by mvboronowski | May 20, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Hey there, you gumbooteering crowd. I don’t know how many of you are familiar with the mad-cap travels of Arthur Dent, the Englishman who survived the demolition (read: blowing-up) of his home-planet, i.e. the Earth because it needed to give way to a new...
by mvboronowski | May 19, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Reddit, for those of you who don’t know, is an online social news website with content determined by users as opposed to news editors. Like Digg before it, Reddit users can vote content up and down. They can even vote up comments and ads. Reddit has been around since...
by mvboronowski | May 18, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
If you are an adept of Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, you probably saw Aasif Mandvi’s bit on the Quebec town of Asbestos. Rightfully so, the comedian/journalist ridicules Asbestos desire to sell Asbestos to India, even if a scientific consensus exists about its great...
by mvboronowski | May 17, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Aboard the Editor's Pirate Ship, Business & Entrepreneurship
“Don’t let’s waste waste” – that’s the rather awkward title of an article from the The Economist that just flashed across my Facebook news feed. I skimmed it (Barack Obama is setting up an e-waste task force), but it got me thinking...
by mvboronowski | May 16, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Too often eating comes down to a separated and individually focussed regime. Each person reviews the menu and selects their own meal. I feel like steak and decide to choose it, despite sitting at a table with a bunch of vegetarians. My vegetarian friends order entrees...
