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John Oliver: "They don't even have teleprompters at Fox News. It's just a man jangling his keys above the camera." LOL!
Consider signing the Vienna Declaration in support of evidence-based drug policy. http://bit.ly/ViennaD #vdecl (via @Lamarche)
Bless you, Toronto City Council. A stark contrast to federal govt's embrace of stupid in drug policy. http://bit.ly/bdXffS
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Disturbing that this poll is worth conducting, never mind the result: 18% surveyed think Obama is Muslim: http://bit.ly/cISNAl
I read a lot about software interaction design these days. I recently read an article providing this bit of advice: create designs that allow people to forget about the software they're using. As an example, if you're trying to pay your bills using your bank's website, you should be able to focus on [...] Read More…
I'm behind in my blog reading lately and I just now came across Whitney Hess's great post My Best Advice for Conducting User Interviews. If you're new to interviewing, I highly recommend checking out her tips to see what it's all about. Her advice is applicable whether you're doing casual or empirical user [...] Read More…
It has been a whole year since I graduated in Toronto. My, how time has flown! In an overdue attempt at a victory lap, I tried to publish some of my research at the VLHCC 2010 conference. Unfortunately, I didn't make the cut. It was worth a shot though and I'm [...] Read More…
A few months ago, I made a jump back into industry after my brief but enjoyable stint in the world of big science research. My niftiest project at Institute for Systems Biology is described in a software article that I recently published along with Eric Deutsch and John Boyle in BMC Medical Genomics. [...] Read More…
As someone who regularly crosses the Canada-U.S. border by road, I've been closely following the trial of Peter Watts, a Toronto sci-fi writer. He was charged with resisting and obstructing a U.S. border officer following a vehicle search last year. It's worth noting that U.S. officers conducted the search on U.S. soil as [...] Read More…