- 1st
- 08:48 am
[LINK] "Republican victory a prelude to failure"
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06:07 pm[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] On the foolishness of Japan's claim to the Kuril Islands
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07:40 pm[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] On why Toronto needs Godwin's law, and less contempt for the internal suburbs
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10:48 pm[LINK] "Rethymno and the complicated history of Crete"
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11:59 pm[DM] "On the problems of China's census"
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- 2nd
- 07:46 am
[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
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10:51 am[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] On recognition of anti-queer bullying, and how religious bigots are cannibals
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07:07 pm[URBAN NOTE] Why one Torontonian voted for Ford, and its import
09:32 pm[BRIEF NOTE] Towards the European Armed Forces?
11:03 pm[H&F] "White poppy, white feather"
- 3rd
- 08:37 am
[PHOTO] Smashed pay phone booth
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10:14 am[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] On Vesta: whether asteroid or dwarf planet, certainly interesting
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11:51 am[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] On jaw-dropping, unremarkable, small-town Canadian racism
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03:00 pm[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] On Australia and Canada and borders and the threats they hold back
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08:40 pm[LINK] "To Brand T.O."
10:05 pm[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] Form, function, books, Amazon
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- 4th
- 09:28 am
[PHOTO] Carapace
07:12 pm[BRIEF NOTE] Followup on Campbellford
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08:48 pm[MUSIC] Rough Trade, "High School Confidential" and "Crimes of Passion"
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- 5th
- 05:11 am
[PHOTO] Condo rising
09:43 am[LINK] "Phosphate: Morocco's White Gold"
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02:15 pm[LINK] "The lightness of history in the Caucasus"
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05:03 pm[LINK] "Yemen's ‘youth bulge’, unemployment: explosive mix"
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09:58 pm[REVIEW] Dan Gardner, Future Babble
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11:05 pm[H&F] "On the best futurologists' limits"
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11:59 pm[DM] "On projections and predictions and their flaws"
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- 6th
- 04:07 pm
[PHOTO] Water at night
07:12 pm[FORUM] What minor innovations would you like to come in the future?
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- 7th
- 03:43 pm
[PHOTO] Down the aisle
06:13 pm[H&F] "Baseball and History and Futility"
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11:59 pm[FORUM] Do you think that the world is heading towards a single community of shared empathy?
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- 8th
- 01:46 am
[OBSCURA] "Alternative Energy Revolution"
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04:09 pm[LINK] "Social Networks and global empathy"
06:08 pm[PHOTO] On digital versus film
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08:06 pm[LINK] "Northern Territories dispute highlights flawed diplomacy"
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- 9th
- 07:49 am
[PHOTO] Here I am
10:59 am[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
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12:02 pm[LINK] "Lively/Lived Space: Salzburg and L’vivly Space"
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05:41 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On recognizing Indonesia's rise
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08:13 pm[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] On the rhizomic nature of social networking
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09:55 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the food (and other) totalitarianism of post-war Sri Lanka
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11:59 pm[VLOG] "Dating Advice For The Newly Out"
- 10th
- 05:17 am
[PHOTO] Cobblestones and rail lines
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06:58 am[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
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08:41 am[LINK] Two interesting, and entirely unrelated (I'm sure), news items about our Milky Way Galaxy
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10:42 am[LINK] "Dissecting global civil society: values, actors, organisational forms"
02:01 pm[LINK] "Dolphins form sophisticated alliances to win battles and protect their young"
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04:21 pm[LINK] "Google v. Blekko v. The Librarian. (The librarian wins.)"
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08:08 pm[LINK] "North America’s most northerly mosque officially opens in the Arctic"
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- 11th
- 08:33 am
[PHOTO] Maple Leaf, Allan Gardens in October
10:12 am[URBAN NOTE] Patrick Cain's map of Toronto's Second World War dead, by address
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01:34 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On Remembrance Day's drift
04:53 pm[H&F] "Armistice Day and a Strasbourg Monument"
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08:38 pm[LINK] "How Canada became an open data and data journalism powerhouse"
08:48 pm[H&F] "Kaarlo Kurko and the Miracle of the Vistula"
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10:17 pm[LINK] "A glimpse of the future of Remembrance Day in Toronto"
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- 12th
- 12:05 am
[DM] "War and demography"
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- 13th
- 02:50 pm
[H&F] "Kaarlo Kurko; the journey to the Polish battlefields, 1919"
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07:52 pm[FORUM] Why did you join the military?
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- 14th
- 01:17 pm
[PHOTO] Don Valley Parkway Mystery
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09:22 pm[FORUM] What has surprised you about your physical community?
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- 15th
- 08:58 am
[OBSCURA] Daniel Gueorguiev, "Stranger In The Fog [Explored]"
01:17 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
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04:05 pm[DM] "On the poor sense of blaming the young for below-replacement fertility"
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07:05 pm[LINK] "Does easy access to Starbucks latte really make you vote Liberal?"
10:36 pm[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] On how loving cities means you like city-dwellers
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11:08 pm[H&F] "Baseball and History: Narratives, Part One"
- 16th
- 06:20 am
[PHOTO] Allan Gardens after the wind
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07:39 am[LINK] "Clues Suggest Stuxnet Virus Was Built for Subtle Nuclear Sabotage"
10:56 am[LINK] "Save space for the pirates"
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11:56 am[H&F] "Some notes on information storage (1)"
01:30 pm[H&F] "Plagiarism, Entitled Students, and Shooting the Messenger"
06:44 pm[LINK] Two queer statistics
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11:59 pm[LINK] Two hockey links from the two solitudes
- 17th
- 07:36 am
[OBSCURA] "Cthulhu Mythos, As Imagined By Kids"
09:23 am[BRIEF NOTE] Portugal between Eurozone and Lusosphere?
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10:48 am[LINK] "Provinces forging relations with China out of the spotlight"
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01:51 pm[LINK] Two links on Indonesia as a BRIC
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06:38 pm[H&F] "Kaarlo Kurko and ataman Bulak's soldiers"
08:01 pm[ISL] "The Disablement of the Netherlands Antilles: Does anything really change?"
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- 18th
- 02:30 am
[PHOTO] Allan Gardens Conservatory, from the east
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08:41 am[META] Blogroll Expansion
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09:58 am[LINK] "Who's afraid of free WiFi?"
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12:29 pm[LINK] "Historic hydro pact signed between N.L., N.S."
01:08 pm[LINK] Two Japan links
02:27 pm[LINK] "Dog bites man, East Timor lends money to Portugal"
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03:01 pm[PHOTO] Me, 2003/2004
05:33 pm[DM] "The Spiegel on East German workforce shortages" and "On the difficulties of emigration in Sene
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- 19th
- 12:00 am
[H&F] "Libraries, prosthetic memories"
08:28 am[PHOTO] "23530008"
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09:55 am[BLOG] Some Friday links
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12:28 pm[CAT] "Russia hopes plan to save endangered tigers worth more than the sum of their parts"
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04:12 pm[LINK] "On the down escalator"
07:03 pm[LINK] "The BRIC Debate: Drop Russia, Add Indonesia?"
08:58 pm[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] On the possible origin of First Nations genes in the Icelandic gene pool
10:54 pm[DM] "On Guernsey's population control"
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11:59 pm[H&F] "Some notes on information storage (3): Emotional incentives"
- 20th
- 08:53 am
[OBSCURA] Computing in Narnia
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09:03 am[PHOTO] Allan Gardens, from the south
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03:11 pm[PHOTO] The barn
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08:30 pm[FORUM] What ruins do you like?
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- 21st
- 10:29 am
[PHOTO] Toys of a lost future
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05:59 pm[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] On the existential risks of first-generation transhumanism
08:50 pm[FORUM] What unexpected technologies (and technological drawbacks) do you expect from the future?
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11:15 pm[CAT] Happy second adoption-anniversary, Shakespeare!
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- 22nd
- 07:13 am
[BLOG] Some Monday links
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08:51 am[CAT] On Hexbugs
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11:45 am[LINK] "The tactile magic of the newspaper"
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03:14 pm[H&F] "Kaarlo Kurko; war, inhumanity and humanity"
05:44 pm[LINK] "Baseball and History: Narratives, Part Two"
08:07 pm[LINK] "Life Found in the Deepest, Unexplored Layer of the Earth’s Crust"
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09:15 pm[LINK] "Who killed Lebanon's Rafik Hariri?"
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- 23rd
- 06:21 am
[PHOTO] Crystal Blu on Bloor, nearly done
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07:50 am[LINK] “Happy birthday: Windows is 25”
10:58 am[LINK] “North Korean Attack: How Will China React?”
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11:51 am[LINK] “Meeting Aims to Turn Tiger Fascination Into Conservation”
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04:45 pm[LINK] "For Some TTC Riders, A Dufferin Slog"
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08:06 pm[LINK] Two links on now-contemporary historical computers
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09:54 pm[REVIEW] Robert L. Forward, Rocheworld
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10:52 pm[LINK] "Conscription in Germany to End Next Summer"
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- 24th
- 06:37 am
[PHOTO] Yonge and Gloucester Squirrel
10:30 am[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
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11:56 am[LINK] "Artificial Rivers"
09:40 pm[LINK] "Note to Canadian authors: Stop tweeting, start writing!"
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- 25th
- 07:55 am
[PHOTO] Allan Gardens Squirrels
09:32 am[DM] "Five demography links" and "A coda for Statistics Canada"
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01:20 pm[LINK] "Natural Boundary / Political Boundary"
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03:10 pm[MUSIC] Radiohead, "Just"
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05:56 pm[REVIEW] The Dark Knight
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07:44 pm[LINK] "Analysing data is the future for journalists, says Tim Berners-Lee"
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11:14 pm[H&F] "On how we are coming to accept that we are alone"
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- 26th
- 08:03 am
[PHOTO] Gloomy Toronto skyline
10:45 am[BLOG] Some Friday links
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12:00 pm[LINK] Two links on the ethics of photographing sex workers
08:03 pm[REVIEW] Greg Bear, Eon
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09:26 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On global warming and the future of indigenous peoples
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10:45 pm[H&F] "If you suffer, the golden age will come"
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- futurology,
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11:55 pm[DM] "On the inevitable dominance of Seoul in South Korea"
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- 27th
- 03:55 pm
[H&F] "If you suffer, the golden age will come"
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- futurology,
- h&f,
- links
07:42 pm[PHOTO] Ruhr Express
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11:59 pm[FORUM] War: what next?
- 28th
- 11:24 am
[PHOTO] Elgin and Winter Garden, Nuit Blanche 2010
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09:25 pm[FORUM] What size community do you prefer: small, or large?
- 29th
- 08:32 am
[PHOTO] Standing out in a crowd
09:32 am[BLOG] Some Monday links
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07:06 pm[DM] "'Pure' north, 'impure' south: Cause for conflict in Korea?
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11:35 pm[H&F] The final bit of Kaarlo Kurko's experiences, and, more on baseball and history
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- 30th
- 07:47 am
[PHOTO] Tree, illuminated
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10:58 am[LINK] "Targeting the Public"
11:58 am[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] Is there a ninth planet?
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04:55 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the new UPEI president and a new pattern of globalization on PEI
08:02 pm[LINK] "Expansion of Bike Lanes in City Brings Backlash"
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09:31 pm[LINK] "Race, roads, or regulation? Canadian and American cities"
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10:48 pm[LINK] "New Planet System May Be Most Populated Yet Found"
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11:59 pm[LINK] "2010 Isn't What Many Futurists Of The Past Imagined"
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