Alex Reid

Busy and Slow Times

Alex Reid — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 05:35:12 +0000

I haven’t been posting much because.. I’m busy doing other more important things. Having a website blog does seem like one more chore, but at the end of everything, a blog should stand as a historical reference of every thing you spent at least 15 minutes thinking about. In the meantime, I’m glad I didn’t [...]

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Marina Abramovic and Ulay

Alex Reid — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:21:17 +0000

Following my post two years ago, here’s a lovely story. Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one [...]

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US Drone Attacks in Pakistan Visualized

Alex Reid — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:16:08 +0000

Pitch Interactive, a data visualization company from California has released an interactive visualization of the number of drone attacks by the US military in Pakistan. It’s not without critics of course.

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Alberta Wind Power Blows Past 1000 Megawatts

Alex Reid — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:33:05 +0000

According to the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA), Alberta generated 1,116 Megawatts (MW) of electricity last year from wind power, an increase of 225 MW from the year before. The growth was due to the addition of two major wind farms – the Castle Rock Wind Farm near Pincher Creek and the Halkirk Wind Farm near [...]

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Social Smoking Is Like Farting?

Alex Reid — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:06:04 +0000

The Ontario Ministry of Health has begun an ad campaign to compare social smoking to passing gas in public. The intention appears to want to call ‘social smokers’ on what they are; smokers. There’s another video comparing social smoking to nibbling other people’s food, but it’s not as funny.

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