Cork’d is the online wine-app that I wanted to build last summer. My profile will follow shortly.
Category: links
Wine with junk foods
What wine you should pair with that Big Mac? Bill Daley also covers some of the low-couture aspects of our favourite swill, with snack foods and brats getting equal coverage. Personally, I’m a fan of Veuve Cliquot with mozarella sticks.
Getting Real
New gun fires pink teddy-bears
The latest in non-lethal weaponry: a gun that fires pink teddy-bears.
Stephen Colbert’s balls
If you haven’t watched it yet, Stephen Colbert’s address to the Whitehouse correspondant’s dinner is probably the best piece of journalism that you’ll see this year.
Luc Devroye censored
If you’re into typography, you’ve probably come across Luc Devroye’s font compendium at some point. Unfortunately, it was taken down by the McGill administration this week because he wrote about the school’s party reputation and the recent undergrad photographs in Playboy. His site is now hosted at Carleton, where cooler heads prevail. Regardless of school politics, taking down a professor’s site in the middle of exam season is not cool.
The Secret Lives of Animal Crossing
Beneather the Surface takes a look at what your Animal Crossing town says about you. I’m more like the crazy ninja that runs around. Haven’t played in awhile, so my town is probably full of weeds.
5Q with Zach Inglis
Seal Club hitting you hard with a fresh set of five questions for Zach Inglis.
Newsroom Navigator
Want to get lost in the world of information? The NYT’s cybertimes navigator has enough internet sources to give you limitless reading material. Although, it’s one of those things in desperate need of a shortened url.
Worldmapper
Information representation is always a fun exercise. Worldmapper takes it to an extreme, showing what the global map looks like under various statistical weightings. Aircraft travel vs rail travel.