Big kudos to Sen. Patrick Leahy, chair of the senate judiciary committee for making an impassioned demand to discover what happened to Maher Arar. The text is enlightening. He actually seems to see Canadians as strong and ‘valuable’ allies. Haven’t…
I have long been a fan of the Food Guru podcasts. This was one of the first video podcasts that I started to download. Peter Harmon, the presenter kept these up on a weekly basis for quite a while then…
Genealogy remains one of the more popular pastimes in modern culture. Embracing Web2.0 Ajax comes Geni.com, which is quite viral. It offers a very easy guided data entry process geared towards encouraging contact with relatives to have them fill in…
Digg had a reference to the Chinese subtitles for Star Wars III otherwise know by its subtitle Backstroke of the West. Needless to say that posting sent that server down. Luckily there was a much earlier website that captured occasional…
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Clever lads have run the CES address of Bill Gates and the Macworld Keynote by Steve Jobs through a variety of text analysis tools to get an idea of why one has greater impact than the other. The article demonstrates…
There have been a wide swath of recent headlines connecting the success of insurgent activity in Iraq with their ability to acquire precise targeting data from Google Earth. Apparently searches of suspected locales in Iraq have turned up detailed satellite…
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Now talking about serious luck 😉 From Michele comes this absolutely amazing story, one which I am sure is just making its way to all the major news outlets, but so visually stunning. Apparently a rabbit farmer in Germany has…
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There are a fascinating series of pictures detailing the flextronics XBOX assembly line in Hungary posted at xbox-linux. Flextronics seems to have product assembly to the ultimate art these days with factories around the world for a huge variety of…