No, not the catchy Feist song… Instead, “Saskaboom” was the name given to a feature that CBC's “The National” aired last night on Saskatchewan and our booming economy. The piece included a feature on Weyburn and the impact of the oil sector on the local economy. So if you want a taste of the city […]
Peak Oil is a theory that is increasingly relevant as the price of oil and gasoline continue to skyrocket. It was first proposed in the 1950's by an American geoscientist named M. King Hubbert who worked for Shell in Texas and correctly predicted that the supplies of oil were limited in the United States and […]
Having recently sustained fairly serious knee lacerations due to some new “smaller than Mega-Blocks but not as small as regular Lego” Legos that Pace got for this birthday, this story has a particular resonance for me right now in terms of the danger potential of Lego and its myriad affiliated products.
Firefox 3.0, the latest version of the popular open source web browser, is attempting to set a world record for software downloads in a single day. On Tuesday June 17, over 1.3 million people (as of this writing) have pledged to download the new version of the software. I've been using a beta release of […]
This is how I sometimes feel…My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the […]
Kiva is a web site that helps facilitate micro-credit loans to entrepreneurs around the world. (As always, Wikipedia has more information about this organization if you're interested.) Shea got a Kiva gift certificate as a Mother's Day Gift and is helping two people: Ruth Celenia Santana Morales who sells clothes and jewelery in the Dominican […]
Spectra is a new visual news reader from MSNBC. I haven't played around with it much but it looks cool, mostly because the news spins in a circle instead of the old-fashioned columnar approach. Whoo-hooo! On a much broader scale, I've recently come across a couple lists predicting of technologies that will change the world […]
I got the following two sites from Barb J. She sent “The Story of Stuff” last Christmas and the “Garbage Dump Reality Show” one a couple months later. I didn't get the first one posted last Christmas so put it in the “on deck” circle for next Christmas (which is why there's been a “December […]
Some eye-opening photos and text from the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
[Edit: Here's a post I did on an Ask MetaFilter thread on the same subject.] Talking about some of the most useful sites online during the past three months mixed with my ongoing interest in online broadcasting inspired me come up with the following list:Five Things The Internet Is Killing1. The Music Industry– I saw […]
