When I posted that jokey one-liner yesterday about the ridiculousness of Madonna lecturing me about saving the environment, I knew her blather was typical celebrity hypocrisy. I didn't realise just how bad she is though. Thanks Madge. Go steal another kid from the third world. (Of course, we live in a world where even “celebrity-as-saviour” […]
The worldwide series of concerts known as Live Earth have started today in Australia and Japan and will be moving around the world for the next 24 hours. Although not directly related to Live Earth, there are a couple relevant sites you might want to check out: Earth Charter is “a declaration of fundamental principles […]
Your IQ = 130.Here are my scores. Language 11/12Memory 5/6Logic 12/12Visual Memory 5/6Math 10/12Perception 9/12Some random thoughts (may contain spoilers so why not do the quiz then come back to finish reading if you haven't already?)…CBC Television : Test the Nation – I know it's just for fun but any IQ test that asks me […]
(This is just a random picture I grabbed off Flickr. Not a photo of the DVD collection of anyone I know.) Something I've noticed more frequently when visiting friends and family (and even on occasion when I get access to strangers' homes – ie. going to check out used baby items or whatever) is that […]
This is very possibly how you will interact with your computer in the near future. Wow.(Quinn, who has a great post today on why he blogs, found it funny that I equated the Flames 2004 run with other major milestones in my life such as graduation and marriage in my recent “About Me” post. So […]
Just what the world needs (and what I need too) – another blog!I've set up a blog called The Universal, mainly as a place to link-dump stories and web sites related to the topic of online broadcasting which is a personal interest of mine (remind me to do a post about my summers selling door […]
Reason magazine recently declared the “end of the post-9/11 era” citing a story linking Zsa Zsa Gabor with Anna Nicole Smith after the latter's death. Hard to argue with that. The whole media frenzy around the Anna Nicole Smith death the other day shows that we're truly back to the way things were on September […]
To combine this as both a baby and a library-related post, I'll go back to an entry from a couple weeks ago where I talked about my favourite presentation from my year in library school which was on the topic of online broadcasting. One of the main points I discussed in the presentation is how […]
My absolute favourite project at library school last year was a presentation I did for a class called “Shaping of News & Information Through Technology”. The seminar-style course was offered jointly with the journalism department so we had about 16 LIS students and 6 or 8 journalism students. Given the title of the course and […]
