Another silly online quiz: politics

October 29, 2005

Tracing various blogposts back from an entry of Shelley’s, Truth Hurts, which deals with a recent Forbes article (Attack of the Blogs) that libels bloggers — well, ok, it tars ’em with a rather undifferentiating brush — I landed on Doc Searls’s commentary on same. But since I wasn’t really interested in what Forbes‘s writer […]

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Telling Stories

October 28, 2005

One of the more enjoyable books I’m reading right now is Roger Schank’s Coloring Outside the Lines, which I stumbled across because Zac left a comment on a post I wrote about HeyMath and his own Interactive Math site. (I need to check in with Zac more often — he finds these incredible puzzles and […]

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ASBOs: the clocks are turning orange

October 25, 2005

The Toronto Star had an interesting article yesterday by Sandro Contenta about Britain’s “asbo” law: New U.K. law targets boorish Brits. I had never heard of this before — it’s a very strange and very disturbing law, both in terms of how it’s carried out as well as in the sense that it had to […]

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New tack

October 24, 2005

I’m going to try something different for a while, because I’ve got deskwork up the yin-yang and way too much on my plate to spend time writing my usual longer-ish entries. So, I’m going to point to articles I find really worth reading, or other short stuff like that. At least for the next little […]

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Oh yeah, markets are “conversations”

October 21, 2005

Markets are conversations, we’ve all learned. Bite me, why don’t you? Here’s what Corky Evans, B.C. New Democratic Party MLA, said about a proposed review by Ottawa of U.S. energy giant Kinder Morgan Inc.‘s proposed $6.9-billion takeover of Terasen Inc.: This is about whether or not Canadians should be able to have a conversation about […]

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BC Teachers’ Strike: Escalation, Part 1 (…to be continued)

October 17, 2005

The BC teachers’ strike, which started 10 days ago on October 7, continues across the province, and Gordon Campbell’s government continues to refuse to negotiate. Today, around 15,000 people rallied in downtown Victoria — from City Hall to the provincial legislature — to show their support of the teachers. (Other reports claim it was 20,000.) […]

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Privatisation of public utilities

October 15, 2005

A few days ago I saw an article by Christopher Hume in the Toronto Star that disturbed me deeply: Privatizing the public domain; For better or worse, the time is near (Oct. 13, 2005). It begins thus: Forget stocks and bonds, real estate and art — invest in infrastructure. That’s where the smart money is […]

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The world is getting flatter, The sky is falling all around (Strange Weather)

October 11, 2005

Thanks to Julie Leung I finally saw a wonderful article that Doc Searls had published in Linux Journal six months ago: Getting Flat, Part 2. Note that this is Part 2; there is a Part 1, subtitled Our Senior Editor digs into Tom Friedman’s new bestseller, from a Linux/open source angle, which is also very […]

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BC Teachers: a strike of historical importance

October 10, 2005

Supreme Court (of British Columbia) Justice Nancy Brown declared yesterday (Sunday Oct. 9) that …obeying court orders is the foundation of western society and if the rule of law is not followed, “anarchy cannot be far behind.” “No citizen or group of citizens may choose which orders they may obey,” said Brown. [More…] For those […]

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On the importance of Wood in the lot of intellectual archives…

October 9, 2005

One can only hope that Mark Woods forgives slobs like me who never fail to forget important anniversaries — and who even manage to “remember” (i.e., be reminded) a day or two later, only to put off “remembering” for yet another couple of days… But dear brilliantly forensic Mark of Wood_s Lot (George Bataille, that […]

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