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The Fair Phone: The World’s First Fair Trade, Environmentally Audited Smart Phone

Feel guilty about how your smartphone was made and by whom?  Perhaps the Fair Phone is for you! (If Fair Phone sounds too good to be true, you have another good option – buy second-hand tech instead of running to buy the latest and greatest, most fashionable device.) (via MetaFilter)

Posted 12 September 2013 § Technology ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , ,

What’s Different In Canada?

Happy Canada Day!

Posted 30 June 2013 § Canada § Humour ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

*Please* Don’t Believe In Psychics. Please! Pretty Please!!!

My life has developed over the years to a point where I endeavour to lead my life and make my decisions from a place that’s focused on using evidence, science, skepticism and facts to determine how I understand and interact with the world.  This is the culmination of many things coming together – my lifelong […]

Posted 08 May 2013 § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – 99 Life Hacks To Make Your Life Easier

Lots of cool ideas on this list.

Posted 03 May 2013 § List § Meme § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

The Universe Is *Very* Big

The distance from Earth to Mars (if the Earth was 100 pixels wide) The Scale of the Universe  …and the top rated photos in Reddit’s /r/spaceporn

Posted 04 April 2013 § Randomness § Travel § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

2013-03-27 – Seven Things In My Brain This Week

Finding the A&W at the Cornwall Centre food court closed for renovations tonight, a co-worker suggested that we should “nationalize the fast food industry.” I helped a visually impaired patron mix up a protein shake the other day.  Now *that’s* customer service! 😉 If politics is like sport, losing the leadership race by 44 votes […]

Posted 27 March 2013 § Canada § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Shea § Sports § United States § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Music Monday – “L’Odyssée de la Vie”

No words for me to quote in the title of this week’s post like I usually do.  But the epic choral and instrumental music is a perfect soundtrack for this awesome video as Shea and I are down to around a month or so until our baby comes!

Posted 25 March 2013 § Baby § Family § MusicMonday § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Amazing Sound & Water Experiment

This is pretty cool…

Posted 15 March 2013 § FridayFunLink § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Beards Keep You Young, Healthy & Handsome Says Science #skndpldr

As we head into the first day of the Sask NDP Leadership Convention, I thought I’d post a fun article (h/t to GG) on behalf of the members of Team Meili, most of whom who are of the Y chromosome persuasion, will be sporting beards of varying degrees of length and lushness this weekend. Very […]

Posted 08 March 2013 § Humour § Meme § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Conception to Birth Visualized

Other than the fact that the scientist presenting this TED talk should know better than to hint that the complexity of human evolution as being so amazing that it evokes divinity, this is a pretty cool video… (A bit more on the idea that just because something is complex, that means it must be divinely created […]

Posted 10 February 2013 § Baby § Family § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,