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At FreshBooks, Internet access is pretty critical to day-to-day operations. In fact, there’s basically nothing we do that doesn’t require it. But we’re not big enough and don’t transfer enough to bother with, say, an E10 or multiple T1s. So we’re on Bell business ADSL, which with a bit of traffic shaping is fast enough. […]

Remember Spamusement? When it was still current, it featured quick pen drawings based on spam subject lines. It was hit and miss but mostly hit; however, it dried up in June 2007. But today Neatorama linked to Kipling West’s Fresh Spam blog, in which she puts considerably more effort than Spamusement did into illustrating spam, […]

I’m not usually a big fan of Threadless, at least not in the last couple of years, but this one’s too great not to point out: The Madness of Mission 6. The backstory, from the creator’s submission entry: In 1976, Cosmonaut Nikolai Peckmann was sent alone to an orbiting space station for what would be […]

Even houses in Sweden come flat-packed. I’ve spent the last couple of days building a 8′x6′x2′ wardrobe for our closetless bedroom and I can’t imagine how many tiny wooden pegs you’d need for a whole house.