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CanUX 2006

Thought I’d pass this along (like Tara has) since two of our friends, (Kevin Cheng and David Crow) are involved:

CanUX 2006, the Canadian User Experience workshop, is rapidly approaching. Held in Banff, we’re bringing in a set of industry leading speakers. Because CanUX is a grassroots event, it’s an amazing deal – only a $100 fee for a world-class user experience event. A single room at the Banff Centre is $176/night, a double is $91. With two nights accomodation, a meal plan at the phenomenal dining room, and the conference fee and taxes and we’re able to offer an all inclusive package that’s unmatched: $650 for a single, $450 for a double…that’s less than the registration fee for many similar events, and includes your room and meals too. CanUX runs Thursday Sept. 14-Saturday Sept. 16 at 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, Alberta, T1L 1H5.

Space is limited, so check out the conference speakers, schedule, and registration

Add this even to your calendar.

For quite some time I’d wanted to start a Microformats news blog, that would talk in more plain terms about microformats, acting as a sister to the Practical Microformats wiki, preserving the Microformats dot org blog for technical news and discussions. Of course I never got around to it and instead have used my blog or postings to the microformats-discuss list to spread news of new adoptions or implementations.

Now, however, it seems that John Allsopp (of Westciv fame) has picked up the ball with Microformatique — covering all things regarding “data at the edges”. On top of that, there have been a number of good articles and posts recently worth a read:

Meanwhile, I figured I would finally release some icons I did for Tantek awhile back. Nothing special, but might be useful for some. And if you’ve got microformats icons, please post’em to the wiki!

Gorgeous Spanish pharmaceutical posters from the 60-70s

A Flickr set gem, this collection of 85 posters puts modern pharmaceutical art to shame and serves as a great design and inspiration resource.

Via LifeClever. | digg story

The future of The John

On a visit to Berkeley for the Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp this past weekend, I happened to check out the lavatree (that’s phonetic mind you). To my surprise, they had waterless urinals! Cleverly, the designer of the urinals, Sloan Valve, left their name right in the trough, allowing me to find the source of this golden nugget and pass it on to you, fair readers.

Now, not only are these urinals environmentally friendly and odorless, but they’ll save you a boatload of loot on water and sewage savings!

And here in Web2.0World we thought we were all so innovative and oh so smaht. Seems we got nothin’ on the folks building out The John 2.0.

Slightly Oddica tshirts…!

Update: The ‘factoryjoe’ coupon code at $7 off will expire Dec 12, so make sure you get your purchases in before then!

Bottom line: Use ‘factoryjoe’ for $7 off at Oddica, another cool indie tee shop that gives 41% of sales to the artists.

Happened upon Oddica not too long ago and found their stuff to be pretty cool, subscribed to their blog. They released four new shirts and offered a promo and I could no longer resist. Bought Sheltered 2 and Oil is Evil for Miss Tara — a mere day or two later all kinds of good stuff arrived. It was practically a ValleySchwagtastic experience.

As they’re pretty appreciative of the pimpage they get, they offered a $7 discount for my readers until the end of the month. Just use ‘factoryjoe’ as your coupon code and voila! Cheap tees!

Oddica is yet another in an increasingly populated and inspiring field of cool, boutique, artist-centric shops. There’s too many to name, but a few I’ve interacted with: Threadless (who hasn’t?), Giant Robot Printing (Copyleft Aeroflot and repeat BarCamp tshirt printer), Red Labor (an absolute fav), InnerTee (BarCampSF tshirt printer) and Goodstorm (featuring MeCommerce).

Slick DesktopTwo will never fly

I have to admit, Sapotek did a nice job on DeskopTwo, but it’ll never be more than a geek’s demoware. Why? Extensibility, lack of cross-platform tie-ins (iMeem at least brings in other IM services but it’s still a walled garden). Sigh. We don’t need more desktop; we need more cloud. Via eHub.

Hex color grabbers

Cris Pearson just pinged me about the aptly named Hex Color Picker. This one might actually replace my former color picker of choice, iPick. You might also consider exColor, a super-simple and small tool to quickly grab hex colors with the magnifying glass.

Google launches Mac Picasa Web Albums Uploader

It’s simple, it’s sweet, it does the trick and is pretty fast. It’s the Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac, announced today on Google’s corp blog. You can see it in action (not unironically) in this Flickr Set.

Icon Factory gets remanufactured

On the 10th anniversary of icon and graphic design stalwart Icon Factory, they’ve unveiled a brand new Rails-backed design and infrastructure, tightening things up and lightening up the whole feel of the site.

Meanwhile ~~pixel fucker~~ designer extraordinaire David Lantham has released a gorgeous new icon set and theme called Amora to commemorate the date:

Wow.

Oh, and some nice innovation. This:

lets you pick what these:

links do. As in, Send to Ma.gnolia or Post to Digg. Nice!

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Anyone know a good blog editor for the CrackBerry?

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