Like when I read articles like this one where I know the business and most people in the article including Greg and Simone. Side note – I’ve long advocated that libraries should integrate the same type of question that Pages bookstore asks all their new applicants.
A lot of comments about his one in a recent MetaFilter thread about sad Christmas movies, TV & music.
…is to come up with ideas that are the “first of a kind”. Last time, it was the idea for the Money Bomb (see #3 on the linked list) which was the first ever in Canadian politics. This time, it was putting forward the idea for a Reddit AMA which was the first ever by a Saskatchewan politician. Of […]
Ryan will be participating in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) chat on the popular web site, Reddit, tomorrow afternoon from 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Sask time (4 – 5:30 p.m. EST) You should plan to participate – where else can you go to find out if Ryan would rather fight one horse-sized duck or 100 […]
Now, this is a good rant. And what makes a good rant? Truth is a big part of it. This person hits the nail on the head that the situation at both Library & Archives Canada and CLA are disgraceful – LAC is being absolutely decimated by Stephen Harper’s War on Information while bending over […]
This is a question I posed to MetaFilter last year and am now revisiting this year. (I was reminded of that question after seeing a recent one about creating Christmas traditions for your nieces and nephews .) This is, by far, the most favourited comment in that thread: When I was four, my parents totally rigged […]
My colleague on the Meili 2.0 Team, Aaron Genest, has written a blog post about the level of animosity that he’s observed in the Sask NDP Leadership race so far. The topic of how we talk to (and about) each other has been on my thoughts as well for a variety of different reasons – […]
This is probably not a great thing to admit to while not only doing a lot of writing about but also heavily volunteering for one of four NDP leadership candidates here in Saskatchewan. But I have to admit that if I still lived in Calgary Centre, I’m fairly certain I’d be voting for the Green […]
A pretty heart-warming video, even if I’ve been trained to be cynical enough about videos like this that at the end I thought it was probably a viral video for Coke! (Turns out it’s a charitable foundation called Love Everybody). (via LyinRPL)
Very interesting story about how Nickelback has gone from Hanna, AB to one of the biggest and most successful bands on earth.
