Bharat’s Pocket Scraps August 4
Tolkien, Dunkirk, Confederate and more make for a pop-culture heavy scrap pile this week.
Bharat”s Pocket Scraps July 28
Trout, mental health, the role of luck and agency and much more!
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps July 21
Rising from the ashes, a Buffalo suburb ends its dependence on coal First in a series on communities overcoming obstacles to become cleaner and greener. Sixteen months ago, the coal-fired…
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps July 14
Margaret Atwood and Junot Diaz, and a whole bunch of disturbing links :(
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps July 7
What I found interesting last week
UBCIC Rejects Canada 150 Celebrations
Republished with permission: “Canada150” is not representative of the history of our lands and territories, or of our present realities as Indigenous Peoples. We, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC), cannot, in all good conscience, participate in, and will not celebrate…
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps June 30
Economics, Sci Fi feminist dystopia, Canada 150 and more, my pocket scraps for the week.
Fixing the HTTPS on a Knight Lab TimelineJS instance
Last year I used TimelineJS to create a nice interactive timeline of some misogynist tweets by Colby Cosh. After we added HTTPS to our website, the article never properly encrypted…
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps – June 23
Things I read that I found share worthy this week
Meghan Jezewski: Hitchhikings
In which Meghan and Sherwin reflect on the old days, hitchhiking, and being young and lucky (and privileged) …
Sherwin Arnott: Hitchhikings
One time, I was trying to hitch a ride. It was a really long wait. I was generally careful not to feel too entitled about getting picked up. But I…
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps – June 16
Things I read that I found share worthy this week (and some previous weeks)
A newspaper is an index
What does an Auto Trader, a phone book, a card catalog, a post office, a mall map, Google and a newspaper all have in common…
Nine animals that we should be trophy hunting instead of grizzly bears
I’ve been wracking my brain trying to think of how to help stop the commercial trophy hunting of bears in BC, which is ongoing and totally unethical. But I’m pretty smart, so I put this problem in my mind-vice and I’m a genius…
BC’s third parties and the election
Are you “tired” of the two main parties and planning on voting for a third party/independent? Some questions to consider
Sometimes courage is choosing not to jump
Watch this. I find it so fascinating. The video shows a dozen or so people at the top of a ten metre diving tower deciding whether to jump.
Salvaging trust: confronting journalism’s deep wrongs
News orgs make a big deal about fixing typos and issuing corrections. But what if there’s a much deeper trust problem…
Racist trope: fatwa as act of villainy
I’ve become numb to racism in legacy media in Canada. But to see Canadaland unthinkingly repeat a racist trope angers …
Journalism techniques for avoiding criticism
There is a kind of journalist that pretends their work is beyond criticism. It’s an art form. Here’s a rough taxonomy of techniques..
Trying to understand the American election
Here are few articles that might help put yesterday’s election in perspective. Or maybe not…
#PantSuitNation is making me cry
There is much about this election that has provoked a roller coaster of emotions. I’m excited to see that some women have chosen to dress up in their pantsuits to vote.
My friend is voting for Donald Trump, because reasons
So much media that passes as journalism isn’t, and this election has demonstrated the power of television and “news” in a remarkable and nauseating way…
Media should always link to press releases
Canadian journalists and other forms of media types rely on press releases written by public relations pros and the problem can be easily fixed by…
UX failure of the Save-On-Foods receipt
The Save-On-Foods grocery receipt has 50 bits on information, but not the information I was looking for which is incredible…
