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Pee Wee Capitals win again!
Congratulations to the Regina Pee Wee Female Capitals who won their second tournament of the season. This weekend it was the Swift Current tourney which the Capitals won after beating the Weyburn Angels 3-2 in the final on Sunday. The girls did well to get to the final, beating the Diefenbaker Thunder 4-1 and Saskatoon [...]
With Lure of Cash, M.I.T. Group Builds a Balloon-Finding Team to Take Pentagon Prize
A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology edged out about 4,300 other teams on Saturday in a Pentagon-sponsored contest to correctly identify the location of 10 red balloons distributed around the United States. Skip to next paragraph Related Times Topics: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency The contest, which featured a $40,000 prize, [...]
Copyright’s Creative Disincentive
If you follow the debate around digital copyright at all, you’ll like this article by David Weinberger. There’s a consultation on Canadian copyright going on right now — well worth getting involved. Copyright’s Creative Disincentive August 31st, 2009 | Written by David Weinberger with intro by Elliot Noss | Jump to comments Filed Under: Policy [...]
Sharepoint in Plain English, by Common Craft
<br/>SharePoint in Plain English I’m a big fan of Lee Lefever. He’s got the knack for explaining things in a way that really makes sense. Or as he likes to call it, Plain English. He’s got a new video out describing how Microsoft Sharepoint is useful. I’m kinda forced into using Sharepoint at the day [...]
American Healthcare Debate Explained
via slideshare.net I’m a huge fan of Dan Roam and the visual thinking techniques he taught in his book “The Back of the Napkin”. I’ve used his techniques in several of my own presentations with very good results. Dan’s built a four part presentation explaining the current debate on health care reform that is really [...]
Health Care Napkin 1#
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Kokanee Creek in the Morning
Taken around 7:30AM. The clouds are low in the mountains because it’s seriously humid here (north of Nelson BC). It gets hot during the day then big thunderstorms in the afternoon. Expecting the same today. So we get lots of greenery – it’s a completely different ecosystem than the Radium-Fairmont valley on the other side [...]
Lake Louise in Summer
We’re up at the top of the Lake Louise gondola, looking back at the lake, chateau and glacier. The sky has quite a bit of smoke haze, which I assume is from the wildfires in the Okanagan valley, 600km to the west. I’m shocked by the size of the glaciers. It’s been 8 years since [...]
ProductMarketing.com: Friday Fun: United Breaks Guitars
via pragmaticmarketing.typepad.com You just can’t ignore customer service issues and hide behind policies anymore. Especially if you tick off a guy with talent. 2.7M views and counting. Bet United’s glad it saved a couple dollars? Posted via web from madbaker’s posterous
You still think TV is important?
via youtube.com My pal Darwin Janz reminded me of a great presentation from Michael Wesch on how YouTube changed everything. Well worth your time to check it out. Then start posting some vids, pictures or writing…. Posted via web from madbaker’s posterous