After playing with Google Wave for the past little while, I’m really starting to appreciate the openness, flexibility and collaborative nature of the technology.
Unfortunately, not everyone is as happy (based on the limited number of invites) or as understanding of the technology. Thankfully, Samuel L. Jackson was nice enough to put together a nice [...]
Waterlife, a fascinating documentary by the National Film Board of Canada and director Kevin McManoh, explores the wide-ranging consequences of this concentrated environmental apocalypse. It tells the epic story of the water’s journey from Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean through the lives of some of the 35 million people who rely on it for [...]
|Disgusting, but true…trillion is the new billion. Unfortunately, the entire concept of dollars in the trillions is beyond most people’s ability to reconcile. Knowing this, Mint.com has put together a great little kinetic typography clip providing some context…
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Stewart Brand uses his time at TED to challenge existing ideologies around weighty issues like the environment, mass poverty, geo-engineering and energy provision/consumption. While you may or may not agree with his views, they have the wonderful effect of getting people talking and discussing these critical concepts.
Once you have viewed the video, head over to the [...]
Renny Gleeson starts his TED Talk with a couple of witty comments about how people use different techniques to text or Twitter while in social circles, but quickly begins to make some very interesting and poignant observations on how human interactions are changing. As someone that is completely guilty of some of these behaviours, this [...]
|The University of Toronto and the Canadian Journalists Foundation recently hosted an interesting and thought-provoking talk entitled: High-level leaks and undisclosed sources: The case of Maher Arar and lapsed media ethics. Joining Mr. Arar in this talk (moderated by the great Canadian Journalist Hugh Winsor) was Bill Gillespie of CBC, Jeff Sallot previously with the [...]
|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 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
|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 [...]
|You know it’s REALLY bad, when you’re a Republican and FOX News is bashing you… Here is a little FOX News clip talking about the lack of Palin’s general knowledge. Before watching the video, can you answer these breathtakingly difficult questions: Which countries are part of NAFTA? Is Africa a country or a continent? Enjoy…
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