If you’re not across it, Vic Toews of the Conservatives is trying to ram a wide-ranging internet surveillance, domestic spying and wireless tapping bill through Canadian Parliament despite massive opposition to it using the old “you’re either with ‘us’ or with the child pornographers” argument.
Rick Mercer has a great rant on it. Sign the petition at AccessNow to oppose it.
Wow, Umair Haque does it again admonishing us to Create a Meaningful Life Through Meaningful Work and telling us to ask some of the really big questions about the stuff we’re doing day to day while reflecting on the tedious BS of the illustriati in Manhattan this week. I like his call to get lethally serious about stuff that matters.
So here’s a tiny hypothesis: maybe the real depression we’ve got to contend with isn’t merely one of how much economic output we’re generating — but what we’re putting out there, and why. Call it a depression of human potential, a tale of human significance being willfully squandered…
This is a contest near and dear to my heart since every year I’m always a little scandalized at “Most Livable” and “Best City” league tables from various organizations every year. Especially having lived in some fairly prominent world capitals and livable cities (Paris, London, Vancouver, Amsterdam, Sydney, Toronto etc.). I want to figure this out to an answer I can agree with from my own experience, since it might finally answer the question of where I should live definitively.
One of the big problems in charities these days is a simple lack of innovation. There are a lot of orgs out there all competing for your scarce attention and money and many just use the recycled tactics they’ve seen other organizations use or they’ve used in the past. And it causes donor fatigue for even the worthiest causes.
So, I really like it when someone comes up with something refreshingly new. Admittedly, the people at charitywater keep on impressing me both from a funding and creativity standpoint. Waterforward take the idea of paying it forward into the social media and personal giving realm (as well as social proof and inclusion.). Brilliant.
For a teaser trailer with a guy dressed in a panda head, I actually thought this was extremely well done. interested to see it than Luc-Besson’s Lockout anyhow… ;-)
OK, sure… maintaining credible suspension of disbelief through an entire film of this would be beggaring belief, but still. You know what I’m saying.
A gorgeous trailer paying homage to David Attenborough’s final episode of Frozen Planet on the BBC. So. Great.
I really can’t express how much I’ve loved every second of Sir David’s BBC documentaries I’ve hoarded and been watching over the past few months. I’ve been watching them as I can get them and for sheer profound beauty, inspiration and sense of wonder I cannot think of anything that has affected me more on television. This is what TV was invented for.
This is made of pure awesome. JP Auclair street skiing segment. I love the parkour style (filmed in my old stomping grounds in BC!). I have to admit it’s made my feet even more itchy to get some snowboarding in. Back to Canada? Japan perhaps? It’s too long to wait till Southern Hemisphere winter here in Kangaland I think. (insert long wistful sigh of longing here). Vid starts slow, so for the tl;dr crowd, bounce to the 2:00 mark for the extreme awesome. HD and fullscreen, please.
Wow, this is amazing to watch. Timelapse of the creation of a cartoon mag post-apocalyptic cover art. I’m impressed. Sure, I’m futzing around with getting my drawring betterer more and more , but this is really aspirational. Awesome.
via Jilo Ody .
Wow. Totally epic and Matrix-esque scifi short. Brilliant. Very impressed.
via Geeks Are Sexy