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The Day Obama Won The Internet: The Inside Story of His Reddit AMA

Very interesting behind-the-scenes look at how Obama’s Reddit AMA was proposed, how it happened and how it impacted his campaign. This was a day of political-campaign and Internet firsts, the sitting president subjecting himself to a free- for-all question-and-answer session with a hardcore community of pot-smoking freedom junkies who hated drones and loved porn and […]

¶ Posted 09 January 2013 § Humour § Internet § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, language, reddit, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – 2012 in Four Minutes

I’m not sure whether to be proud or sad that I caught the vast majority of the references in this video… (If you prefer text links, this one has many of the same memes in the video. And here’s a summary of the year from a Canadian perspective.)

¶ Posted 04 January 2013 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § Meme § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Sports § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, economics, google, language, music, philosophy, science, unitedstates, weather

I Am (Not) Adam Lanza’s Mother

This blog post by the mother of a mentally-ill son, posted in the wake of the Connecticut shootings, was making the viral rounds. Although I found it an interesting piece of writing with potentially some good points being made about the stigma of mental illness and the struggles of families trying to deal with it, […]

¶ Posted 16 December 2012 § Family § Meme § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: facebook, health, language, science, unitedstates

Happy 12/12/12

I’m posting this on 12/12/12 at 12:12pm (okay, I’m jiggering the time stamp so it appears like I posted it on 12/12/12 at 12:12pm.) (How’d I miss such an obvious post for today?)

¶ Posted 12 December 2012 § Meme § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, language

My Real Role on Team Meili… #skndpldr

…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 […]

¶ Posted 04 December 2012 § Humour § Internet § MemoryLane § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: cool, philosophy, reddit

Going Green in Calgary Centre? I Hope So (And I Don’t Care Who Knows!)

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 […]

¶ Posted 25 November 2012 § Canada § MemoryLane § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: alberta, ontario, saskatchewan, science, weather

2012 Tesla Model S Electric Car Wins MotorTrend “Car of the Year” Award by Unanimous Vote

The Tesla company which produces electric cars and which Mitt Romney infamously labelled a “loser” after Barack Obama’s government invested in it, recently won MotorTrend’s “Car of the Year” award by unanimous vote which was also the first win by an electric car in the 64-year history of the award. (Now who’s laughing, Mitt?) Now I […]