124 years of Arsenal football, and we had never won a game against Barcelona. On February 16, 2011, I had a feeling it was going to be our night. With the family gathered round and only 12 minutes remaining down 1-0 it was not looking good. That's when the magic happened...

First came the equalizer...

Then came the winner less than 5 minutes later...

My house sounded something like this...

My favourite sports moment of 2011 by a country mile and probably for a few years to come.

I put this question to Twitter and it didn't take long before someone nailed mine.

@jamescogan Worst by far: Canucks losing the Cup. That'll be the worst for a long time to come.

— Adrian Crook (@adriancrook) December 23, 2011

I was at the Garden for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals, my first ever Stanley Cup game.

I'm at TD Garden (100 Legends Hwy, Causeway St, Boston) w/ 110 others http://4sq.com/ixGWKJ

— James Cogan (@jamescogan) June 7, 2011

Super fun trip, great company, brutal result. 8-1 Boston, and the beginning of the end for the Canucks dream season. Ouch! Definitely qualified as my lowest sporting moment of 2011.

The best camera is the one you have on you when you need one...

"...smartphones accounted for 27 percent of photos shot this year - last year, the number was 17 percent. Accordingly, photos shot with dedicated cameras dropped from 52 to 44 percent."

via How Smartphones Are Changing Photography: The Numbers Are In

One of the primary reasons the NFL and its broadcasting partners have resisted making an online live stream available for the biggest game of the year is viewer cannibalization. However, with big events like the Olympics and March Madness having tested the live stream waters successfully, the NFL and NBC are ready to kick the Super Bowl to the web.

Canadians will be left out of the online party this time, but it won't be long before that changes. Americans will be able to view two different streams, one with the much-hyped TV ads, and a different stream with ads targeted for the live stream only. While International viewers will be blocked, nobody in US will require a cable account to access the live stream on the web, while Verizon customers will also be granted access on their iOS or Android mobile device.

Of course the one thing everybody will want to know, is how many people will actually watch the game online vs. watching it on that massive flat-panel television you got for the holidays? Time will tell, but I would be surprised if this offering didn't serve to both expand the audience and provide a pot-pourri of insightful analytics.

"Scott Weaver's amazing piece, made with over 100,000 toothpicks over the course of 35 years, is a depiction of San Francisco, with multiple ball runs that allow you to go on "tours" of different parts of the city."

Beautiful and clever, no airplane in this ad.

Note to self; make sure you draft Robert Griffin III on your fantasy football team in 2012. Anyone who wears these socks to a Heisman Trophy ceremony (and wins) belongs on my team.

Quite possibly my favourite Steve Jobs video. Perhaps only his Stanford speech stands above it. The word visionary gets tossed around lightly these days but there is no denying Jobs' as the genuine article. He gave this speech 4 years before the first Macintosh computer was even launched, yet so much of what he talks about still applies to the modern Apple of today. At a time when computing power was doubling exponentially every year, IBM was intently focused on harnessing that power to broaden the computer's functionality. In contrast, Jobs was primarily interested in using that power to make the computer easier to use. Think different, indeed.