- 2nd
- 12:00 pm
[PHOTO] Southbound train at Eglinton
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02:07 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Mystery tunnel built by two young guys ‘to hang out,’ police say"
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05:07 pm[LINK] Edwin Lyngar of Salon on the problems of libertarianism in Honduras
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05:14 pm[LINK] "Is Weibo on the way out?"
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05:16 pm[LINK] "Real Paleo Diet: Early Hominids Ate Just About Everything"
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05:19 pm[LINK] "The 1977 Tablet Computer That Took Up an Entire Room"
05:23 pm[LINK] Abraham Riesman in the Vulture on the Success of Harley Quinn
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05:26 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The Tabor Hill Ossuary"
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09:51 pm[BLOG] On the death of Leonard Nimoy
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10:55 pm[DM] "The Tragedy of Canada's Census"
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- 3rd
- 12:59 pm
[PHOTO] The new Dufferin Station aglow
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02:46 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
06:11 pm[LINK] "The Putin Effect on Post-Soviet Economies"
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06:18 pm[LINK] "The Ecology of What We Write"
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06:22 pm[ISL] 'Ada Kaleh, an Ottoman Atlantis on the Danube"
06:26 pm[URBAN NOTE] "BIKE THINK TANK: Ridership numbers continue to grow"
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06:28 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The rise and fall of the Kingston Road motel strip"
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10:48 pm[DM] "On the potential demise of the quinquennial census of Australia"
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11:59 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Redevelopment of Honest Ed’s in Toronto holds several surprises"
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- 4th
- 02:56 pm
[PHOTO] Construction crane amid traffic, Yonge and Eglinton
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03:00 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the Toronto Maple Leafs, social media, and performance anxiety
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06:15 pm[LINK] "Seeing Ceres: Then and Now"
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06:18 pm[LINK] "Bright Spots on Ceres Likely Ice, Not Cryovolcanoes"
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06:21 pm[LINK] "Astro-boom offers big bang for the buck in Chile"
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06:24 pm[LINK] "The girl who gets gifts from birds"
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06:26 pm[URBAN NOTE] Torontoist on Eastern Commerce College and its basketball team
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08:58 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- baltic states,
- blogs,
- economics,
- education,
- ethnic conflict,
- former yugoslavia,
- geopolitics,
- glbt issues,
- globalization,
- greece,
- honest ed's,
- india,
- latvia,
- links,
- marriage rights,
- military,
- russia,
- slovenia,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- south asia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- sports,
- streetcars,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- united nations
- 5th
- 12:59 pm
[PHOTO] At Christie, looking towards Bathurst
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03:08 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
06:11 pm[LINK] On the possible extensive water oceans of early Mars
06:17 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto tunnel’s builder comes forward, says it wasn’t really a tunnel at all"
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06:21 pm[LINK] "Decades of human waste have made Mount Everest a ‘fecal time bomb’"
Tags:- china,
- environment,
- links,
- nepal,
- tibet
06:25 pm[LINK] "China’s Huawei Unveils Luxury Watch in Bid to Rival Apple’s"
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06:26 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Vintage Toronto Ads: A Taste of Hungary"
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06:29 pm[ISL] Peter Rukavina on the Rise of the Cyberneticists on Prince Edward Island
- 6th
- 10:58 am
[PHOTO] On the endless runner game of Google Chrome for Android
03:42 pm[META] My readers, what would you like from A Bit More Detail?
07:31 pm[LINK] "US moving to deport Bosnians over war crimes: report"
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07:33 pm[LINK] "Estonia Can Handle Putin's Soft Power"
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07:36 pm[LINK] "Russian Karelia looks to the past and future"
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07:39 pm[LINK] "Quebec’s maturing French pilgrimage"
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10:50 pm[LINK] "From Belgium to Syria and back: How an altar boy became an ISIL admirer"
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10:55 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Brooklyn Bridge repair is $100 million over budget, completion date gets pushed back"
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10:56 pm[LINK] "How the Sahara Keeps the Amazon Green"
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10:58 pm[LINK] "Northerners debate uranium mine and caribou effects"
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- 7th
- 01:14 pm
[CAT] Shakespeare, alerted
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- 9th
- 02:37 pm
[META] What photos would you like to see?
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- 10th
- 02:36 pm
[PHOTO] Waiting for the next train at St. George, after a short-turning
- 11th
- 08:40 am
[PHOTO] My old Microsoft mouse
- 12th
- 11:13 am
[PHOTO] Looking south down Dovercourt at Hallam
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12:56 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Riding the Union-Pearson Express"
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03:10 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- asteroids,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- ceres,
- china,
- crime,
- demographics,
- diasporas,
- economics,
- european union,
- futurology,
- gender,
- glbt issues,
- harbord street,
- human rights,
- links,
- maps,
- north caucasus,
- pluto,
- politics,
- restaurants,
- russia,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- technology,
- toronto,
- urban note
06:29 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Where The Hell Are Those Subway Countdown Clocks We Were Promised?"
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06:33 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Wonderful Somaliland’: Self-declared country aims for spot on tourist map"
06:37 pm[LINK] "Irish town builds memorial to thank Native Americans who helped during Famine"
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06:40 pm[LINK] "China’s Arthur C. Clarke"
06:42 pm[LINK] "Who is Aleksandr Dugin?"
09:00 pm[LINK] "Terry Pratchett's Joyful, Absurd, Human Fantasy"
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- 13th
- 11:52 am
[PHOTO] "Lost Cat", Dupont Street
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01:00 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The Changing Landscape of Toronto’s Purpose-Built Rental Market"
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- 16th
- 05:35 am
[PHOTO] Alley off of Bloor in the Annex
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10:55 am[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- asteroids,
- astronomy,
- baltic states,
- blogs,
- borders,
- california,
- caribbean,
- ceres,
- charlottetown,
- clash of ideologies,
- computers,
- crime,
- economics,
- education,
- enceladus,
- european union,
- extraterrestrial life,
- feminism,
- former soviet union,
- france,
- geopolitics,
- glbt issues,
- globalization,
- greece,
- hinduism,
- hiv/aids,
- hungary,
- ireland,
- islands,
- japan,
- journalism,
- language,
- links,
- mass media,
- mass transit,
- middle east,
- military,
- oceans,
- oddities,
- popular culture,
- prince edward island,
- restaurants,
- russia,
- saturn,
- space science,
- space travel,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- venezuela,
- venus,
- violence,
- yemen
03:06 pm[NEWS] Three links on the import of the global ocean of Ganymede
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05:47 pm[LINK] Two Al Jazeera links on the island of Socotra, Yemen
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05:48 pm[LINK] "Gigaom is dead. Long live Gigaom"
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05:51 pm[LINK] "Are Seattle Restaurants Closing in “Record Numbers”? (Spoiler: No.)"
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05:58 pm[URBAN NOTE] "“Fun and frolic” at a Toronto double hanging"
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05:59 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Historicist: Sir John A. Macdonald’s Last Hurrah"
09:42 pm[DM] "Why Is Spain's Population Loss An Economic Problem?"
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- 17th
- 12:08 pm
[PHOTO] 1968, from year of revolution to perfume ad fodder
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03:00 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- belarus,
- blogs,
- borders,
- california,
- canada,
- central asia,
- china,
- clash of ideologies,
- condos,
- crime,
- diasporas,
- disasters,
- geopolitics,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- holidays,
- ireland,
- links,
- mexico,
- migration,
- photos,
- prince edward island,
- russia,
- space science,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- winter
06:21 pm[URBAN NOTE] "80-storey tower planned for Stollerys site at Yonge and Bloor"
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06:25 pm[LINK] "Why Alanis still matters"
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06:28 pm[LINK] "Via train plot trial: The strange non-defence of Chiheb Esseghaier"
06:30 pm[LINK] "Chip Zdarsky Strikes Again"
06:33 pm[LINK] "Medium gets a little more Twitter-like, and a little more blog-like"
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10:50 pm[LINK] "St. Patrick's Day tradition made in U.S., not Ireland"
11:48 pm[DM] "Some St. Patrick's Day notes on how Irish immigrants became integrated into Toronto"
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- 18th
- 09:43 am
[PHOTO] Restaurant equipment for sale at By The Way
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03:12 pm[URBAN NOTE] "‘Daddy smoked crack': Toronto’s former mayor Rob Ford"
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06:15 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Why Do Severed Goat Heads Keep Turning Up in Brooklyn?"
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06:19 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Manhattan Studios Set Rent Record as Tenants Go Small"
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06:21 pm[ISL] "Philippine Billionaire Razon to Buy Korean Island in Casino Push"
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06:23 pm[LINK] "After 70 years apart, North and South Koreans speak increasingly different languages"
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06:26 pm[LINK] The Vulture on Fan Fiction
08:59 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- anthropology,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- canada,
- central asia,
- cities,
- crime,
- democracy,
- economics,
- elections,
- environment,
- european union,
- eurozone,
- evolution,
- extraterrestrial life,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- health,
- history,
- homo sapiens,
- human beings,
- ireland,
- islam,
- israel,
- links,
- medicine,
- middle east,
- ndp,
- northern ireland,
- pacific islands,
- religion,
- restaurants,
- russia,
- science,
- social sciences,
- space science,
- technology,
- terrorism,
- toronto,
- urban note
- 19th
- 04:17 pm
[PHOTO] What I saw when I picked up the last Xtra!
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- 20th
- 03:09 pm
[PHOTO] The curving tunnel looking east of Dufferin
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03:13 pm[URBAN NOTE] "U.S. economist touts Scarborough as 'best ethnic food suburb'"
05:44 pm[LINK] "Google, a Search Company, Has Made Its Internet Archive Impossible to Search"
05:48 pm[LINK] "Nogales, Mexico, the city of the deported"
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05:51 pm[LINK] "Passports for a Price: The Business Showing Poor Countries How to Sell Citizenship"
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05:53 pm[LINK] "Japan's Cautionary Tale for South Korea"
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05:56 pm[LINK] Transitions Online on Crimea one year after the Russian annexation
05:59 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the false dream of Project Orion
- 23rd
- 01:55 pm
[META] On technical problems and the future
02:00 pm[CAT] Shakespeare, bemused by the late hour
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02:02 pm[PHOTO] TTC selfie, approaching Yonge and Bloor
05:11 pm[LINK] "Singapore, the country run like a corporation"
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05:16 pm[LINK] On the planned relocation of Aborigine communities in Australia
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05:18 pm[LINK] "Tintin comic temporarily pulled from Winnipeg Chapters over racism complaint"
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05:21 pm[LINK] "Why Nemtsov's Murder Got Pinned on Chechens"
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05:23 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Parkdale tenants battle back-to-back rent increases"
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05:25 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Montreal's gay village seeking ways to reinvent itself"
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09:18 pm[DM] On the case of Open Borders
10:10 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the justified controversy around the Joker variant cover of Batgirl #41
11:59 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- alpha centauri,
- architecture,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- borders,
- cambodia,
- china,
- chinese language,
- clash of ideologies,
- crime,
- demographics,
- economics,
- england,
- english language,
- european union,
- finland,
- first nations,
- former soviet union,
- geopolitics,
- glbt issues,
- globalization,
- human rights,
- imperialism,
- indonesia,
- jamaica,
- journalism,
- karelia,
- links,
- maps,
- mass media,
- national identity,
- new york city,
- new zealand,
- newspapers,
- pacific islands,
- polynesia,
- russia,
- saturn,
- sexuality,
- southeast asia,
- space science,
- tatarstan,
- toronto,
- toronto islands,
- ukraine,
- united kingdom,
- urban note,
- wales,
- war
- 24th
- 09:08 am
[PHOTO] Looking southwest across Suffering at Bloor
12:59 pm[URBAN NOTE] On what the leak at College Station means about TTC underfunding
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03:36 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
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06:36 pm[LINK] "Topless woman removed from House of Commons after protesting anti-terror bill"
06:42 pm[LINK] "Jupiter May Have Killed Solar System's Baby Super-Earths"
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06:44 pm[LINK] "Former Orca Trainer For SeaWorld Condemns Its Practices"
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06:47 pm[LINK] "Salvadoran Maquila Plants Use Gang Members to Break Unions"
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06:51 pm[LINK] "Coffee Harvest in Indonesia Expanding to Record on Rainfall"
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06:55 pm[LINK] "For Brazilians in Manhattan, Window-Shopping Is Now All the Rage"
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10:47 pm[DM] "Two news articles on the demographic exception that is France"
- 25th
- 11:55 am
[PHOTO] Train stopped on the tracks, Bartlett north of Dupont
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02:45 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
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06:54 pm[LINK] "What’s in a name? A Chipewyan’s battle over her native tongue"
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06:56 pm[LINK] "‘Ni Boisekoa naiz’: Keeping Basque alive in Idaho"
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06:58 pm[LINK] "Banking Enclave of Andorra Shaken by U.S. Accusations"
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07:00 pm[LINK] "Refugees pay more income tax than millionaire investor immigrants"
07:02 pm[LINK] "U.S. Cuts Off Economic Lifeline to Somalia"
07:05 pm[LINK] "Surveillance shouldn’t be the new normal"
08:58 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the imminent arrival of Jollibee in Toronto
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11:51 pm[DM] On Jollibee, the Philippines, and diaspora economics
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- 26th
- 11:32 am
[PHOTO] Food court under construction, Yonge Eglinton Centre
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03:37 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
06:16 pm[LINK] "Why Chinese Tourists Love Japan"
06:20 pm[LINK] "Egypt, Sudan Edge Toward Cooperation on Ethiopia’s Nile Dam"
06:22 pm[LINK] "The Scottish Streets Where a U.K. Election Will Be Won or Lost"
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06:27 pm[LINK] "Venezuelan doctors face tough choices as economic crisis worsens"
06:29 pm[LINK] "Norway’s sovereign wealth holds lessons for Canada"
06:32 pm[LINK] "Can’t Get There from Here? Writing Place and Moving Narratives"
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10:53 pm[MUSIC] Eurythmics, "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"
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11:14 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On how the Germanwings crash shows how much we depend on trust
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- 27th
- 10:27 am
[PHOTO] Melting ice, Church and Wellesley
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03:22 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- california,
- computers,
- crimean tatars,
- economics,
- environment,
- extraterrestrial intelligence,
- former soviet union,
- former yugoslavia,
- glbt issues,
- haiti,
- islam,
- italy,
- language,
- links,
- marriage rights,
- military,
- neighbourhood,
- popular music,
- restaurants,
- russia,
- slovenia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- urban note
06:54 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Maple Leafs’ ticket sales continue to fall"
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06:56 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Sister cities: Can Toronto and Montreal set aside their sibling rivalry?"
06:59 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Price gap between new houses and condos hits $300K in Toronto"
07:00 pm[LINK] "Armenia’s foreign policy: between dependence and complementarity"
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07:03 pm[LINK] "Socioenvironmental Catastrophe Emerges from the Ashes of Patagonia’s Forests"
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07:05 pm[LINK] On the oddity of Nova Vulpeculae 1670, aka CK Vulpeculae
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09:00 pm[ISL] "Photographer captures incredible images of P.E.I.’s worst winter in memory"
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- 28th
- 11:44 am
[CAT] Shakespeare from above
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04:11 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the demise of Future Shop
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04:53 pm[CAT] "Bubba the cat found after 40 days under snow-covered deck"
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04:57 pm[CAT] "Music Made for Cats Wins Feline Approval"
05:13 pm[CAT] On the cat island of Aoshima, Japan
- 30th
- 09:58 am
[PHOTO] Saturday evening in the Village
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02:18 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- antarctica,
- astronomy,
- bangladesh,
- blogs,
- burma,
- ceres,
- earth,
- environment,
- extraterrestrial intelligence,
- extraterrestrial life,
- fisheries,
- friends,
- globalization,
- links,
- migration,
- music video,
- pluto,
- popular culture,
- popular music,
- slavery,
- southeast asia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- thailand,
- toronto,
- united states,
- war
06:35 pm[LINK] "Bizarre Bulge Found on Ganymede, Solar System's Largest Moon"
06:39 pm[LINK] "Sturgeon Says Nationalists Can Win Every Seat in Scotland"
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06:40 pm[LINK] "Wooly Mammoth Genes Inserted into Elephant Cells"
06:42 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the future of renting in Toronto
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06:45 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Exploring Halifax’s secret underground world"
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06:47 pm[URBAN NOTE] "That time Toronto almost built the subway to the Lake"
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09:28 pm[WRITING] On being published in the Quora Anthology 2014
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- 31st
- 12:01 pm
[PHOTO] Ryerson University's Student Learning Centre
03:32 pm[WRITING] "Fast Writing: Ethnography in the Digital Age"
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06:07 pm[URBAN NOTE] On Goa dreaming of being Singapore
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06:14 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Target moves to shut all Canadian stores faster than planned"
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06:15 pm[URBAN NOTE] "New Battle Lines Drawn in War on Raccoon"
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06:18 pm[LINK] "The last of Danielle Smith"
06:20 pm[LINK] "Stranded Yemeni-Americans consider alternate escape routes"
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06:22 pm[LINK] Three links on the emergent pan-Arab military force
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09:00 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- alpha centauri,
- astronomy,
- baltic states,
- blogs,
- china,
- crimean tatars,
- diaspora,
- geopolitics,
- glbt issues,
- korea,
- latvia,
- links,
- mass media,
- mass transit,
- military,
- politics,
- popular culture,
- popular music,
- restaurants,
- russia,
- russian language,
- south korea,
- space science,
- subways,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- united kingdom,
- urban note
11:18 pm[DM] "Is Finland's Economy Suffering From Secular Stagnation?"
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