Ork Posters

I saw this smashing map of Toronto when I was picking up my "Tex" cardboard game head from a nice little shop on Roncesvalles in Toronto's south-west end, called Soho Art and Custom Framing.

It's from a company called Ork Posters, and they this as well as other major US/CDN cities that have been mapped this way to choose from, along with the Heart, the Brain, and the Great Lakes.

I'm off to NYC soon, and hopefully will stay for a spell, and I thought this nice little reminder of my hometown would be much-appreciated.

Suunto Quest

It's always nice to come across some neat technical products that aren't strictly limited to the Bauhaus design theory of form follows function.  As Apple and LaCie and others have clearly shown, hi-tech can have excellent function and pleasing form.
Now Suunto, the legendary compass company from Finland, is on board with this strong function and design philosophy.  When Suunto started making technical training and outdoors watches, they performed quite admirably, but they were gangly, large, and visually unappealing.  With the Core series and Elementum series, and now the new Quest, Suunto has turned super-functional watches into stunning timepieces.

The Quest has the requisite fitness watch basics of heart rate monitor, stopwatch/laps/timers, but nicely add fitness and training functions, cadence/speed measurement, calories burned, and alerts for when to rest and when to work out again.
Nice.  And looks nice.