Why did Silverlight, a closed and proprietary technology, get almost as much attention to the IE team’s new commitments to openness and web standards?

JavaScript’s future; what Lord of the Rings has to do with design, and more

The lineups moved, the wifi worked, and the keynotes were well-lit.

Facebook, Facebook, Facebook.

One year ago, Toronto’s Twitter crowd came together to raise money for the Daily Bread Food Bank. Yesterday: a third edition.

Bonus: a run-in with the police’s morality squad.

Satan, unusual pairings, and iceball-making devices.

A journey through time courtesy of one of Canada’s best book sales.

A real unconference, for a change.

Everyone’s favourite atheist has a book out this fall and he’s on the road to promote it.

Yes, it might look more like Colorado, but these photos were taken in Ontario’s “Cheltenham Badlands”

How online tools are changing scientific discovery.

Toronto’s favourite tech show-and-tell was back for another iteration but instead of being held in one of the quirkiest bars in Toronto, it took place in the basement of the Rogers Headquarters.

And Danish mind control, Greek mythology, periodic tables, the garbage strike, …

Programming life, making noise, surviving robo blimps, and subsidizing the vodka industry

There ain’t no party like an Unspace party

Yacht club eh? How cool would it be to actually arrive on private vessel?

It was that time of year again — buildings all over the city opened up to the public as part of Doors Open Toronto.

But do they need to hire a PR agency?

Seeing as I’m too wiped to write anything coherent, I’ll just post photos.

*this post only offers hints

Malcolm Gladwell was back in his old stomping grounds tonight to promote his third book, Outliers: The Story of Success.

PZ Myers, a “godless liberal” and one of the Internet’s most popular bloggers was in Toronto on Halloween to talk about “Science Education: caught in the middle of the war between science and religion.”