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• friday mixedtape: spying

  May 9, 2008 in mixed tape

  This one goes out to Facebook, Google, and the Warentless Wiretap program. Rockwell: Somebody’s Watching Me (1984) One-hit wonder. The Romantics: Talking In Your Sleep (1984)…

• intimacy & the question concerning digital technology

  May 8, 2008 in philosophy, technology, web

  Martin Heidegger’s 1954 piece, The Question Concerning Technology transformed the way I look at technology (it’s really dense, and the translation is heavy-handed). I read it in 1995, a decade before I got …

• Feds kill govt accountability registry

  May 5, 2008 in politics

  OTTAWA–The federal Conservatives have quietly killed a giant information registry that was used by lawyers, academics, journalists and ordinary citizens to hold government accountable. The registry, created in 1989, is an electronic list of every request …

• events tonight: electro-lit & design 20×20

  May 3, 2008 in web, writing

  Busy night tonight. First, pal Nora Young, of CBC’s Spark, will be at the Blue Met, hosting a panel, 7pm at DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - RÉGENCE A: OUT OF THE BOX: ADVENTURES IN …

• making a killing from hunger

  May 3, 2008 in misc

  From GRAIN: Farmers across the world produced a record 2.3 billion tons of grain in 2007, up 4% on the previous year. Since 1961 the world’s cereal output has tripled, while the population has doubled. …