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Some old, some new…and all equal parts sad and funny…

“A rubber ball will bounce and someone else can pick it up. That’s your work life. The glass ball is family, friends, your health. Drop it, and if you’re lucky it’ll just crack. If you’re not so lucky, it’ll break into a million pieces. No matter what it’ll never be the same.”
via Dave Winer

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As someone that enjoys healthy debate, I am typically more than happy to spend minutes if not hours discussing a myriad of topics.  Having said that, I have to admit that I tend to get annoyed when conversations about serious topics remain superficial and simple.  Serious issues deserve serious thought and effort.  While I can understand that [...]

In the Blue corner:  There are those that see the recent formation of a coalition by the Liberals and NDP (backed by the Bloq) as opportunistic, undemocratic and costly.  Additionally, some view this as precisely the opposite of what Canada needs in this current economic climate.  While not technically illegal (as suggested by the PM: [...]

While there is not much to laugh about in this current economic moment, some talented Photoshoppers over at Gizmodohave found some humour to help lighten the mood (a little) during this financial craziness…
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Okay, maybe not here in North America,but Japanese telco DoCoMo recently announced that it will release an Android-based phone sometime next year in hopes that it will differentiate them from rival telco Softbank.  Now that we have all seen and played with the G1, what would you like to see from the next Android-based phone? 
I would love to see [...]

In this engaging and controversial Talk, Samantha Power challenges us all to see the hero in an unconventional person…

In a recent poston TreeHugger, Lloyd Alter blogs about his less than positive experience on Canada’s largest airline.  It seems that in this era of companies looking to adopt simple green initiatives, Air Canada still needs to ding it’s customers that little extra…just because it can.  Enjoy

According to the NYTimes, Google will be launching an iPhone app that provides Google search via a user simply using their voice.  To search, all an iPhone user would have to do is state their question into the phone with the application launched.  Theoretically, this could be the easiest way to solve all those incredibly important debates [...]

For some of us, understanding the true impact of the housing and credit crisis(s) in the US is challenging to say the least.  This new video essay from Slate shares what some people are dealing with in the hopes that a human face can be attached to this talk of $700 billion bailouts, multi-million dollar [...]