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• ▼ 2008 (300)
  • ▼ October (8)
    • Well, colour me shocked.
    • Shhh! You're giving away the secrets.
    • Aside:Polls
    • Important Local News
    • Little Brother On YouTube
    • Friday Tunes
    • Double Debate Night
    • Aside: Osama is winning
  • ► September (44)
    • What A Busy Weekend
    • Closet Land
    • Raging Out: DVD designed to create xenophobia works
    • Raging Out: No One Cares About Torture
    • Sunday Night Gallimaufry
    • Aside: Presidential Debate 1
    • I like Art
    • A Disorganized Office Is A Sign Of...
    • Really Not A Suprise
    • US Election Much Less Scary This Week
    • Spreading The Word On Harper
    • SF Authors Say Smart Things: Speaking Of Wisdom...
    • Aside: Wisdom
    • Screen Reading
    • Aside: ABC
    • The Bricklayer's Lament
    • Aside: Elections
    • Diverse practyk in many sundry werkes
    • Lazy Omnivore Post
    • The Harlequin Is Out
    • Just because I love the answer
    • I can not afford some Art.
    • Casa El Profundo
    • The research mindset
    • Two Americas
    • Aside: Argghh
    • Aside: R-Rated Bible
    • Post-Storm Scenery
    • Aside: Canadian Bacon
    • Aside: Phelps again
    • Some Lovely Canadian Music
    • Aside: Hanna
    • Aside: A Friend In Need
    • Road Trip?
    • Aside: The demise of pure research
    • I Just Don't Get It.
    • Golden Books 1: The Sun, The Moon, And The Stars
    • Aside: Asides
    • Aside: The Dancing Plague
    • A Linkpost Before Sleeping
    • Browser Neepery 2008 Style
    • Why I Will Soon Have To Get A New Job
    • Missing The Joke: Or How I Learned To Bind The Spirits
    • Labour Day Gallimaufry
  • ► August (24)
    • Picking At Religion Again
    • Sometimes you have these thoughts...
    • I've been waiting to hear exactly that
    • Things I Did Not Know Last Month
    • Old John Paul is keepin' a tab
    • Context
    • What's the -philia for books?
    • Damn I Am Old
    • Indie Artist, multiple media
    • For the record
    • Time flies
    • T-shirts from futures past
    • Silence Falls On Mecca's Walls
    • Still more on evolution
    • And one last time
    • And Again
    • Commonplaces
    • It's actually not a joke, although it's easy to come up with a punchline
    • They love us, they really love us.
    • And now, from the "headlines I never expected to see" category...
    • Limits Of Human Ability
    • Let's Do The Time Warp Again
    • How about a Saturday Bookish Links roundup?
    • CERN Rap
  • ► July (25)
    • The Web is... um... big.
    • Well, this should solve a few problems.
    • What You Get For Being A Grownup
    • A Previous Engagement
    • A Blast From The Past
    • Jaycee
    • Wallowing in Links
    • Cursing Music
    • If I did it right, you can't tell.
    • Those JibJab guys are funny
    • Geek Family
    • Conservatives condone suspension of due process and torture of children.
    • Conservatives in league with war criminals, despite will of the public
    • Conservatives: cheats and liars
    • Organizational Pathology
    • Excuses, Excuses
    • Cooking With Beer
    • This week
    • Important Lessons For Life
    • SF Writers Say Smart Things: Scalzi on Context
    • Please rejoing us after this short hiatus
    • Urban Camouflage
    • Things on the net that please me
    • It's Real. It's Here.
    • Twelve Million...
  • ► June (33)
    • QOTD: Dorian on Wanted
    • A man’s reach should exceed his grasp
    • Under The Covers, Up On Youtube
    • Shadow Unit & Cool Web Tools
    • Wednesday Bookish Links
    • Democracy Quote Of The Day
    • Cool Web Tool: The Awesome Highlighter.
    • I knew it all along!
    • Chris Jordan On TED
    • Canada's Most Ridiculous News Story This Week...
    • Still More CAN-DMCA
    • The tabs, they must be closed.
    • For the record
    • Father's Day
    • Fun and Games
    • It's here
    • Tomorrow is "Conservatives sell us to US companies" day
    • Special Effects courtesy of "physics".
    • Disappointed
    • I don't know about 'blessed', but it sure makes you happier
    • Sunday night quick book links
    • Infernal Nuclear Sphere: 1, Chris : 0
    • Friday Night Book Links
    • I am shocked! Shocked I tell you.
    • Oh CBC, no.
    • Just Read, To Read
    • Explainers
    • And she's still not conceding
    • Robyn Tuesday
    • I've Got The Box
    • Canadians: Once More Unto the DMCA breach
    • This would not happen south of the border
    • Everything is OK
  • ► May (35)
    • Officers, in offices, being official.
    • Doubly Entertaining: Telectroscope
    • Crazy Australians pretending to be crazy Italians
    • If you like the arty, breathy, female singers...
    • Lazy Post: Wednesday Night Music
    • SF Writers Say Smart Things: Memorial Day Edition
    • Their great chicken-bone and moonshine empire will rise again
    • SF Authors Say Smart Things: John Shirley on ego
    • The McLaren Discriminant
    • Noted
    • Now that's an old school poem
    • Putting My Own House In Order
    • SF Writers Say Smart Things: Cory Doctorow on statistics and security
    • Y.A.L.P.
    • "Long Weekend" Bag of Links
    • Proto-Muppet Protection Racket Advertising
    • Compare and contrast
    • Explanation
    • A Small Challenge
    • What You Need To Know
    • Yes, I just made up the term "Doom Constant"
    • Crazy religious people have their priorities in order
    • Still true after more than 40 years
    • Microfinance, Aggregation, Kiva
    • Eddington and the meta-paradigm
    • Memento mori
    • A moment of hobo appreciation
    • Early Saturday Morning Gallimaufry
    • Hemmingway said some true things too
    • One Damned Thing Over And Over
    • There's not a lot of pop music with this inspiration
    • On Shortages, Mostly Food
    • A late thought for May Day
    • Sentences to meditate on
    • Grateful Thursday
  • ► 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
    • Hypocrisy on parade
    • Russell's Teapot
    • Excuses, Excuses...
    • Say That I Was Foolish, Say That I Was Blind...
    • More on The Wire
    • Constant Subtle Reinforcement
    • More Santayana
    • 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?
    • Today's Must Read
    • Today's Only Content
  • ► March (42)
    • It's Here!
    • Monday Miscellany
    • Maintenance
    • 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
    • Midweek Miscellany
    • 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...
• ► 2007 (283)
  • ► December (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