Thank god for Steven Harper! If we didn’t have clear thinking people like him around, we might almost have believed the thousands of scientists who say we need to, as a society, use less energy and possibly have a little bit less fun (at least, where fun is equal to the consumption of energy, which […]

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But if you do, here is a link to a perticularily interesting and current blog about contemporary issues in Toronto urban design, planning, and culture. (No, not “planning-culture”, at least not yet). It’s kept up by a friend I made living in campus-cooperative residences in Toronto last year. http://toronto.ahiroll.net/

Read More I don’t know if any of you care about Toronto…

Merge: art show with dance and live painting! http://www.aydengallery.com/media/Merge_FEB2.jpg

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No copying each other. Also, no copying me – who thinks wikipedia is the best.

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why the americans are an unpopular group in Bagdad? http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yco1deXOzN8 (Malcolm had the good sense of posting this in the comments page of a previous post, I’m just reposting it so you all get a chance at it).

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If you didn’t get a chance to see the film in theatres (I didn’t), it’s not available on DVD, but you can watch this trailer on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv23xwe0BoU

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1) Some children are taught to believe in a regular catholic ontology to be true and factual 2) This ontology includes real torture for those who choose not to believe in it, or believe in it and break it’s laws (even those ones which are not what we would consider part of normal liberal morality). […]

Read More Is teaching kids dogmatic christianity a form of child abuse?

A quote which is more explosive for the institutions which produce fear, ignorance and violence than any scientific proof Dawkins can offer: “…anyone for whom the Bible is divine revelation and truth already has the answer to the question, “Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?” before it is even asked: beings, with […]

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The effects of jet aircraft trails, and other particulate pollutions on something called “Global Dimming”, BBC 50min documentary http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1027879546389218797&pr=goog-sl “So, this is the crux of the problem. While the greenhouse effect has been warming the planet it now seems global dimming has been cooling it down. So the warming caused by carbon dioxide has been […]

Read More Why September 11th might save millions of lives

This (http://www.artofbleeding.com/rex.html) is probably more up the ally of homeland security minded people.

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