Don’t know if it’s the crazy weather, but just feeling a little whacked today. Got up this morning, all burstin’ to write an epic post about the RNAO’s new best practice guidelines on restraints, wrote about three paragraphs and went bleh. Didn’t care as much as I thought. So maybe
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Those Emergency Blues: Observations and Assessments
NOTIONS TO SMALL FOR A BLOG POST, ALL IN ONE PLACE, A.K.A. THE PERIODIC LINK DUMP. Further to my post “Sleepy Sleepy Nurse”: Sleep or Die. Really. My job: Registered Nurse. We don’t know as much about infection control as we think we do. “Less than a quarter of the Clostridium difficile cases
Continue readingFusing and Musing: Image of the day…
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Continue readingArt Threat: Kony 2012: the photographer who shot the hipsters with a proud colonial mindset
Photograph by Glenna Gordon (detail). By now you’ve heard of the Kony 2012 campaign, and I’ve already expended enough energy discussing it on Facebook to bring anything new and arts-related to the table. However, the Washington Post has provided a different angle by interviewing Glenna Gordon, the photographer who shot
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Portraits of Nurses at War
A small selection of photographs from the National Archives of Canada. Nurses have served with the Canadian military since Northwest Rebellion in 1885 and small contingents were sent to the South African War — the Boer War — at the turn of the last century. Nurses became an official part of
Continue readingMind of Dan: Swan Attack
This is what happens when you don’t have any seeds for the swan Related posts (randomly generated) Monsanto files patent for new invention: the pig Democracy fails if genetically engineered seeds allowed to enter Europe Scientists cracked the DNA code of rice
Continue readingArt Threat: Portraits of a young girl influenced by the mainstream – Photographs by Jessica Manley
Currently a senior at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Jessica Manleybegan the project “Melissa” six years ago while still a high school student. She began working with her younger sister, Melissa, to explore the way media influences the understanding of ‘normal’ in young girls, and how
Continue readingTrashy's World: I like this new app…
Instagram. Easy sharing. Doesn’t crash as often on my “old” 3s. And has some neat effect options. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingArt Threat: Rick Santorum’s gay porn mosaic
Gay news website Unicorn Booty published this beauty of a photo mosaic, featuring Rick Santorum’s headshot composed entirely of gay porn. It may not be the most artistic political portrait out there, but you’d be hard pressed to find one more appropriate. If you want to zoom in for the
Continue readingknitnut.net: No more dumpster diving
In addition to getting rid of stuff, successful decluttering also requires that you stop bringing stuff home. Stop buying, stop thrifting, stop dumpster diving, stop online shopping, stop bringing more clutter into the house. A couple of days ago I was walking to work and listening to Dan Savage’s podcast
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Recalling the optimism of Expo ’67
It’s hard to believe that it will be forty-five years ago this spring since the opening of Canada’s first World’s Fair – Expo ’67. I have assembled a number of post-card images from that summer (some photos, a few just artist’s concepts). (Post-cards were the text messages of the day,
Continue readingopenalex: Rivers Forgotten – The Underground World Beneath City Streets
I was in Toronto last week and finally had a chance to get my hands on Rivers Forgotten, Jeremy Kai’s stunning book of underground photos (Koyama Press, 2011). Kai has spent years exploring the cavernous system of storm sewers that run below Toronto’s streets. Working in very challenging conditions, he
Continue readingknitnut.net: Some cuteness and some happy news
I found all these on Pinterest.com. I hope they’re not too cute! In other news, blog reader Dawn contacted the NCC about my Skateway Robbery post, and the young man who was charged for 13 hours of skate rental received a significant refund. Yay! (See the comments in that post
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Finding Émile
I reached another marker this week in my posthumous, intriguing, fan-like relationship with Montréal poet Émile Nelligan (1879-1941) when Craig’s partner, Claude, drove me to the site of his burial in Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges. Even with a map of the cemetery it took us a while to find Marker #588 in
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: An authentic winter weekend in Montréal
Click here for a link to an album of pictures from my busy weekend in Montréal. (As I write this I still have a half-day left here so there will be more pictures added eventually.) Arriving here mid-afternoon Friday I`ve experienced the city in winter for the first time in
Continue readingMind of Dan: Superb Owl Sunday
Much more awesome than worrying about some sort of allegedly super bowl Related posts (randomly generated) Watch out Korea, Thailand has you beat… in BBQ! Yahoo Music to record execs: No more DRM, ever
Continue readingMind of Dan: The morning sun reflecting off Lake Victoria
We spend our last morning in Uganda on Lake Victoria. The early morning sunlight reflecting on the waves made the entire lake seem as if it was made of liquid gold. Related posts (randomly generated) Uganda! CN says it knew rail car had toxic substance Canadian DMCA To Be Introduced
Continue readingMind of Dan: Chimp Vocalizations
Chimpanzee vocalizations in Kibale National Park, Uganda. Related posts (randomly generated) A day with my closest living relatives… Plan to Sell U.S. Nat’l Parks to Energy Industry Spurs Opposition How old is the Grand Canyon? Park rangers ordered not to tell — might offend creationists Mae Sariang Paradise Lost
Continue readingArt Threat: Photos of Martin Luther Kings’s tragic death published by LIFE for the first time
LIFE photographer Henry Groskinsky captures the scene at the Lorraine Hotel after the shooting of MLK (detail). Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States, and LIFE has marked the occasion by publishing historic photosgraphs that has been lost for 44 years. Taken on that tragic day
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Good To See
There are some very interesting links to explore today. I hope you made some time available to browse. The UK is also experiencing strange weather, and there are photos and a hashtag to explore. == An excellent summary of the oil news tearing up the newspapers in Canada this week.
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