Rob over at RJProduct has launched a Logo Contest, in response to the somewhat ambivalent and uninspired logo designed for Newfoundland & Labrador by Target Marketing. Some entries are sardonic, some serious. Check it out! As a side note, the rest of the campaign seems to be fairly well-accepted and the video is great!
Category: news and events
How will the world know us? As illiterate, maybe?
Our provincial government unveiled the new logo for the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador today: I have no real complaints about it. It’s a little bland, perhaps, and lacks a conjunction (the word “and” is missing), but apart from those minor details, it doesn’t really bother me at all. In some sense, the graphic has…
Stunned. In the Newfoundland sense of the word.
Okay, I’m not Ratzinger’s biggest fan. Never have been. While in university, I studied much of what he’s written and, for the preservation of my blood-pressure, figuratively agreed to disagree with the man. He’s a fundamentalist (insofar as a Catholic can be) hard-liner who uses his incredible mind to build rigid structures that he feels…
Tricks of memory
My SIL Heather recently wrote about her memories of September 11, 2001. Her comments are quite understandably turned off because a recent bombardment by comment spammers, requiring her to shift server programs and we all know how much fun that could turn out to be. But anyway, the fact that she wrote something about the…
News oddities
In an attempt to keep pace with the public’s love of weird news, CBC has been increasing the number and quality of its bizarre stories recently. Part of it is the annual attempt to divert people from summer, but I suspect that a part of it is a recognition of the need for a good…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 