Laura
Penny
is a Canadian author and a lecturer at University of King's College in
Halifax, Nova Scotia who wrote YOUR CALL IS IMPORTANT TO US THE TRUTH ABOUT
BULLSHIT.
Laura is pretty young (30) to understand this stuff its taken
me nearly twice that long to finally figure it all out. I'm impressed! Well done
Laura!
WaronBullshit.com
Kavan Wolfe, a communications consultant from Canada has declared war on
Bullshit. From what I can see he appears to be winning! Well done Kavan!
Harry
G. Frankfurt is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus
at Princeton University
He has written ON BULLSHIT.
a reviewer wrote ..."Immediately, I must
say: read it. Beautifully written, lucid, ironic and profound, it is a model of
what philosophy can and should do. It is a small and highly provocative
masterpiece, and I really don't think I am bullshitting you here."--Bryan
Appleyard, The Sunday Times (London) Well done Harry!
How
to Detect Bullshit by Scott Berkan An author and consultant who teaches
creative thinking at the University of Washington. Well written! Thought
provoking too! Well done Scott!
Doug
Innes A very interesting Canadian site-well worth a
visit- that uncovers examples of government waste and you will be amazed at some
of the items. Occasionally we see a brief reference in the media and then no
follow up. But to see all of these items in one spot at one time is a real eye
opener. It does make one wonder who is running the show. And it is the taxpayer
who pays. Well done Doug!
Bourque
Newswatch -an absolutely staggering amount
of information with hundreds of useful links. By far the best site of it's type
in Canada. Well worth the visit just to find out what they have should you ever
need it. Used as a resource by thousands of Canadians.
Sealegacy.com
A professional mariners website includes excellent articles on the QUEEN OF THE
NORTH disaster and Ships Safety Branch Transport Canada. By Capt E.G. da Costa
Duarte. Every Mariner or ship's passenger in Canada should review this excellent
website.
OfficiallyScrewed.com
An entertaining site with the following objectives: OfficiallyScrewed.com
is a website dedicated to logically debasing, abashing, abasing, degrading,
demoralizing, and deflating those that our society chooses to shower with press,
praise and perfume (not to mention MONEY) for being imbeciles.
Wikipedia entry on Bullshit
Wikipedia comes thru again with a thought full treatment of Bullshit in
pretty good detail. You will learn something.
The
Shopping Bags -an excellent program on W network where Kristina Matisic
and Anna Wallner shop for consumer products and test to see which one is best
and represents the best value. They do excellent work and the fact that both are
quite attractive (gorgeous) with engaging personalities is icing on the cake! In the
complex world of marketing they cut to the chase and identify good products for
you. Well done Shopping Bags! Oh and now they have their own cooking show
too! Upbeat, funny and you learn something too. I really like these two
characters!
CANADIAN
TAXPAYERS FEDERATION Now here is a group that cuts through the bullshit and
supports the Canadian taxpayer. How innovative. Check them out -they appear to
be a useful group worthy of your support. Well done CTF!
Canadian
Intellectual Property Office This is an amazing federal government
service, which will be of great interest to inventors and people who are
just interested in how things are made and how they work and are designed.
More of us could do a little inventing and this website shows how it is
done. I tried looking up a couple of inventions and was amazed at how well
it worked and the detail it provided. Worth a look -no bullshit! Well done
CIPO!
Canadian
Tire Jump Start Program No bullshit here. A major Canadian company is
helping out disadvantaged kids with grants for sports equipment and
registrations. They have helped over 65,000 of them so far. Pretty impressive!
Well done Canadian Tire!
Centre
for the Study of Living Standards CSLS "The
Centre for the Study of Living Standards is a non-profit, national,
independent organization that seeks to contribute to a better understanding of
trends in and determinants of productivity, living standards and economic and
social well-being through research." I reviewed the paper
on productivity trends and it's excellent! A wonderful example of a source of
high quality information and analysis that is not available in our media. Well
done CSLS!
Web
BULLSHIT GENERATOR Oh this one is good! The program automatically
generates bullshit terms which a techie might use. If you are reaching for a
good phrase in a report and want to take a bit of risk try it out and see if it
gives you anything! Thanks to Dack.com.
Rip
Off Report founded by Ed Magedson. This is an excellent webpage which
allows consumers to report consumer rip offs. Its a very good source of
information about companies which engage in shady business practices and you
will be very surprised at the fact them some of them are pretty major companies.
One company included on the list is the infamous Domain Registry of Canada who
for years has been sending out what appear to be bills for annual domain
registrations. They sent me one for all my domains and had the nerve to suggest
annual rates over five times what I am paying now. These dudes have been
operating for years in Canada and for some odd reason the authorities seem
unable to stop them. Possibly its that 5% GST they are collecting that otherwise
wouldn't be collected if the domain registers were in the USA.
Marcie M. Farsea
"YOUR VERY FIRST BILLION"
420 pages 6X9" Miss Farsea, Corporate Secretary and Author has recently had her first
book published by Battiston Publishing of North Bay and Victoria. This book
leaves no sacred cow standing and basically spills the beans about running a
profitable business in Canada. Dozens of excellent business ideas that you won't
find anywhere else including how to make a billion dollars to join the 46
Billionaires in Canada today. Miss Farsea's humorous style makes this book very
entertaining as well as enlightening. There is no bullshit in this book and if
there is -it's all true! Funny as hell! Well done Marcie! I predict this will be
the most talked about book in Canadian business in 2008! In true Marcie style
she has lowered the price as a special Christmas present to her many friends.
Until Jan 1st the price is reduced from $50 to $19.95 and the download down to
$5.95. How many Authors do that!