Bill C-38 was finally written into law on July 19, 2005.
EGALE said it best:
This is a proud and exciting time to be a Canadian. Today, we made history. Today, we affirmed once again our world-wide reputation as a country that is open, inclusive and welcoming.
The remainder of their press release can be found here.
Yesterday was the beginning of a new life for Marty Wight and Nathlie Walsh as they became man husband and wife.
The day was absolutely perfect – thank you for letting Alisa and myself be such a large part of the day, we are honoured.
I acquired a few pictures and if any of them turn out, I’ll post a link here to the album.
Congratulations to you both!
Now this is an example of the novel use of traditional materials to create really cool stuff. Sadly I don’t know the artist, or I could give them some credit. All I did was find it on an Internet site.
Paper + ink + scanner + animated gif
Update: I’ve found out who the author is. His name is Don Hertzfeldt, and his website is Bitter Films. This particular snippet of his animation is from a short film he created called Rejected that is currently available on DVD. After seeing the film, I have to say there’s a whole lot more to this film than the sample image I’ve linked up indicates. Really cool film actually. And to clarify, the title of this post is somewhat correct, but the art was not created using scanners and pens. He films everything on film. Check out his site for more information.
I’ve heard the term P.A.N. (Personal Area Network) tossed around for a few years now what with Bluetooth becoming almost ubiquitous in today’s small technical gadgets. The idea is that rather than having wires joining various electronic devices together we use the wireless technology to create a small network that is centered around our person.
That’s all fine and good, but some people don’t like the idea of allowing other people to quietly pick up these P.A.N. signals and snoop on our private data. So a new idea has surfaced:
Use our skin as the means of transmitting electric signals between devices.
Here’s an article on the company that has applied for patents on this process.
Now this just kind of freaks me out, bringing forth the spectre of the cyborg. It works, and is pretty cool in terms of geek. but man, doesn’t the idea just give you the heebie-jeebies?
The IDEA Awards are designed (forgive the pun) to celebrate the glorious designs that have been dreamt up within the last year, and includes designs from all cross-sections of consumerism. They’ve posted the award recipients of 2005 (all 158), including pictures for your viewing pleasure right here.
Some highlights for me (as I don’t necessarily agree with all of them):
Now tell me that design isn’t fun!