Brilliant! (via MetaFilter with a h/t to the colleague who sent it to me at the exact same moment!)
In 1994… Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a point of order to make a procedural argument concerning the omnibus nature of this piece of legislation…Bill C-17, is of an omnibus nature. I put it to you, Mr. Speaker, that you should rule it out of order and it should not be considered by the […]
I recently had the chance to interview Dr. Ryan Meili, author of “A Healthy Society: How A Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy“. After some back and forth discussion, we decided that the best way to do this would be for me to prepare a few questions then send them by e-mail so he […]
“It’s the Old Generation That’s Entitled, Not Students” – The National Post with a spot-on observation about the current Quebec protests How Reddit’s Co-Founded Became the Mayor of the Internet Speaking of Reddit, a novelty account called ShittyWatercolors did an illustration of my own user name, “HeadTale” (well, mis-read as “HeadTales” but you get what […]
So I was one of the lucky 100 who got to attend TedXRegina on Wednesday at the ShuBox Theatre at the U of R. Here are some random thoughts about the day… – never realised until the night before while checking out the #tedxregina hashtag on Twitter that there were only 100 seats available as […]
After an extremely long day, I’m pretty tired. Hopefully I’ll revisit my TedxRegina experience in the next day or two. But for now…
Barack Obama made history today as the first US President to officially come out in support of gay marriage (not “civil unions” aka the semantic wankery that gets used so often in the US to denote “different but equal“) The timing is good coming in the wake of a North Carolina vote that saw the state’s […]
You’ll see this graphic a lot more in a couple days as “May the Fourth Be With You”. But I think this variation is quite appropriate for May Day:
A great Quora thread that will make you laugh and cry, take your breath away and make you puke and make you realise how big and small we truly are. (The one from Titan is possibly my favourite on the page. So boring yet so amazingly unbelievable.)
