George W. Bush: Keeping America Scared media remix – This is a must-see
This new 2 minute clip on how the Republicans have managed to distract Americans despite an entire four years of failure is almost as brilliant as This Land. Look for web-reports that the author of...
View ArticleFast Company writes about the rise of Social Entrepreneurship in MBA programs
Fast Company has a brief article on the rise of social entrepreneurship and how that is being reflected in the courses that are being designed at the various MBA programs. QUOTE: More young people...
View ArticleI’m entirely on Martha Stewart’s side
The whole Martha Stewart débacle fiasco pisses me off. That’s the most eloquent way I can put it. The larger macro-trend is that the government has been under pressure to “do something” about corporate...
View ArticleGaming the system: Building fake websites in order to generate Google bucks
I’m pretty sure that I did not get 27 referrals from www.diamondweddings.com yesterday but that’s what my Blogware is reporting. So I checked out their site and they seem to be some sort of aggregator...
View ArticleCherry OS Mac OS X emulation on PC may be a complete sham
See this link with lots of detail over at Macintouch, including some sleuthing from my friend Trevor Inkpen at Quill Services. Smells fishy so far….
View ArticleMy favourite author Ray Kurzweil talks about living to 120 years old,...
I love Ray Kurzweil. Here is a short but interesting interview from CIO magazine where Kurzweil predicts things that will sound outlandish to most people: • outsourcing is a good thing and in the...
View ArticleMassive Change – the future of global design
This is an extremely long post on Massive Change, the multi-media exhibition that is intended to be the starting point for a global discussion on the role of design in creating our world. Here is a bit...
View ArticleFarming for gold: Using plant crops to remediate soil, remove contaminants,...
I love stories like this one at the Christian Science Monitor about Chris Anderson, a New Zealand scientist using crops to clean up contaminated mines. (Thanks Z+Partners for the link.) In one fell...
View ArticleRat neurons used to control a flight simulator, and a monkey brain controls a...
My nephew Matt sent me a link to this Wired article on rat neurons being used to control a flight simulator. In essence, they have plugged the feedback and the control systems into the neurons and have...
View ArticleRewriting school books in Texas: Sex is bad, abstinence is good, condoms are...
Book-burning and more importantly, book-re-writing has been used throughout the rein of man to erase the collective knowledge and to curb dangerous thoughts and direct society. This infamous technique...
View ArticleWoman kills young mother, cuts her baby out of the womb, and then takes the...
If you have not read about this horriffic case yet, Lisa M. Montgomery of Melvern Kansas had a baby girl fourteen years ago and then had her tubes tied. Since that time, she frequently claimed that...
View Article44% of Amerikans think that Muslim-Americans should have restricted rights....
A Cornell university study has found that 44% of Amerikans favoured “some restrictions on the civil liberties of Muslim Americans.” But remember George Bush, “this is not a war of Christian against...
View ArticleCelebrated authors of “The Frog and Prince”– one of the best networking books...
Back in 2003, I attended a pivotal event at the Vancouver Enterprise Forum. Normally, these events generally follow a predictable pattern. People fill in the room, buy a drink and wander aimlessly. The...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 Primer: Welcome to the Me-sphere – Your digital identiy is here and...
It is only when you take into account the sum total of a person’s associations, actions, talk, relationships, you get a more complete picture of them in the real world than if you just listen to their...
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The First Annual “30 days of sustainability” has launched in Vancouver!
(If you are looking for the 2007 event information, please click HERE.) I am very excited about our launch of the 30 Days of Sustainability. For the month of March, Vancouver will host a cornucopia of...
View ArticleBorder wars: Plumbers union fights green building because the waterless...
I’m intrigued by stories such as this one in the ABC News about the plumbers union in Philadelphia who claim that no-flush green urinals are a health threat. I wonder if the union sees them more as a...
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Best business movie of the year: Kinky Boots
This is without a doubt the best business movie of the year for its content. And it is probably one of my favourite movies of the year for its film quality as well. This movie is BRILLIANT. It is the...
View ArticlePresident Bush has signed into law the complete destruction of Writ of Habeus...
Ben Franklin said it best: “Those who would trade liberty for a bit of safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” This is appalling. I urge everybody to watch this:
View ArticleTech Crunch says FU to all future embargoes in a very weird and low-integrity...
I wondered when this was going to happen. As distribution of early news gets more wide spread (from the two big papers in town to all uhhh hundred million bloggers), I could see the holes appearing in...
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Google can now be used to prove that your spouse is a drunkard who wasn’t...
Google launched Latitude – a features in Google Maps that lets you keep track of your friend’s locations. As with all technologies, this one will pose new challenges. I can’t wait for the first divorce...
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