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Disruptive Technology

When typewriters were upended by workplace computers in the 1980s, the noisy clacking of heavy duty keyboards slowly went away. Many workers found the quiet of the computerized office a ...

Putting your customers to work

Are you a self-checkout person at the grocery store? Do you love the convenience or find them tedious or frustrating? Regardless, the mere option for the self-checkout benefits everyone. ...

Finding the right tool for the job

Finding the right software can be expensive once, but using the wrong software is expensive every day. Hand someone pliers when they ask for a wrench and they might look at ...

Mission Impossible

If you watch enough movies you’ll no doubt know all about the future of technology. Hollywood tells us that within ten years we’ll all be embedded with wearable computers. Cars ...

Mario Bros. propaganda posters

Saw and immediately ordered this set of great posters . The Koopas are fighting! Why aren't you?

First on Google

First on Google The internet is a bigger deal than ever for business, and knowing how to establish your company can be tough. You've made a Facebook page but posted nothing ...

HTML5

Building the new internet We only need to count the number of times in a year Facebook changes to know the web evolves quickly. However, in other ways the internet ...

Blogs aren't always good ideas

It's true right? People start blogs and then never get around to publishing in them. When you're busy, who needs one more thing to do? I guess ...

Helvetica

I saw (and enjoyed) the Gary Hustwit film 'Helvetica' recently. Yes, that's correct. It's a documentary about the font-face Helvetica. I know that on the surface, ...

Wallpaper

I made you a Tangle Media wallpaper today between meetings. I'm going to call that a productive thing to have done. You can click the link below to ...

The future of television

Tangle Media is pleased to announce the future of Television. Scratch that. The future of Education. Tangle Media had the distinct pleasure of teaming up with Erv Fehr ...

Follow Us on Twitter (I guess)

I'll admit , I've been reluctant to accept Twitter. I've sort of regarded it as an anomaly. What's it for? Aren't tweets just glorified Facebook status ...

Currently listening to:

Dan Auerbach : Keep it hid

Craig Ferguson has figured it out

Jumping off tall things.

I was really pumped up after a recent meeting in Edmonton. A project was closer to launch. I got a 15% promo certificate to a club that had ...

Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with the Pentatonic Scale

I had to post this clip. As any guitarist will tell you , the pentatonic scale is that the roots of almost all rock and blues music. ...

Good logos versus GREAT logos

I found the attached image on The Consumerist earlier today and had to make mention of it. There's something incredible about a company in 2009 using a logo ...

Canada Day

Happy Canada Day. I'm going to spend my Canada day loading this page up with sentences that look like SEO Keywords! Need to program a programmer? In ...

Yow.

From the 'Why didn't I think of that' file

"If you can read this, somebody stole my iPhone"

WWDC Today

I guess it's an annual tradition now. Once a year, at WWDC, we crowd around our monitors and hope for a good bitrate on the live stream from Apple, ...

Great Design

This is my favorite thing so far today. Granted it's only 9:30 , but this book-case / coffin hybrid seems like a stroke of genius. I'm also assuming ...

DVNO

I've been in typography mode for the last three days, and so I couldn't resist posting this music video.

Currently Listening to: The Bad Plus

Choosing a web developer

I spent some time this week making updates to tangle.ca. This month alone, we've updated the design of our website, improved our systems for accepting online payments, added ...

Great Reading

I just finished the book 'Outliers' by Malcolm Gladwell. This is a study in the root causes of personal and cultural success, framed through a statistical lense. It's ...

Wolfram

Wolfram Alpha launched this week. This is about the single most interesting thing in search since Google launched in 1999. Wolfram is a different type of search engine. ...

Welcome

Thanks for clicking that link. I set this blog up to really left a very important part of the work Tangle Media does show through. In our industry it's ...