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PASTOR MANSBRIDGE HEARING CONFESSION – SAY TWO HAIL MARY’S AND CONTINUE TO COLLECT YOUR $150,000 PAM… BY ‘CUPPA’ JOE SIMONSKY IN VANCOUVER – FOR THE SHRIKE.ME Vancouver – Well, Pamela, my dear. Here’s the thing. You’re not taking full responsibility. If you were taking full responsibility for your actions and your wanton irresponsibility? You would [...]
A Cuppa Joe morning breather… from Funny or Die CUPPA JOE – JOE SIMONSKY We welcome Cuppa Joe Simonsky back to the Shrike fold after a long hiatus. Cuppa Joe is a Vancouver humorist and investigative journalist who used to be a regular contributor to the Shrike. He recently returned from an extended hiatus on [...]
Stack Exchange This Q&A is part of a weekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 100+ Q&A sites. Java developer Stijn Geukens is working with 10 developers, and nearly every dev has his own style. That’s about to change, as [...]
The noble emu. Andrew G Young The curious case of the vanishing penis. “One of the most puzzling events in evolution is the reduction and loss of the phallus in birds.” Puzzling indeed. Although birds’ ancestors started out with a penis, it was lost by all but about three percent of the bird species currently [...]
Fashionably Geek It’s Friday, it’s nice outside in some places around the world, and the week has been chock full of Android updates from some of the most popular applications. We saw updates from major players like Facebook, Google, and Evernote, including new features in Facebook Home, a new interface for Gmail, and the addition [...]
Intel’s new quad- and dual-core processors are here, and with new processors comes new computers designed to make what you’re using now look like a dumb, slow, stupid piece of crap. What is your laptop running? Sandy Bridge? You should have thrown that thing in the dumpster months ago. All of the big PC makers [...]
The Federal Communications Commission today authorized the maker of an enhanced 911 technology to begin commercial operations despite claims that the system will interfere with wireless Internet Service Providers and smart grid applications. A company called NextNav and its subsidiary, Progeny, makes a system designed to more accurately locate people inside buildings. This is important [...]
The Washington Post It’s worse than we thought. Just one day after disclosing the existence of a secret court order between the National Security Agency (NSA) and Verizon, The Guardian and The Washington Post both published secret presentation slides revealing the existence of a previously undisclosed massive surveillance program called PRISM. The program has the [...]
AMD’s low-voltage APUs could find a new home in both Chromebooks and Android devices. AMD AMD continues to soldier forward in the PC market, but CEO Rory Read wants the company to get at least 20 percent of its revenue from other sources by the end of this year. Some of this money will come [...]
On Wednesday, The Guardian published a secret order issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court allowing the National Security Agency (NSA) to demand vast swaths of metadata from Verizon. The order, which specifies that Verizon hand over the information on an “ongoing, daily basis,” encompasses the phone records pertaining to all of Verizon’s American customers, [...]
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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