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bald eagles

Mark Wickens points us this morning to this video of a pair of bald eagles and their chicks in Sydney, BC.

When I was in BC last summer I saw a pair of bald eagles at Willows Beach in Oak Bay in Victoria.

I managed to get a couple of photos of the birds. Here’s how I described it on my photoblog:

Tried to speed walk nearly the entire length of the beach. Walked barefoot across stones, rocks, and jagged boulders. Came close to falling and smashing several hundreds of dollars worth of camera gear. Nearly stepped on broken glass while trying to avoid the fall. Got bug bites on my ankles that kept me from sleeping through the night for nearly two weeks afterwards. Seeing these two bald eagles in the wild at Willows Beach in Oak Bay in British Columbia? Worth every single one of those poorly thought out, risky, and painful steps.

Here are two of those photos:

(photo: “bald eagles” copyright davidartemiw 2008. Originally published here.)

(”in search of food,” copyright davidartemiw 2008. Originally published here.)

presentation design

One of the things that has captured my imagination over the last few months is presentation design. Ever since stumbling across the work of people like Garr Reynolds and Nancy Duarte, I’ve spent a good deal of time thinking about presentation design and trying it out whenever I can.

Earlier today I came across a Google Docs presentation on the Agenda website with the bios for the current crop of candidates for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

I decided to see what I could do with the exact same information. Let me know what you think.

(DISCLAIMER: The terms of my employment require me to be neutral in this race so this exercise is not an endorsement of any candidate. All elements of this presentation were taken from the original done by the folks at the Agenda. Photos were chosen from those published by the candidates themselves and selected for resolution quality.)

will it sell a single phone?

T-Mobile has a new ad and it’s pretty damn cool.

Will it sell a single phone? I doubt it. But that doesn’t mean their message is a bad one. Life is for sharing. And there’s some interesting stuff in there about joy and contagiousness and how great it is to be alive.

Via: adliterate

oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood

One man’s pirate, it would seem, is another man’s freedom fighter. Misunderstood victims of nasty propaganda campaigns.

Thank god for Johann Hari who sets us straight. Of pirates, he writes

They mutinied against their tyrannical captains - and created a different way of working on the seas. Once they had a ship, the pirates elected their captains, and made all their decisions collectively. They shared their bounty out in what Rediker calls “one of the most egalitarian plans for the disposition of resources to be found anywhere in the eighteenth century.”

They say this kind of thing about Hamas and others, don’t they?

cheers to you

From the Ridiculous Informercial Review blog. Via Merlin Mann.

(This ain’t productive at all.)

sticking

In their book, Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath outline the SUCCESs checklist for giving your ideas a fighting chance to cut through the noise and be remembered.

• Simple
• Unexpected
• Concrete
• Credible
• Emotional
• Stories

Aim for those and your idea might have some legs.

So, what about the pomegranate phone?

Go have a look and then come back. I’ll wait.

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duck, duck

via Herd:

NASA’s lost its ducks. Maybe they melted.

my current favourite website

Life, Doctor Who & Combom.

All I want for Christmas this year is to be able to see the Doctor Who Christmas Special.

found poetry

Years ago, when Michael Ignatieff was two months removed from having been elected as an MP and was contemplating his first leadership run he had a quote appear in the papers that was as poetic as it was bizarre. I didn’t have a blog at the time so Paul Wells at Maclean’s was kind enough to post it (and now the link is, forever, lost.) But it went like this:

can we herd these cats?

can we herd these cats
the question does occur

oh sure

these are great cats
these are the best cats there are

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