Chris Turner's pop-culture and technology reporting for Shift has earned him a number of National Magazine Awards, including the President's Medal for General Excellency in 2001, the highest honour in Canadian magazine writing. His acclaimed Shift essay "The Simpsons Generation" was reprinted in newspapers across North America. His work has also appeared in Time, The Globe and Mail, National Post Business, Adbusters, UTNE Reader, This Magazine, and XBN ("the thinking person's Xbox magazine"). He lives in Calgary, Canada.   provenance Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada   ejumucated Queen's University   fave episode Last Exit to Springfield ("the Strike Episode")   fave character Mr. Burns   fave quote "If you don't like your job, you don't strike - you just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American Way."

This Web site utilizes Movable Type for the blogging; a combination of ASP.NET, CSS, and HTML for the UI; various code snippets from John Bristowe for the underpinnings; and wallpaper from Squidfingers. The unfired sculpture on the banner was created by Karen Caldicott and was featured on the cover of Shift Magazine (Sept/Oct 2002).

Design by Ashley Bristowe.

The Weblog is authored and maintained by Ashley Bristowe and Chris Turner.