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(33)
- QOTD: Dorian on Wanted
- A man’s reach should exceed his grasp
- Under The Covers, Up On Youtube
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- Oh CBC, no.
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- ► May
(35)
- Officers, in offices, being official.
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- If you like the arty, breathy, female singers...
- Lazy Post: Wednesday Night Music
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- Their great chicken-bone and moonshine empire will rise again
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- Noted
- Now that's an old school poem
- Putting My Own House In Order
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- A Small Challenge
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- Crazy religious people have their priorities in order
- Still true after more than 40 years
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- Early Saturday Morning Gallimaufry
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- ► April
(39)
- Same As It Ever Was
- How I Feel Today
- In which I embody the Internet as infinite recursor
- Zing!
- Ions played instead of notes
- The Next Slum?
- Bookish Bits: A Miscellany
- Bookish Bits: Pseudonyms
- Bookish Bits: Small Press Publishers
- Bookish Bits: Vance Integral
- A Humument
- Thursday Night Gallimaufry
- SF Writers Say Smart Things: Hal Duncan
- Rokia Traore: Nothing to do with superstrings
- Understanding Superstrings
- Gravatars & Identicons
- Definitely the headline of the month
- Just as plausible as any other theory I've seen
- Arizona: We don't get irony here
- A few geeky bits
- Blog Fluff, Part 4
- Blog Fluff, Part 3
- Blog Fluff, Part 2
- Blog Fluff, Part 1
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- Excuses, Excuses...
- Say That I Was Foolish, Say That I Was Blind...
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- The Poet's Testament
- The use of time
- It Can't Be Done
- Scottish protection rackets
- And now a message from our sponsors
- Is the Wizard Of Oz really a political cartoon?
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- ► March
(42)
- It's Here!
- Monday Miscellany
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- The Great Song Of Indifference
- I love it
- Watts on Earth Hour
- Saturday Night Characters 1: The Cleaver Sleeve
- An Oldie But A Goodie
- Tom Waits For No Man
- Canada Needs Some Net Neutrality Enforcement
- A throne is a throne...
- Dismissed with a touch of ceremony
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- It Might Surprise You
- Something to chew on
- Seriously, who would simulate me?
- Lab Upgrade
- Attach Us! We Are Hot Japanese Men!
- If I Were Him, I'd Just Be Saying "Told You So" All Day Long
- Understanding How Greed Hosed The Economy Again
- Well, that confounds expectations
- QOTD
- Damn
- I used to enjoy Christopher Hitchens
- A Guide To Grown-up Thinking
- New Danny Michel: Preorders Open Tomorrow
- I am a child
- An inscription in the sand
- The correct answer is 7 (or "God did it").
- This stuff is deadly and it is spreading
- Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
- They come with bragging rights
- You can put data in...
- Portraiture and Literature
- Hypocrisy, cynicism, and (of course) religion.
- The moral is...
- Hmm...
- It's been a while since this happened...
- The last birthday post
- A Very Happy Thought
- From Russell's Autobiography
- Halfway to Seventy
- ► February
(25)
- Frii Time
- Nemi
- Monday Misc. Music
- Learning Google Gadgets
- Gone Drinking
- Once more unto the breach
- I mean it: Go read this.
- I have seen the Sky Wolf eat the moon...
- En Passant
- If I can find chestnuts...
- Musings In Advance
- Linkblogging in a storm
- What I'm Chewing On Today
- Russell, Gaby, and the H-Bomb
- Not Beautiful, But Made From The Heart
- Is There Anything It Can't Do?
- Other Impractical Desires
- No Practical Value
- For Fans of The Wire (and the morbidly curious)
- SF Writers Say Smart Things: Peter Watts
- Head Colds Are Annoying
- Anticipation
- CSS is driving me nuts
- Flat out of sight, totally together...
- I Live (Kinda)
- ► January
(25)
- I'm glad it's not just me
- Freestyle Friday
- Ambivalence
- OK, You have to admit, that's pretty damn funny
- In Passing: Vlado's
- It's like a movie plot
- Jargon and Communication
- Something Good: Kenny Blyth reads Christopher Brookmyre
- Pay Attention
- A Sunday Miscellany
- If I Were Nebu-lord
- The word 'knell' is in a lot of his stuff.
- Religion Bashing For Thursday
- We're Living In Science Fiction: Street-Level Nanotech
- So far, so good
- On H.P.L.
- Hmm
- Can Not Process Data
- I'm Excited: Shadow Unit
- Here We Go Again
- Quote Of The Day
- Exceeding Expectations: Republicans and The Crazy
- 2008 And The Public Domain
- Even More Things I Did Not Know
- This is one of the things political commentary looks like...
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(26)
- Leonard Cohen For Iron Doug
- Climbing The Walls
- She's blowing my secret identity
- Does This Explain Something?
- Things I Did Not Know
- Perfect Steganography
- Things I Did Not Know
- Merry Christmas To All
- SF Authors Say Smart Things: Peter Watts
- A miscellany for a Friday
- An ethical question
- El Enigma de Paris
- The Sacred Art Of Leaving
- The Most Beautiful Woman In Town
- It wasn't me.
- He folded
- Canadian DMCA -- Act Now
- Minor Victory
- Groening
- Confounding the nerd/Asperger's stereotype
- Canadians: Did You Call Jim Prentice Today?
- Friday Playlist
- Something Great: Courtney Crumrin
- There's A Chance To Flip It Back Over
- Thought for the day
- Yes, Yes I will blog about this
- ► November
(24)
- He's Out To Get Me
- CoIntelPro Redux
- My Country Embarrasses Me
- Nasty
- Smart, curvey women?
- I (heart) public domain
- Am I Getting More Childish?
- SurveillanceSaver again
- Fear The Dreadhawk
- Massey Lectures 2007: Follow-up
- Seam Carving You Can Play With, Plus More
- Making The Point With Art
- Just In Time For Christmas
- Maybe There's A Reason We Associate Wisdom With Age
- On cross-border shopping and smuggling
- A small discussion on US$ and Canadian$
- Maybe I should reconsider that whole law school thing
- Halifax Harbour
- The perils of the dark side
- Coincidence
- I Am Not Making This Up
- Update
- "The illest weatherman in the biz"
- Bah. The Last Thing I Need.
- ► October
(25)
- A Litigious Society (is occasionally a plus)
- Achilles' Heel
- The foetid taint of Hollywood
- Sex Ed (For Alex Wilson)
- I've said it before, and I'll say it again...
- How to really feel like a 1337 4aXXor
- Yes, I Am A Manly Man
- Quote of the Day: Peter Watts
- Books, Cheese, and Beer
- Last bit of Cintra
- Still in transit
- Fall notes
- City Of Words
- Cintra on L.A. (Three)
- Holy Crap
- Steve Dooks Brings It
- Cintra on L.A. (Two)
- Really Old Books In The News
- A little more on my little brother
- One Thousand (and one)
- Steve In The Hometown Paper
- Any System
- Cintra on L.A. (One)
- The Farouche Assemblage
- Regular Service To Resume Shortly
- ► September
(14)
- What I'm Reading Right Now
- Lachryma Dolti
- Bertrand Russell Essays
- Whether you believe it or not, you should be jealous
- Punting
- Last Call
- A Targeted Miscellany
- Sic transit gloria mundi
- For the discerning individual
- Miscellany: Your lab fees at work.
- Apparently I need to move back to Ontario...
- Today I Find I Have Nothing To Say
- Wow
- I (heart) Tom Tomorrow
- ► August
(22)
- Bringing The Tone Back Down: Shut Up, Little Man!
- Expose yourself to hours of great ideas
- Gay Politicians
- Professor Membrane Strikes Again
- I think I'd rather be outside the tent pissing in...
- Secret Histories
- Thursday Night Bookish Links
- SF Writers Say Smart Things: Stross On Religion
- My Inner Academic Nerd Is Gleeful
- I May Have To Write A Children's Book
- Like A Flash
- A Weekend Miscellany
- This is for Mike Drake
- Gospel Of The Knife
- Get Your War On Annoying Public Intellectuals
- Small Victories
- You go, Rakusin!
- The Day The Bulls Won
- I like Sherlock Holmes.
- Mixing It Up 5: Minksellaneous
- I am an information junkie
- I think the madness is over...
- ► July
(21)
- Also...
- Mixing It Up 4: "Love Songs"
- Mixing It Up 3: Late Night And Mellow
- U.S.A. Number One!
- Mixing It Up 2: Late Night Giddy
- Mixing It Up 1: Immortal Tunes
- Mixing It Up 0: The Introduction
- I want matches in case I have to suddenly burn
- ?
- Roman Catholic Church Traveling Backwards In Time
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Orqwith, and the Codex Seraphinianus
- They'll probably charge him with terrorism
- Q.O.T.D.
- A really fun way to waste some time.
- An Interesting Meme
- Proving Once Again That The Real World Is At Least As Creative As Fiction...
- The Supremes (US Version)
- Taxes and The Rich
- Scooter
- Separation of Church And State
- How I Welcomed Canada Day
- ► June
(21)
- This one's just for me
- A Wednesday Miscellany
- I expected nothing less
- Banjos playing through the broken glass
- The great paperback giveaway, part 2
- Professor Membrane On: A Dead Supernova
- Hanging Around The House: Latest Updates
- Professor Membrane Spotlight On: The Millennium Simulation
- The great paperback giveaway, part 1
- I never thought I'd see this in the National Post
- Graph says it all
- Dadhood
- A little miscellany
- How much civil disobedience can you buy for $7.63?
- We are living in the future
- A few comic book things...
- I guess it had to happen...
- Let me get this straight...
- He's not Stewart...
- Learning from porn.
- Breaking The Silence
- ► May
(18)
- A pop culture holding action
- Six Years!
- A Big Box Of Books
- Work
- Book-hunting in Melbourne
- They really do have a word for everything...
- Under The Covers
- Harper takes another page from the Bush playbook
- Minor Local Mysteries
- Amazon.ca, British Books, What The Hell?
- Several Dissimilar Things You Can Read For Free
- It's about time
- Canada is measurably different from the U.S.
- Yay for Justine!
- On Speeding Tickets
- Those who fail to learn from history...
- Saturday night with the books
- A Friday Afternoon Miscellany
- ► April
(36)
- Relief, followed rapidly be shock
- Go Jon Go!
- WARNING: The consumption of alcohol is the leading cause of inexplicable rug burns on the forehead.
- The Fate of the Artist (and/or Writer)
- Buying The War
- I know at least one author/musician who will be pleased by this...
- Are the spammers finally giving up?
- An old wine softens old regrets
- Perspective. That's all I'm saying.
- A pick me up
- Politics + Nerdery: Two great tastes...
- Fellow pedants rejoice!
- There was at least one moment of true genius.
- Proud and Unrepentant: Part 3
- QOTD
- An aside on puns and headlines
- Proud and Unrepentant: Part 2
- Proud and Unrepentant: Part 1
- A Bit Of Context
- Feeling Contrary
- That damn paper clip
- So It Goes
- A 5 inch circle full of awesome
- Rats In The Casino Of Life
- Lazy Sunday Links
- Oh, and since I mentioned Pullman...
- Good Friday, Part 6
- Some Eostre Listening
- Good Friday, Part 5
- Attention All Humans
- Good Friday, Part 4
- Good Friday, Part 3
- Good Friday, Part 2
- Good Friday, Part 1
- An unexpected gift
- Tournament Results
- ► March
(21)
- ...oh, and speaking of Chandler
- While I'm Talking About Movies...
- Jeff Ford, Look What You've Done.
- A Clash Of The Titans
- Have I Fallen Into Bizzaro World?
- Favourite Blog Memery
- Science Fiction Authors Say Smart Things: Brust on Thinkin'
- Of course he would know where the lost souls were...
- A Story That Could Be True
- Quoting From "LONG LOST FRIEND"
- A thought
- Cellblock America
- I could wake up to that
- This one's for Mike Drake
- Soundtrack for the birthday drinking post
- Thought For The Day
- A Man Turns 34
- The Top 10 Corporate Moments In Rock
- From The Ashes...
- Food Porn From Melbourne
- Maroondah Reservoir
- ► February
(27)
- Stop The Koala Menace
- Melbourne
- Travel Notes
- And there was much rejoicing
- Horse Girls
- Not an auspicious beginning.
- Good books, free (Part 1)
- It has kind of wedge shapes inside.
- The american electorate fears me!
- I am not ready for this.
- On Adaptations
- Small press books, bought and craved (Part 1)
- Two stories for a Monday
- Three bookish links for a Sunday night
- Evening hobbies
- YouTube & Books
- Monday Morning Book-y Stuff
- Footwear
- Bush's Impeachable Offenses
- Offered without (much) comment
- "If Linda Ronstadt is a torch singer then Judy Henske is a flame thrower"
- On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
- Yes, I am a picker of nits.
- The New Ultimate Snack Food
- The Fate Of Satire
- Ready To Go Home
- This city is insane
- ► January
(28)
- Hmmm...
- It gets better.
- I really hate airports.
- HGPA January Tournament.
- I Am So Tired...
- A very lazy post.
- Wordpress 2.1
- The Why of asking why.
- The Watchman
- My day today
- And now from the "huh I didn't know that" file...
- Two in two days?
- Universal Health Care: Take That Harpocrats!
- Today's Rage Aneurisym
- I almost don't believe that
- How the Bush Administration Is Giving Me A Rage Aneurisym (Today)
- A Tuesday bookish miscellany
- Well, it made me laugh.
- Still making sense...
- BOG VENUS
- ► December
(26)
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