City Cafe in Kitchener, ON doesn’t have a cash register. another example of simply trusting people to pay and focus on what actually creates value.

Logo Can Make You ‘Think Different’. seeing the apple logo made people think more creatively. that’s just creepy to know.

VeloCity Residence at Waterloo. an incubator residence for startups focusing on mobile communications, web, and new media.

globeandmail.com: University of Waterloo president to advise on Mulroney probe. for all you waterloo people who read awardtour.

Spacing Wire ยป Cambridge Pocket Park. architects at waterloo are up to some cool stuff.

Waterloo gets Googled. so google bought a startup in waterloo.

Waterloo CS gets $25M donation. So it’s now the Cheriton School of Computer Science. Cheriton, who got a MMath and PhD from Waterloo, is a prof at Standford and is probably rolling in money as he was an early investor in Google.

Waterloo student sells “Student homework” site for $1.25M. And he’s only 19. Hopefully he’s also smart enough to save himself from 5 years of hell in comp eng.

The New Yorker: The social logic of Ivy League admissions. Some funny stuff and Waterloo gets a name drop. Oh ya, I’m on-call this week so I won’t be updated awardtour much at all. via funkaoshi