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January 10, 2008 in art, environment by Hugh
"But in Norway and in Saudi Arabia ... authorities have instead focused on corralling the foreign exchange earned in the sales of energy, and investing it outside their borders ...creating an income stream for future generations." [Link]
While the "making available" issue can be tedious, technical, and contradictory (different court rulings have gone different ways), the brief actually does a fine job of making the debate accessible. [Link]
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tragedy of the commons vs tragedy to anti-commons [Link]
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August 29, 2008 in friendsprojects, montreal
I was at the Akoha top secret private screening demo thing last night. It’s ambitious, and complex… but it looks like they’ve done a good job …
August 29, 2008 in politics
For some reason, I got contacted by Liberal Marc Garneau’s campaign (he’s running against Anne LagacĂ©-Dowson in a federal by-election in Wesmount-Ville Marie). They emailed me because I occasionally write political stuff on …
August 25, 2008 in data, myprojects, web
After a long hiatus due to a wordpress hack, datalibre …
August 24, 2008 in art, podcasting
This American Life can be a bit much at times, but some wonderful radio/podcasting comes out of the show. Ira Glass and gang often manage to get such moving stories out of people, with …
August 22, 2008 in misc
I have a new start-up project underway, and I’m really excited about it. I have been lucky enough to get some fabulous people on board to work with me on it - some old salt …

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January 11, 2008 at 12:28 am
Dan Parsons
Hugh, you could totally build an awesome office-type-thing on the roof of your house. You could make it solar powered, too - as I recall there is absolutely nothing blocking the sun up there. You’d have a great view, too. Yes yes, this is an excellent idea…
January 11, 2008 at 12:29 am
Dan Parsons
Damn, forgot to subscribe again.