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• training manuals

  July 2, 2008 in politics

  From NY Times: The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep …

• what are you worth?

  June 29, 2008 in politics

  I’ve been thinking a fair bit lately about the disconnect between the “wealth” of the West in the past 30 or 40 years, and actual “reality.” I argued here that our wealth is a …

• Rogers iphone response

  June 28, 2008 in technology

  I sent Rogers customer service the following email:Re: http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-products/iphone_voice_data_packages you must be joking? those rates are terrible. why does canada have the worst data plans in the world? you”ve just killed the iphone in canada, congrats. And they responded …

• Copyright conflicts & Canada’s media

  June 26, 2008 in copyright/left, media, politics, technology

  You know one of the problems about this whole copyright debate is the massive conflict of interest in reporting it in our media companies, which also happen to be our ISPs. Canada’s top 6 ISPs, …

• 10 questions for media entities

  June 25, 2008 in media, web

  Jeff Jarvis asks 10 questions of newspapers… Probably these should be asked of anyone who has anything to do with: a) information b) the webbernet Here are the questions, and some teasers… see more here. 1. Who …