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Abandoned by Canada: Torture Surviver Speaks Out

I attended Abandoned by Canada: Torture Surviver Speaks Out tonight, run by WPIRG and AWOL. The depressing part of of it all is that not only did Canada, a supposedly decent country, violate its own basic laws, not just in … Continue reading

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Blogdigger Dev Blog: Blogdigger Acquired by Odeo

Blogdigger Dev Blog: Blogdigger Acquired by Odeo – very interesting news. Back in March 2003 Dave Winer blogged that perhaps there should be a search engine based off data in RSS feeds. Three people started coding that weekend, Greg Gershman, … Continue reading

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…My heart’s in Accra » The Cute Cat Theory Talk at ETech

…My heart’s in Accra » The Cute Cat Theory Talk at ETech – insanely long post that I barely read, but I agree with the points on cats, porn, and activism.

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Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web – Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry

Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web – Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry – wow. Watching things grow sloooowly for a long time, and then it finally seems like things are picking up… very exciting. Update: link is … Continue reading

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Waterloo, Part 3: Geo Stuff

Okay, so I am cheating a bit here. Rather than writing a new post, I’m linking to a page on my wiki where I have been collecting links for several years already: mfagan wiki / waterloo geo stuff. Back when … Continue reading

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Telling smokers lung ‘age’ helps them quit – Addictions- msnbc.com

Telling smokers lung ‘age’ helps them quit – Addictions- msnbc.com – makes sense

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Right to Quiet Society – Home Page

Right to Quiet Society – Home Page – listening to Sounds Like Canada this morning and they were talking about sound pollution, something that bugs me infinitely. The link goes to a website they mentioned, for what may be the … Continue reading

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Waterloo, Part 2: The Tech Scene

Waterloo loves thinking of itself as some sort of Canadian version of Silicon Valley. To do this it usually starts off with the University of Waterloo and the several large technology companies, and then makes the lists bigger by adding … Continue reading

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Casulo – Your Apartment in a Box « Gaya, Ruang dan Kepelbagaian

Casulo – Your Apartment in a Box « Gaya, Ruang dan Kepelbagaian – this is great. although more furniture than I use 😉

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Waterloo, Part 1: Professors

This is the first of a series of indeterminate length (depends on my laziness, which is high), about the University of Waterloo, the Waterloo area, university life, university education, co-operative education, etc. Being in my (hopefully) last semester of university, … Continue reading

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