- 04/30/16 - Fixing the American Commute - We blame cars for transportation woes, but can new technology turn them into saviors? (www.curbed.com/2016/4/27/11511150/transportation-commute-autonomous-cars)
- 04/29/16 - The single best joke told by every president - From Obama to Washington (www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/04/27/the-single-best-joke-told-by-every-president-from-obama-to-washington)
- 04/28/16 - All Transit - Discover the social and economic benefits of transit. (alltransit.cnt.org)
- 04/27/16 - BirdCast - Bird Migration Forecasts in Real-Time (birdcast.info)
- 04/26/16 - Best Countries Ranking - The overall ranking of Best Countries measures global performance on a variety of metrics. (www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/overall-full-list)
- 04/25/16 - Postcards From Google Earth - Anomalies in Google's world view. (www.postcards-from-google-earth.com)
- 04/24/16 - The Boring Conference - A one-day celebration of the mundane, the ordinary, the obvious and the overlooked; subjects often considered trivial and pointless, but when examined more closely reveal themselves to be deeply fascinating. (boringconference.com)
- 04/23/16 - Math is hard to Define - How woould you define it? (mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016/04/20/math-is-crazy-hard-to-define)
- 04/22/16 - Canroots - This weekend political, grassroots, and labour organizers from across the country meet at CanRoots to learn from each other's victories, to skill up, and to get ready to make real change in the year ahead. (canroots.ca)
- 04/21/16 - frog.tips - Click on frog for tip. (frog.tips)
- 04/20/16 - Eats Like a Duck - A Simpsons Recipe Blog. (eatslikeaduck.com)
- 04/19/16 - Pulitzer Prizes - The winners of the 2016 Pulitzer Prizes (www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2016)
- 04/18/16 - UK detector finds database - An initiative by members of the metal-detecting community to promote good practice within the hobby. (www.ukdfd.co.uk)
- 04/17/16 - The secret rules of the internet - The murky history of moderation, and how it's shaping the future of free speech (www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderator-history-youtube-facebook-reddit-censorship-free-speech)
- 04/16/16 - Voting - The Definitely Messy, Probably Solvable Reasons Americans Don't Vote (www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-non-voters)
- 04/15/16 - Paper Street Theatre Improv Festival - Celebrating 5 great years of improvising in Victoria, Paper Street Theatre is producing a Festival of Improvisation. (www.paperstreettheatre.ca/festival.html)
- 04/14/16 - Umbrella Cover Museum - The Umbrella Cover Museum is dedicated to the appreciation of the mundane in everyday life. It is about finding wonder and beauty in the simplest of things, and about knowing that there is always a story behind the cover. (www.umbrellacovermuseum.org)
- 04/13/16 - What is the title of this WikiHow article? - Try to guess the article from the illustration. (damn.dog)
- 04/12/16 - A Perfectly Cromulent Election - Scenes from the 2016 Manitoba provincial election, rendered by The Simpsons (embiggenmanitoba.tumblr.com)
- 04/11/16 - Film Dialogue - From 2,000 screenplays, Broken Down by Gender and Age (polygraph.cool/films)
- 04/10/16 - Pretty Good Not Bad - A new music and sound art festival in Victoria, BC. June 17-19. (prettygoodnotbad.ca)
- 04/09/16 - Community Scholars - Over the coming year, up to 100 community leaders have access to the latest academic research to help them inform their work. (www.communityscholars.ca)
- 04/08/16 - Edmonton 2016 - The Federal NDP Convention is on this weekend. (edmonton2016.ndp.ca)
- 04/07/16 - Rule 34 - The most important rule on the internet. (artinnit.tumblr.com)
- 04/06/16 - Squant - The fourth primary colour. (www.negativland.com/archives/015squant)
- 04/05/16 - Dirty Little Secrets - It's a parallel universe for the ultra-rich and ultra-powerful. But a massive new leak has exposed their underworld.
Fusion goes inside the law firm that sells secrecy to drug dealers, dictators and alleged sex traffickers. (interactive.fusion.net/dirty-little-secrets) - 04/04/16 - Three and a half degrees of separation - Each person in the world (at least among the 1.59 billion people active on Facebook) is connected to every other person by an average of three and a half other people. (research.facebook.com/blog/three-and-a-half-degrees-of-separation)
- 04/03/16 - Urban Worker Project - A new initiative to give a stronger voice to the growing numbers of independent workers across the country. (www.urbanworker.ca)
- 04/02/16 - Space Weapons - The Ultimate List of Weapons Astronauts Have Carried Into Orbit (gizmodo.com/the-ultimate-list-of-weapons-astronauts-have-carried-in-1768199454)
- 04/01/16 - 2016 Progress Summit - The largest annual progressive politics conference in Canada. (www.broadbentinstitute.ca/summit2016)
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