“You’re out of order… you’re out of order…. you’re out of order…everybody’s fucking out of order!”… Me…. channeling my inner Pacino, because what the fuck else can one do when facing dick limp leaders who won’t explain their shit to the people, that pay their freight… in Canada, Toronto and Dildo, NFLD. SEAMUS O’BRADAIGH [...]
FREEDOM OF INFO REQUEST UNEARTHS SOME TRULY DISTURBING EINSTEIN PORTRAITS TERRANCE GAVAN – EDITOR SHRIKE EXCLUSIVE We have access to the records of Albert Einstein through a ruse played with freedom of information and what we’ve found in his formerly sealed files is literally mind-popping. Albert Einstein was a closet artist and after an exhaustive [...]
TERRANCE GAVAN – SHRIKE SPORTS I love bloopers. Some days, when I wake up to the doom and gloom of a Leafs win or another Joe Fresh apology I need some video therapy. You might too. Hit play and start your day.
TERRANCE GAVAN – EDITOR From Huffington Post:The suicide of Nova Scotia teen Rehtaeh Parsons after an alleged gang rape and months of bullying has led to a swell of outrage online. Parsons’ story broke in the media earlier this week, just days after her family took the teen off life-support. She was the victim of an alleged gang [...]
Terrance Gavan – Shrike Editor / Crap Journalist “Yes, but there are no jobs here in cottage country.” I am told that we are never supposed to say stuff like this. I have been (essentially) out of work since I had a wee disagreement with an employer here in Haliburton last spring. You see. I [...]
TERRANCE ON TECH TERRANCE GAVAN – EDITOR You Tube’s got algorithms and algorithms – applied willy nilly and without discretion – are fallible. As fallible as the code and the coders that dub and write and qualify and quantify. Poor NASA and poor us… poorer contextually since Google popped You Tube and decided to apply [...]
TERRANCE GAVAN – EDITOR Phelps Phelps Phelps! Thank god for the fly. Hopefully. Now that he’s done the deed? We can break from this constant onslaught of will he or won’t he. Frankly the specter of this sideshow has worn thin on our psyche. We do hope that Michael garners another cover on the box [...]
TERRANCE GAVAN – EDITOR – July 27 – 2012 No word yet on whether charges will be laid, but an early morning accident on Kashagawigamog Lake Road just outside of Haliburton resulted in the death of a pedestrian. Haliburton County OPP have released the name of the pedestrian killed in collision with a car this morning. [...]
17 sent to hospital after food tent struck by a bolt from the blue CANADIAN PRESS – CANADA WHITBY, Ont. – A lightning bolt that hit a tent at a food festival with hundreds of people inside sounded like a bomb going off when it struck, said one of the festival-goers. “You see the flash [...]
Described by its designer Joscha Weiand as “the world’s first tent house,” Hangout is a semi-permanent shelter aimed at travelers and festival-goers. In attempting to fuse stay-at-home comfort with the practicality of a tent, Weiand has his sites firmly set on the “glamping” (glamor plus camping) dollar. If you were to imagine two wooden ends [...]
GEOFFERY CANADA – Education – TED Talk – millions of children lost per year
GEOFFERY CANADA IS MAD… BECAUSE EDUCATION IS FAILING ITS STAKEHOLDERS I’m a little nervous, because my wife Yvonne said to me,she said, “Geoff, you watch the TED Talks.” I said, “Yes, honey, I love TED Talks.” She said, “You know, they’re like, really smart, talented — “ I said, “I know, I know.” (Laughter) She [...]
It’s all about the flow – says Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (TED Video)
TED TALK – SECRET TO HAPPINESS? Why you should listen to him: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. A leading researcher in positive psychology, he has devoted his life to studying what makes people truly happy: “When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living [...]
Deny Deny Deny!!! Peter Mansbridge – as unplugged as he gets… Meh!
From CBC.CA Website / The Mansbridge files… Meh!!! Again By Mark Bulgutch and Peter Mansbridge You don’t even have to have a particularly sharp nose to pick up the whiff of scandal these days. It’s all over the news. Every news cycle seems to bring a fresh angle to an on-going scandal, or gives birth [...]
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