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Facebook Fast Fame Fiasco
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on March 12th, 2009
The last seven days was a crash course in how the news operates. Apparently, if you can string together four words, and you happen to be peripherally within the scope of the news flavour of the week, you can get yer mug splashed across the media of your choice.
Here are the links to my interviews in the Globe and Mail (and the follow up discussion forum), on CTV National News, and on CBC Radio One (it’s the third audio clip).
Terrorist or Capitalist?
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on August 5th, 2004
A friend of mine sent me a link to a parody of the American Department of Homeland Security’s emergency preparedness web site (thanks Gillian!). I’d seen the parody page before, but the second look motivated me to have a look at the real government site. The information is broken up into sections, like “Biological Threat”, Read the full article…
High School Dropout Patents Hydrogen Breakthrough
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on January 19th, 2004
It appears I’m getting into the wrong business. A story on CBC’s web site details how a man in New Brunswick has invented (and patented) an ingenious way of producing hydrogen gas using aluminum, water, and sodium hydroxide. If it works as well as expected, we’ll be able to produce all the hydrogen we need, Read the full article…
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