Tag: Vancouver

  • Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement Changed one Man’s Life

    (via Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement… | TimBatchelder. Related articles ‘Maker Movement’ enabling more women to launch tech businesses? (zdnet.com) Chris Anderson: New Revolution “Bigger Than The Web” (dailyreckoning.com) Maker Corps at Maker Faire Wants You! (makezine.com) Life on the Fringes of Cyberculture: An Interview with Gareth Branwyn (motherboard.vice.com) MIT wants to see…

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  • Postach.io converts your Evernotes to a content management system

    Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com One of the more inter­est­ing projects to emerge from Ever­note’s 2013 Devcup hackathon is called Postach.io, a new blog­ging plat­form that turns your Ever­note note­book into a con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem. Input Logic, the Vancouver-based… Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog http://flip.it/vOkRS http://flip.it/IV8va…

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  • Anthropological bed bug solution: kidney beans

    A New Solution For Bedbugs: Kidney Bean Leaves BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com It’s actually an old solution, which was mostly lost when bedbugs were eradicated. Now that they’re back, this natural remedy might be better than any pesticides we’ve thrown at them. It only takes one infes­ta­tion with bed bugs to make you an… http://flip.it/olFwT…

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  • Choosing the right oils to cook with

    Why You Should Have More than One Oil In Your Kitchen (and How to Choose The Best Ones) Alan Henry, lifehacker.com Anyone can toss some oil into a pan and cook, but if you want to up your cooking game, consider using different oils based on the dish you’re making and how you plan to…

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  • Sokanu uses science to find out what you’re good at

    Sokanu Says Science Can Help You Find Your Dream Job Eric Johnson, allthingsd.com Why do you work where you do and are you happy there? If the answer is “no” for the sec­ond ques­tion, Spencer Thomp­son has a new answer for the first. Thomp­son, 21, is the CEO of Vancouver-based Sokanu, which offi­cial­ly launch­es this…

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  • Walk Score City Rankings: figuring out where you can live (and walk around)

    This is a great way to assess places you might want to live by how friendly they are for walking about. Boston, DC, NYC and San Fran are all tops which is encouraging but a little surprising given the crazy drivers I have encountered. Still, this probably refers to the downtown areas which feature older…

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  • Less Is More: Yotel’sTiny Hotel Rooms

    Less Is More: Yotel’sTiny Hotel Rooms : TreeHugger. Related articles Video Interlude: Futuristic Tiny Home Crams a House in a One-Bedroom Flat (curbed.com) Vegetarian scene well served in New York City (miamiherald.com) Arrived in Romania, My Yotel Experience (beth.typepad.com) Japanese Oktoberfest at Yotel (sarahknowsthings.com) Hotels of the Future: The Yotel New York (dapperngent.wordpress.com) Yo! Is…

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