With quite a bit of authoritarian non-sense going on these days a lot of people ask what you can I do? I have been thinking about this question for some time and I think I have somewhat of an answer. Combining the economics of successful startups with a crowd powered workforce, it's possible to start a successful startup.

I was browsing YouTube and I noticed that one of the candidates, Al-Noor, is using Google ads and I thought that probably makes history as the first time a candidate used an online ad-platform in Calgary. I personally don't support or know Al-Noor but his platform seems more direct than Daves. I also like the fact that he posted a contract as a part of his platform. Now only if we could somehow make these damn things binding we would be in business. Election Results are here

We're going in for another election on the 15th of October. I have been in Calgary for the past 7 years, all of which have been presided over by Mayor Bronconnerier. I have briefly met him and it seems to me that he does genuinely care about his constituency and this city. As an administrator, his policies have been on track and there isn't any significant amount of corruption in his government. So, I wouldn't mind if he were re-elected as the mayor of Calgary. More about the election on wikipedia.. D'Arcy, thoughts?

According to this article, liberal brains and conservative brains are neurologically different from each other.

Each participant was wired to an electroencephalograph that recorded activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, the part of the brain that detects conflicts between a habitual tendency (pressing a key) and a more appropriate response (not pressing the key). Liberals had more brain activity and made fewer mistakes than conservatives when they saw a W, researchers said. Liberals and conservatives were equally accurate in recognizing M.