Weekly round up: May 30 - June 5

Articles

Journalism Day Henry Pringle Lecture by Nate Silver [Reformatted by Joe Clark from PDF]

Why 50% plus one isn't enough from Ottawa Citizen by Stéphane Dion

The decline and fall of rock bands from National Post

Iceland Express flights from Winnipeg: now with more rock `n' roll from National Post

Why politicians should experiment more, not less from Ottawa Citizen

Maybe we should have more yoga in prisons from Ottawa Citizen

The crooks who creates modern [US] wiretapping laws from ars technica

`If you're Canadian, why aren't you bilingual?' new immigrants wonder from National Post

Kill the subsidy, but kill them all from Macleans [Agree, except for upping the limit on donations, $1,100 index to inflation seems fine to me.]

How to send and reply to email by Matt Might

The GOP's dueling delusional ad campaigns from The Week

Tweets

Today's mail: 2 menus, McGill News addressed to former occupant/fellow alum. Oh, please don't strike, Canada Post. I'd just die.

— Chris Selley (@cselley) May 30, 2011

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-05-26T14:40:25.000Z. @mattmight@mathstodon.xyz (@mattmight). When senior faculty tell junior faculty to get more grants, my brain hears it in the Protoss voice: "We require more minerals.".

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-05-24T14:50:18.000Z. Ken Huber (@kennethhuber). After talking to 1 co-worker today, I've determined that 0% of the people in my office understand random sampling..

Plan for immortality: patent parallelogram-shaped screwdriver heads.

— Corey Mintz (@coreymintz) June 1, 2011

CBC TV policy seems to be that no Skype video feed is poor enough to simply abandon for audio-only.

— Chris Selley (@cselley) May 31, 2011

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-06-03T13:53:24.000Z. The Median Voter (@CanMedianVoter). The postal strike is going to ruin the thrill of thinking I've gotten mail from a friend only to realize its actually junk mail from Rogers..