West-End Condo, our effort to sell our Vancouver one bedroom and den on the Web, has launched, using design ideas from Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing with Web Standards.

A small but extremely congenial group of Vancouver metafiltarians met at the Sylvia last night. I have pictures.

Elvis Costello, accompanied by Steve Nieve, played a rapturously received concert at the Orpheum in Vancouver last night. The duo format gave both musicians room to stretch, play with the settings of songs from throughout Costello’s career and debut several ballads from his upcoming album "North". They closed the show with the title track, [...]

Jakob Neilsen looks at PDF as an online-reading format and finds it wanting. Boy, did he ever get that right! He promises "PDF presentation strategies that minimize user suffering" in his next Alertbox.

Aaron Schwartz appears to have folded his tent; he’s now redirecting Echo Project News to Danny Ayers‘ Formerly Echo.