Warning: Autoplay video. But the good news is, it’s a pretty good video.

While I understand QR is popular in many places, it hasn’t really seemed to catch on outside of Asia. Holmes is a CEO who is looking at it from a marketing POV but I look at it from a trust and security POV and don’t like QR codes at all.

I usually hate when companies horn in on these things with their own marketing but kuddos to CarMax for doing it well.

If you are so inclined, You can read the full study here but, seriously, who doesn’t believe or already know owning a dog is better for you? But I wonder if owning a cat shortens your life?

It looks great but it’s a shame the great unwashed masses are restricted from getting anywhere near the new building.

This is a hilarious Tweetstorm about the utterly bizarre decor of The Cheesecake Factory. I still remember my first visit and thinking, “What the hell is going on here!?”

I love Tom Scott’s videos and this method Cloudflare uses is pretty cool.

I was never a huge Seinfeld fan but this has got to be the single funniest episode I ever saw.

There’s no way an admitted chess novice could beat a world champion – is there?

I’m not only impressed by the apology (even if it seems a little unnecessary) but also by the train scheduling.

I love how the robot sticks the landing at the end.

I haven’t always agreed with Apple’s (and therefore, Ive’s) design decision but I always enjoy hearing from Ive and parsing out how his sometimes veiled explanations of his design philosophy informs Apple’s products.

As Apple says, “With iPad Pro + iOS 11, a post-PC world may be closer than you think.” Brilliant.

I’m still a big fan of RSS.

This is one of those things we Canadians have always held up as a reason why Canada is better than the US. We’ll have to find something else now.

Apple Watch saves the day.

Uncrate: Emirates unveiled its new first class suites for its Boeing 777 and the amenities surpass most luxury hotels. Inspired by the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, each zero-gravity seat is enclosed in its own cabin with floor-to-ceiling sliding doors for complete privacy. … Continued

This is one of those videos that showed me the power of the internet. I still remember seeing this decades ago in a tiny QuickTime window and marveling at the fact that I could watch it on this “internet thing”.

I also marveled at the fact people could be so stupid as to think they could blow up a whale carcass.

Fubiz: Reinhard Görner is a German photographer specializing in architecture and the fine arts. For the photographic series “Libraries”, he travels across Europe to capture the solemnity of the libraries of the Old Continent. From Madrid to Stuttgart, passing through … Continued

This is pretty cool but, for the majority of us, our opposite point will be in an ocean.

No, this won’t tell you definitively when your camera’s shutter will fail but it might help to know how many actuations your DSLR has done. It’s also helpful for those who buy used bodies to find out how much wear and tear there may be on the shutter mechanism.

I know developers are of two minds – it is a Darwinian pressure cooker attempting to satisfy all of Apple’s demands and to be better than a dozen other developers, some of them your friends, who are all trying to do the same thing. But, on the other hand, it’s the kind of jumpstart a small company craves.

My weekend just might be spent watching “The Littlest Hobo” reruns.

I don’t know why I find this so amusing.

“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is a beautifully tragic song from Canadian songwriting legend Gordon Lightfoot.

I predicted Matchbox Cars and Risk would be inducted. I demand an immediate recount.

This certainly won’t stop scammers and will take more time than simply deleting the email but it might give you a small measure of satisfaction.

I’ve played the first couple of levels of the game and it seems pretty simplistic. If it weren’t for the research goals behind it, I don’t think I’d actually play it through to the end but it’s for a great cause so I’ll definitely play a few rounds each day.

One of the highlights of going to Macworld Expo each year in San Francisco was our drive to Cupertino to the Apple Employee Store to see what kind of cool swag we could score. I hope the new Visitor Center is just as exciting.

Not generally a fan of hour-long dramas but I love Aniston and will watch just to see her back on TV.