I hope no one thinks they've stumbled upon NDP Watch with this post but I have to admit that I had to do a double (actually triple) take when I received the latest e-newsletter from the provincial NDP with the headline, “Leader's Gala, a snub to working people, and more policy videos.” For a moment, […]
Joke or art or both? (I'm in the “bit of both” category myself.) With helpful introductory and closing commentary, it's definitely worth watching the whole thing though I guarantee you'll feel an incredible urge to clear your throat watching this!
Former Golden Girl and definitely not-the-typical Saturday Night Live host, Betty White actually *was* the host of last night's show, mainly because of an Internet campaign that started on Facebook. Here's an article that details some other examples of Internet campaigns affecting pop culture.
I haven't done any freelance writing (the kind that pays anyhow!) for quite awhile but through an old high school friend who works in magazine publishing, recently ended up with an assignment to write a profile of a world champion female kick boxer who happens to work in my hometown. I did the interview at […]
I love lists like this – especially with this one having lots of Canadian content about radical world changing ideas.
Facebook has a long history of implementing features that are counter to what users want and/or treating their users like shit with a general lack of respect. Lately, Facebook has been giving an even stronger impression than ever before (if that's even possible) that their early appeal as the one social web site which gave […]
Interesting theory on why names come in and go out of fashion – it's tied to generational rebellion. The names of your own generation sound too ordinary, your parents' too boring, your grandparents' too old. But by the time you make it back to your great-grandparents' names, things start to perk up. You've never known […]
How many times have you been reading a book, come across a great quote and then, unless you're really anal diligent and somehow transcribed it, ended up forgetting all about it? I've always thought that the tipping point for e-books would be something that easily allowed you to track these quotes as you came across […]
I'd never heard of a scalloped fretboard before but apparently it leads to music sounding something like this…
