impudent strumpet

Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Let's brainstorm ways to vote effectively while ignorant

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The most common reason I hear for people not voting is ignorance. They don't feel familiar enough with the issues or the overall situat...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Help, I'm trapped in an echo chamber!

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As I've mentioned before, elections are my favourite sport. But because I love following them so closely, reading between the lines of ...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

How I trick myself into eating healthier

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This is a recent discover and it's working well, so I thought I'd share it. A while back I was visiting family, sitting in the kitch...
Monday, April 25, 2011

How to vote if you're a pessimistic disillusioned cynic

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Some people feel like all the parties and politicians are idiots, so it doesn't matter who they vote for or they can't imagined voti...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Brilliant Ideas That Will Never Work: require healthy food to be sold in larger-than-single servings

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I previously came up with the idea of requiring unhealthy food to be available in single servings, so people don't find themselves eati...

The weird thing about social conservatism

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All economic policy needs to be implemented on a societal level, so it makes sense for that to be part of politics. Social liberalism needs...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Why "Canadians don't care" is a good reason to promptly sign onto royal succession reforms

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I was really surprised to see this : Britain’s Telegraph newspaper reports that Canada has expressed opposition to changing any legislation ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Weird solution to ipod stuck in recovery mode

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Last weekend, itunes offered me a software update for my 3rd generation ipod touch. Unfortunately, it froze while installing the software, ...
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Why not voting doesn't send a message

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Sometimes you hear people say that they choose not to vote in order to "send a message". But there's a problem with that stra...
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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Survey methodology FAIL

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So apparently the Do Not Call list is working . The Harris Decima telephone study of 2,035 Canadians on the registry, commissioned by the M...

How to communicate: state fact before opinion

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One serious communication error I see people making quite often is stating their opinion in response to a request for facts, without first p...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Why do politicians want to appear popular?

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During election campaigns, politicians try to get people to put up signs showing support for them. And recently on twitter, there were some...
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Monday, April 11, 2011

Historical portrayal of beauty and insecurity

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Conventional wisdom is that people have more body insecurity today because such high standards of beauty are depicted in the media. But I f...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

Let's all watch a baby lamb learn to walk

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Saturday, April 09, 2011

Why you shouldn't report graffiti on private property to 311

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I recently saw at the bottom of a City of Toronto ad a friendly little note saying "If you see graffiti vandalism in your neighbourhood...
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Friday, April 08, 2011

What if schools were evaluated on long-term results?

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I was reading this article on the problems with standardized tests, and it got me thinking about more effective ways to evaluate education....
Tuesday, April 05, 2011

How to Vote Strategically

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This is part of my Voter's Resources post. Some people vote for the party whose platform they find most suitable (the Best Party). Othe...
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Sunday, April 03, 2011

Who is the target audience of coalition scaremongering anyway?

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Apart from the fact that coalitions are perfectly normal and constitutional in our form of government and scaremongering about the possibili...
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Things They Should Study: income range for which additional tax credits would actually make a difference

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All this election talk of tax credits makes me wonder how many people they're actually useful for. People at the low end of the income s...
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