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Seeing the Warning Signs of Anger

A terrible tragedy in Moncton New Brunswick yesterday has led to the deaths of three of the city’s finest, with two more in the hospital. Media reports identified as Jason Bourque. I took a quick look on Facebook and came across this profile, which I believe would be the person, if not then that fellow has all the warning signs
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Tim Hortons vs Players Cigarettes

OK so here in my part of the world there is a large backlash against cups from coffee from Tim Hortons coffee ( no ‘ as they need to be in Quebec). They are everywhere. What to do to pick those up? Nothing! The question is what to do to stop the dumping in the first place. Well for me
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Viral: We Must Deliver to the Client! – not

Golden Eagle Snatches Kid in Montreal So yes you have all seen this and at first were taken in. The reality was that students from an arts college in Montreal were tasked to make a viral video that would garner over 100K views. They did well. After researching about what works best on YouTube it was kids, animals and more
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Blinded Science Miss Sakamoto!

This is going down as a “Did you actually ever think that 80s videos could come to fruition”. Dolby is responsible for the fact that your mobile can do more than just do a beep beep when getting a call, text, email etc. “Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto! You’re beautiful!” Perhaps best known for blinding us with science, TED Music Director
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The Up and the Down of 1863

Since leaving the agency I was at I am now online in a mobile form. This meaning that I am roaming the house with my laptop and not really tied to any one place. Sure I have an office, but that is more or less a bunker and one at this time of year I choose not to be in.
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2006 Bites Abercrombie & Fitch on the Skinny Jean Ass

You might have noticed a bit of a gap in the posts in the past few weeks as I took a break from writing to concentrate on some other urgent projects. Now back, let’s dig into something I heard about a few days ago. Since I don’t shop at the store, I was not aware that the retailer Abercrombie &
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#RobFord Hits the Twittersphere.

Ford is out because he voted on a motion to keep donations in (his own promoted charity using the Mayor seat) back in 2010. Irony: he actually did not have to vote on the motion as the council voted on the monies raised as an error of judgement rather than abuse of office. It was the vote on that motion
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Failure to See the Train in the Tunnel

  Huffington Post Canada blogger Jim Harris has written an excellent piece on the reason for the demise of print based revenue which is evident in data supplied by the Newspaper Association of America. There are three important points that stood out to me. …newspapers on the print side have begun to optimize for Google rankings, but the business side
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Frankenstorm Sandy and Google

Google Crisis Response is a project by Google which has partnered with government agencies, NGOs and commercial organizations that publish authoritative emergency information during disasters or emergency situations for supporting first responders. Google’s contributions can include: updated satellite imagery of the disaster area, charitable donations to organizations on-the-ground, outreach through Google web properties, and engineering tools, such as Google Person
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A Look at Apple Technology Myths

  Tek Syndicate covers some of the myths about what Apple actually invented. Apple has been creating chaos in the courts lately, but did they actually ever invent anything? This video explains that Apple is a recipe company, not an invention company. This does not mean that they do not innovate, it simply means that they are responsible for less
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