- 3rd
- 02:49 am
[PHOTO] Steeple, St. Cecilia's Catholic Church, 163 Annette Street
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12:00 pm[PHOTO] My Jane's Walk pin
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- 4th
- 03:07 pm
[META] What do you want out of a blog?
- 5th
- 12:20 pm
[PHOTO] Hanging pansies at Miceli's
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06:22 pm[ISL] On the import of yesterday's general election in Prince Edward Island
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- 6th
- 12:18 pm
[PHOTO] For sale for 600K on Dupont Street
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- 7th
- 12:12 pm
[PHOTO] Always closed store, Dufferin and Armstrong
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11:23 pm[NON BLOG] On the election of Wade MacLauchlan and being gay on PEI
- 8th
- 12:12 pm
[PHOTO] Medium canadiano from Haven Espresso
- 9th
- 09:20 am
[URBAN NOTE] Going to #tcaf today
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- 10th
- 10:54 am
[PHOTO] Eight photos from TCAF, 2015
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- 11th
- 12:20 am
[PHOTO] Two selfies at the Art Gallery of Ontario
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10:08 am[PHOTO] For sale, from Basquiat, at the Art Gallery of Ontario
03:09 pm[URBAN NOTE] Desmond Cole on police racism in Toronto and Ontario
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06:42 pm[URBAN NOTE] "How one Toronto neighbourhood brought its history to life"
06:45 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Johannesburg's Ponte City: 'the tallest and grandest urban slum in the world'"
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06:49 pm[LINK] "Politics and the English Landscape"
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06:51 pm[LINK] "Gay, lesbian kids more likely to be bullied — even before sexual awareness"
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06:54 pm[LINK] "China's Meteoric Box-Office Rise"
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06:59 pm[LINK] "Russia Is Losing World War II"
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08:58 pm[PHOTO] Courtney Shea in The Globe and Mail on the selfie book of Kim Kardashian
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11:48 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The Tranzac dreams up new ways to stay afloat"
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11:51 pm[URBAN NOTE] On reclaiming the map of Peterborough for First Nations
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11:53 pm[URBAN NOTE] Spacing on the urban rebirth of Hamilton
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11:55 pm[LINK] Asya Perelstvaig on the alienation of Ukraine from Russia and the Russian language
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11:59 pm[LINK] "Death in Venice: Eighteenth Century Critiques of Republicanism"
- 1 comment
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- 12th
- 11:20 am
[PHOTO] Six photos of the cherry blossoms of High Park, Toronto
03:12 pm[LINK] "What Was Gay?"
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07:26 pm[LINK] "Syria's last bookstores"
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07:29 pm[LINK] "For Chinese Tourists Behaving Badly, A Government Blacklist"
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07:31 pm[LINK] "Putin's Tanks Draw Cheers in Russian City Jammed Between NATO Nations"
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07:34 pm[LINK] "Brazil’s urban Indians confront city life head on, with headdress off"
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07:36 pm[LINK] "Rogers axes OMNI news programs, cancels Breakfast Television in Edmonton"
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07:41 pm[LINK] "More than 2 million people still pay for AOL dial-up"
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10:01 pm[LINK] "Go north, not west: Yukon lures businesses with new company rules"
- 13th
- 10:06 am
[PHOTO] Cherry tree, Queensway and Colborne Lodge
03:21 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the new Ontario sex education curriculum, multiculturalism, and the three Torontos
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06:35 pm[LINK] "Super Hero Girls"
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06:39 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto politics in a hashtag"
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06:42 pm[LINK] "Cash-Strapped Latin American Countries Turn to China for Credit"
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06:45 pm[LINK] "Twitter Riles Irish Catholics as Companies Favorite Gay Vote"
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06:47 pm[LINK] "New to America, Bhutanese refugees face suicide crisis"
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06:50 pm[LINK] "if you can’t spell this you might be a troll"
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09:02 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On stupidity of the #FHRITP meme and its enactors
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11:47 pm[LINK] "Chinese Diplomat: Hiroshima and Nagasaki Were Bombed for a Reason"
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- 14th
- 09:00 am
[PHOTO] Cherry blossoms of Robarts Library, University of Toronto
03:29 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the problems of Bombardier and the Canadian high-tech economy
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06:21 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Sadat City Is a Cautionary Tale as Egypt Plans New Capital"
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06:24 pm[LINK] "Omar Khadr should have served youth sentence, Supreme Court rules"
06:27 pm[LINK] "The last seal meat truck in St. John’s"
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06:30 pm[ISL] "The World Is Squared: Episode 7 – Across the Pacific Islands"
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06:34 pm[URBAN NOTE] "First Canadian Place: 40 years on top in Toronto"
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06:37 pm[LINK] "The quiet revolution: why Britain has more gay MPs than anywhere else"
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09:57 pm[URBAN NOTE] "This is what the TTC map will look like in 2025"
Tags:- futurology,
- maps,
- mass transit,
- rail,
- subway,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- urban note
11:40 pm[MUSIC] Die Antwoord, "Baby's on Fire"
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- 15th
- 11:00 am
[PHOTO] Fog of Grenadier Pond, High Park, Toronto
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03:22 pm[URBAN NOTE] On how Toronto needs to work to overcome its architectural genericness
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07:19 pm[LINK] "Portuguese With No Pay From Oil Bust in Africa Go Home to No Job"
07:24 pm[LINK] On the voiding of the treason conviction in Serbia of Draza Mihajlovic
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07:29 pm[LINK] "Bill Nye's Lightsail solar sailing spacecraft wins on Kickstarter"
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07:32 pm[LINK] "Astronomers May Have Found Volcanoes 40 Light-Years From Earth"
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07:34 pm[LINK] Two notes on migration into Detroit
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07:38 pm[URBAN NOTE] "What will happen when Harlem becomes white?"
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07:41 pm[URBAN NOTE] "How Austin Helps So Many Young Creatives Find Themselves"
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09:00 pm[LINK] "Fox News affiliate blurs breasts in record-setting Picasso painting"
11:57 pm[FORUM] If you are in Canada, what are you planning on doing this long weekend?
- 16th
- 09:37 am
[CAT] Shakespeare, not cooperating with the camera
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11:46 pm[PHOTO] Images from a walk on Queen Street West two Sundays ago
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- 17th
- 01:33 pm
[PHOTO] My weakness for the Dark Phoenix spiced mocha of the Black Canary may be the end of me
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06:33 pm[PHOTO] Eleven photos from Trinity Bellwoods Park
- 18th
- 11:26 am
[PHOTO] A beautiful day in the park, under a tree with a good e-book
09:51 pm[PHOTO] The last of Lucy Maud Montgomery on Riverside Drive, Toronto
- 19th
- 10:54 am
[PHOTO] Plush home on Queen Street East
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02:13 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Church of Scientology owes city over $100,000 as Yonge-Bloor site languishes"
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05:30 pm[LINK] "Welcome, Talibanistan?"
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05:35 pm[LINK] "Navajo Nation president sworn in after contentious race"
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05:36 pm[LINK] "Here's a Bargain: Federico Fellini's $4.6 Million Home in Recessionary Rome"
05:39 pm[LINK] "Set to land in Cannes, The Little Prince reigns in Turkey"
05:41 pm[LINK] "Study undermines narrative of B.C. First Nations as simple hunter-gatherers"
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07:59 pm[WRITING] "Why romance novelists are the rock stars of the literary world"
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- 20th
- 03:24 pm
[PHOTO] On losing my telephone landline
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06:43 pm[LINK] "German Tourists Cool on Greece as ATMs at Risk of Crunch"
06:45 pm[LINK] "How Berlin's Muslims Are Tackling Jihad"
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06:47 pm[LINK] "What Is China's Navy Doing in Mediterranean?"
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06:50 pm[LINK] "The Blue Amazon, Brazil’s New Natural Resources Frontier"
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06:52 pm[LINK] "Kamchatka, Home to Russian Version of Alaska’s Iditarod, Frets Over Growth"
06:56 pm[LINK] "How Syrians Saved an Ancient Seedbank From Civil War"
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07:00 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Early 19th-century schooner discovered in condo development site"
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09:32 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Your Misplaced New York Nostalgia Will Get You Nowhere"
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- 21st
- 12:30 pm
[PHOTO] Last of a breed?
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03:28 pm[LINK] "PhD student defends thesis in Mi'gmaw language, a York first"
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06:41 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Precarious work is now the new norm, United Way report says"
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06:48 pm[LINK] "Russians may be sanctioned for O Canada snub"
06:51 pm[LINK] "Q&A: Iranian Balochistan is a 'Hunting Ground'"
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06:54 pm[LINK] "Scotland’s growing influence on UK foreign policy"
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06:57 pm[LINK] "A Norway Town and Its Pipeline to Jihad in Syria"
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07:00 pm[LINK] "Sea rise threatens Florida coast, but no statewide plan"
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- 22nd
- 07:14 am
[PHOTO] Ten photos from Woodbine Beach on Monday
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09:33 am[PHOTO] Streetcar selfie
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02:52 pm[LINK] "Michael Sam first openly gay CFL player as he joins Alouettes"
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06:06 pm[ISL] "Liberal Alan McIsaac wins seat in coin toss after recount tie"
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06:09 pm[LINK] "Macedonia, the New U.S.-Russia Battlefield"
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06:14 pm[LINK] "Michigan pastor caught on Grindr told gay teen he was going to hell: report"
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06:17 pm[ISL] "Sand disappears from popular Burin Peninsula beach"
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06:23 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Scarborough Civic Centre Gets a Library"
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06:26 pm[URBAN NOTE] "How Toronto learned to love the patio"
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08:34 pm[MUSIC] Taylor Swift, "Bad Blood"
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- 24th
- 06:14 pm
[PHOTO] Suicide Squad at work, Bay and Adelaide
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- 25th
- 11:39 am
[PHOTO] Front yard flowers
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02:23 pm[ISL] "'We're not Australian': Norfolk Islanders adjust to shock of takeover by mainland"
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05:39 pm[LINK] On Rhodiola rosea agriculture in Alaska
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05:43 pm[LINK] "How the Success of Marvel’s Female Superheroes Heralds a More Inclusive Age of Comics"
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05:46 pm[LINK] "Inside the Christian Cult That Told the Duggars to Blame Their Daughters for Their Abuse"
05:49 pm[LINK] "Drugs, migrants and rebels: Life along Darién's Gap"
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05:51 pm[LINK] "Syrians in Armenia: Not just another refugee story"
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05:54 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Seoul Plans a Sublime, Flower-Covered High Line"
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11:55 pm[LINK] "'Sorry mum, I’m still gay': Russian club helps parents accept sexual preference"
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- 26th
- 11:08 am
[PHOTO] Another new condo, at Queen and Dufferin
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03:30 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the proposed improvements to TTC bus service
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06:22 pm[URBAN NOTE] "McMansion tax coming to Mississauga"
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06:25 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Can there be a Kumbaya moment for the Gardiner?"
06:28 pm[LINK] "From pro-American to pro-Russian? Nikola Gruevski as a political chameleon"
06:30 pm[LINK] "Controversial bishop — head of his church in Canada — sent packing"
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06:34 pm[LINK] "Another New England — in Crimea"
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09:32 pm[LINK] "Ursula Halligan: Referendum led me to tell truth about myself"
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11:43 pm[LINK] "Vatican calls Irish referendum a ‘defeat for humanity’"
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- 27th
- 12:00 pm
[PHOTO] Some of my books on some of my shelves
03:27 pm[LINK] On the Buzludzha Monument, the abandoned Communist headquarters in the Bulgarian mountains
06:43 pm[LINK] "Marriage Equality Comes to Greenland"
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06:52 pm[LINK] "The transformative visions of William Blake"
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06:55 pm[LINK] "Kaliningrad: ‘Just Another Russian Region’"
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06:58 pm[URBAN NOTE] The SCMP on the problems with the Vancouver housing market
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06:58 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The remaking of Montreal’s famous Ste-Catherine Street"
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07:05 pm[URBAN NOTE] On #densitycreep, Toronto condos, and relative poverties
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10:14 pm[LINK] "Imperator Furiosa: The Hero We Need"
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- 28th
- 12:37 pm
[PHOTO] Looking up Yonge from Wellesley
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03:18 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Evidence demands Toronto tear down the Gardiner east, will council listen?"
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06:29 pm[LINK] "It's Easy to Defend a Molester If You Value Godliness Over Consent"
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06:32 pm[LINK] "We are not things!"
06:34 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Remington’s Men of Steel threatened as Toronto strip clubs die out"
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06:37 pm[LINK] "Pineapple Industry Leaves Costa Rican Communities High and Dry"
06:40 pm[LINK] "Yet Another Ghost Town in China Shows Extent of Regional Debt Crisis"
06:43 pm[LINK] "What Russian students learn about Russia’s enemies"
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- 29th
- 12:04 pm
[PHOTO] Goodbye, Captain John
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03:09 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Captain John’s departure part of encroaching sameness"
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06:27 pm[LINK] "anada's GDP shrank at 0.6% pace in 1st quarter, Statistics Canada says"
06:29 pm[LINK] "Justice Minister Peter MacKay, 49, quitting politics"
06:31 pm[URBAN NOTE] blogTO on Artscape Gibraltar Point
06:34 pm[LINK] "Adil Charkaoui: The angriest man in Montreal"
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06:38 pm[LINK] "Transnistria: West Berlin of the post-Soviet world"
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06:41 pm[LINK] "Why HIV Patients Should Start Treatment Right Away"
09:02 pm[URBAN NOTE] On West Village urban blight and the implications for the urbanism of Jane Jacobs
- 30th
- 08:37 am
[CAT] Shakespeare, caught in a moment
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01:41 pm[CAT] "How fancy cats evolved: The science of our most adorable pets"
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01:55 pm[CAT] "Feline fine: the café cats of Amsterdam"
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- 31st
- 11:57 am
[PHOTO] Model of Commerce Court
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07:40 pm[BLOG] Some history links
08:15 pm[BLOG] Some space science links
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08:31 pm[BLOG} Some social science links
Tags:- belarus,
- blogs,
- china,
- chinese language,
- clash of ideologies,
- demographics,
- education,
- european union,
- fertility,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- google,
- hiv/aids,
- hong kong,
- links,
- london,
- maps,
- marriage rights,
- mediterranean,
- migration,
- new zealand,
- pacific islands,
- papua new guinea,
- racism,
- refugees,
- russia,
- social sciences,
- technology,
- ukraine,
- united kingdom,
- united states
08:56 pm[BLOG] Some politics and economic links
09:20 pm[BLOG] Some pop culture links
Tags:- africa,
- agriculture,
- argentina,
- blogs,
- brazil,
- charlottetown,
- computers,
- crime,
- food,
- geoengineering,
- ghana,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- latin america,
- libraries,
- links,
- mass media,
- newspapers,
- non blog,
- norden,
- norway,
- popular culture,
- popular literature,
- religion,
- science,
- science fiction,
- shakespeare,
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09:36 pm[URBAN NOTE] Some Toronto links
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11:58 pm[FORUM] What have you been reading lately?
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