Olson, Geoff

NEWS ITEM: 'Cyberbegging' sites let needy appeal directly to donors...
The environmentalist's dilemma...is it better to communicate from home about climate change, or to jet across the world with the message, contributing to carbon emissions in the process? "Sir, you [...]
NEWS ITEM: French space agency CNES releases its UFO files to the public, while British Columbians deal with some rare sightings of their own... "The object appeared briefly above the cloud cover. It [...]
"Mr. Harper, Canadians are getting edgy about the Security and Prosperity Partnership agreement between Canada, the US, and Mexico. Bloggers and those sorts." "How's the media behaving?" [...]
The Olympic Village (alternative design) Corporate sponsors' exhibition, VIP lounge, Media accommodations, Legacy Museum, You are here (taxpayer), Convention centre, Celebration site, Speed-skating [...]
One of the few Downtown Eastside residents in favour of the low-tech, alternative housing available after the wave of Olympic-connected evictions.... "Cardboard boxes rock!"
Sketchbook Survey After spending millions of dollars, Translink admits that digital information signs at stops along the Vancouver-Richmond bus route, letting people know when the next bus arrives, [...]
NEWS ITEM: Canadian military to give "robust" support to 2010 Games security and... 78-year old Eagleridge Bluff protestor Betty Krawczyk gets sentenced to ten months in jail. "Oh no...not her again."
The House of Commons scraps two anti-terror measures, out of concern for civil rights. The federal Conservatives talk carbon reductions. The BC Liberal government talks sustainability. The US talks [...]
NEWS ITEM: Conrad Black has a British author with an $11 million libel suit, alleging the writer's conduct has been "vindictive, high-handed, contemptuous, sadistic, pathologically mendacious and [...]
Sketchbook Survey Health Canada issued new consumption guidelines on Monday for canned albacore tuna for women and children. What do you think about the excessive mercury in tuna?
NEWS ITEM: Olympic countdown clock unveiled in downtown Vancouver... You're on borrowed time, Emerson "Bloody hackers."
What nefarious cross-marketing scheme lies behind Telus' sale of pornographic photos and videos to cell phone subscribers? "What's that part there, an arm or a leg?" "Great... now we need to get a phone with a better screen and full motion video!"
NEWS ITEM: To combat global warming, Virgin Airlines chairman and billionaire Richard Branson promises 25 million dollars to anyone with a workable scheme to remove a billion tons of carbon dioxide a [...]
Celebrating a record year for profits, oil company executives gather to make merry and view a favourite comedy...
MORON HIKER The Magazine for the Unprepared PANIC! A viable option when all else fails, CELL PHONE SPECIAL Is it really necessary to recharge the batteries? FLEECE versus COTTON The big debate about [...]
We've all heard about Apple's iPod. Now we're hearing about the iPhone. But let's not forget the Pentagon's inventive initiative... The iRaq* *Surge protection not guaranteed And coming soon... The iRan!
Sketchbook Survey Broken weather records, fallen trees, and general chaos. What do you think about a possible link between BC's stormy winter and climate change?
Bioterrorist
"He may have been a brutal thug, but Saddam was telling the truth about having no weapons of mass destruction. Bush wasn't. And as far as mass killing goes, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died [...]
"Mr. Harper, android. Android, Mr. Harper." "He looks like me!" "Yes, sir. We've designed a look-alike robot to deal with the press, so you won't have to." "I...AM...STEPHEN...HARPER. "He sounds a [...]
Sketchbook Survey Anything you'd like for Christmas? "Peace on Earth" "... and a Barbie"
Sketchbook Survey With two train derailments in one day, there's been a five-fold increase in railway accidents in BC since the provincial government leased BC Rail operations to CN last year. What do you think?
Perhaps thinks would have turned out differently if this dude ran in the civic election...
"It's not easy being... well, you know."