The US greenback has been sliding down for a while now, and for the first time in a generation the Canadian dollar has reached parity with the US dollar.

A site showcasing snippets of good design.

Shared Stuff, a new bookmarking service from Google. Looks simple, allows you to add to other bookmarking sites like digg, facebook, del.icio.us etc, invite friends, see bookmarks from gmail contacts, and see number of views via Google for each bookmarked link. [review]

Of the estimated 7000 languages in the world, many are disappearing faster than extinction of living things, and linguists are trying to records some of these languages before their demise. As mediums like the internet, television etc narrow the communication gap, more and more languages are going to die, and pretty soon we will probably be left with a handful of languages and their dialects.

With consumers spending a fortune on HDTVs and HD Channels, Mark Cuban points out how consumers are being duped by TV Channels who claim to be HD, even though most of the content is not really HD.

Nick Gray’s list of things he noticed about America after getting back from India.

“The suburbs seem dead. I can drive through my entire neighborhood and not see anybody.”

For all you web 2.0 designers out there, a very nifty seamless stripes texture generator.

A 3D visualization of the Twitter public timeline depicting who follows who. A cool way to discover new people, that’s if you are into Twitter.

A very simple site for file conversion. No file size restrictions, allows you to can convert documents, images, videos and audio files; and has tons of file format options to choose from.

A detailed look at the inner workings of an iPhone.

“A self capacitance screen contains sensing circuits and electrodes to determine where a user is touching”

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. It comes with presets for iPhone and PSP, and supports Apple TV. It can handle both PAL and NTSC sources as well.