Montreal’s Custom Furniture Shops

If you fear the thought of spending hours assembling redundant coffee tables and dining room chairs, the good news is that there are numerous alternatives to the local Swedish box-store. For many woodworkers and designers, furniture is valued more for its artistic integrity than profitability. Montreal’s Saint Laurent Blvd. is … Read More

Another Prick on the Wall

Friend, and Like: two words whose everyday meanings used to be quite simple. In today’s post-Facebook times, those meanings are changing from qualitative to quantitative. In the process, they are arguably being cheapened, though not (yet) dragged down to the level of Craigslist NSA hookups. The primary goal of a … Read More

I Am Become Death

If you can’t fire a 23-pound projectile from your 32 megajoule electromagnetic rail gun at a Libyan despot, at whom can you fire a 23-pound projectile from your 32 megajoule electromagnetic rail gun? This isn’t a scenario from a Quake or Halo mod: The U.S. Navy has the gun, and … Read More

F-35 vs. iPad

Last week was not a good one for supporters of this country’s plan to purchase 65 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter planes (JSF). First, negative news surfaced on the JSF’s price, with Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer projecting that the total development purchase and maintenance costs could hit $30 billion — $12 … Read More

Montreal’s Best Old-School Camera Shops

Digital cameras have turned us all into brilliant photographers; snap a thousand shots, and one, surely, will be a masterpiece. Shooting that masterpiece with film, however, isn’t so easy. It requires focus, thoughtfulness – and, some might say, talent. But it’s all the more gratifying when it comes. Here, four … Read More

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