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08/12/12
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Clicks of the Day: August 10, 11, 12 2012 Weekend Edition!

Welcome to the three-day roundup …

Weekend Edition (August 13, 14, 15) of Clicks of the Day!

Clicks of the Day is a daily round up of news posted Sunday through Thursday with quantity and quality of content differing depending on how busy Linda’s day is.

    Edmonton/Alberta/Canada

  • Evacuation on U of A campus was false alarm: police

    • “Students were evacuated from the Students’ Union Building at the University of Alberta Sunday afternoon over what turned out to be a false alarm. Police were called to the campus around 2 p.m. Sunday after reports of a man with a gun. However after investigating, police discovered the gun was a paintball gun.”

    “Whoops.”

  • Edmonton man warns of dog attacks, wants city to step up patrol

    • “An Edmonton man has a warning for park and trail users in the city, after he was bitten by a dog. Greg Doucette believes dog attacks are happening more frequently and in areas where dogs shouldn’t be off leash. He wants the city to step up patrols.”

    Lots of people had something to say about this on the CTV Facebook Page! As I don’t frequent parks, trails or own a dog I have little feelings about it, lol.

  • Hundreds of Edmonton cab drivers could strike Monday

    • “Hundreds of Edmonton cab drivers could hit the picket line on Monday. The union that represents the drivers for Yellow Cab, Barrel Taxi, Checker and Prestige Cabs have served strike notice and say if an agreement is not reached over the weekend, close to 800 drivers could be on strike Monday morning.”

    Yikes! (Rarely use cab service so this wouldn’t impact me, feel bad for the unhappy cab drivers through).

  • Perseid meteor shower set to light up sky this weekend

    • “Sky gazers are in for quite the show this weekend as the annual Perseid meteor shower hits its peak. The Perseid meteor shower takes place every August, hitting its peak between August 11 and 13, when those looking skywards could see up to a hundred meteorites every hour – weather permitting.”

    I can’t get myself to stay awake long enough to try and watch! :’( I get soooo tired.

  • Volunteers allowed to issue parking tickets under City of Edmonton program

    • “You might not be able to curse City Hall over your next parking ticket — the person handing out the fine could be a volunteer bylaw officer. For almost 30 years, Edmonton has allowed landowners or staff who meet certain requirements to issue city tags for parking infractions on their own property. Last year, the roughly 200 volunteer officers gave out 11,079 tickets to drivers who parked illegally, blocked emergency lanes or left their vehicles in a handicapped zone without authorization.”

    Interesting – I didn’t realize volunteers could give you a parking ticket.

  • London 2012: Canada’s bronzed Olympic Games

    • “For Canada, London 2012 was not about owning the podium or winning the games. Rather, the best-remembered stories will be of Canadians bouncing back, of athletes taking the hardest knocks but fighting to the end anyway. So often the choice was to either come away with nothing, or to come away bloodied, bruised and possibly bronzed. Canadians almost always chose the latter.”

    Gooo Canada!!!

    World

  • Grief, anxiety after twin quakes in Iran

    • “Twin earthquakes that struck Iran on Saturday have killed hundreds, injured thousands and caused massive damage across the northwest region of the country, Iranian state television said Sunday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the first quake occurred at 4:53 p.m. Saturday, had a magnitude of 6.4 and struck 60 kilometres northeast of the city of Tabriz at a depth of 9.9 kilometres.”

    SO sad! :(

  • The Pope drops Catholic ban on condoms in historic shift

    • “After decades of fierce opposition to the use of all contraception, the Pontiff has ended the Church’s absolute ban on the use of condoms. He said it was acceptable to use a prophylactic when the sole intention was to “reduce the risk of infection” from Aids. While he restated the Catholic Church’s staunch objections to contraception because it believes that it interferes with the creation of life, he argued that using a condom to preserve life and avoid death could be a responsible act – even outside marriage.”

    Oo.

    Health

  • Teens who feel ‘fat’ likely will be as adults: study

    • “Researchers say they have evidence that teens can really make their dreams come true. But rather than turning thoughts of a successful career into reality, they say teens who imagine they’re overweight are more likely to grow up fat.”

    It’s all about positive thinking!

  • Stressed men drawn to heavy women

    • “When placed under stressful situations, men rate larger women as more attractive, new research has shown. British researchers found that men exposed to tasks that were designed to put them under pressure preferred a wider range of female body sizes. They conclude that stress can act to alter judgments of potential partners.”

    Oh .. studies.

  • Migraines don’t hurt brain function: Study

    • “Painful as they may be, migraines don’t hurt your brain, new research shows. Researchers at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital analyzed data from 6,349 women aged 45 and older who had participated in a large health study in which they indicated whether they suffer from migraines. In followup tests of their cognitive function — conducted every two years, up to three times — the researchers found no significant difference between women who experienced migraines and women with no history of it.”

    They’re just painful!

  • Can daily aspirin help ward off cancer?

    • “A new study bolsters the case that daily aspirin may help protect against cancer, although the effect seems weaker than previously thought. And the final chapter on the popular but controversial drug has yet to be written, experts say, because like earlier research the new work has considerable limitations.”

    Hmm.

    Technology/Social Media/Internet

  • Social media proves a force in consuming Olympics

    • “Twitter estimates there were more than 50 million tweets about the Olympics, at a pace of 80,000 per minute after Jamaica’s Usain Bolt won the gold medal in the 200-meter sprint. Facebook saw the number of fans of Olympic athletes soar: American gymnast Gabby Douglas had 14,358 followers on July 27 and 540,174 less than two weeks later. All of the activity pumped up interest in the games.”

    Social media can be awesome like that.

  • Facebook campus gets its own Main Street

    • “Mark Zuckerberg wired together nearly 1 billion people on the Web. Now the ambitious young entrepreneur is building another kind of community, this one out of bricks and mortar. Construction is booming along a bustling stretch that cuts through the center of Facebook Inc.’s campus in Silicon Valley, where staffers stroll or ride bikes and RipStiks between buildings. Here the social networking giant is designing its own Main Street, putting in storefronts that will cater only to Facebook employees, whether they’re in the mood for a straight-razor shave or nigiri rolls.”

    God, Facebook is so cool.

  • McDonald’s Canada’s social media platform aims to debunk myths

    • “When McDonald’s Canada created a social media platform offering to take direct questions from the public and answer them — truthfully and in real time — there was some skepticism about whether the burger giant would really let the unfiltered questions fly. The questions ranged from asking whether McDonald’s beef was called “100% beef” because the corporation owned a company with that name, whether the ammonia-tinged additive known as “pink slime” was used as meat filler, and a persistent urban myth in Quebec that the fast food chain puts antiemetic in its food to keep customers from getting sick. Smart social media hinges on consumers being able to direct the line of inquiry, said Mr. Tremblay. “We always talk about the brand being transparent, but here we are being transparent about what people really want to know.” Mr. Capobianco said the biggest challenge for the brand will be to keep that transparency up. “They clearly embraced it, so where are they going to go?” McDonald’s says it will keep the site live and monitored, though the team working on it is smaller than it was in the early phase of the program.”

    Totally interesting.

  • Google’s self-driving cars: 300,000 miles logged, not a single accident under computer control

    • “Ever since Google began designing its self-driving cars, they’ve wanted to build cars that go beyond the capabilities of human-piloted vehicles, cars that are much, much safer. When Sebastian Thrun announced the project in 2010, he wrote, “According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million lives are lost every year in road traffic accidents. We believe our technology has the potential to cut that number, perhaps by as much as half.” New data indicate that Google’s on the right path. Earlier this week the company announced that the self-driving cars have now logged some 300,000 miles and “there hasn’t been a single accident under computer control.”"

    Pretty cool…

  • How an 18-year-old made $35,000 for tweeting parody accounts

    • “If there was a How to Make Money On Twitter for Dummies, Jon King would be its best-selling author. In the last four months, King has earned more than $35,000 by tweeting sponsored messages on the microblogging platform. Not too shabby for an 18-year-old high school student. “I’m always on Twitter, it seems like; so I figured, why not try to make a little money off of it?” King told the Daily Dot. “You have you good weeks. And you have your bad weeks, but it’s a pretty well-paying job.” In short, King operates six popular parody accounts, the first of which, Condescending Wonka (@WilllllyWonka), was inspired by the Condescending/Creepy Wonka meme and boasts 376,000 followers. All together, his accounts — including @_ShitMenSay_, @willlllywonka and his personal favorite, @AntiJokeJamal — have more than 1 million followers.”

    Wow good for him.

  • Pinterest opens site to all, stops invite-only policy

    • “Image-based social networking service Pinterest has relaxed its sign-up policy, opening the site to all. Previously, people needed invites to become members and “pin” online images onto its virtual “boards”. Launched in 2010, Pinterest became the fastest-growing site ever, passing 10 million users in nine months.”

    Can we expect even more pinners now??

  • Call me (or email me), maybe?

    • “Do you prefer to communicate via phone or via email? What makes you decide to get off the computer and make a phone call, instead?”

    For the most part I prefer email 9 times out of 10.

    Business/Work/Economy/Media

  • Google death benefits pay dead employees’ families for 10 years

    • “Google treats its dead employees better than some companies do their living workers. Google’s unusual “death benefits” include paying the deceased’s spouse or domestic partner 50% of their salary for 10 years, the company’s “chief people officer” What’s more, all of the dead Googler’s stocks vest immediately. Each child of the employee receives $1,000 per month until age 19, or age 23 for full-time students.”

    Pretty sweet perks at Google!

  • Why are young people ditching cars for smartphones?

    • “Youth culture was once car culture. Teens cruised their Thunderbirds to the local drive-in, Springsteen fantasized about racing down Thunder Road, and Ferris Bueller staged a jailbreak from the ‘burbs in a red Ferrari. Cars were Friday night. Cars were Hollywood. Yet these days, they can’t even compete with an iPhone — or so car makers, and the people who analyze them for a living, seem to fear. As Bloomberg reported this morning, many in the auto industry “are concerned that financially pressed young people who connect online instead of in person could hold down peak demand by 2 million units each year.” In other words, Generation Y may be happy to give up their wheels as long as they have the web. And in the long term, that could mean Americans will buy just 15 million cars and trucks each year, instead of around 17 million.”

    Interesting!

  • Social still can’t beat search in online shopping

    • “Social media’s traffic contribution to online shopping sites increased 77 percent in one year, but few users actually buy anything, according to a new report published today by marketing firm Monetate. The firm’s study shows that search engine and e-mail referrals are more than holding their own against social media sites when it comes to generating sales in the second quarter of 2012.”

    Yeah if I’m buying something online I’m going there directly with my purpose.

  • Microsoft job posting hints at next Xbox launch within 18 mos

    • “Microsoft might be launching the next Xbox within the next year and a half. The software giant posted a job listing on its Web site seeking a marketing professional. In that posting — which now appears to be taken down — the company said that “over the next 18 months, Microsoft will release new versions of all of our most significant products including Windows (Client, Server, Phone and Azure), Office and Xbox, along with completely new offerings like Microsoft Surface.”"

    Hmmm.

  • Thieves target credit card’s magnetic stripe as chip, PIN technology rules

    • “Shopping and swiping your credit card could leave you at risk for fraud. So can dining and paying for your meal with a swipe of your credit card. Even though Canadians are increasingly using credit cards with chip and personal identification number (PIN) technology, there are still some businesses that rely instead on the swipe of a card’s magnetic stripe to process transactions electronically. Credit card fraud will continue until the magnetic stripe, which can also access account information, is phased out and taken off the card.”

    Back away thieves…

  • Lego, the world’s most famous toy, turns 80

    • “Looking at Lego’s most impressive creations — its giant “Star Wars” sets, its Master Builder Academy initiative, its programmable Mindstorms system — it’s easy to forget that it was 80 years ago that the global behemoth had much more humble beginnings when Ole Kirk Christiansen started a little wooden toy company in Billund, Denmark. Lego is celebrating its 80th birthday, and touting its growth from a tiny outfit in a single building in Billund to the world’s third-largest “producer of play materials,” employing 10,000 people, many in its variety of production facilities in Europe and beyond.”

    80 years! You go, Lego.

  • Applebees, Taco Bell invade the world of food trucks

    • “As if to prove the inevitable evolution of all things cool to pedestrian commercialism, the hipster trend of high-end food trucks is being invaded by cookie cutter chain names. As the headline says, Applebees and Taco Bell are two big names cashing in on the roving restaurant trend. But there are also now trucks from Sizzler, Jack in the Box and Red Robin. If those big fish weren’t enough to have you wondering if food trucks had jumped the shark, consider that NBC (yes, that NBC) recently had a food truck at SXSW and several U.S. cities have reported seeing a food truck selling Gap-branded tacos.”

    Hmmm.

    Environment/Space/Animals/Science

  • Summer’s record heat, drought point to longer-term climate issues

    • “In all, about 58,000 dead fish were along a 42-mile stretch, according to state officials, and the cause of death appeared to be heat. Biologists measured the water at 97 degrees in multiple spots… Under the most wide-reaching drought since 1956, and torched by the hottest July on record dating from 1895, the United States has been under the kind of weather stress that climatologists say will be more common if the long-standing trend toward higher U.S. temperatures continues. Most immediately affected are the nation’s water sources and the people and crops that rely on them.”

    Oh dear…

  • World over-using underground water reserves for agriculture

    • “The world is depleting underground water reserves faster than they can be replenished due to over-exploitation, according to scientists in Canada and the Netherlands.”

    Oh great.

  • Extreme Earth microbe research might pave way for discovery of alien life

    • “The region beneath Earth’s surface may be crawling with diverse organisms, and now researchers reveal the lives of just one group of bizarre beasties: methane-spewing microbes that hide out in the cracks of hot undersea volcanoes. Called high-temperature methanogens, these microbes rely on the hydrogen and carbon dioxide in their superheated deep-sea vents for growth, excreting waste products like methane. The possibility of past or present life on other worlds such as Mars, where the rover Curiosity has just set out to investigate whether the environment was ever fit for microbes, will become clearer by figuring out the extreme limits (or minimum requirements) for some organisms on Earth.”

    Neato!

    Weird News, Other News & Fluff

  • The U.S. is a land of many chips

    • “You say potato, I say pot-ah-toe … chip. And that’s just the start of it. Though thin and flat may be the national standard – and bestselling variety – of this ubiquitous snack, regional and sometimes hyper-local preferences for different calibres of crunch, thickness, seasonings and endless other elements have created a surprisingly diverse culinary patchwork of chip styles around the country.”

    Weird flavours in the U.S.! And some places don’t have common flavours we find here in Canada. Lol I mostly just wanted to share this because I thought it was funny there was such a lengthy article dedicated to CHIPS. I love chips.

  • NASA’s adorkable ‘Mohawk Guy’ doesn’t want to date you

    • Lol.

  • [Photo]: 12 Gotham newspapers during ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

    • “As Gotham plunged into anarchy during “The Dark Knight Rises”, the Gotham Gazette continued its stellar daily news coverage of the increasingly absurd events. Here’s TDKR re-imagined in 12 headlines.”

    Hilarious!

  • [Photos]: World Elephant Day 2012

    • “The Elephant Reintroduction Foundation has declared August 12, 2012 its first World Elephant Day, a day of awareness in which it asks people to “express concern, share knowledge and support solutions for the better care of captive and wild elephants alike.” African and Asian elephants face danger around the world due to poaching, hunting, habitat destruction and mistreatment in captivity. According to the Foundation, “an insatiable lust for ivory products in Asian markets” has fueled a dramatic decline in African elephant populations since last year.”

    Stop the poaching/hunting/habitat destruction please!

  • [Video]: This is one cool cat

    • “The hat, it’s the hat, the hat takes it to the next level.”

    Lol so cool!

  • [Video]: Orphaned spotted lamb adopted by Dalmatian dog

    • Awwww!!!!

  • [Photos]: Mother dog saves her puppies from fire

    • “A heroic dog saved her puppies from fire. It happened yesterday in a house fire in Chile. A dog saved her pups by dragging them one by one out of the house to the fire truck as firefighters fought the fire. She knew to place them safely in the compartment of the truck while she went back for each one.”

    Wah!!! These pictures make my heart melt!!!!

  • [Video]: Spice Girls Closing Ceremony Performance

    • Love it!!!!!!!!!!


Thor (and/or Loki) Photo of the Day:

Thor and Loki getting a fresh batch of laundry all hairy!


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Linda

05/8/12

Clicks of the Day: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Edition!

Welcome to Tuesday, May 8 2012′s Clicks of the Day!

Clicks of the Day is a daily round up of news posted Sunday through Thursday.

    Edmonton/Alberta/Canada

  • New cabinet set to implement Redford’s agenda

    • “Premier Alison Redford introduced a scaled down, largely male group of cabinet ministers Tuesday that she promised will help her change how the government does business. The 18 ministers, along with seven associate ministers, features many familiar names in high-profile jobs in health, human services and finance, but also adds a handful of cabinet rookies into a mix Redford said will be counted on to implement major changes in the next four years.”

    Hm.

  • Edmonton councillors block push for lower speed limits

    • “A council committee has slammed the brakes on plans to develop a policy allowing neighbourhoods to ask for local 40-kilometre-an-hour speed limits. Members of the transportation and infrastructure committee voted 3-1 Tuesday against continuing work on the policy, saying it would create a patchwork of speed zones in Edmonton when there are better ways to improve traffic safety.”

    40 is sooo slow…

  • Police release sketch of suspect in south side assaults

    • “Edmonton police have released a sketch of a suspect who may be responsible for seven recent assaults on women in southeast Edmonton. ‘I encourage anyone with information about the identity of this person to come forward to police. Small details that you think may be insignificant could actually be very helpful in our investigation,’ said Det. Rob Chan with the Edmonton Police Service. Police are trying to solve seven apparently random assaults – that appear to have started in March.”

    Careful out there everyone.

  • Animal lovers need help saving kittens from death on the streets

    • “At first glance, it looks like a photograph of adorable kittens curled up together in peaceful sleep. And then you realize they’re dead, having paid the ultimate price for irresponsible pet ownership. Abandoned when they were only days old, they did not — could not — survive. What does it take for people to understand that they are directly responsible for the death of these kittens — and for tens of thousands of others — when they don’t fix their own cats?”

    Truly awful. :( Poor kitties…

  • Listen up: Broadcasters ordered to dial down TV ad volume

    • “Canada’s broadcast regulator has been asking TV providers to turn down the racket in loud commercials, and now it is making that an order. On Tuesday, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission published changes to some of its regulations that govern the broadcasting industry. Controlling the volume of commercial messages is now part of the rules that the companies that own TV channels, distribution systems such as cable and satellite services, and video-on-demand offerings, must follow.”

    Finally!!!!

  • Competition Bureau takes harsh view of Canadian credit-card system

    • “Canada’s credit card system is a ‘perverse’ place where shoppers who pay with cash or debit subsidize purchases made with credit cards, the Competition Bureau argued Tuesday in its opening salvo against Visa and MasterCard. That’s because merchants pay high fees for accepting credit cards and those costs are passed on to all consumers, the bureau’s lead counsel Kent Thomson said in his opening statement to a tribunal hearing whether credit card companies are engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.”

    Don’t Canadians typically get the short end of the stick with everything…

  • Quebec student votes show massive rejection of tuition deal

    • “Widespread rejections of a tentative agreement that was supposed to bring an end to the tumultuous confrontation over university tuition increases in Quebec, now in its 13th week, flowed fast and furious Tuesday. In fresh vote results, students in medicine, architecture and comparative literature at the Universite de Montreal all rejected the government offer.”

    Will it ever end?!

  • Auditor: Greenhouse gas targets unlikely to be met

    • “Canada’s environment auditor says Ottawa is falling behind on its commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and will likely not meet its 2020 goals.”

    That’s unfortunate. Even more so -

  • Contaminated sites pose billions in risk

    • “The federal government is facing $7.7 billion in environmental liabilities for approximately 22,000 federal contaminated sites across the country and a funding shortfall to clean up the polluted lands, the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development warned Tuesday in a new report. While the government has made progress in identifying contaminated sites for which it is responsible — having closed the files on more than one-third of them — about half of the sites have yet to be assessed for remediation and prioritized for action, Environment Commissioner Scott Vaughan says in his report.”

    Awful.

    World

  • North Carolina passes Amendment 1 banning same-sex unions

    • “Voters in North Carolina have approved a constitutional amendment banning same-sex unions, according to the Associated Press. It will become the 30th state to define marriage solely as a union between a man and a woman. With more than half the precincts reporting, unofficial returns showed the amendment passing with about 60% for to 40% against.”

    Horrible.

  • In Europe, a storied way of life comes under threat as economic gloom deepens

    • “Elections in France and Greece reflect the anger and disillusionment coming to the surface across Europe as a celebrated way of life that people have long enjoyed — and even taken for granted — comes under pressure in these times of crisis. Though the situation varies from north to south, Europe is undergoing profound change — from its sophisticated lifestyle to its cherished welfare benefits and a sense among many Europeans of being the world’s elite. These are some of the ways you can see Europe grappling with change…”

    Will be interesting to see just what changes will come from all of this.

    Health

  • State of the World’s Mothers Report 2012

    • “This year, Norway tops the list yet again, as the best place in the world to be a mother. Niger comes in last place, displacing Afghanistan from last year… In addition to its annual ranking, the 2012 report focuses specifically on the issue of children’s nutrition. One in four of the world’s children are chronically malnourished or stunted — with little access to proper nutrients, these children have underdeveloped brains or bodies. According to the report, malnutrition kills as many as 2.6 million children and 100,000 mothers every year. Millions of others are left struggling with the physical and mental impairments of stunting.”

    Sad.

  • Moms may need reminder that too much baby fat isn’t healthy

    • “A new study of low-income mothers of toddlers has found that two-thirds did not correctly perceive their children’s size. And most — including all of the misperceiving moms with kids who were overweight — thought their kids were too small, not too big. The discovery, which echoes findings in older children, illustrates how perceptions about weight complicate doctors’ efforts to keep kids healthy.”

    Oh my child will know if it’s too fat or not! Just kidding. Lol. But I will strive to ensure my children eat healthy and get lots of exercise. :)

  • Obesity fight must shift from personal blame-U.S. panel

    • “America’s obesity epidemic is so deeply rooted that it will take dramatic and systemic measures – from overhauling farm policies and zoning laws to, possibly, introducing a soda tax – to fix it, the influential Institute of Medicine said on Tuesday.”

    Lots to be changed.

  • Eating fast increases diabetes risk

    • “People who wolf down their food are two and a half times more likely to suffer from type 2 diabetes than those who take their time according to new research presented at the joint International Congress of Endocrinology and European Congress of Endocrinology in Florence, Italy.”

    I always tell Mike to eat slow!

  • Houston hospital to live tweet brain surgery, post Pinterest photos

    • “Ever curious about what happens during surgery? A Houston hospital is demystifying the procedure by live tweeting the surgical removal of a patient’s brain tumor… According to ABC News, Dr. Kim’s co-worker will live tweet from the operating room using a laptop, while a video camera will shoot clips of the surgery and a photographer will take shots on a digital camera. The text updates, video footage and photos from the brain surgery will be broadcast to Twitter, YouTube, TwitPic, CoverItLive, and Pinterest.”

    Well that’s something.

    Technology/Social Media

  • Google gets license to operate driverless cars in Nevada

    • “On Monday, Nevada became the first to approve a license for “autonomous vehicles” — in other words, cars that cruise, twist and turn without the need for a driver — on its roads. The license goes to Google, the Silicon Valley technology giant known more for its search engine and e-mail service that nonetheless has been known to dive into other big ideas such as space elevators to Internet-enabled glasses. In a 2010 post on Google’s official blog, engineer and Google X founder Sebastian Thrun said that the self-driving vehicle project aims ‘to help prevent traffic accidents, free up people’s time and reduce carbon emissions by fundamentally changing car use.’”

    The future is here!

  • By end of 2012 more email will be read on mobile than desktop

    • “Mobile email views are up significantly year on year. From March 2011 through March 2012, mobile email views rose 82.4% with 88% of people checking email on their mobile device on a daily basis. Eighty-five percent of mobile email opens were done on an Apple-branded device. The iPad saw a 54% annual growth in mobile email use. So, that’s the good news. The bad news for those businesses that have not yet optimized email for mobile is that almost two-thirds of Americans and 41% of Europeans will simply close or delete an email that doesn’t render well on their mobile device. That’s a lot of lost customers.”

    All kinds of viewing by mobile is increasing. Case in point:

  • Facebook sees time spent on mobile top its desktop users

    “The average time spent accessing Facebook via smartphone in the United States was 441 minutes in March, compared with 391 minutes via computer, according to comScore, underscoring the increasingly high-profile role of mobile in social networking… In filing documents for its initial public offering, Facebook highlighted the importance of mobile while noting it does not generate meaningful revenue from mobile users… Beefing up its mobile strategy was part of the reason Facebook in April agreed to spend $1-billion to buy Instagram, a photo-sharing mobile app, analysts say.”

    All about mobile.

  • Will your Klout score get you hired? The role of social media in recruiting

    • “Third-party sites that rate “influence” are relatively new on the scene, but they’re already changing the way recruiting is done… I have no doubt that companies will increasingly take note of social connectivity when considering applicants, keeping an especially keen eye on those with a demonstrated ability to turn their networks into enhanced marketing opportunities.”

    My Klout score fluctuates from 58 to 56. One day I’ll crack 60. Lol.

  • Twitter defends user in court over Occupy tweets

    • “We reported last month on Malcolm Harris, a member of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and his attempt to have a tweet subpoena quashed. The judge in the case denied his motion saying that Tweets are not physical property and can therefore be obtained without a warrant. It was a disappointing ruling, but it made sense. We went on with our lives and just hoped that next time would be different. Well, there’s been a new development in the case. A development that I don’t think anybody ever saw coming. Twitter, the actual company, has filed a motion with the court to quash the order that Harris’ Tweets be subpoenaed. The company says that Harris does indeed have a proprietary interest ‘in the content that he submits to Twitter’ saying that a subpoena effectively violates Twitter’s Terms of Service which states that users ‘retain rights to any Content [they] submit, post, display on or through Twitter’… This is a sound argument and one that the court can’t ignore. Twitter has essentially proven, at least in the case of their service and their state, that the Fourth Amendment does apply online.”

    Intense.

  • An Instagram camera in real life

    • “For now, it’s just a figment of someone’s imagination from ADR Studio.”

    It’s so cute!

    Business/Consumer/Media/Economy

  • 2012 vs. 1984: Young adults really do have it harder today

    • “Back in my day? Economically speaking, life was easier for the young adult.”

    Sigh.

  • Yahoo CEO apologizes for bogus college degree

    • “Yahoo Inc. CEO Scott Thompson is sorry for allowing an inaccuracy about his education to appear in his official bio, but not remorseful enough to heed calls for him to resign.”

    It’s that easy to lie on a resume eh? lol.

  • Pottermore: Developing A Blueprint For Futureproof Publishing

    • “Berlucchi suggests that Pottermore, JK Rowling’s online ebookstore, is an “extremely important” precedent which shows publishers that it is possible to rework their relationship with Amazon in a way that forges stronger ties between publisher and reader… Berlucchi’s right, but the industry needs to take the Pottermore idea several steps further if they are to reap all the rewards it has to offer. There is a window of opportunity now to expand upon the concept of a publisher-centric ebook hub, to take Pottermore’s partial blueprint and use it to futureproof publishing.”

    Interesting!

  • Huffington Post Canada B.C., Alberta sites to launch in 2012, regional expansion

    • “AOL Canada and the Huffington Post Media Group announced Tuesday a regional expansion of The Huffington Post Canada that will include new sites in British Columbia and Alberta.”

    Very, very cool. Also:

  • Papers offering more and better video news

    • “Newspaper sites around the country are producing video on par with that of TV stations, often with the help of former TV multimedia journalists and photographers. In fact, some of the newspapers’ video content is so good that it has beaten material produced by TV news departments when it’s gone head-to-head in awards competitions.”

    Very cool!!

  • Super Mario, cub reporter: Jesse Schell on what the game industry could teach the news industry

    • “The game designer and thinker says there are a number of parallels between the disruptions facing both industries.”

    This is a really fascinating read!

    Environment/Space/Animals/Science

  • Largest known croc likely ate early man

    • “The largest known crocodile was big enough to swallow a human being and likely terrorized our ancestors two to four million years ago. Remains of the enormous horned croc, named Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, were unearthed in East Africa. The impressive aquatic reptile exceeded 27 feet long and is described in the latest Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.”

    Yikes. Can you imagine?

    Entertainment

  • “The Avengers 2″ already in the works

    • “With “The Avengers” continuing to break records with a $207.1 million opening weekend box office take and a staggering $441.5 million overseas, fans are already chomping at the bit for the next installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s premiere superhero team — and according to The Hollywood Reporter, they’re likely going to get it. Yesterday, during a conference call with analysts to discuss quarterly earnings, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that “The Avengers 2″ is in the works with an unannounced release date following Marvel Studios’ “Iron Man 3,” “Thor 2″ and “Captain America 2.”"

    So much superhero goodness. <3

    Weird News, Other News & Fluff

  • Beautiful photographs of decaying and repurposed movie palaces

    • “From the 1920s through the 1950s, thousands of ornate movie palaces were built across America, seating hundreds of patrons in lavish settings for films and live shows. But the introduction of television, the rise of the multiplex, and the dissolution of city centers caused the movie palace to go the way of the dinosaur… In 2005, photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre began documenting theaters that had either fallen into decay or been transformed entirely.”

    Beautiful photographs indeed.

  • Appreciation: Maurice Sendak helped children’s imaginations run wild

    • “For all his contributions to children’s literature, Maurice Sendak, who died Tuesday at 83, struck a chord with ‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ a dark and vivid adventure in a daunting world beyond a child’s bedroom.”

    May he rest in peace.

  • Unfortunate timing: Stephen Colbert’s new children’s book (endorsed by just-deceased Maurice Sendak) comes out today

    • Very unfortunate timing.

  • Nebraska man changes name to Tyrannosaurus Rex

    • “A 23-year-old southeast Nebraska man has legally become Tyrannosaurus Rex. The York News-Times reports that the man entered the York County courtroom Monday as Tyler Gold and left it with the moniker Tyrannosaurus Rex Joseph Gold. Gold says in his public filing for the change that the dinosaur’s name is cooler.”

    Whaaat.

  • Story of vengeful jilted dentist WAS too good to be true

    • “A hugely popular news story about a jilted dentist accused of pulling out all her ex-boyfriend’s teeth has unraveled as a hoax. News websites around the world ran the story last week about a woman in Poland named Anna Maćkowiak who took revenge on a man named Marek Olszewski when he turned up at her clinic complaining of toothache, days after dumping her for another woman.”

    Who makes this stuff up?!


Thor & Loki Photo of the Day:

Weird way to sit there Loki! (He looks huge from this angle but he’s a tiny cat. It shows you, different angles make cats (people) look fatter! Case in point: my beautiful Thor).


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02/15/12

Clicks of the Day: Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 Edition!

Welcome to Wednesday, February 15 2012′s Clicks of the Day!

  • Online surveillance bill teaches Tories tough social-media lesson

    • “In their tough-on-crime approach to legislation, the Conservatives are learning a tough lesson. Mess with the Internet and it’s going to mess with you. Social-media networks and comment pages exploded Wednesday in opposition to the Harper government’s introduction of Bill C-30, which would give police and spies easier access to information about Internet users.”

    Yeah Internet users aren’t going to just quietly agree, lol. Also, how come this bill has been referred to as both Bill C-51 and Bill C-30? I’m confused.

  • Email Use Is On The Skids Among Teens: Study

    • “With texts, tweets, Facebook Chat, and Skype all available as means of instantaneous communication, it’s no surprise that the good ol’ email seems to be on its way out — at least for teens. According to a report recently released by digital marketing research company comScore, web-based email usage for teens 12 to 17 years old decreased 31 percent between December 2010 and December 2011.”

    Makes sense. Though I still enjoy and use email quite a bit. (I’m not a teen though lol)

  • Online gaming hurts marriages, unless you game together

    • “Time spent playing online video games alone can do serious damage to your marriage, but the couple that quests together stays together, a new study shows. The Brigham Young University study says 75% of online gamers’ spouses wish their lovers would spend less time looting and levelling with their guildmates and more time working on their marriage. Usually, the problems stem from fighting over time spent gaming and disrupted bedtime routines, the study found.”

    Indeed, lol. Mike gets all his game playing in time on Saturday and Sunday, which are conveniently days that I work so there’s no conflict :)

  • Study suggests skipping antibiotics for sinus infections

    • “When you have a sinus infection, the first thing you want is relief from your pain. If you’re like most people, you want your doctor to prescribe an antibiotic to speed that process… But a study released Tuesday adds to the growing body of science suggesting that with some infections, including those of the sinuses, antibiotics aren’t the best course of treatment. Waiting it out may indeed be the best approach after all.”

    We gotta toughen up!

  • Proposed birth-weight charts could ease stress for immigrants’ ‘small’ newborns

    • “The team found that infants born to mothers from each region of the world, except Europe and other Western countries, had significantly lower birth weights — up to 250 grams less — than those for infants of Canadian-born mothers.

    “The study showed that 67 of every 1,000 babies born to parents from Africa or the Caribbean and 116 of every 1,000 South Asian babies were at risk of being labelled as significantly underweight if plotted on a conventional curve instead of the proposed region-specific charts. “We have a major problem on our hands if we misclassify a whole bunch of south Asian newborns as small when in fact they’re not … they’re appropriate for their own ethnicity.”

    I was a teeny, tiny baby.

  • Girls more likely to struggle with emotional problems than boys, study finds

    • “Canadian girls are more likely to struggle with emotional problems and to experience lower levels of emotional well-being than boys, according to a sweeping national survey of the country’s youth.”

    Lol. Well. Duh.

  • Trouble Sleeping? It May Affect Your Memory Later On

    • “The amount and quality of sleep you get at night may affect your memory later in life… After the study, it was discovered that 25 percent of the participants had evidence of amyloid plaques, which can appear years before the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease begin.”

    Good news for me, I sleep like a rock. (Is that the right phrase? lol)

  • Infertility rates rising for Canadian couples

    • “The researchers didn’t set out to discover why the numbers are increasing. But possible explanations range from the growing number of women who are pushing back pregnancy ever later in life, to rising rates of obesity and heavy drinking among women, to declining sperm counts in men — though experts aren’t convinced about that final factor.”

    I hope this doesn’t affect me when it’s my time to start a family!

  • Apps must now have explicit approval before accessing address book data

    • “Under pressure from U.S. legislators, Apple Inc moved Wednesday to quell a swelling privacy controversy by saying that it will begin to require iPhone and iPad apps to seek “explicit approval” in separate user prompts before accessing users’ address book data.”

    Great news. Also, Reuters Tumblr is looking good!

  • Twitter Tool Will Help Journalists Break News

    • “Researchers at Rutgers University and Microsoft developed Seriously Rapid Source Review to give journalists access to breaking news like never before. Reporters won’t have to comb the web — or Twitter’s 200 million tweets a day — for sources… SRSR features include automatic identification of eyewitnesses with approximate 89% precision and will list users in various archetypes — journalists, bloggers, organizations or unaffiliated citizens.”

    Interesting!

  • Judges pick 5 of the World’s Best-Designed™ Newspapers

    • “In its 33rd annual The Best of Newspaper Design™ Creative Competition, the Society for News Design has named five newspapers, representing four countries, the World’s Best-Designed™ Newspaper” including Canada’s own National Post!

    Kudos National Post :)

  • Why social media is like a string bikini

    • “Are you exposing too much of yourself online? A former FBI agent explains how to cover up a little to showcase your best features.”

    Good tips!!

  • The strange haze of the Milky Way galaxy

    • “New images from the European Space Agency’s Planck mission have revealed previously undiscovered islands of star formation, along with a mysterious haze of microwave emissions in our Milky Way galaxy.

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    Oo. What’s happening up there…

  • Goodbye To The King Size: Mars To Downsize Candy Bars In 2013

    • “Ready to say goodbye to a sliver of your Snickers? And how about a slightly slimmer Mars bar? By the end of 2013, chocolate-maker Mars says all of its chocolate bars will be under — or right at — the 250-calorie mark.”

    Great news in the fight against obesity, lol.

  • Man Suffers Heart Attack at Heart Attack Grill

    • “A man suffered an apparent heart attack while eating a “Triple Bypass Burger” at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas.”

    Well, it kind of comes with the territory.

  • An Absurdly Long, $150,000 List of Stolen Nikon Gear

    • “A daring thief and/or desperate photographer just made off with an official Nikon van. The cargo? One hundred and fifty grand worth of cameras and accessories, including the unreleased D4 and D800. Nikon wants their goodies back.”

    That’s quite the theft.

  • Man Proposes to Woman Using an Infographic

    • “Data reveals the rarity of her perfection.”

    This is sooooooooooo cute!!!!!!!!

  • 20 Cats As Fonts

    • “Here are 20 fonts and the cats that clearly inspired them. This is a rare and important opportunity for cat fanciers and typophiles to find some common ground.”

    Lol. Love it.

  • [Photos]: Cats forming Heart Shapes

    • Squeal <3


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