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Corporate Knights :: Canada’s Most Sustainable Cities Ranking

Calgary came in last in the large city category. Boo! C’mon people!

The full article (PDF) is a good read.

Silly Rabbit! Jews are for kids.

Makes your Linux or Mac OS X system run super fast. Actually no, don’t do it!

Now I’m kind of curious if Edmonton had a good turnout for their Anonymous vs. Scientology thing. Had I been there I would watched on the sidelines.

The are few things worse than Scientology but these protesters are certainly up there. If you’re using a shitty Hollywood adaptation of a good comic book as your inspiration to protest then you make the Scientologists look good.

Yes, I know about Lisa McPherson. Yes, I know about Xenu and OT III and the whole bit. I say let the Scientologists be douchebags in peace. Besides, Tom Cruise is doing more to make them less credible than any Guy Fawkes mask wearing dummy can ever do.

How to make a baby stop crying: the non-violent method.

Bottom Line for (Red) – New York Times

In its March 2007 issue, Advertising Age magazine reported that Red companies had collectively spent as much as $100 million in advertising and raised only $18 million. Officials of the campaign said then that the companies had spent $50 million on advertising and that the amount raised was $25 million. Advertising Age stood by its article.

But the iPods were cool.

Auto-Tune Abuse in Pop Music – 10 Examples – Hometracked

If you’re unfamiliar with Auto-tune, and especially if you listen to much pop and rock, you might not hear it initially. When overdone, the effect yields an unnatural yodel or warble in a singer’s voice. But the sound is so commonplace in modern mainstream music that your ears may have tuned out the auto-tune!

YMO – Rydeen

YMO – Taiso

Make3D — convert your image into 3d

Make3D converts your single picture into a 3-D model. It takes a two-dimensional image and creates a three-dimensional “fly around” model, giving the viewers access to the scene’s depth and a range of points of view.

It uses powerful machine learning techniques to learn the relation between small image patches and their depth and orientation. This allows it to model 3-d structures such as slopes of mountains or branches of trees.

The eggheads at Stanford have created software that will take your 2D image and create a 3D model. Pretty neat if you ask me. If you sign up you can upload your own images and see it in action. I was going create a 3D model of my giant head but I’m sure they wouldn’t be too happy with it.

Microsoft Offers $44.6B for Yahoo: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance

Microsoft Corp. has pounced on slumping Internet icon Yahoo Inc. with an unsolicited takeover offer of $44.6 billion in its boldest bid yet to challenge Google Inc.‘s dominance of the lucrative online search and advertising markets.

The surprise offer of $31 per share, made late Thursday and announced Friday, comes with Sunnyvale-based Yahoo in a vulnerable position.

In a statement Friday, Yahoo said it will “carefully and promptly” study Microsoft‘s bid.

With its profits steadily sliding, Yahoo’s stock slipped to a four-year low earlier this week and a new management team has been trying to steer a turnaround but sees more turbulence through 2008.

Who knows if this will pan out or not but if it does I hope the Yahoo Technologies I use like YUI and Flickr are safe.