January 2012
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Jan 12th
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November 2011
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Nov 29th
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“I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is false and it is...”
– “What’s Wrong with First World Problems” (via grrrlstudies)
Nov 23rd
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August 2011
2 posts
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Aug 22nd
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Aug 19th
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April 2011
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Apr 8th
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February 2011
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Feb 18th
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January 2011
4 posts
“Metaphors are great. Just don’t choose loopy metaphors, and never, never...”
– A manifesto for the simple scribe – my 25 commandments for journalists | Tim Radford | Science | guardian.co.uk
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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470. Don't play the ace if you can win with the...
Sound euchre advice.
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
April 2010
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July 2009
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Jul 14th
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April 2009
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WannaFeelOld: Mr. Plow episode of 'The Simpsons'...
wannafeelold: aired over seventeen years ago. THAT NAME AGAIN IS MR. PLOW
Apr 7th
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March 2009
6 posts
Mar 25th
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Google Street View comes to Canada! Well, sort of.... →
Mar 21st
Is the internet to blame for the decline of... →
From bioephemera.
Mar 20th
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Eee PC-in-a-Keyboard Coming Soon →
It’s a Commodore 64!
Mar 7th
January 2009
7 posts
Q listener feedback on Twitter
CBCRadioQ: amazed we didn't have one complaint for playing Ace of Base on the show yesterday.
aejrussin: @CBCRadioQ re: ace of base. i threw up in my mouth a little. does that count?
CBCRadioQ: @aejrussin only if you mail it in to listener feedback.
Jan 23rd
Microsoft Songsmith takes on The Police's... →
Jan 15th
The Service Alert Will Be Crowdsourced →
Jan 15th
The Sun Teaches Us How To Make Sackboy →
Jan 14th
Sledding Discussion →
Jan 12th
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Mandebrot the fractal teddy-bear →
Jan 10th
Stephen Fry on the beauty of "incorrect" language... →
Jan 7th
December 2008
3 posts
11 Words That Sound Offensive, But Aren't →
11 Words That Sound Offensive, But Aren’t
Dec 22nd
Toronto's Forgotten Landmarks: A Night at the Roxy →
Dec 13th
BBC considers how Twitter and the Mumbai attacks... →
Dec 6th
November 2008
8 posts
Nov 27th
Chicken Head Tracking →
Nov 21st
Ant architecture →
Nov 18th
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow wears pajamas on-air in... →
Nov 13th
Amelie, Jr. →
Nov 12th
LittleBigPlanet's TV commercials, built entirely... →
Nov 12th
Touching story of Eugene Allen, a butler who... →
Nov 11th
Stop the insanity: CNN's 'hologram' was horrendous... →
Nov 6th
October 2008
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Exclusive: The Lego Minifig Timeline →
Oct 31st
Oct 30th
CNN asks voters to say something nice about the... →
Oct 30th
“Long-term fuel efficiency can be displayed in two ways – either as a traditional...”
– Driving a car as a video game (2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid: Ford SmartGauge LCD Instrument Panel)
Oct 30th
Oct 29th
infochimps.org: Geography of Newspaper... →
Awesome map. Lots of info in the colour, border colour and size of the cirlces.
Oct 24th
I'm a Railroad. →
Oct 24th
Ugh, baby names that are the worst
amilniazi: 1.) Jayden 2.) Kayden 3.) Braden 4.) Trig 5.) Cody 6.) Rod 7.) Jessica 8.) Brittany 9.) Kaelen 10.) Chrissy 11.) Stefanie 12.) Kimmy 13.) Brody Ugh. We’re thinking of naming our next kid Hayden. It’s my dad’s middle name. All these -aiden names today, though. It’ll just ruin it for the kid.
Oct 24th
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A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century →
Oct 9th
“Now, Bill Adama has more to worry about than Harper (survival of the human race...”
– Richard Handler, Can the ‘inner grown-ups’ save us from disaster?
Oct 8th
24 Words the CED Want to Exuviate (Shed) - TIME →
Use these words before they’re gone! Surely the MacGuffin in an RPG could be a periapt? Must these words be vilipended in this way? What niddering fubsies these dictionary makers be! Olid, griseous skirrs! (OK, the last two don’t make sense. Don’t get all oppugnant on me.)
Oct 7th
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