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This week’s Wednesday Picks from earideas include: the democratization of innovation; the scientific genius of Leonardo da Vinci; and master short story writer Mavis Gallant.
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cool-as-hell conference at uqam [Link]
strange tale of fake/not fake email from Patreus' top communications guy, Col. Boylan. weird. either someone hacked his email; or he's a bit of a jerk. [Link]
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fantastic short film about a guy accosted by a dancing concrete man in a metro in montreal. if you are a film maker, who is not making films for hollywood. please. put your stuff on the web. [Link]
"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]
from identi.caEvery once in a while, for my own benefit, and for those of you who like to write, I republish this wonderful list from George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”, which is some …
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Matt just released his beautiful new book, Ojingogo. (I don’t think you can buy it online yet.) I’m not a great reader of graphic novels, but I must say I love Drawn & …
On Saturday mornings we make scrambled eggs, read the Saturday Globe and Mail, and listen to the podcast of On the Media, the best American current affairs program out there. This week’s …
I’ve been saying for a long time that one of the problems with the Left/Democrats in the US is that they have been attacking Republican/Bush policies for the past 8 years on the wrong front, …
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