used to pontificate ad nauseam how pay phones were going the way of the dodo at a very rapid rate. Several months of cell phone usage later, I was really unprepared for how bad things had gotten. Firsthttp://www.15posts.com/2007/07/bell-canada-with-angry-making.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (jrb)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-6287239003060197904Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:32:00 +00002007-06-13T17:39:11.323-04:00My childhood feels like it is being crushed like a chocolate chip cookie that?s been at the bottom of the bag with this one. Without me even knowing it, Sesame Street has gone all PC on me and changed Cookie Monster's signature song from "C is for Cookie" and replaced it with "Cookie is a sometimes food". COOKIE IS A SOMETIMES FOOD? Cookie isn't a sometimes food. Cookie is an every day foodhttp://www.15posts.com/2007/06/c-isnt-for-cookie-that-aint-good-enough.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Leigh)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-6629846846810914413Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:51:00 +00002007-06-03T13:58:17.851-04:00 Well at least that is how my 11 year old feels about the dramatic new look over at Riverdale High. "It's just wrong Mommy. How can they do this?" Who knew she would feel so passionately about comic book characters. Although in retrospect it should come as no surprise to me. This is after all, the same child who one day was looking very contemplative and when asked what she was thinking http://www.15posts.com/2007/06/world-has-come-to-end.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Leigh)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-6928675628303265073Thu, 17 May 2007 18:08:00 +00002007-05-17T14:10:03.445-04:00Though it's not 100% finished, our fantastic film director pontagious has released our intro video on YouTube. Enjoy... Cross-posted from fridgebuzzhttp://www.15posts.com/2007/05/oponia-ucaster-intro-video.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (vanessa)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-8366154944763638057Mon, 14 May 2007 15:59:00 +00002007-05-14T12:02:06.322-04:00 Brought to you courtesy of Tcritic.comhttp://www.15posts.com/2007/05/top-ten-star-wars-t-shirts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Douglas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-7492559237363568616Wed, 09 May 2007 19:24:00 +00002007-05-09T15:29:53.935-04:00Courtesy of Bad Fortune Cookie Last night was "Art Show and Portfolio Night" at Schecky's school. It's a chance for the kids to show off the art projects they've been working on all year, as well as an opportunity for the parents to see how the kids' academic work has progressed since the beginning of the year. Scheck's teacher had each child write a "Spring Time Poem" for the event. There http://www.15posts.com/2007/05/spring-is-time-for-evil-hamsters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Douglas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-1685382459499743629Sat, 05 May 2007 00:40:00 +00002007-05-04T20:44:51.515-04:00A List Apart's first Web Design Survey: "Designers, developers, project managers. Writers and editors. Information architects and usability specialists. People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession. Who are we? Where do we live? What are our titles, our skills, our educational backgrounds? Where and with http://www.15posts.com/2007/05/ala-annual-survey.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (jrb)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-2960223698711362284Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:16:00 +00002007-04-10T23:50:24.144-04:00Last week I thought it was really cool that some dudes from Montreal posted their video on YouTube of an encounter they had with a guy dumping his ashtray out on the sidewalk. I was so inspired I was going to post about it right away. Then I got busy. Then it was Easter. Then I got busy again... Finally getting set to post, I double-checked the YouTube page and decided to check some of the http://www.15posts.com/2007/04/cigarette-butt-hero-canuck-shmuck.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (crispin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-7546895853447114587Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:35:00 +00002007-04-09T13:36:55.355-04:00I'm thrilled to announce that we (oponia networks) will be premiering our "hyper-simple" sharing and collaboration platform at JavaOne this year. You'll find us in the Java Playground in the Pavilion from May 8 to 10. More info on the product will be available before the show (our team is working frantically on the material now), and I'll post again when it's ready to share. I'd like to say a http://www.15posts.com/2007/04/oponia-at-javaone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (vanessa)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-2445867314360577254Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:20:00 +00002007-03-29T11:30:51.000-04:00 Before I go any further, I just want to state for the record that I am NOT a Celine Dion fan. Those who know me can attest that my musical tastes are clearly on the opposite end of the spectrum. But the current American Idol talent circus is truly some of the most entertaining shit to come along in some time. Not for reasons the show's producers intended, mind you. Who cares about the people http://www.15posts.com/2007/03/ai-gets-pwnd-by-haters-and-we-love-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (crispin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-3940380082857797551Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:50:00 +00002007-03-26T22:13:09.271-04:00 Beer is proof that G.O.D. loves us and wants us to be deliriously happy. ~Benjamin Franklinhttp://www.15posts.com/2007/03/god-patch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stubberific)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29732572.post-8985021910528885796Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:51:00 +00002007-03-10T18:55:03.346-05:00As found on galleryoftheabsurd.com, Enjoy! http://www.15posts.com/2007/03/hands-free-child-carrier.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Leigh)