Regina’s got a new logo that has generated some international attention. Enough quoting. The R icon is definitely attractive and eye-catching. While there could probably be a few more twists, both literally and metaphorically, in the ribbon to make the dimensionality work a little better, I think it’s a fairly convincing result. I like [...]
April, 2010:
Why We Are So Lonely
From Alternet Community may suffer from overuse more sorely than any word in the dictionary. Politicians left and right sprinkle it through their remarks the way a bad Chinese restaurant uses MSG, to mask the lack of wholesome ingredients. But we need to rescue it; we need to make sure that community will become, on [...]
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Have repeated concussions affected Ben Roethlisberger judgment? According to this graph prepared by the Department of Energy the world is running out of oil. Quickly. The Guardian has more on the story. Wendy writes about our weekend at the cabin. Tom Flanagan and I don’t agree on a lot but he’s right in calling for [...]
E vs. ink
My friend Karen posted some thoughts on Twitter about ebooks and readers. Been thinking about how e-books/Ipad exclude poorer readers. Continued…. Folks with literacy/soc. justice concerns should keep zines/broadsheet etc. in mind. If medium is message, cost of readers excludes many. It would easy to dismiss Karen’s thoughts because of her history with paper but [...]
Tim Tebow Drafted by the Denver Broncos
So the Denver Broncos drafted the heir apparent to John Elway by drafting former Heisman winner Tim Tebow from the University of Florida Gators. Tebow has been called the greatest college quarterback ever and is probably the most popular college player in recent years which means that he has his fair share of Tebow haters [...]
Lost
I was just reading about Serge LeClerc today and while the story doesn’t have much interest for me, this caught my eye. Yates said there are still a lot of unanswered questions about the case, including what happened to the laptop computer LeClerc had been using last year. Wall said in the legislature that the [...]
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If you are a football fan, you need to read Peter King on Ben Roethlisberger’s woes in Pittsburgh :: One last point: However it happened, and finger-pointing aside, at least two women have come forward in the last nine months and accused Roethlisberger of taking advantage of them — in graphic, sordid detail. That’s why [...]
