Huskies Athletics cuts the Huskies Cheerleaders :: Cheerleaders pulled a bush league stunt and got what they deserved. I can’t say I will miss them. How much did it cost to distribute all of those Aol. disks in the 1990s? Corruption is worth than imagined in Quebec. The head of Quebec’s anti-collusion unit says he’s [...]
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Hamas is pissed off that the U.N. is going to teach Palestinian children about the Holocaust Four New York Times journalists outline captivity in Libya Costs in Libya: $100 million for one day of missiles; $1 billion will easily be passed Der Spiegel publishes photos of U.S. “kill team” posing with dead Afghans they murdered [...]
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The Cost of Urban Water | The amount of people living in cities is constantly rising. This asks for good solutions in terms of water supply and management. This visualization looks at the cost of water in major cities and their development over the past 3 years. Related Wendy and I watched Season 1 of [...]
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Daniel Miller takes About.Me to a new level (hosted on his own domain name). He is also blogging in a new location. Pilgrimage with Andrew Jones in 2011 Moveable Type, RIP? Big Picture creator Alan Taylor moves to The Atlantic—it now gets 8M pageviews monthl Death Wears A Snuggie — first-person account of manning a [...]
links for 2010-09-19
The Dragon and the American Dream During the American century, rivals were bested left and right, as the ranks of the great powers slipped from half-a-dozen, to three, to two, to one. Now history has stopped, and gone into reverse gear, with the number of great powers increasing from one to two, to three or [...]
links for 2010-09-16
Kilburn Hall worker charged with drug dealing Not to be flippant but how do we think that drugs get into all of our prisons? (tags: drugs justice Saskatoon) NES Bed What a fun decor idea for the old school gamer. (tags: design gaming) iPhone 4 Skin Makes It Look Like A Leica Camera (tags: iPhone [...]
links for 2010-09-07
Whale wars: Japanese court lets Sea Shepherd activist go home Pete Bethune is allowed to go back to New Zealand (tags: environment fishing ethics justice) The 10 best-paid authors in the world J.K. Rowlings isn't even in the top ten. (tags: writing business) 12 Fish Every Eater Should Avoid (tags: food ethics environment) Quebec preparing [...]
links for 2010-09-06
U of S Huskies beat the University of Calgary. (tags: CIS football usask) Tony Blair's memoirs: a strange book by a gifted man Despite that, I hope a copy finds it's way into possession. It does look like an interesting book to read (tags: UK politics) Mideast Experts Fear Peace Talks Are Too Ambitious Maybe [...]
links for 2010-09-03
Ground Zero Mosque: It’s a Simple Question « Prof. John Stackhouse’s Weblog "If we don’t think all Muslims are implicated in the attack, then of course they should be allowed to build a mosque or community centre or whatever the heck they want to build wherever the zoning and funding will allow—just like any other [...]
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James Fallows wonders how one can save the news and Google’s role in it :: The problem Google is aware of involves the disruption still ahead. Ten years from now, a robust and better-funded news business will be thriving. What next year means is harder to say. I asked everyone I interviewed to predict which [...]
