May Day
It’s May first and I am home sick (I’m not really that sick, but Kiddo is, so I stayed home to look after her) and I am thinking about the Continue Reading →
Category Archives: inthenews
End of an Era and One More Icon lost.
photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid “The moment after I learned I had been named Person of the Year by the Webby Awards, I remembered that my acceptance speech, Continue Reading →
Tired of Waiting
Since mid-October, the Victoria area transit drivers & mechanics have been exercising their right to job action: they have not been wearing uniforms and have not been working any overtime. Continue Reading →
Burning their own crops
I’ve been a Flickr user for almost 8 years now — a paid Pro user the whole time (the first year was a gift) — and while I have been Continue Reading →
Feeling Mortal Today
Most days, I don’t think about death, not in a personal way at least, but I’m old enough now that people within a few years of my age are dying Continue Reading →
Donor Status: No Match.
Yesterday, news outlets teased us with Facebook’s plan to announce a change that would SAVE LIVES. We speculated about it, having fun at Zuckerberg’s expense and promptly forgot about it. Continue Reading →
Of Boats, Tweets and Education
This weekend, in case you missed it, marked the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster. It also made James Cameron a bunch more money thanks to Tinanic 3D box office Continue Reading →
A penny saved
Before the digital ink had dried on the opinion pieces about Harper’s budget announcement that the penny would no longer be minted as of this fall, the Wikipedia page for Continue Reading →
True versus Accurate
Last weekend, This American Life posted a retraction of an earlier episode, one that had touched off much of the criticism of FoxConn and Apple. The person who submitted the Continue Reading →
Bill C-30 is Bad.
It’s bad in so many ways… and it has to go — as much as we’ve all been having fun laughing at Vic Toews for naievely suggesting that if we Continue Reading →