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An interesting video from our friends at Ted.com about Time and it’s use.

Note this is the Psychologist who did the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment (google that and see what folks do to each other all in the name of “I was just following orders”).

Fighting Local Warming

Humorous in an odd way:

Now I am worried about this blog!!

Yes we drag out a movie from my past, from the NFB, Impressions of Expo 67.

I am astounded at the clarity of this film and thank heavens for the NFB, as I view Expo 67 as a “mile marker” in my life even though I was only 6 years old at the time.

I love the description from the NFB:

This short film served as an invitation to the World’s Fair that was held in Montreal in 1967. It was largely considered to be the most successful World’s Fair of the 20th century with over 50 million visitors. The film presents impressions of the event and of Montreal at its liveliest and most exciting moment in history.

After Expo 67 the exhibition went on for a few more years as Man and His World and my family went every year pretty much, and LaRonde the amusement park is still in operation. Certainly a mile marker for Canada as well.

An interesting video for the weekend from our friends at Ted.com about whether English is becoming the second language of the world (where most folks speak another language as their mother tongue).

When I grew up in Montreal, I lived through the years of Bill 22 and then Bill 101 which forced immigrant families who did not speak English to go to French schools, so this discussion is interesting to me in many different ways.

English seems to be the standard in aviation already, is it being adopted by other industries in the same way? Is it the language of money? Not sure, but an interesting discussion none the less.

Yes, this has absolutely nothing to do with Personal Finance or Banking or the like, but I really like this video from the NFB, Here’s Hockey talks about an earlier day, when kids played hockey without helmets or cages, and we played outside and maybe a more naive time.

I remember playing outside, with my Dad standing there freezing himself solid and then having to listen to me complain how cold I was after the game was played. The only thing that kept him warm was his cigarette!

I love this clip, it has Jean Beliveau, and Dick Irvine the coach.

Listen to the size of the NHL, it’s a $6M dollar business (how much is Jim Balsillie paying for the Coyotes?). Skates that are LUDICROUSLY expensive at $50 a pair, a simpler time that is for sure.