- 1st
- 11:21 am
[CAT] Shakespeare, in bed
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06:40 pm[CAT] "What Cecil the lion means to Zimbabwe"
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06:41 pm[CAT] "Cecil Is One of Hundreds of Lions Killed Recently in Zimbabwe"
- 2nd
- 01:16 pm
[PHOTO] Last weekend at Hanlan's Point, Toronto Islands
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09:20 pm[PHOTO] Some more photos from the Toronto Islands
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- 3rd
- 10:39 am
[PHOTO] Looking shoreward
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02:16 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
02:46 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
05:07 pm[ISL] Reuters on the French Indian Ocean island of La Réunion
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05:07 pm[ISL] "Cristiano Ronaldo gave his agent a Greek island as a wedding present"
06:44 pm[WRITING] "An Introverted Writer’s Lament"
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06:47 pm[WRITING] "The Web We Have to Save"
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08:08 pm[URBAN NOTE] "What is the oldest neighbourhood in Toronto?"
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08:10 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Why do people use Spanish more than Chinese to Google in the GTA?"
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08:13 pm[LINK] "Newfoundland fossil may show earliest reproduction in complex organism"
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11:07 pm[REVIEW] Mark MIllar and John Romita Jr, Wolverine: Enemy of the State
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- 4th
- 10:19 am
[PHOTO] Pool on rock, Montclair Avenue Parkette
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01:18 pm[LINK] "NDP lead widens slightly over Conservatives"
01:21 pm[LINK] "Syrian refugees in Armenia 'stumble from one crisis to another'"
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01:24 pm[LINK] "Syria’s opposition plans to replace Syrian pound with Turkish lira"
01:27 pm[LINK] "Obama Charm Drive Targets Venezuela After Iran, Cuba"
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01:31 pm[LINK] "Meet Vietnam’s Gay Power Couple: U.S. Ambassador and His Husband"
01:34 pm[LINK] Aditya Mukerjee on the problems of Unicode on a multilingual Internet
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04:13 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- clash of ideologies,
- crime,
- crimean tatars,
- demographics,
- diaspora,
- earth,
- elections,
- environment,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- links,
- new york city,
- oceans,
- pluto,
- politics,
- popular literature,
- russia,
- singapore,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- southeast asia,
- space science,
- technology,
- ukraine,
- united states
11:42 pm[LINK] "Chris Hyndman’s death is a loss to the national family"
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- 5th
- 10:02 am
[PHOTO] Playing the game, on Tichester Street in Toronto
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01:13 pm[LINK] "Venezuela’s Giant Lake of Endless Oil Is a Filthy, Lawless Mess"
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01:16 pm[LINK] "How Spain Fixed Its Economy"
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01:20 pm[LINK] Daniel Lieber of The Conversation on the Chitimacha language revival
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01:22 pm[LINK] "Bukhara Jews Thrive in New York but Are Almost Gone in Bukhara"
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01:25 pm[LINK] Postmedia News on how Chinese smuggle money to Canada through Vancouver
01:28 pm[URBAN NOTE] "From Brothels to Luxury, Mapping 400 Years on One NYC Block"
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05:27 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
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09:11 pm[LINK] "Why Straight Men Have Sex With Each Other"
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11:57 pm[LINK] "How Canada's 42nd federal election all adds up"
- 6th
- 09:52 am
[PHOTO] Bantry Avenue, from the west
12:51 pm[PHOTO] One Atlantic Canada Lobster Sandwich
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03:27 pm[LINK] On the bonsai tree that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
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03:31 pm[LINK] "Hiroshima Blast Haunts Korean Survivors"
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03:33 pm[ISL] "The Battle of Okinawa, Purple Hearts, and the Atomic Bomb"
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03:37 pm[LINK] Philippe Authier in the National Post on the problems of the Bloc Québécois
03:40 pm[LINK] The Canadian Press on the collapse of the Liberals in eastern Québec
03:45 pm[URBAN NOTE] "John Graves Simcoe, Napoleon Bonaparte & the politics of horse shit"
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07:29 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- borders,
- central asia,
- ceres,
- china,
- clash of ideologies,
- croatia,
- economics,
- former soviet union,
- former yugoslavia,
- geopolitics,
- greece,
- history,
- imperialism,
- kyrgyzstan,
- language,
- links,
- oceans,
- refugees,
- russia,
- serbia,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- space travel,
- technology,
- ukraine,
- united states
- 7th
- 10:48 am
[PHOTO] Bilbo, with statues
03:23 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- africa,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- clash of ideologies,
- croatia,
- demographics,
- economics,
- feminism,
- former soviet union,
- former yugoslavia,
- gender,
- history,
- journalism,
- links,
- mass media,
- migration,
- norden,
- north caucasus,
- popular culture,
- rail,
- russia,
- scandinavia,
- space science,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- urban note,
- venus,
- war,
- writing
06:47 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto library to roll out book-lending machine at Union Station"
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06:49 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Francophone bookstore aims to fill ‘void' in Toronto’s literary landscape"
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06:51 pm[ISL] "The Island Fringe Festival"
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06:53 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Creative young Brits are quitting London for affordable Berlin"
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06:55 pm[LINK] "Humanitarian Crisis Looming Over Venezuela, Says ICG"
06:56 pm[LINK] "China’s Film Industry Is Gaining on Hollywood"
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08:31 pm[URBAN NOTE] On dogwalkers and psychogeography
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- 8th
- 11:45 am
[CAT] Shakespeare, looking
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07:19 pm[CAT] On International Cat day (#internationalcatday)
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- 9th
- 11:46 pm
[WRITING] "2015 is the year the old internet finally died"
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- 10th
- 12:24 pm
[PHOTO] Towers of Roehampton Avenue, Toronto
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- 12th
- 08:08 am
[PHOTO] Andrew Cash, MP for Davenport, at Dufferin
11:06 am[OBSCURA] Photos of the West Side Elevated Highway, 1970s New York
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03:30 pm[LINK] "Depressed in Istanbul: Why are Turkey's young Islamist men feeling so blue?"
03:34 pm[LINK] "Advocates say EU loophole leaves Latin American workers in legal limbo"
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03:36 pm[LINK] "Russian GDP Plunges 4.6%"
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03:38 pm[ISL] "New York Boricuas react to island’s crushing debt"
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03:40 pm[ISL] "Stinking seaweed piling high on beaches in tourism-dependent Caribbean"
03:42 pm[LINK] "Babbling bonobos and the origins of human speech"
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03:44 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Beatrice White, the girl who killed half a million flies for Toronto"
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06:44 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
09:30 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On Harper Lee, Franz Kafka, and the ethics of literary pillaging
11:58 pm[LINK] "Conservatives stand to suffer most from lack of incumbents"
- 13th
- 09:47 am
[PHOTO] Coffee before the rain
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11:54 am[BLOG] Some Thursday links
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03:28 pm[LINK] "United Church votes to sell off its fossil fuel assets"
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03:35 pm[LINK] Bloomberg on the Venezuela-Guyana border dispute
03:37 pm[LINK] "For Burundians, Tanzania's refugee camps offer a better life"
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03:39 pm[LINK] "Dying California forests offer a glimpse into climate change"
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03:42 pm[LINK] "Mulcair seen as skilled as Harper on the economy, poll shows"
03:44 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Rouge National Urban Park Stalled"
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06:10 pm[LINK] Two links on the Nigel Wright testimony at the Mike Duffy trial
09:41 pm[REVIEW] Ed Wright, A Left-Handed History of the World
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- 14th
- 10:03 am
[PHOTO] Pachi the Pan Am Porcupine, at Yonge and Dundas
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10:23 am[OBSCURA] On an unidentified girl overlooking the remains of the Warsaw Ghetto, 1946
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03:06 pm[LINK] "China sponsors S Africa to teach Mandarin in schools"
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03:09 pm[LINK] "Some Isolated Tribes in the Amazon Are Initiating Contact"
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03:15 pm[LINK] "Mini-Neptunes Might Host Life Under Right Conditions"
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03:18 pm[LINK] Marcia Bjornerud on the ancient beaches of Wisconsin
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03:20 pm[LINK] "Baku Keeps a Wary Eye on Tehran"
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03:23 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Housing market risk 'high' in Toronto, Winnipeg and Regina, CMHC says"
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03:25 pm[MUSIC] "Is There a ‘Gay Aesthetic’ to Pop Music?"
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03:28 pm[LINK] On the genetics of the octopus
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06:20 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
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09:18 pm[URBAN NOTE] On gentrification on Dupont and my place in Toronto
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- 15th
- 12:42 pm
[CAT] Shakespeare, posing
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04:19 pm[CAT] "South African president laughs off uproar over killing of Cecil the lion"
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04:24 pm[CAT] "Lions Return to Rwanda for First Time Since Genocide’s Aftermath"
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04:26 pm[CAT] "NYC's Newest Cat Cafe Has An Outdoor Garden & Will ALSO Serve Alcohol"
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- 17th
- 09:42 am
[PHOTO] Ed Mirvish books for sale at Honest Ed's
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01:00 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- blogs,
- central asia,
- china,
- christianity,
- demographics,
- economics,
- european union,
- eurozone,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- humour,
- language,
- links,
- mass transit,
- migration,
- neighbourhoods,
- non blog,
- oddities,
- prince edward island,
- roman catholic church,
- russia,
- sexuality,
- toronto,
- tourism,
- ukraine,
- uzbekistan,
- war
05:50 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Galleria Mall on Dupont sold to condo developer"
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05:52 pm[LINK] John Ivison in the National Post on the rise of the NDP
05:54 pm[LINK] "Nunavut's social housing faces billion-dollar shortfall"
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05:56 pm[LINK] "Alberta and Norway: Two oil powers, worlds apart"
05:59 pm[LINK] "For Tanzania’s coffee farmers, climate change is a buzzkill"
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06:00 pm[LINK] "Strapped for Cash, Some Greeks Turn to Ancient Source of Wealth"
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06:03 pm[LINK] Julia Ioffe on the Mothers of ISIS
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06:07 pm[LINK] "The Kremlin’s Manichaean delusion"
08:11 pm[DM] Some more updates
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11:53 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The slow death of purposeless walking"
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- 18th
- 09:27 am
[PHOTO] Lone feather, Dufferin at Dupont
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01:13 pm[LINK] On the opposition of the Conservative Party to marriage equality and LGBTQ rights
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04:51 pm[LINK] "The Great Sushi Craze of 1905"
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04:55 pm[LINK] "Egyptian-Ethiopian disputes stall Renaissance Dam"
04:57 pm[LINK] "UAE allocates land for Abu Dhabi's first Hindu temple"
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04:59 pm[LINK] "Japan Exports Its Way to Irrelevance"
05:01 pm[LINK] "Here’s How Brazil Is Giving Every Citizen Free Mobile Data"
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05:06 pm[URBAN NOTE] Pico Iyer on the emptiness of Pyongyang and Las Vegas
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05:09 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Olivia Chow leads Adam Vaughan in Spadina-Fort York, Forum poll suggests"
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07:22 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
11:46 pm[AH] Would we understand the solar system better if we found Pluto later?
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- 19th
- 11:41 am
[PHOTO] My garden pots, August 2015
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01:47 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
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05:27 pm[ISL] "Why Aren't Young Guys Going to the Gay Paradise of Key West?"
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05:33 pm[LINK] "Even Tom Cruise Can’t Buy Ireland Success With Heritage Sales"
05:35 pm[LINK] "More Evidence That Comets May Have Brought Life to Earth"
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05:38 pm[LINK] "Canadian accent is shifting, changing how we pronounce words"
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05:41 pm[LINK] "Fish Farming Becomes Bigger Business Than the Open Sea"
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05:43 pm[ISL] "Mike Duffy emails show he wanted 'P.E.I.-isms' added to statement"
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05:45 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The two worlds of my Etobicoke"
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08:03 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Galleria Mall, recently sold, harks back to a neighbourly era"
- 20th
- 11:42 am
[PHOTO] Rain trapped in spiderweb
03:17 pm[LINK] "Something Deep Inside Pluto Is Replenishing Its Atmosphere"
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03:20 pm[ISL] "Sri Lanka Wants to Be the Next Singapore as War Legacy Fades"
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03:22 pm[LINK] "Stephen Harper’s real problem goes beyond Mike Duffy"
03:23 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Waiting for the streetcar now an international game"
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03:25 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Happy birthday to the Toronto streetcar system"
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03:26 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Huge book sale at Toronto Reference Library this week"
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03:28 pm[LINK] "Saudi Businesswomen Tap Instagram to Bypass Men, Attract Clients"
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05:26 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
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09:47 pm[MUSIC] Mylène Farmer, "Je t'aime mélancolie"
11:46 pm[LINK] Three links on the past, present and future of science fiction
- 21st
- 03:07 pm
[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- anthropology,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- borders,
- chinese language,
- crime,
- demographics,
- economics,
- finland,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- holidays,
- language,
- links,
- mass transit,
- new york city,
- norden,
- politics,
- popular culture,
- roma,
- russia,
- sexuality,
- space science,
- space travel,
- toronto,
- tourism,
- ttc,
- ukraine,
- united states
06:09 pm[LINK] "NDP's 'Orange Wave' in Quebec now a tsunami: poll"
06:12 pm[LINK] "Mississippi River Mouth Must Be Abandoned to Save New Orleans from Next Hurricane Katrina"
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06:15 pm[LINK] "A weak loonie was supposed to boost manufacturing. Here’s why it hasn’t"
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06:17 pm[LINK] German Lopez on Vox about the need to legalize prostitution
06:19 pm[LINK] Roberto Ferdman of the Washington Post on the links between migrants and restaurants
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06:22 pm[ISL] "Abandoned houses are part of Islanders' heritage"
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06:24 pm[URBAN NOTE] Torontoist on the departure of Pachi and the cost of the 2024 Olympics
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08:04 pm[URBAN NOTE] On "murder city" London, Ontario
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08:59 pm[PHOTO] Clouds, looking southeast from Dupont and Dufferin
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09:52 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On being out in an uneven Ashley Madison future
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- 22nd
- 07:08 pm
[CAT] Shakespeare, in a cat-like state of awareness
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- 23rd
- 12:47 am
[PHOTO] Pizza Pizza, Church and Wellesley, 12:35am
- 24th
- 06:18 pm
[PHOTO] Courtyard, Massey College, University of Toronto
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- 25th
- 11:02 am
[PHOTO] Ethiopian coffee, Lalibela, 869 Bloor Street West
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03:23 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- agriculture,
- anthropology,
- astronomy,
- belarus,
- blogs,
- borders,
- brazil,
- ceres,
- clash of ideologies,
- earth,
- economics,
- education,
- extraterrestrial life,
- former soviet union,
- geopolitics,
- history,
- japan,
- journalism,
- language,
- life,
- links,
- mass media,
- mass transit,
- migration,
- military,
- racism,
- russia,
- russian language,
- science fiction,
- second world war,
- social sciences,
- space science,
- space travel,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- war
06:09 pm[LINK] "Will Icelanders one day ditch their language for English?"
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06:14 pm[LINK] "Putin’s Free-Trade Bloc Frays as Ex-Soviet Satellites Spar"
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06:17 pm[LINK] "Bitcoins gaining traction around the Black Sea"
06:20 pm[ISL] Biman Prasad in the Fiji Times on Singapore versus Fiji
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06:25 pm[MUSIC] "Annie Lennox says her songwriting days are over"
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06:28 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Holding Montreal Island seats top priority for Liberals"
06:32 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Where can you live and still say you're from Toronto?"
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09:59 pm[ISL] Jason Markusoff on watching Mike Duffy in Cavendish, PEI
- 26th
- 05:47 am
[PHOTO] Maneki neko on Ossington, Toronto
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10:55 am[OBSCURA] Azealia Banks on Donald Trump on the cover of Time
03:29 pm[LINK] "How Silver Wrecked China"
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03:31 pm[LINK] "Russia Faces Reality With Prediction of Deeper Economic Slump"
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03:33 pm[LINK] On the migration-driven change in the supermarkets of California
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03:36 pm[LINK] "In China, a ghost town points to shifting fortunes"
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03:37 pm[LINK] "Israel releases African refugees without a place to go"
03:39 pm[LINK] "Black to the future: afrofuturism and tech power"
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03:42 pm[LINK] "How Coolness Defined the World Wide Web of the 1990s"
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06:26 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
09:58 pm[MUSIC] Barry Allen of Pitchfork on the queer Grace Jones
- 27th
- 11:04 am
[PHOTO] BMV in the evening, Bloor Street West
03:31 pm[LINK] "NDP in reach of majority, new poll suggests"
03:36 pm[LINK] "Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site"
03:38 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The Sochi Syndrome"
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03:42 pm[LINK] "Is this China’s Chernobyl moment?"
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03:46 pm[LINK] "Sea level has climbed 8 centimetres since 1992"
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03:50 pm[LINK] "Why the Rich Love Burning Man"
03:53 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The most disturbing thing we learned from the G20"
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06:21 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- borders,
- cats,
- ceres,
- colombia,
- crime,
- economics,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- globalization,
- history,
- japan,
- latin america,
- links,
- middle east,
- migration,
- oil,
- refugees,
- restaurants,
- roman catholic church,
- russia,
- second world war,
- sexuality,
- south america,
- space science,
- space travel,
- technology,
- telecommunications,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- urban note,
- war
11:58 pm[MUSIC] Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
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- 28th
- 11:16 am
[PHOTO] Moon over Spadina Avenue
03:25 pm[LINK] "Letter from Iran: diplomacy trumps hostility?"
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03:30 pm[LINK] "The Dead Sea is dying"
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03:34 pm[LINK] "Catalonia Attacks ‘Infinite Cynicism’ as Spain Curbs Powers"
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03:36 pm[LINK] "Japan's Central Bank Is China's Biggest Cheerleader"
03:39 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Exploring Black Creek, Toronto’s mini-LA River"
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03:41 pm[URBAN NOTE] "How to ‘get’ and repair Uno Prii Annex grooviness"
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03:43 pm[URBAN NOTE] "How to Bring a Wheelchair to a Sex Club: A look at Toronto’s Deliciously Disabled"
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06:38 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
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09:31 pm[VIDEO] Bureau of Proto Society
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11:54 pm[META] What blogs do you read?
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- 29th
- 05:52 pm
[VIDEO] Starships set to "Starships" by Nicki Minaj
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10:35 pm[CAT] Shakespeare, as seen by webcam
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11:52 pm[CAT] On Nitama, Tama, and the Kinokawa railway station
- 31st
- 03:16 pm
[LINK] "The Federation and the Telescopic Haze of Violence"
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09:18 pm[URBAN NOTE] "London, Ont., was world's 'serial killer capital': UWO prof"
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09:23 pm[LINK] "Nunavut communities struggle with junked vehicles"
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09:25 pm[LINK] On the New Horizons visit to 2014 MU69
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09:27 pm[LINK] "Vice journalists jailed in Turkey on terror charges"
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09:31 pm[LINK] "Catalonia's regional elections: scenarios for independence"
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09:34 pm[LINK] "Kazakhstan's quiet balancing act"
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09:37 pm[LINK] On the problems of the Sacramento Delta in California
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09:40 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Budget committee says 'meh' to Olympic bid"
09:45 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- diaspora,
- economics,
- education,
- ethnic conflict,
- eurozone,
- federalism,
- former soviet union,
- germany,
- glbt issues,
- ireland,
- links,
- maps,
- marriage rights,
- middle east,
- national identity,
- oil,
- photos,
- popular literature,
- racism,
- religion,
- russia,
- science fiction,
- social sciences,
- space science,
- spain,
- tatarstan,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united kingdom,
- united states,
- war,
- yonge and bloor
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