by potential | May 25, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
What we read I first read the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins on the recommendation from a friend. She had told me that it was a book for ‘young’ readers but followed up that she absolutely loved it. I was intrigued! I not only loved it but devoured it just as I...
by potential | May 24, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Like thousands of others, I spent the past May 24 weekend camping. It was my second time to Algonquin Provincial Park in as many months. My return to camping after almost a decade of only “car camping” coincided with Park Canada’s 100th anniversary, rumours about...
by potential | 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 potential | 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 potential | 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...
