January 2011
28 posts
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One Year, One Canadian →
“For 12 months, I will only buy Canadian products, eat Canadian food and consume Canadian media.”
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Imagining Freaking and Geeks Season Two →
If you haven’t seen Freaks and Geeks… you need to. NOW!
Ten Most Significant Cultural Trends of the Last... →
One | Connection By far the most significant acceleration was in our technologies of connection. In June 2000, 97 million mobile phone subscribers existed in the United States; in June 2010, the number rose to 293 million. Urban and suburban Americans swim in a sea of WiFi (sitting in my living room on a quiet side street I can see 8 wireless networks)—and in the middle of Nebraska, you can get...
100 things we didn't know last year... →
Reasons to be Cheerful →
Elsewhere on the interwebbytubes, an acquaintance asked, somewhat grumpily, if anything good had happened in the past decade (aside from the iPod).
So I went dumpster-diving in memory lane for things to feel good about …
Prior to 1988, diagnosis with AIDS was essentially a death sentence.
Between 1988 and 2000, chemotherapy became available that was pretty horrible but made it more...
top 25 stories of 2011 →
25. Prisoners Still Brutalized at Gitmo
In Guantánamo, the notorious but seldom-discussed thug squad, officially known as the Immediate Reaction Force (IRF), deployed by the US military remains very much active. Inside the walls of Guantánamo, the prisoners know the squad as the Extreme Repression Force. In reality, IRF is an extrajudicial terror squad, the existence of which has been...
