Four years after Harper was elected, Liberals still like to console themselves that he hasn’t won a majority. But he now controls a majority on the Rights and Democracy board, and the Liberals couldn’t even slow him down.
via Changing a society, one step at a time – Opinion, Paul Wells – Macleans.ca.
Entries from January 31st, 2010
The Major Minority
January 31st, 2010 2 Comments
Tags: Politics
Population of the Dead Infographic
January 17th, 2010 No Comments
Cool Infographics posted a link recently to a neat infographic entitled “Population of the Dead”
What I find most interesting is that in the history of the world, it seems (as far as the creators have estimated) that only 106 billion people have ever lived.
Tags: infographics · link · visualisation
Future of the Gordcast
January 13th, 2010 1 Comment
I’ve experimented with the podcast genre twice before: once in a context of musical exploration, the second a humorous look at pop culture with my friend Stephen Speer. A combination of boredom and other life commitments caused me to finish each “season” with about ten episodes.
I have been rethinking the show and I will be aiming [...]
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Code Switching
January 12th, 2010 1 Comment
Code switching refers to “alternation between one or more languages, dialects, or language registers in the course of discourse between people who have more than one language in common.” Anyone who lives in a multicultural urban area has most likely witnessed this phenomenon. If you are polylingual you have most likely code switched at some [...]
Tags: bilingualism · linguistics · social sciences
Deforestation
January 12th, 2010 1 Comment
I watched Maya Lin’s “Unchopping a Tree” today and it is incredible to think about an issue like deforestation this way.
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Maya Lin – Unchopping a Tree from What [...]
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The Seven Day Experiment
January 10th, 2010 7 Comments
I have blogged since before I knew what it was. Even before that I started keeping journals (something I do to this day). Somewhere between a great upheaval in my personal life in 2005 and advances in my career that sapped my time and energy, I lost the love of blogging, and even writing.
I have [...]
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Movies, movies, and more movie
January 8th, 2010 No Comments
As you no doubt could guess, I love movies. Emphatically. So, in the interest of talking about movies without reviewing them (as I can’t seem to do that), here is a list of the 10 movies I anticipate the most in 2010:
Youth in Revolt (January 8)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Lightning Thief (February 12)
Alice [...]
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