Link of the Day: Project Wildfire
“Project Wildfire is a youth business incubator to help spark and support business ideas that will support communities and individuals across Toronto… “Promising social entrepreneurs can receive up to $25,000 in funding through Project Wildfire, along with a full year of hands-on business mentorship and other support. “All participants, regardless of whether they win or […]
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Meet junior Conservative staffer Tony Phillips (while you still can)
There’s a certain sad irony to a paid Conservative staffer taking to his Facebook page to condemn the “stupidity” of his own party’s communications staff. But that’s exactly what a junior staffer named Tony Phillips did last week, according to the National Post. “Can someone in the [campaign war room] please save the PM’s image […]
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Now that’s what Rachel Carson calls intelligent design
Writer and environmental icon Rachel Carson, perhaps best known for the seminal Silent Spring, was once accused of “ignoring God” in her 1951 bestseller on oceanography and the ecosystem, The Sea Around Us. Her reply, as quoted in the collection Courage for the Earth, was as follows: “As far as I’m concerned, there is absolutely […]
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Link of the Day: Peace Child International
“Peace Child International is registered in the UK as an educational charity, and since its founding in 1981 has grown to unite more than 1,500 affiliate groups and networks in over 180 countries. “Peace Child’s mission is to empower young people to be the change they want to see in the world. This theme is […]
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It’s Friday, so here’s the video for “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley
I mean, you’re probably going to see this video about a hundred times today as it is. Shouldn’t one of those viewings be honest and without false pretense? Plus, I mean, it’s a pretty good song. The choreography’s not great, but you do get to see a guy do a flip off a wall. Not […]
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Link of the Day: YouTube’s Top 5 Viral Pictures of 1911
“One hundred years ago on April 1,” YouTube tells us, “these moving pictures were the finest in the land. Hooray!”
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Link of the Day: Tales from Unicorn Island
“So I used to make comics back in the day,” my brother explained yesterday, “mainly for print and some brief stints online. The main result of that these days is that I have a lot of old material and jokes and such on my D: drive collecting techno-dust.” Now that he’s “a little older and […]
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What is astroturfing, exactly?
Astroturfing is a political tactic designed to present a specific, often corporate agenda as the will of the public. The term itself is a play on words, acknowledging that these campaigns are basically fake grassroots movements. Now that we’re in an election, let’s keep an eye out for use of this term, not to mention […]
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You ought to read “How to Cure a Fanatic”
I hadn’t heard of Israeli novelist, journalist and peace activist Amos Oz until I spotted a copy of How to Cure a Fanatic on the shelf at my local bookstore. In this brief but wryly compelling collection of short pieces, Oz confronts the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in terms that are basic but not superficial, and he […]
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Is it time to make the switch back to WordPress?
Throughout its lengthy and lacklustre history, this site has burned through a number of content management systems. Movable Type was fun for a while, for example, and WordPress was a worthy successor. Since January of 2009, I’ve been a loyal Textpattern user. It was my good friend Ram over at Funkaoshi – not to mention […]
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