Posts
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On the expressive power of programming languages
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A Review of Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach
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Some things you can fix with basic electronics knowledge and a bit of confidence
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Freshwater Shrimp Tank Water Parameters
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Macos man 3 getaddrinfo is wrong
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Some preliminary findings from using AI to review my pull requests
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A brief review of A World Lit Only By Fire, by William Manchester
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Hollywood hacking with JSON Bourne (2016)
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What is a runtime, and does C have one?
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Blog now powered by Jekyll
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Conscientiousness and IQ
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Notes on Notes on Complexity
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Avoid Rails console sandbox
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A plea to reconsider sampling Alan Watts in your lowfi chillwave music
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Database write amplification
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Optimum ISP is MITMing its customers
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Type punning, strict aliasing, and BSD sockets
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Paying down technical debt won't necessarily increase your velocity
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Is "success mostly results from luck and connections" a luxury belief?
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Installing a Boss 560BRGB stereo in a 2012 Mazda 5
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Hemmingway readability scores
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Ruby and Fortran libraries
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Fixing slow HTTP PUTs with Rails and Typhoeus
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Rails 4 scopes with has_many :through relations
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Configuring SoftEther VPN on Ubuntu with a firewall
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Read more literature
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LAMP on Digital Ocean
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Throttle outbound Spotify traffic
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Filtering ExtJs Grid
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Closure Compiler externs for Backbone 1.0.0
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I give you wings
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Simulate typekit FOUT on OSX with IPFW
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Graphing changes in file size across git commits
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closure compiler externs for underscore 1.4.4
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Simplify QAing the js popup windows in your web app
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Closure Compiler externs updates
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Exploring Chrome's timeline panel
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Avoiding 503s when loading images from Google Contacts API
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Scrolling while paused in Chrome debugger
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Backbone.js finite state machine view
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Closure compiler externs files for underscore and backbone js
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Cisco IPsec VPN on OSX Snow Leopard
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Errors in scripts loaded with jQuery $.getScript
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JScript deviations from ES3
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Objects in closure compiler record types
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Automatic brain, free person
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The Hood Internet - One Midnight With You
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Project Euler problem 9 in one line of Haskell
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HTTP status cats
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Hot buttered rye breakfast cocktail
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Performance comparison of doubling a number in javascript
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Bug in ckeditor version 3.6.1 revision 7072
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Mis-applications of Gaia theory
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Neat, plausible, and wrong
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A valiant stand on science and religion
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Hegel gets colloquial
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A Heidegger Poem??
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Some Philosophical Chuck Norris Facts
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Nelly vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Epic Castoriadis run-on sentence
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How does your website fare on text resize?
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Disappointing
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Nirvana + MGMT mashup
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Testing your websites on Android phones
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Two interesting fonts
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Updated RSS feeds
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My favourite painting at the MOMA
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Marxist or Marxian
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Me on my buddy's blog
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The sun shines to-day also
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6 questions for Richard Posner
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Why do all thesauri seem to suck?
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Unabomber weighs in on ancient Egyptian dwarf-worship
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Goethe-recognition FAIL
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Logic of post-modern thought
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Chekov on Nihilism
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"Your opinion doesn't have to be based on facts"
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Inspiration
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Progress without politics
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Beer in America
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Some support for Schumpeter
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Smart suburb planning in NYC, 100 years ago
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Roll with rolling razor!
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Paragraph-level commenting for Wordpress
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Facebook uses browser-specific body classes
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Google doesn't like twitter
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View Source
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HTML5 Canvas Experimentation
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Printer is on fire
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Pascal vs. Callwood
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"Infinity" Citizen x Wow
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Some philosophical kisses
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Yochai Benkler on the End of Universal Rationality
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Ray Kurzweil on the Future of GNR
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Craftmanship in the age of industry
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Wordpress' comment form tabindex no-no
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A totally different kind of game
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Schwarzenegger uses Facebook
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A (very) brief history of time, Youtube style
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Susan Sontag: why style is important
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Brought to you by Saul Bass
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You're sitting in a chair, in the sky
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Some useful modifications to Joomla Podcast Suite
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Securing passwords in your database
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Bottle-collecting shopping cart racers
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The Napoleon Dynamite problem
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The log driver's waltz
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How to email a CEO
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Inconsolata: a nice, new (free!) monospace font
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To LibraryThing widget users:
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Leveraging social norms to save the environment
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Improve your pagination's usability
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IE6 CSS hacks with Wordpress.com
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Global survey: the importance of religion in your daily life
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Saving Gigi -- good food, good wifi
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Can religion and science be reconciled?
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Is HD a Schlimmbesserung?
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No video in email for 2009
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The ego boom
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Dylan sells out with hilarious results
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New theme
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Canada: a brief history of failed GHG reduction policies
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Thank god Rogers is continuing to innovate
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The future of journalism
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Scam ads on Facebook
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As the web gets smarter, will our anonymity evaporate?
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Motto for web writers: cut!
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The financial crisis cloud has no silver lining
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Mistakes you don't want to make when applying to philosophy grad schools
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Upgraded to Wordpress 2.7
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Al Franken zings Ann Coulter
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When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
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Maybe people aren't as stupid as psychologists think
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Greenspan's mea culpa
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Could you have a base without a superstructure?
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Ontario launches anti-poverty plan amidst economic turmoil
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Comparing web traffic stats: google analytics, google urchin, and webtrends
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A first step towards "justice after Bush"?
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The #1 reason not to use Joomla
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If it can't be shared, it doesn't count
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Expert On Anteaters Wasted Entire Life Studying Anteaters
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Obama, McCain, Palin, Biden, and... Chuck Norris?
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How not to do a call to action
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Some worthwhile reading on the economic meltdown and what comes next
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Environmental politics over the long term
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Bot-mediated reality
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Trademarking our everyday lives
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Some Congress members told: pass bailout bill, or martial law
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The climate change denial industry
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Running Internet Explorer on your Mac
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Where to get your Mac fixed in Toronto
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SilverStripe sets new traffic record
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Launch of ReallyNotALeader.ca
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There goes the country
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Slavoj Zizek: McCain is Bush with lipstick
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Google's confusing and questionable advice on URL rewriting
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Littering in outer space
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First lesson of SEO...
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Fido.ca's usability sin
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ThoughtWorks in Toronto: Forging a new alliance between business and IT
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Ampersand validation issues with Joomla
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Consequences of bot-mediated reality
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I like Matt Damon
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Amazon Web Services Start-Up Tour in Toronto
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If only Spore DRM complainers were this vocal about all corporate injustices
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Maybe Naomi Wolfe is right...
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Reason 3 not to vote for the Conservatives: who cuts literacy funding?
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Better pagination SEO with Wordpress
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Reason 2 not to elect the Conservatives: stupid and destructive climate change policy
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Reason 1 not to elect the Conservatives: trashy campaigning
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way We Make Things
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One nice thing about Google...
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Google chrome: speed at the price of bloat?
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End of an empire
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Compelling graphs from the WHO Report on Social Determinants of Health
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Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?
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Havana before and after Castro
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New bike(s)
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Village of Makkinga has no traffic signs
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Some reflections on Aurora, browser of the future
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On climate change and not wrestling with pigs
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Content Management Systems - a look back in time
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Web design for different monitors
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Using Wordpress as a CMS - Part 3
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Leveraging the shape of information
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The semantic web gets friendly
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Visualizations of information architecture / user experience
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Large Hadron Collider rap
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Great way to deal with trolls on your blog
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Amazon Web Services start-up tour coming to Toronto
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Hyperempowerment? Really?
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The world's dirtiest cities
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In case we didn't already know that GW Bush's presidency was a joke...
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Hillside 2008 roundup
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Del's "nutty device"
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Creepy female robot
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The Survey for People Who Make Websites
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The Nautilus
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Incorporating web standards into your design brief or RFP
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Annoyance from Ticketmaster
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The magic of the free market explained
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More cakePHP tips
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Pandora's Hope, by Bruno Latour
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Using Wordpress as a CMS - Part 2
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Delicious brunch on Bloor
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Using Wordpress as a CMS - Part 1
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Toronto cops bust sketchy bike shop
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Choosing a PHP web application framework
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Facebook Camp
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Simians are people too
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Anti-terrorist pickup trucks, trapdoors, and such
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The fundamental nature of intelligence
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Netherlands deserved to lose
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Jim Prentice fumbles his way through a 10-minute CBC interview
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Canadian carbon tax plans
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Artist spends one week living as a hamster
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Godwin's law in action
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Canadian students' environmental knowledge and attitudes
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Some thoughts on the coming of everybody
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What are the relationships between learning and engagement at school?
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Strong National Support for British Columbia's Carbon Tax
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We're all fracked
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Say it publicly and you're insane, Chocolate Rain
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NASA will pay you $5K a month to lie in bed
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Classic case of slippery slope
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Art show curator euthanizes living leather jacket
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Robot spiders
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More befuddlement from Bjorn Lomborg
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World's oldest living root-system
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Income inequality and happiness
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I knew I was a man
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Self-re-assembling robots - cue the Terminator references
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A new low for Google
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Young Billy seeks advice from notorious serial killers
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The ethics of race- and ethnicity-based statistics
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Props to the Ontario Government
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Washington DC bike rental program -- not enough critical mass?
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Great conference on bikes; less great over-reliance on "tipping point"
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Track biking in San Fransisco
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Slavoj Zizek web 2.0
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Stiglitz: Iraq war to cost US close to 5 trillion USD
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Climate change in Canada: some ups, some downs
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Inequality is bad: left-wing dogma, or common sense?
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Great depression and WWII in colour
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Back when men were men, and calculators weighed five tons
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Report: most countries will fail to meet Millennium Development Goals by 2015
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US war robots in Iraq aim guns at human masters
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UK scientists further discredit link between climate change and solar activity
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What is RSS?
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Mr. T brings boy out of coma
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Canada on intellectual property rights -- not so bad after all?
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