I have been thinking about metrics, especially web metrics and attempting to reconcile the use of quantitative measurements on qualitative experiences. So for example, you had the banana pudding at a restaurant and rated it a 9 out of 10. You would be applying a scale to something that is …
Naomi Wolf warns about the 10 steps that despots take to take over and create fascist governments. http://www.democracynow.org/2007/11/28/the_end_of_america_feminist_social And in case you didn’t think it was happening, or you think of it as a whacko leftist conspirancy…follow the links. Step 1: All would-be dictators invoke a terrifying internal and external …
When will the RCMP stop lying about their role. We have all seen the video and it is obvious that they did nothing to help him. Unless you call kneeling on his neck and head helping. The fire department claim they told the cops he was dead and asked for …
The Sudanese president has pardoned Ms. Gibbons and released her. She is now leaving the Sudan.
RCMP officer Dale Carr, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team claims that Robert Dziekanski was still alive when the medical teams arrived, CBC reports. He claims that after officers tasered him repeatedly and knelt on his neck and head (remember we have the video), that they monitored Dziekanski. “As soon …