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• STM’s New Dumb Card: Opus

  November 21, 2008 in urbanism

  I wrote to the STM, about their new Opus Card: Hello, Why can I only put 6 rides/tickets at a time onto my OPUS card? I don’t want a weekly or monthly card, but I …

• My Map of San Francisco

  November 21, 2008 in urbanism

  I had a great evening with Aaron while I was in San Francisco, talking books, reading, maps, photos, geo, politics, CBC, beer, Selagh Rogers, Yahoo, Mexican food, hand-waving, museums, and all sorts of other …

• Why Don’t We Ask Why?

  November 17, 2008 in philosophy, politics, video

  David Simon is a former journalist who quit his job because he could no longer do it the way he wanted to do it: the companies that run papers these …

• Schiff Calls It Right

  November 14, 2008 in economics

  Peter Schiff gets it right in 2006/07 about the US economy, and gets howled off the stage by the other “experts.” What’s funny is how sensible his arguments are (there is no real wealth in …

• In Flanders Fields

  November 11, 2008 in audio

  In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae. Read by Gord, Kristen, Kara, Mike, Randomdad, Mark, and me, for LibriVox. I believe it was our first “weekly poem,” and was Mike’s idea. These were …