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Category Archives: Wisdom

25 Genius Camping Hacks

Posted 02 June 2015 § List § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

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 § Politics § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

20 Simple Ways To Save Money on Groceries

A pretty good list from the Huffington Post.

Posted 26 May 2015 § List ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Secular Sunday – At What Point Does This Become Blasphemous?

Posted 24 May 2015 § Humour § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

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 § Politics § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

The Second Job You Don’t Know You Have: How Self-Checkouts, ATMs and Airport Check-Ins are Changing Our Economy

Shadow work [is] all the unpaid jobs we do on behalf of businesses and organizations: We are pumping our own gas, scanning our own groceries, booking our travel and busing our tables at Starbucks. Shadow work is a new concept, so as yet, no one has compiled economic data on how many jobs we, the […]

Posted 20 May 2015 § Jobs § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Calgary’s Michael Ferland Is An Amazing Story #nhl #flames #yyc #stanleycup

Perhaps the most dominate player in the Flames-Canucks series so far, Michael Ferland has an amazing back story as well. “It’s just great,” Hartley said. “We had a great meeting one-on-one a year ago in my office. That’s where it started. I watch those guys like a mother hawk … he opened up and we […]

Posted 19 April 2015 § Sad § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Equality vs. Equity

An important thing to keep in mind as you move through this world…

Posted 07 April 2015 § Infographic § Library § Meme § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Monica Lewinsky: The Price of Shame

This TED talk has been making the rounds since being posted a week ago and is approaching one million views on YouTube. It’s very interesting for Lewinsky’s observations on being at the epi-centre of our now common social media world where everyone can voice opinions on the news of the day, often reaching huge audiences, […]

Posted 26 March 2015 § Humour § Internet § Meme § Politics § Technology § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

26 Cruel & Funny Lies Parents Told Their Kids

I’ve had many of these told to me by my parents and now, I’m doing the same to my kids – it’s the circle of life! 😉    

Posted 22 March 2015 § Family § Humour § Pace § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,