It was all in the news today: CanWest Global paired up with Goldman Sachs Capital to buy Alliance Atlantis. The price tag is $2.3 billion. Those are numbers that most us just try to imagine without a real sense of the value.
Anyway, when reading about it there was one …
Don Norman: Logic and reason are wonderful virtues, but they are irrelevant in describing human behavior. Trying to prove a point through intelligent, reasonable argumentation is what I call the “engineer’s fallacy.” (Also, the economist’s fallacy.”) We have to design for the way people really behave, not as …
Maybe it was the title, maybe my earlier posts (and preoccupation) regarding Muslims — but I was really looking forward to this new Canadian TV show, the Little Mosque on the Prairie. This is a novelty, because I have to …
Jon Swift: This guy deserves his pen name - an excellent article about libraries throwing out the boring classic books. You want some names? - Aristotle, Faulkner, Hemingway, Kerouac, Pasternak, Proust, Bronte, Marlowe, Solzhenitsyn, Harper Lee…
Localcooling.com: Join the fight against global warming! The CO2 emissions from just 15 computers are equivalent in energy terms to the gas consumption used by one car. Save computer power, your money and the environment with a simple application… Sounds crazy but you can check it out!
Almost a year ago I had to write about the global warming. Not beacuse I am so interested in it but because the media bombarded me with sensational news… (see the linked article).
Here is the newest on ABC News — Report: Big Money Confusing Public on Global …
University of Manitoba: a digitized archive of the prairie immigration experience - you can browse it for hours…
I don’t know about you but around this time of every year, I mean just as the old one ends and the new year begins, I always get tired of two things: the ranking mania and the resolutions.
All the newspapers and magazines, TV-shows, even the blogs are full of top …
Source: Carol Bentley’s blog. Read about a very elaborate credit card scam when they already have all your data, including your card number… except the little PIN code on the reverse of the card. Don’t fall for this trick!
Source: Blog Gigs, Who created the Google-stein? i.e. the frankenstein of the net? - We did, all together. Yes, I remember, too, when G. was just the very new guy a few years ago…
Source iknownil: He is right. The students are in debt for many years, the government workers are overpaid and they rarely are up to their tasks, the taxes are high. Very high. I even wanted to comment on his blog but I never do that if the stupid “you must be logged in to comment” is in effect. No wonder nobody is commenting on that blog. People don’t like registering just to post a short comment…
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