2010 is my first full year of blogging. I have 123 posts published. And I have nine drafts started that I have not yet finished. On my best day, I had 140 page views. For 2011 I would like to shift gears a little. I think I would like to blog less here at sherwinarnott.org and blog more elsewhere. Here are some other ideas…
Media coverage of global warming, ahem, has been divisive. If you are a busy person trying to understand global warming, you might get a little confused by reading the National Post, the Calgary Herald, or Russ Campbell’s blog. It’s partly because of the lack of critical discourse about many self-proclaimed climate experts’ credentials…
Is Christmas a myth? Is Christmas essentially Christian? If so, is Christianity essentially a myth? Does Jesus or Santa Claus want us to keep killing civilians in Afghanistan? All good questions…
Here’s a short three minute comedy featuring a water cooler conversation about politics, Stephen Harper, and the state of Canadian democracy. Watch it now >>
It’s a user experience failure. I know. Search forms are really important. But until I get a search form that works, here’s a little secret…
Consider the following two sentences. I envision a visit over coffee after I return my video. I will pay by Visa and you will give evidence of your friendship by listening to the advice I provide…
He writes a mean blog and a mean tweet. And he dances…
I was just reading the article that I said I would in my last post. Chomsky is my hero and Glen Beck is a lunatic. So Chris Hedges must be a nut. Who’s crazy?
I generally have ideas about things. I tend towards being opinionated. I have a view of the world that is robust enough that I can fit a surprisingly large amount of new stuff into it without much trouble. But lately I’ve been feeling confused and outmatched by a world of politics that is…
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I knew this guy in Nelson. He ate twelve eggs every day. He said that everything we had ever heard about eggs being bad for us, was published by the meat and dairy…
Okay I get that some folks think that everything is connected to everything. Some moments I think that too. But that flattens the universe. And mostly hippies think that. Go deeper. Some connections matter than others. Even people that believe in astrology believe that our connection to stars is more important than our connection to…
My discourse analysis of the National Post has been momentarily postponed. Partly it’s postponed because I’ve lost the plotline. But I’ll be back. In the mean time you should know that I’m supporting Blog Action Day from Change.org again this year. Last year’s blog, by me, was about the uncertainty principle. This year, I’ll be…
Soon I am embarking on a discourse analysis of the National Post’s coverage of the Robert Pickton murders. This is my second foray into a discourse analysis of a major media outlet. The first was on the Calgary Herald and I was interested in their analysis and value judgments of climate change issues. This time…
CO2NOW.org is a neat resource specializing in helping humans simply know how much CO2 is currently in the Earth’s atmosphere. It kind of reminds me of a thermostat. We should all have a carbon-o-stat for our earth. And it should be set for 350 PPM or lower. :( Check out http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Widget/ to find an assortment…
This 50 minute presentation by Goleman is of interest because he does a good job laying out the difference between threshold capacities and distinguishing capacities. IQ-like competencies are threshold capacities – that is, people need to meet a basic threshold of IQ to even get in the game. But EQ is a distinguishing capacity in so far as someone’s emotional and social intelligence is directly
Even Facebook needs a break now and then. Even Facebook gets broken now and then.
I mentioned Ushahidi a little while ago in this post about Clay Shirky. And recently I’ve had the honour of speaking with friends about a lack of accountability, and a lack of responsibility, in various Canadian police forces.
A few years ago I was at a dinner party at a cabin on Vancouver Island. The host, and my good friend, Dalton, told a story. He told us a story about riding his bike home on a tar black night on Vancouver Island. As the story goes, it was too dark to see the…
Wow. For all of those who rock, and are feminists, we salute you. Ever dream of rocking out on stage? This event is put on by Soumya Natarajan and, although I won’t be attending, I will be going to the Feminist Rock Camp Showcase on Sunday, August 22 (Fort Street Cafe, Victoria, Coast Salish Territory,…
One summer night in Grand Centre, I was watching a movie with a group of my friends. My parents were always so generous and so welcoming about having friends over, and it was a space where we could spread out, help ourselves to snacks, and speak, almost, freely. And my parents often hung out too….
Year’s ago when I was an associate member of the Stone Sculptor’s Guild in Calgary, I took a lot of advice from a stone carver who’s father had been a cake decorator. This was a formative issue for the young stone carver. He watched his father work tirelessly making art that never lasted. Cakes, after…
Last week I attended a gathering of social activists at the BC legislature so that we could talk about what solidarity with activists in Toronto might look like. The protesters and the journalists and the civilian passerbyers that were arrested or otherwise beaten and intimidated in Toronto last week have had their lives altered by…
I found this frickin awesome discussion policy and thought it was worth making note of. It covers a lot of stuff!
