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April 27, 2008 News and Trends

Google trends and inflation talk (Express India)

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:51:04 PDT
Viral Shah pointed me to this example of Google trends being useful in thinking about price fluctuations.

Boulder Tea Company Changing To Meet Trends (KMGH 7 Denver)

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:52:35 PDT
With its 40th birthday approaching, tea giant Celestial Seasonings' logo and packages recently received a bit of a makeover, and the company bulked up its offering -- but don't call it a mid-life crisis.

Police Gear and Stellar Boots

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:24:44 PDT
0 | News, Blogging, Family, Rants, Safety You may have heard about this already, but New York Sun columnist and author of the blog Free Range Kids, Lenore Skenazy, is definately America’s Worst Mom. In the newsweek article it explains how, after admitting to letting her 8 year old son ride the subway by himself, Skenazy was labelled a horrible mother with no concern for her child’s safety by the psychopath’s that bandage scraped knees with horse hair suchors and do more damage to their child

Splendid Reads for April 28th!

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:49:01 PDT
SHOPPING Wardrobe Oxygen offers some wardrobe alternatives to the less-than-flattering pieces in your closet. My Wardrobe Today reviews Clinique cosmetics and skincare. eye4style shops jewelry designer Philip Crangi’s limited edition collection for The Gap. STYLEnosh spends quality time with online shoe stores. BEAUTY Aging Fabulous tells you about anti-aging the natural way. TheScentedLife has a craft crush on Disquieting Designs. Raging Rouge is officially addicted to Treat O’my Goodnes

Nonfiction Campaign: Can Errol Morris's "Standard Operating Procedure" Break the Political Doc Deadlock?

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:58:16 PDT
by Anthony Kaufman (April 27, 2008) Election years are typically strong for political documentaries. Capitalizing on citizens' hunger for issues that the mainstream media is either ignoring or mishandling, audiences flock to theaters to get a deeper sense of what's going on in the world. At least that was the thinking in 2004, with the blockbuster sales of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and also given the multi-million-dollar grosses of "The Fog of War," "Control Room," "Super Size Me," and "The Corporation

"The return of the global intellectuals poll"

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:02:19 PDT
The return of the global intellectuals poll Published by Tom Nuttall on April 21, 2008 in Inside the magazine. 5 Comments Three years ago, you may recall, we teamed up with Foreign Policy magazine to produce a list of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals and to ask our readers to vote for their top five. This year we’re repeating the exercise, with a new list that we believe better reflects the current trends in global thought. We’ve tried to spruce up the list this time around by cle

Weekly Wrapup, 21-25 Apr 2008

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:11:43 PDT
This week was a hectic week, with a number of RWW writers present at the annual Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The big Internet news of the week was the launch of Microsoft's Live Mesh. Yahoo also announced key support for Social Graph and data portability. In social networking news, MySpace officially opened its Application Gallery to all users. In our web trends coverage, Sarah analyzed a Forrester report that claimed Enterprise 2.0 will become a $4.6 Billion industry by 2013, Marshall looked

Countrywide CEO Made $10.8 Million, Cashed Out More Than $120 Million in Stock in 2007, According to SEC (Multi-Housing News)

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:12:53 PDT
Multi-Housing News is the only real estate magazine that covers the multi-housing industry thoroughly, from multifamily trends to Residential Real Estate News. Multi-Housing News sets itself apart from competitive publications by its sheer devotion to the Multi-Housing industry and Residential Real Estate building industry.

Short and long-term impact of meditation on mind and brain

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:15:15 PDT
Vaughan at Mind Hacks collects and comments on couple of review articles on the neuroscience of meditation: This month’s Trends in Cognitive Sciences has a fantastic review article on the neuroscience of meditation - focusing on how the contemplative practice alters and sharpens the brain’s attention systems. The full article is available online as a pdf, and discusses what cognitive science studies have told us about the short and long-term impact of meditation on the mind and brain. … A


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6:39 PM

April 27, 2008 Breaking News

Oil up! Freak out! Dow up? Shut up!

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:50:34 PDT
Oil up! Freak out! Dow up? Shut up! The state-run media in Canada (and the citizen-owned media who do their best to compete with them) all lament, daily (with intra-day lament updates, all day long), the price of a barrel of oil, and the resulting price of gas. (Of course they don’t have the foggiest clue what they’re talking about, but they pretend they do.) Even as I was writing this, the state-owned CBC did a story about the latest rise in gas prices. Apparently it’s getting h

TV tonight: Five worth watching (Toronto Star)

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:44:58 PDT
Oprah and Jen give it up: Oprah's Big Give pulls out the big guns for its season finale, with a special appearance by Jennifer Aniston, who will apparently deliver "big news" in this closer (CTV, ABC at 8).

MPP wants Legislature debates to air live on Web (Toronto Star)

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:42:13 PDT
Ontario is well into the fast-changing Internet age but lags at the very seat of power because citizens can't watch the drama of provincial politics unfold live on their computer screens.

N'Sync star speaks out for Day of Silence

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:05:15 PDT
Gay bishop to attend Lambeth conference despite previous rejection The most senior openly gay cleric in the Anglican Communion, Gene Robinson intends to attend the 2008 Lambeth Conference to be held in Caterbury despite previously refusing to. Popularity: 13% ?] Video: PinkNews editor takes Boris Johnson to task At the Stonewall hustings for the Mayor of London, chair of the hustings, PinkNews.co.uk editor, Tony Grew, took Conservative Party Candidate Boris Johnson to task. Popula

Search warrants suggest Tories overspent by $1-million (The Globe and Mail)

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:31:16 PDT
Documents released Monday lay out allegations against federal Conservative Party, including that invoices may have been altered

Media Update II

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:11:32 PDT
I did an interview with Global TV news on Elections Canada Vs. Harper. That's supposed to air tonight at 5:30 PM and again at 11 PM. Note my Newsworld Politics interview is now set for 5:15 PM.

Another Super Tuesday -- Pennsylvania Edition

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:19:44 PDT
By Michael J.W. Stickings UPDATED FREQUENTLY. SEE BELOW. 9:11 pm -- Hello, everyone. As Creature mentioned -- and make sure to read his excellent Pennsylvania primary post right below this one (or click here) -- I was on CTV Newsnet earlier this evening for a live interview segment with prime-time host Marcia MacMillan. For those of you who aren't Canadian, Newsnet started out as a sort of CNN Headline News. It has recently morphed into a rival to CBC Newsworld, the other major 24/7 news netwo

What exactly did Al Gore do to earn a Nobel Peace Prize

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:51:39 PDT
Months ago while sitting in a restaurant next to two gentleman having a conversation about Al Gore and how great he was this and that I asked a very simple question that led to rage. Now keep in mind I had spoken with one of these people earlier in the evening. That person is friendly with a waiter we know. Granted with the pompous attitude he had then I should have known what his reaction would be when I asked my question. And yes I was eavesdropping a bit. These two gentleman had also put awa

Jim Shaw a no-show at CRTC; cable company's proposals called 'extreme' (Canadian Business)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:58:17 PDT
Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press April 23, 2008 - 4:52 p.m.


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