At participating Canadian Starbucks Coffeehouses, located within Ontario and Western Canada, customers can pick up a special “Pick of the Week” iTunes card that will allow them to redeem a complimentary free song or music video from the Canadian iTunes Store, as selected each week by the Starbucks Entertainment Team and iTunes. The cards will appear in over 700 Starbucks location every Tuesday and although they haven’t said, I’m guessing will be available as long as supplies last. The cards are being offered today and the first complimentary song is Constant Knot by City and Colour. The cards will be good for up to 60 days before the codes will expire. In addition, a new Starbucks Entertainment Area has been added to the Canadian iTunes Store where songs selected through the program will be featured. [More]

You've found a very funny YouTube clip you'd like to share with your freinds except that the very funny bit isn't until the end of the video, after a long boring sequence. Instead of telling your friends to, really, stick through it, that it's worth it, you can edit out the boring bits using Splicd. Just insert the url of the YouTube clip and then enter in the stop and start times from the timecode. You'll be given a new url you can then e-mail to your friends. [More]

Its an old. but popular gag. You take a photograph of someone famous, cut out their mouth or eyes and then hold it up to your face and place your own lips or eyes through the holes and then talk in a silly voice to entertain your friends. You've probably seen it used on later night TV. MashFace is the digital equivalent. First you use a webcam to record your celebrity impression, then use MashFace to select and cut out a section of your face from the video, it can be any section you wish, then upload your target photograph, doesn't have to be a celebrity, and it will insert your moving facial features into the photograph for a clip you can send to your friends. Works really well. [More]

And I’m A PC is a new website designed to have a little fun with both Microsoft's latest ad campaign. You can submit any phrase you'd like and they will add "and I'm a PC' to the end. When you visit the page, just click on refresh to see the many phrases submitted by others. [More]

Eat or be eaten, it's the rule of survival in a tide pool where you must guide your single-celled organism to snatch up proteins in order to grow faster than your enemy. There's special abilities to gain if you do grow, including splitting-into two organisms, and if you survive long enough and make it to higher levels, viruses to avoid as well. Continue on to play. [More]

The results of two major science photography competitions are now available. First there's the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2008, an annual competition held by the National Science Foundation and Science Magazine to recognize works of both photography, illustration and multimedia in the field of science. This year they received 181 entries from 21 countries and included the beauty of diatoms, plant cells, and the human circulatory system.

The 34th Annual Small World Photomicrography Competition is held by Nikon to recognize photographs of small and micro-sized subjects including fruit fly wings, chick embyos, and the wing scales of fibre optics. Winners will be announced in October and you can help judge by rating one of the pics at the site. [More]

Missing In Canada is a weekly feature where I will profile gadgets from other countries, consumer items that aren’t available here and (except for rare import shoppes) probably never will. A popular request from my audience is to suggest a cellphone that is designed simply for making phone calls and nothing else. No text messaging, no e-mail or internet, no camera, just a basic phone that’s easy to use. Unfortunately no such creature exists…..in Canada. Available only within the United States, the Jitterbug is exactly the cellphone described in those requests. It is designed for making calls and nothing else. It features a large, friendly keypad with buttons marked in clear English instead of cryptic symbols and the service includes a live, 24-hour human operator that you can call to help you anytime. [More]

Warner Bros. Entertainment held a media briefing this past Wednesday on their upcoming DVD and Blu-ray releases and despite the presence of a wicked ice sculpture of the Bat Pod from The Dark Knight, they could only confirm that the batman movie will be released on Blu-ray in the coming months and that it will be their first title to support BD Live 2.0. The new Blu-Ray format will include a number of online-based features such as downloadable material and community-based features. Unfortunately they aren't ready to announce a release date or any details as to what those features will be. They did, however, pull the tarp off on an impressive number of Ultimate Collector’s and Limited Edition boxed sets. [More]

It's Friday, time to place you within one of the many puzzle rooms scattered across the internet to see if you can escape in time to enjoy the last weekend in September. Today we have the third installment of the engaging T2B Project series. T2B Escape 3 asks you to find your escape using the items that have fallen into the room. You'll find a suit of armor, a sword, and even a dragon! Good luck. If you missed them, here's the original T2B Escape and T2B Escape 2. [More]