The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113's promotional "We Move Toronto" web page (cached) AND their "Worth a Million" page (cached) are both broken.

White hat hacks, denial of service attacks, too much traffic for the databases to handle, or taken down intentionally by the webmasters? Anyone an SQL geek and care to speculate?

The union's staff page is still up and running.

The three day FITC Toronto festival wrapped up last night at Revival where event organizers announced winners of the 2008 FITC Design + Technology Awards.

The award winners are international in scope and represent some of the best new media designers working in the field today. Among those are a number of Toronto-based studio and designers including Amoeba Corp (Best Canadian Studio), John Thai (Best Canadian Designer) and Jeff Vermeersch (Best Canadian Developer).

Keep reading for the full list of winners.

Tonight Joshua Davis (Wikipedia) steps outside his familiar medium of the web and debuts his first-ever line of housewares at the Umbra Concept Store.

Davis, a highly acclaimed web designer and Flash guru, is also in town this week for the Toronto leg of FITC. Yesterday he spoke to a packed room of conference attendees about his recent work, Tropism exhibition and his partnership with Umbra.

Updated @ 12:32 PM, 16 April, 2008

So what's the deal? For the last couple of weeks, there have been little snippets of "pirate" video sneaking their way into MuchMusic television broadcasts, which has people all abuzz wondering if someone is actually hacking into a live broadcast.

Credit for the "heist" is being taken by one Phreak615, who is telling the world how brilliant he is in his own blog, literally referring to himself as "the second coming." He claims to play guitar in a band called The Nunnery, but they appear to be the only local act without a MySpace page.



So, how does one hack into a televised broadcast? According to Phreak615, you have to have access. That's right; it's an inside job. "I have direct access to our digital media server," he boasts in his blog, allowing him to hack in with a WIFI laptop from his car when he's not at work.

One of the great topics of discussion that came out of Metronauts Transit Camp this past Saturday was the integration of different modes of transportation for commuters. Right now, there is no central place a commuter can visit to find out about transit schedules, parking fares, and bike paths, all intersecting with each other.

StopFinder is setting out to change all that. Using Google Maps technology, StopFinder is making it easier to access information about public transit and parking in the GTA, and most importantly, making it easier for commuters to make their travels around the city as efficient as possible.

FITC, one of North America's most anticipated annual festivals covering new media, design and technology, is back in Toronto for a seventh year starting April 19th. Once again, the event is jammed packed with presentations, demonstrations and panel discussion featuring the world's finest tech geeks and designers who are at the forefront of creating some of the interactive world's most cutting edge stuff. Sessions cover all aspects of the creative process, explore the latest developments in rich media technology, and provide insight into the ups and downs of running an interactive business.

There's also an awards show at Revival and parties each night at spots like the Burroughes Building, Wrongbar and Tattoo.

Advance tickets for the three day event start at $325 for students to $699 for regular folk. But since blogTO is a sponsor this year we've managed to land a festival pass that we'll be giving away to one lucky winner. Keep reading for details on how this pass could be yours!