So I have just spent the last hour reading up on what other bloggers have to say about poverty, and I have to say, I’m really impressed. It’s heartwarming and encouraging to know that there are so many people who care out there. Here are (for now) some of my favorites. I plan to waste… Read More Blog Action Day: Some interesting posts
Things aren’t going well. Surprise, surprise. So how can we change them? As Al Gore explained quite eloquently in his book The Assault on Reason now more than ever we need to be well informed and be part of the political process if we want things to change. One great way is through the Internet,… Read More Blog Action Day: an Introduction
October 15th is Blog Action Day, and already blogs are teeming with ideas of what we can do to help combat poverty. I’m all about grassroots projects, so this particularly appeals to me. I have taken the liberty of posting a list of 88 ways to take action again poverty right now. While there are… Read More 88 Ways to Take Action Against Poverty Right Now
Things didn’t seem to go as well as they did for me last week-end, certainly not in Toronto, where a “Violent Thanksgiving weekend in Toronto area claims eight lives“. THE CANADIAN PRESS – TORONTO – A violent and bloody holiday weekend across the Toronto area claimed at least eight lives. On Thanksgiving Monday, police were… Read More So much for giving thanks…
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Sometimes, when I ponder on the not so many ways I have to increase this blog’s readership, I am very tempted to blog about things that are popular rather than things that I like to blog about. For example, Google Trends has been telling me that, during the last 20 days, over half of the… Read More The mystery of Google Trends
Sometimes, the most complex concepts can be explained in the simplest of ways… I wish that had been the case with college calculus…
Make sure not only to read the article, but the comments posted by some of the readers. I find this idea cute, but, as some readers also mentioned, useless – instead of taking real action, Evan Roth is only helping frustrate people who have no say in the matter. As one of the readers said:… Read More Playing games with the TSA
I love music. I really do. One of the first things I do when I get home is turning the radio on. I almost never am without a form of portable music or another (my shoulder still has a dent from the boom box days) (just kidding) and when I don’t have something to listen… Read More Katy Perry, innuendos, bad lyrics and the entire gambit