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CTV.ca | Trustees approve Afrocentric school for Toronto

Trustees with the Toronto District School Board have voted to approve an “operational model” for an Afrocentric school, a controversial plan to help struggling black students in the city’s education system.

“The strategies developed by our staff following consultation with our communities, will hopefully more effectively address the needs of youth who have historically struggled in TDSB schools,” John Campbell, chair of the board, said in a press release late Tuesday night.

Didn’t we deal with segregation in schools like, I don’t know, over 40 years ago?

AfriGadget » Blog Archive » The BodaPhone in Uganda
Seriously cool portable payphone from Uganda.

Follow Ezra Levant’s ongoing dispute with the Alberta Human Rights Commission at his blog. He got into some trouble after a complaint was filed after his magazine “The Western Standard” published the infamous Danish cartoons depicting Mohammed a few years ago. You know the ones - the ones that cause a whole mess of riots throughout the Middle East.

Interestingly, his ordeal seems to gather support from both sides of the political spectrum despite the fact that under any other circumstance those on the Left would find him hard to stomach. However, keep in mind that freedom of speech does encompass the freedom to be a douche. That being said, draw your own conclusions. Here’s his opening statement.

Slings a web any size, catches thieves just like flies, there goes the dummy in a Spiderman costume at a kids party who falls on his ass while trying to flip off a wall.

::: the future of ideas :::

Lawrence Lessig is offering his book “The Future of Ideas” as a free download. I should have waited a year as I bought it off Amazon.

While you’re at it, have a listen to his lecture on corruption.

It’s also available on iTunes as a podcast if you want to listen to it on the go. Good stuff.

Balloon for each Kassam on UN doorstep | Jerusalem Post

As the United Nations Security Council debated a response to the situation in the Gaza Strip and Sderot, Israel’s New York Consulate held a protest in front of UN headquarters on Thursday, in which they placed 4,200 red balloons on the UN’s doorstep. The number of balloons signified the 4,200 Kassam rockets fired into Israel from Gaza since the 2005 disengagement from the Strip.

The display was meant to raise world awareness to the fact that Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip are part of an effort to end the rocket attacks, the consulate said in a statement.

I doubt that it’s nearly as catchy as “99 Luft Balloons” by Nena.

500 XL Super Duper Big Earbud Speakers

Sometimes bigger IS really better, especially when it comes to sound. That’s why we took a puny pair of earbuds, put them in Fred’s highly technical Way Big machine, and created 500XL - it’s 500 times the size of the original! How great will these look on your desktop alongside your mp3 player or PC? 500XL includes a built-in amp and 3-way power - it runs on batteries; you can connect it to your PC’s USB port with the supplied cord; or plug it into the wall with a generic power supply (not included). The stand-up, peggable clamshell packaging really makes a statement.

OK, seriously. Someone please get me these.

Mother sacrificed her life by refusing cancer treatment so her premature baby would live | the Daily Mail

Four months into her pregnancy, Lorraine Allard was devastated to learn she was in the advanced stages of cancer.

Doctors advised her to have an abortion and start chemotherapy straight away.

Instead, with steadfast courage, she insisted on waiting long enough to give her unborn son a chance to survive, telling her husband Martyn: “If I am going to die, my baby is going to live.”

Wow.

Popin Pete doing his thing in the Talking Heads video “Crosseyed and Painless”.

Israel wants to cut Gaza links after border breach | International | Reuters

Israel wants to cut its links with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip after militants blasted open the territory’s border with Egypt in defiance of an Israeli blockade, Israel’s deputy defence minister said on Thursday.

Israel, which occupied the Gaza Strip in 1967, pulled troops and settlers out in 2005 but still controls its northern and eastern borders, airspace and coastal waters, and has imposed a blockade it says is meant to counter militant rocket fire.

I’m sure this can all be solved by three rounds of Rock-Paper-Scissors between Egypt and Israel.

Woman With Tattoo From Homemade Gun Got Sick - Kansas City News Story - KMBC Kansas City

Some women in Springfield are regretting their decision last week to get a tattoo from a door-to-door tattoo salesman. At least one person had to be hospitalized and the others face serious health risks.

Friday night, a man knocked on doors holding a tattoo gun and offering his services. Tamra Eason described the tool as homemade, but still agreed to pay for a tattoo. So did two other women in her apartment complex.

I’m sure the price was good.

So I’m assuming that Heath Ledger won’t be reprising his role as The Joker for a second time unless they pull off some sort of “Weekend At Bernies” type thing.

I love the internet!

globeandmail.com: Blame it on Hamas

Israel agreed Monday to allow diesel fuel and medicine into Gaza on a one-time basis, easing the blockade it imposed because of rocket attacks on Israel’s southern towns. This concession will not be enough to placate critics who had jumped all over the country earlier in the day, accusing it of exacting, in the words of European Union external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, a “collective punishment of the people of Gaza.” Nor will the gesture in any way encourage Hamas to order its thugs to rein in their attacks on civilian targets in Israel. Never ones to let a good turn go unpunished, one of the terrorist group’s leaders, Mahmud Zahar, made as much clear yesterday, promising “to continue on the path of jihad and resistance, whatever the sacrifices and suffering, until victory or martyrdom.” The villains in the tawdry drama being played out at the expense of the impoverished and downtrodden Gazans should be obvious. But in case it’s not, here’s a hint: It’s not Israel.

I was thinking more of the lines of Milli Vanilli and was going to blame it on the rain but the Globe thinks otherwise.

reportonbusiness.com: Quebecor World seeks bankruptcy protection
Quebecor World Inc. filed Monday for creditor protection, telling a court hearing it will run out of cash within days, after failed attempts over the weekend to strike a compromise deal with its bankers.

The struggling commercial printing giants application for protection under the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act was being heard in Quebec Superior Court.

“We are days from a total liquidity collapse,” Derrick Tay, a lawyer for Quebecor World told the court. If the company doesnt get the emergency debt financing it is seeking, it will run out of cash by Thursday, he said.

There goes the neighborhood. Seriously though, who would have thought this a few years ago?

Mr. Deity is easily the funniest video podcast I’ve ever watched.

The Death of Environmentalism - FORA.tv

In October 2004, Shellenberger and Nordhaus argued that environmentalism was incapable of dealing with global warming and must die for a new ecological politics to be born. Now, they will make their case for a new “politics of possibility” to replace the old “politics of limits” - from environmentalism to liberalism to conservatism - grounded in changing social values and an expansive new vision of the future

Also, I can’t recommend the Fora.tv Program of the Week podcast enough. It features great speakers from all over the political spectrum.