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Fans of CBC radio have lost another familiar voice this week with the passing of Otto Lowy, the longtime host of The Transcontinental. His voice and his quiet and gentle style will be missed.
For more than two decades, Lowy would lure upwards of 100,000 listeners each Sunday with his nostalgia-laden music program styled as an [...]

You just have to love entrepreneurs wonder if it’s as good as the stuff I made that had me kicked out of Boy Scouts
‘I was wondering what we could make in West Virginia that people would want to buy. Moonshine was known the world over . . . If no one was making [...]

So Senator Joe has a plan does he? Hmmmm. He’s going to give tax credits to companies that build out broadband infrastructure. Well there’s a couple of things wrong with this idea.
First off, and this is truly one of the biggest problems, this won’t promote competition. It ignores the fundamental problem of infrastructure providers being [...]

Found on onegoodmove this great link to Arts and Letters Daily and as he says ““If you can’t find something of interest here your monitor is turned off.”” You can truly spend hours there being fascinated. Thanks for passing that along Norm!
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Interesting article by Robert Fisk. I think he hits the nail right on the head when he says:
In the United States, the Bush administration is busy terrorizing Americans. There will be nuclear attacks, bombs in high-rise apartment blocks, on the Brooklyn bridge, men with exploding belts - note how carefully the ruthless Palestinian war against [...]

The British government has never been noted for its love of personal privacy and individual rights. It’s Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) would be considered draconian if implemented in the US (I’m sure Ashcroft would love something like RIPA). The threats to freedom that RIPA represents has led to a group of computer scientists [...]

Interesting 20 year study comparing organic farming to non-organic farming shows real benefits to organic methods in most but not all cases.
19:00 30 May 02
NewScientist.com news service
The world’s longest running experiment in comparing organic and conventional farming side-by-side has pronounced chemical-free farming a success.
“We have shown that organic farming is efficient, saves energy, [...]

It’s good to see the courts have some sense after all. It’s not that I don’t think children should be protected from some of the crap on the Internet it’s just that content filtering software isn’t the right way. As the court pointed out filtering software simply doesn’t work. With current technology filtering [...]

The EFF (Electronic Freedom Foundation) has released a very funny (and serious) flash animation regarding Senator Hollings, the hollywood crowd and the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA)
Thanks goes to Lot 49 for bringing that to my attention
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