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Archive for February, 2006

Peace in the Pacific?

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

by Foggy Bottom
On Saturday February 4th, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors referred Iran to the UN Security Council. For the US, this was a significant and long awaited diplomatic victory. Since 2003, it had been actively lobbying the member-states of the IAEA Board of Governors to sanction Iran for technical violations [...]

Continuity Communities

Friday, February 10th, 2006

by Neil Balan
[Note: for the record, initiate celebration. This is my first generation using Open Office, which is now running brilliantly on my laptop. Go open source.]
Bear with me.
Last week, Nat and I headed down to the besieged Gladstone Hotel for a reading and discussion of two new books by their respective Toronto authors. [...]

The Wreck in Laurel Canyon.

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

i dedicate this photo to neil, and to everyone who’s fallen in a machine off a precipice. (here’s why- this photograph was taken ten paces away from the gully.

Privacy of a Start Up: Part 3 of Open’s interview with BillMonk.

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

You can read Part 1: History of a Start-Up and Part 2: Economy of a Start-Up if you like.
People have raised questions about BillMonk (in comments on the techcrunch profile, for example) about the smartness of putting increasingly sensitive info onto other people’s servers- How do you answer this concern?
It’s a valid concern! People [...]

The Case for Annexing the Turks and Caicos

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

by Foggy Bottom
Canadians live in a vast and inhospitable land. In discussing France’s wars with England over Quebec in the 18th Century, Voltaire once lamented on waste of blood and treasure committed for “quelques arpents de neige.” It is time for Canada to break from the tyranny of cold. It is time that Canada annexes [...]

A gully in Laurel Canyon

Sunday, February 5th, 2006









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