mad.

If you haven’t heard by now, the iPhone is coming to Canada via the merchant of F.U, Rogers. As predicted their data rates plans are a joke. So, in an effort to effect change, go sign this petition.

For those of you who remember ShiftEdit, our live blogging platform, we has just re-branded it ScribbleLive and released at beta two days ago. Since then we have been line blogging MESH for the last two days. While I was there I met up with a writer from TechCrunch who was nice enough to write an article about us.

Then all hell broke loose. We made it to The Washington Post and then Digg. Crazy day! Thanks for all the support.

Update: We are in CrunchBase. Yippie!

-30-

Apparently Harvey’s is offering a free Angus Burger with the purchase of any menu item. I have not tried to redeem it yet but it seems legit! Print this coupon and go crazy.

Offer expires April 27th, 2008. Mmmmm

Update: Apparently it ended on April 9th

The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on the pink button near the top that says CLICK TO GIVE Daily!

This doesn’t cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising.

Cheers!

The new season of BSG is upon us and set to premiere season 4 episode 1 on Space at 10 PM Friday. Make sure you follow the fraking show on line as well with ShiftEdit as we live blog the event in real-time, compete with special guest bloggers.

I shot the Cylon, Tricia Helfer last summer at the Canadian Film Centre BBQ. Also pictured, and not a cyborg, the gorgeous Leelee Sobieski and some other dude.

 

This Saturday millions of people around the world will turn of their lights at 8PM in honor of Earth Hour, a multi-corporation feel good campaign designed to let the regular folk feel good about themselves.

I thought it appropriate that I upload this photo showing a discarded postcard advertising the event this weekend. Doesn’t seem very “carbon neutral” to me to handout these to ask people to be more environmental. 

Here are a few ideas that you don’t have to wait until 8PM tonight to do.

1. Turn off your damn lights all the time they are not in use.
2. Leave your earth killing car at home once a week.
3. Use you own bags at stores.
4. Shut down your computer at the office.
5. Switch to an environmental power source.
6. Plant a tree.
7. Hug a tree.

 

 

• (12:39 AM EST) Look at me, its posting on my blog.

See the entire My First New Live Blog on my Blog live blog at Shift Edit

ShiftEdit was first developed in 2005 as an experiment to enable a living web page to be edited right in a browsers’ window without the need for administration status like a blog. Once the page was created you simply click on the text you want to edit, made the change, and presto, it appeared. Jonathan was well on his way to creating the foundation of a real-time Content Management System.

In 2006 in response to the increasing need to discover new ways to use this exciting tool, he build whyyoushould.org a site that allows you to instantly create a “live list” in a free form manner. Simply type in the your text, link to image or video and in appears on the page.

I met Jonathan just when WhyYouShould went live at CTV, formally CHUM at Queen and John. Both of us living and working in the area lead to many discussions on our way home about the “next” big thing. Late in 2007, we came up with the idea of combining these two technologies, ShiftEdit CMS and WhyYouShould into a platform for live blogging.

What ShiftEdit has done is enabled friends and colleagues to collaborate live on any subject while posting text, links, pictures, video and files in real time. The simplified and secure login choice of Facebook or Microsoft Live has give hundreds of millions of individuals instant access. Once posted, the contributors can edit the text, live, right on the page and the update appears on all screens of the bloggers as well as any people watch, instantly, without reloading. This allows for rapid posts that you can change later.

Imagine your blogging team is at an event like a Keynote Address, the Music Awards, or a Lecture at school. Livers (Live Bloggers) can write their commentary on their laptop or mobile device, Photogs (Photo Bloggers) can snap shots on their SLR’s or mobiles phone and email (coming soon) them right to the live blog.

You can check the content and make edits as necessary, all within the live page. No JAVA Applets required, only a browser. That’s what makes it so versatile. If you can run a browser or send and email you can post to this live blog from whichever device you choose.

-30-

Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education?Well, check this out. Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895? How about right now? This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina , Kansas , USA . It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina , and reprinted by the Salina Journal.

8TH GRADE FINAL EXAM: SALINA, KS - 1895

GRAMMAR (TIME: one hour)

1. Give nine rules for the use of capital letters.
2. Name the parts of speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define verse, stanza and paragraph.
4. What are the principal parts of a verb? Give principal parts of “lie,”"play,” and “run.”
5. Define case; illustrate each case.
6. What is punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of punctuation.
7. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.

ARITHMETIC (TIME: 1 hour 15 minutes)

1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. Deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. Wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3,942 lbs., what is it worth at 50cts/bushel, deducting 1,050 lbs. For tare?
4. District No 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find the cost of 6,720 lbs. Coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. Long at $20 per metre?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance of which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt

U.S. HISTORY (TIME: 45 minutes)

1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles attles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton , Bell , Lincoln , Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865.

Orthography (TIME: one hour)

1. What is meant by the following: alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals
4. Give four substitutes for caret ‘u.’ (HUH?)
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final ‘e.’ Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: bi, dis-mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane , vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.

GEOGRAPHY (TIME: one hour)

1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas ?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of North America.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia , Odessa , Denver , Manitoba , Hecla , Yukon , St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the earth.

Notice that the exam took FIVE HOURS to complete.

Gives the saying “he only had an 8th grade education” a whole new meaning, doesn’t it? I don’t have the answers but this guy does!. I dug up a standardized English test from California for grade eights from 2007. You be the judge on whether kids are smarter today. Shit, did i use capitalization correctly in that last sentence?

-30-

In the quest for office one always needs to recruit Hollywood. This video is quite impressive…I hope he wins.