Factory Emissions

Thoughts, ideas and plenty of hot air.

Feb03

I’ve Got Mail

Posted by: Christine Howse


I love getting mail. Sales brochures from the newest hair salon in town, a letter from my local real estate agent telling me the market is on an upswing, coupons from the pizza restaurant down the street, a fun burger-shaped flyer offering me $2 off my next meal… I love ‘em all.


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Jan18

Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy

Posted by: Liam Kelly


How many times this week have you gotten mad at the car in front of you for driving too slow? Gotten frustrated at your cell phone provider for dropping a call? Started to mumble at the cashier for taking her time as she scans your groceries?


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Dec15

The Soundtrack To My Life

Posted by: Renee Fancey


I think of my father whenever I hear the Fisheries Broadcast theme start up just around suppertime.


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Dec09

Christmas Apps for the Non-believers!

Posted by: Maggie OKeefe


Portable North Pole and Magic Santa are bringing back believin’ with their apps that let you customize videos from Santa Claus (c’mon, no one’s getting letters via Canada Post anymore!).


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Nov25

The Magic of Christmas is Making a Comeback

Posted by: Jessie Power


The “Toy Factory”. What a concept. Reminiscent of childhood dreams and the magic of Christmas.


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Nov18

Time For A Change… Land Line to iPhone!

Posted by: Kate Garibaldi


I don’t have a cell phone. This fact usually causes people to look at me as if I just grew an extra head right in front of their eyes. It is incomprehensible to so many and most times prompts the question, “How do you live?!”


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Oct25

What we can learn from Vince McMahon and the XFL

Posted by: Kevin Casey


You knew it was in trouble when on the first coin toss of the first game – well, not a coin toss but two guys diving for a football – one of the players separated a shoulder. A failure by every definition of the word. I say “so what?”


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Oct06

Where Have All The Pirates Gone?

Posted by: Ed Roche


His vision and tenacity had a profound effect on me from the first time I started reading about these two dudes, the two Steve’s in California, creating something wild & new.


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Sep27

All Hotels Are Not Created Equal…

Posted by: Kevin Casey


Some ideas make things so simple that it’s hard to believe that no one came up with it sooner! In fact it should and probably will replace the old way completely and quickly.


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Sep09

The Internet Has Come A Long Way – 1996 vs. 2011 (Infographic)

Posted by: Sid Williams


If you remember the sound of a dial up modem as it transported you (at a whopping 56k connection) into the wild wild west of the world wide web, then you know how very far the internet has come.


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