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Bobby Jindal Campaign Announcement = All Kinds of Cringe

So there are about a gabzillion people running for the Republican presidential candidate nomination. What’s a latecomer to the race left to do to get people talking? How about release a slice of life attempt at a “viral video” featuring mommy and daddy telling their kids daddy’s decided to run for President? So bad… the camera […]

¶ Posted 07 July 2015 § Humour § Meme § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – 13 Numbers Showing Harper’s Conservatives May Truly Be The Worst Government in Canadian History #skpoli #canpoli

As the Federal Election draws nearer, I suspect I’ll be posting a lot more political content – something I haven’t really done since the conclusion of the last Sask NDP leadership contest. Here’s a good list from Press Progress to get things started!

¶ Posted 26 June 2015 § Canada § FridayFunLink § List § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, science

Some Unique International Borders

This is pretty cool. (Make sure you click on some of the images suggested in the comments as well!)

¶ Posted 31 May 2015 § Canada § Photo § Travel § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, history, travel

Rookie Calgary MLA Is Early Victim of the “Human Search Engine”

An engaging article about the ability of humans, rather than machines (eg. regular Google searches), to track down and then amplify interesting or especially incriminating finds. I have been trying to help introduce the concept of “human search engine” (actually “human flesh search engine” in the original Chinese) to the English-language discourse: it arose a few […]

¶ Posted 27 May 2015 § Censorship § Internet § News § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, facebook, google, reddit, twitter

You Can’t Defend Public Libraries and Oppose File Sharing

Libraries and file-sharing do not differ in principle. The purpose of libraries was – is – to make culture and knowledge available to as many as possible, as efficiently as possible, for free – simply because of the greater socioeconomic benefit of an educated and cultural populace. How is this not file-sharing? Great article that […]

¶ Posted 21 May 2015 § Library § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, copyright, economics, movies, music, television

Music Monday – “They call me a troublemaker ’cause I’m finally saying “no”/I’ve been working hard and yet my pay is still so low

A highlight of my time at the Writers Guild of Alberta was getting to book Maria Dunn to speak and perform at our annual conference at the Royal Tyrrell Museum. “Troublemaker” – Maria Dunn