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Corn truck!, originally uploaded by Chuckumentary.
I’ve thought for a while that the way someone talks about ethanol as an alternative fuel source is a pretty fair litmus test for whether that person is serious about [...]
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Syd doing his part to clean trash from the streets
So yesterday I was on the bus (late and overcrowded, as usual, screw you Translink) reading an article in my morning paper on Vancouver’s impending city workers strike:
With the relationship between the city and the unions already strained, an e-mail surfaced yesterday from city clerk Syd [...]
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Growing up in Saskatoon, I had the immense good fortune of encountering Henry Woolf a few times. I’ll admit, I wasn’t fully aware of just how accomplished an actor he was, but whenever he came to visit a high school or university English class I was taking (he was obviously very open to doing so) [...]
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I knew that Yahoo had a Creative Commons search capability, but I hadn’t realized that the same functionality exists in Google’s Advanced Search:
Our “Usage Rights” feature helps you find published content — including music, photos, movies, books, and educational materials — that you can share or modify above and beyond fair use.
If you set the [...]
About once every two weeks, somebody asks me about tools that can take a set of PowerPoint slides and convert them into a web-accessible format with audio narration. There are a number of systems that do this, of course, but they usually involve a fairly hefty price tag — or require licensed software on the [...]
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The voracious demands of my rampaging ego compel me to point towards an article just published in the latest issue of EDUCAUSE Review on mashups in higher education (HTML and PDF).
This wasn’t an easy article to write, in part because I decided to consider mashups in the sense of both content creation and online applications. [...]
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White Stripes, originally uploaded by thom_johnston.
A few weeks back I wrote a huzzah for the way the White Stripes were approaching their Canadian tour, going to every province and territory, playing gigs in small venues [...]
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Here. Via A Tiny Revolution.
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Affordable Housing, originally uploaded by Photocat62.
…here’s a tidbit on just one of the social effects of the Olympics, reported in that notorious pinko rag the International Business Times:
The Olympic Games have displaced more than 2 [...]
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…but hey, it’s their obligation to their shareholders, right?
It was just their way of having… a bit of fun, the swines. Strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras web applications.
As a comic in all seriousness, I think it’s good business for the ‘do no evil’ crowd to get in on that health care [...]
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