Lord knows I’ve linked to Funkaoshi, my friend Ram’s blog, on more than enough occasions over the years. If I’m posting and/or getting long winded about some issue or event on this site, then there’s a fairly good chance I heard about the latest details through a post on his. So why not finally give […]

Arts For Children and Youth is an organization whose reason for being is “to ally with high priority communities and empower marginalized children and youth by engaging them in hands-on, community- and school-based arts education programs that respect existing cultural and community activity, resulting in participatory action and social awareness.” Quite a hefty set of […]

If you’re feeling down about your job, or you’re in need of a little perspective, then you might want to take a moment to visit the Global Rich List. Enter your annual income, and you’ll be given your rank among the world’s richest people. To give you an example, my mid-level job at a small […]

Hey, here’s something interesting. “Everybody wants to be a rockstar – but at Switch Advertising, we picked up our coconuts and actually did it. We’ve collaborated with talented local artists to make our own outrageous indie rock posters, because between artists and indie rock bands, no one has to work harder to earn your attention.” […]

Quite possibly the best church in town. We attended their service as guests this morning, and as always it was a great time. But I’ll tell you a little more about that later. The senior pastor at the MCC is none other than the Reverend Brent Hawkes, who also happens to be one of Canada’s […]

Hot on the heels of my link to the Dry Shave website comes the site for another great independent Canadian comic from day gone by. It’s hosted as a subsite of secretlair.com, the official website of artist and game designer Tony Walsh. It hasn’t been updated in a while, and judging by the main website, […]

What a week, you guys. I’ve been working heavily, socializing heavily, drinking heavily… And as you can see, I’ve even been blogging heavily. The only thing I haven’t been doing heavily lately is sleeping, and I really ought to make the time to do so. Today’s link isn’t anything socially conscious or vital. As it […]

It’s very rare indeed that Bill Murray actually agrees to do an interview – so much so that his latest interview has proven newsworthy in and of itself. But beyond that, it’s just a great read, and I encourage you to check it out. Thanks for Funkaoshi for the link. The story at the end […]

“Davey D is a nationally recognized journalist, adjunct professor, Hip Hop historian, syndicated talk show host, radio programmer, producer, deejay, media and community activist… He is the founder and webmaster of Davey D’s Hip Hop Corner, which is widely considered to be one of the oldest and largest Hip Hop sites on the web.” You […]

Following up on yesterday’s post about FreeMind, here’s another useful utility called Instant Boss. “Instant Boss will time your work/break cycles, reminding you when to work and when to take a break. The defaults are 10 minutes of work, 2 minutes of break, and this is repeated 5 times for a total of 1 hour. […]