I’ve written before about my conflicted feelings towards the oil industry. In essence, it boils down to knowing how much of Saskatchewan’s current prosperity is directly linked to “black gold” versus also knowing the environmental, human, social and other impacts the oil industry has on society. Those feelings could get a lot more conflicted soon. […]
This is a pretty cool data visualization tool which shows who is moving to and from various countries in the world, top destinations and more. This types into a recent article (which I can’t find now but there are many web sites making the same claim) that Canada needs to push its population to 100 […]
In my excitement to post a 1980’s country song that captures my post-long weekend camping bliss yesterday, I neglected what would have been a perfectly timed Music Monday post. So instead, you get an extremely rare “Tunes Tuesday” post to share the good news that Saskatoon band, The Sheepdogs, won a contest to become the […]
The United States is one of the few countries left in the world which embraces capital punishment (look at who else is on that list – no one else in the first world and otherwise a great bunch of company, eh?). A big part of the lore around death row inmates (perhaps straddling the line […]
I’m currently reading a book called “Stampede! The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite” by Gordon Pitts of the Globe & Mail. This book came to my attention after winning a 2009 National Business Book Prize and, as you might expect given its title and author, it’s a fairly pro-business look at […]
At the end of June, Google released Google+, their latest attempt at creating a social networking site to compete with Facebook and Twitter. After the failures of Google Wave and Google Buzz, some saw Google+ as a potential “three strikes and you’re out” last ditch attempt by Google to finally gain traction in the social […]
For those not in Regina, there was a mini-controversy in the Queen City this summer when a lecture series by a number of U of R profs in downtown’s Victoria Park was censored by the Regina Downtown Business Improvement District (RDBID) after one of the speakers proposed to do a talk on Palestine. The organizers […]
“Men, Which Books or Movies Have Most Resonated With Your Inner Thoughts?” (AskMF) MetaSkim – a new news site that attempts to provide targeted local news (MetaFilter) YouTube now has (some really old and/or unknown and/or direct-to-video type) movies for free Google Execs and other tech experts are attending a summit to discuss the future […]
Researchers at the University of Michigan did an experiment to figure out how much Internet search was worth. They asked students to find answers to questions using the stacks (average time: 22 minutes) then using Google (average time: 7 minutes) then used the difference (15 minutes) and the average American wage ($22/hour) to determine that […]
