Content covering the intersection between technology and culture.
Posted by on Sep 7th, 2005 | 1 comment

A hummer for your lap

A hummer for your lap
Get your mind out of the gutter. If you’re a jerk you can usualy let everybody know it by driving around in a big yellow H2 Hummer but what if you’re also a geek? Until now there has been no way to let people know you were both jerk and geek combined. Those days are over and before you ask, no this does not count as a hybrid you...
Posted by on Sep 6th, 2005 | 0 comments

Guerilla Gardening

This phenomenon has been gaining momentum lately. It is – as they call it – graffiti with nature. There have been sightings of tree-beds being uncovered and replanted with extra foliage, old washing machines being installed on sidewalks, filled with soil, and used as make-shift planters. Urban beautification vandals are really making their mark on Toronto lately and now some of the people involved in the...
Posted by on Sep 6th, 2005 | 0 comments

When the Customer is Wrong

The times, they are a changing. Some companies don’t like to correct your mistakes for you without lecturing you first, even if its something as silly as nomenclature. Some companies want to whine about how people don’t refer to their products in a way that pleases them or in a way that doesn’t jive with their carefully constructed brand identity. Some companies even insist on all-caps. Some girls...
Posted by on Sep 6th, 2005 | 0 comments

Inverse manufacturing: The new recycling

Treehugger is brightening our outlook at the document industry. If Lexmark’s actions as of late have left you with a bitter taste in your mouth, well here is the sugar to remedy that. HP, Canon & Fuji Xerox are coming on strong with their inverse manufacturing programs which don’t just create a product circle of life where they take in old or discarded units to scrap safely, they actually design...
Posted by on Sep 5th, 2005 | 1 comment

Poster Project

Jackie Kriekle: comrade, colleague & general friend of Ohmpage would like you to check out the Poster Project (with web design by the lovely people at Serial Consign). So would we. Any psychogeographists reading this will know what this is all about right away. As Jackie writes, “This work consists of a series of posters mounted in several overlapping downtown Toronto neighbourhoods. The posters are hung...
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