Former SNL writer, activist, and comedian, Joe Bodolai leaves a stirring suicide note on his blog.
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Award winner coming through…
It not me but F.S. Michaels, author of the book Monoculture which I have mentioned around here before. Here are the details. FIRST-TIME CANADIAN AUTHOR WINS AMERICA’S GEORGE ORWELL AWARD NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language Canadian author F.S. Michaels has won America’s prestigious 2011 George Orwell [...]
When police go bad
Okay, is this disturbing to anyone else? As 16 police officers were arraigned at State Supreme Court in the Bronx, incensed colleagues organized by their union cursed and taunted prosecutors and investigators, chanting “Down with the D.A.” and “Ray Kelly, hypocrite.” As the defendants emerged from their morning court appearance, a swarm of officers formed [...]
Killing the Abraham
Caterina Fake has a great post on the role of Abraham in a company. I call the founder, founders or founding team of a company “The Abraham”. The Abraham influences all that follows, sets the vision and direction for the company, and the Abraham’s mores, habits, preferences, flaws and prejudices are often built, consciously or [...]
The Lost Generation
America’s lost generation The world has seen a number of lost generations in the past century. Gertrude Stein first coined the term in 1920s in reference to the Europeans who grew up during World War I, but it’s most recently referred to Japanese youth who grew up during that country’s recession in the 1990s. In [...]
Why all of your employees should be VIPs
From Holler.com Walking home from the fourth annual f8 conference earlier this week I kept wondering why I hadn’t gone over to the massive Sean Parker/Spotify after party. Over the past few years, Facebook’s f8 after party was an opportunity to schmooze with people of all levels within the company. This year however, the “A-List” [...]
Architecture as a force to deal with poverty?
As Paris is finding, it may be overestimating the power of architecture Balzac has now been emptied, though, and a spidery mechanical arm tears away at it each day. The towering wall of stained concrete and tile, once 600 feet long and 16 stories high, is to be replaced by a cluster of smaller units, [...]
“Because the first place most of us want to experiment with looser building codes is 320 kilometres out to sea.”
Tabatha Southey has this fantastic column in today’s Globe & Mail on a new libertarian society 320 kilometres out in the ocean. Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of PayPal and Facebook financier, has also embarked on a plan for a new society, for which the location has already been decided and money may not be [...]
The Game
The Toronto Star had a fascinating piece from 2006 about gang life in Toronto. One successful drug dealer said the teens he sees are uncontrollable. "It’s going to be very hard to reach them," he said. "Somebody has got to create more programs for kids. They’ve got to keep them busy. They’ve got to teach [...]
