I’ve blacked out my blog today to protest the SOPA.

You can read more about it at SOPA Strike.

CB2, Crate and Barrels hip, modern sister store, is opening this Saturday, January 21st. It is located at 651 Queen St. W. To celebrate the new store, the created these appetizer plates for their first Canadian store. Cute.

Thanks Di for noticing my typo

Rogers now provides you the ability to block text messages. Usually you get unwanted text messages from signing up for a contest (free ipad, anyone?) and continue to receive them and be billed for them. Now you can opt out of them. New rules also cap the fee charged for these messages to $40 a month.

Pretty good insight as to why Sony just hasn’t managed to gain or hold onto any leadership position in a decade. Summary by Gizmodo, full article at Businessweek.

blogTO has improved their existing iPhone/iPad app. Download it here from iTunes.

A livestream of the Toronto skyline is available. It’s not bad and features pertinent info scrolling at the top.

US’s NOAA released this timelapse video of Hurricane Irene from when it formed in the Atlantic to when it disappaited over Canada.

SyncForce’s annual brand ranking report is here and globally it shows that Apple is the #1 brand. When you have people completely copying your stores from top to bottom, I guess that reflects the strength of your brand. I don’t see anyone going out to copy a Walmart :)

Two german car companies are in the top 10, no other car companies cracked it. The top US car company was Lexus at #13 and no American car company is in the Top 20.

Top 10:
1 Apple
2 Google
3 BMW
4 Microsoft
5 Amazon.com
6 Walmart
7 Coca-Cola
8 Mercedes-Benz
9 Sony
10 Dell

Target has unveiled the locations that will open when they come to Canada.

A company that makes a lot of cobranded drugs in Canada has issued a recall. These affect Exact and Life brands at Shoppers, Loblaws, Rexall, Jean Coutu, Safeway, Procurity, Federated Coop, Proxim, and Value Drug Mart. It’s a big recall.