I posted the Michael J. Fox/Terry Fox video from NBC and I maintained that it wasn’t insulting but merely a mistake. Well if you’re convinced that Americans don’t care about us and are totally ignorant to our great land then watch this. Caution, lump in the throat inducing.
At Enright's wedding, he and Fowler hip-hop kareoke'd a little House of Pain.
This is from NBC’s Web site. Yesterday afternoon they were hypothesizing who might light the Olympic torch and the first guess was Betty Fox, the mother of Michael Fox who ran across Canada to raise money for cancer research. They even show a picture of Alex P. Keaton to boot.
I found this via Twitter which then lead to a Reddit post and finally, I want to give the OP credit. Elizabeth Dixon maintains a blog What Ever and posted an entry about some public art that sprung up a few hours after a car crashed into a house in Savannah, Georgia.
Best. Post. Ever.
As she writes:
“Someone looked over there and saw not the place of a terrible car accident, but the opportunity to live out a dream.”
“And really, haven’t we all had that dream? To be in a situation where making a sign of the Kool-Aid man breaking through a wall would make sense?
Thank you Elizabeth Dixon for sharing this most awesomest of blog posts.
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The Centennial College Student Association Inc. held its annual Christmas party for students and their families at the Student Centre @ Progress Campus
Wired.com, the sister site to the awesome magazine, Wired, has reportedly been blocked in China. While the magazine has been unable to confirm this independently a report from Examiner.com suggests users from Bejing to Shanghi have been unable to connect to the site since Friday.
You can see the news from Wired here but I’ve also reposted the entire story after the link. If you are in China and can confirm this directly with Wired, please do so by e-mailing them. Read More
Between economic collapse and a downturning economy, Ken Lewenza says Canadian auto workers shouldn’t have to give up a penny to help sustain the Big Three automakers. On this episode of Focus Ontario, Lewenza is asked – that compared to Toyota and Honda whose wages are debatabley lower than that of the Big Three – shouldn’t CAW members accept a cut in pay and/or benefits. He has an answer, but not one to the question.
A year or so ago I read Dan Pink’s book A Whole New Mind and was really impressed. Pink presented a challenge to look at the world an entirely new way backed up with clear analysis and intrepid arguments. I thoroughly enjoyed A Whole New Mind so when his latest title, DRiVE, became available I picked it up.
I was actually in the middle of another book, The Opposable Mind, but after reading the first chapter of DRiVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, I was hooked. I bought it electronically and read it via the iPhone app Kobo.
DRiVE is a natural progression from A Whole New Mind. In A Whole New Mind, Pink argued we has a race had progressed through three “ages” and the fourth age, the conceptual age is where we can excel. In DRiVE he makes the case for different strategies for motivating ourselves, our coworkers, our family and our communities (for the purpose of this recap I’ll focus on how it applies to a business environment but there’s just as much in there for personal growth and families).
He lays the foundation for the book by suggesting humans, like software have gone through two versions: motivation one, where our basic operating system was fuelled by the need to survive. Motivation two introduced us to the idea of seeking out rewards and avoiding punishment and finally – our latest upgrade – motivation three “presumes that humans also have a third drive – to learn, to create and to better the world.”
