by mvboronowski | May 23, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
My good friend and The Potentiality collaborator, Natasha Moore, is doing a very good thing. She’s participating in the Enbridge* Ride to Conquer Cancer, which goes from June 18-19 and involves a fairly epic route from Vancouver to Seattle. All proceeds go to...
by mvboronowski | May 22, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Our thanks to Coco Lefoka for passing on this great event. If you have something coming up that you think could be interesting for the community, shoot John or I a note and let us know about it! On May 28th UBC Campus and Community Planning will host a panel on...
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...
