I have a habit of being easily distracted. Especially when I'm procrastinating!
Today's adventure began when I needed to look up a grammar question which took me to Quora [as easily a time-sink as YouTube] which took me to this:
Can Origami be used for something else?
which led to The Modern Science of Origami.
Too cool!
Red Bear's Teacher-Daughter might be inspired by this, I'm feeling tickles on the edges of my comprehension, in the olden days of complete brain function I could have had some fun with this.
Showing posts with label Around the internets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Around the internets. Show all posts
Saturday, December 29, 2018
Thursday, January 05, 2017
On Books and Reading & possibly a new hobby for 2017
I discovered a new website this week: Literary Hub
I've shared a few articles on facebook the past couple of days, but today, I started reading an article that inspired a post about one of my Grandmothers.
Doing a final edit of the post, I realized it's too long for a facebook post and realized I haven't made a non-crafting entry into this blog for awhile so why not put it here instead?
Inspired by the article "What Romance Fiction Can Accomplish: On the Passion and Pleasure of "Light" Reading"
My Grandmother, Yellow Nana, my Dad's Mom; was an avid consumer of Harlequin Romances. There was always an ever-changing box of them out at the lake. With these, plus a box of Reader's Digest, plus a box of my Mom's books, there was always something to read out there.
In grade seven, our English teacher assigned us to read and do a book report, once a month, for the entire school year. I had mine completed by the second week of September. I was always looking for something to read.
That January, for some reason, [I didn't know it at the time, but I was already firmly entrenched in my Seasonal Affective Disorder, my January Blues], I set myself the challenge to read one Harlequin Romance a day. By February, I could identify the formulas for the different categories.
Nana wasn't a fan of the supernatural or sci-fi romances but there were generous helpings of the not-traditionally-pretty and scrappy heroine, the independent heroine [as much as there could be in that genre, after all they always did end up with a man], and a sprinkling of the erotic read. I've never picked up a Harlequin Romance since but, there were the seeds of the independent, yet sensual, career woman I became.
As an adult I graduated to Danielle Steel, amassed a collection, shared them with my Mother and Sister until I learned her formulas and became jaded against "the same ol' story". In recent years, culling the book shelves to make room for the craft room stuff, Danielle Steel has become the fodder for our Altered Art creations.
Once I was over Danielle, I delved into the likes of Stephen King, Patricia Cornwell, Tom Clancy, and Anne Rule and thought I left the romance novel behind.
In the mid-'80s on a recruiting trip to the back of beyond, some isolated part of Northwestern Ontario, Northern Manitoba or Saskatchewan, and looking for something to read I happened upon LaVyrle Spencer. And thus another collection began.
I haven't read one of her books for over a decade but when the great cull happened, I gave up my Stephen King books but couldn't part with my Lavyrle Spencer's. Her books don't make it into my annual revolving list of series authors but I can't give them up either. She's in the shelf with my Margaret Atwood and, my smaller, Alice Munro, collections. Maybe it's time to re-read some of them.
I'm wondering if 2017 may be the year of Literary Hub being my "go to" website instead of Bored Panda? The language is denser, the thoughts more profound and frankly it stretches and hurts my brain reading some of the articles but, today anyway, that feels like a good thing.
It's too easy learning new things by reading the internet. When you stumble across something you don't know, a quick highlight, right click, "Search Google for ____" answers the question. Thus, today I learned the meaning of and how to pronounce "Synecdoche". I also glanced at the incredible list of Literary Devices and got excited about a whole year's worth of learning!
Yesterday I got caught up in and shared on facebook:
There's so many place to go and read:
There is one section Lit Hub Daily, which, as the title suggestions is a Daily list of about a dozen links to literary related places on the 'net.
Every Saturday though, is a "Best of the Week:" compilation, a slightly longer [I'm guessing to appeal to the leisure of the weekend of "normal" people] list of the Daily links. I wonder how that is determined? "Most Viewed", "Most Shared"?
All in all, a huge, HUGE collection of intellectual, brain stimulating writing on one of my favourite, life-long pleasures. I've been casting around for a "new project" since the demise of my World of Warcraft involvement.
Himself once observed that every two years or so I change focus of my hobby. When we lived in Churchill it was "Cooking for the Freezer", when we first moved to the farm I learned all about Landscape Gardening, then it was Yoga for a few years.
My first move to Thompson was swimming with intellectually and physically challenged kids, the second Thompson move was Air Cadets and the third, taking a three year long night-course on Management and Supervision.
There were a few years of Paint Shop Pro graphics and a couple of learning to CSS code our own farm website, the internet saved my sanity during the first decade of living as a disabled, physically challenged, isolated person.
Yes, I'm thinking that a 2017 year of Literary Hub would be good for me in more ways than one, and pleasureable to boot!
Think I'll start by learning the definition of and how to pronounce: lucubrations and Why Calvin and Hobbes is Great Literature.
Who are your favourite authors? Do you have a list of annual or occasional "re-reads"?
I've shared a few articles on facebook the past couple of days, but today, I started reading an article that inspired a post about one of my Grandmothers.
Doing a final edit of the post, I realized it's too long for a facebook post and realized I haven't made a non-crafting entry into this blog for awhile so why not put it here instead?
Inspired by the article "What Romance Fiction Can Accomplish: On the Passion and Pleasure of "Light" Reading"
My Grandmother, Yellow Nana, my Dad's Mom; was an avid consumer of Harlequin Romances. There was always an ever-changing box of them out at the lake. With these, plus a box of Reader's Digest, plus a box of my Mom's books, there was always something to read out there.
In grade seven, our English teacher assigned us to read and do a book report, once a month, for the entire school year. I had mine completed by the second week of September. I was always looking for something to read.
That January, for some reason, [I didn't know it at the time, but I was already firmly entrenched in my Seasonal Affective Disorder, my January Blues], I set myself the challenge to read one Harlequin Romance a day. By February, I could identify the formulas for the different categories.
Nana wasn't a fan of the supernatural or sci-fi romances but there were generous helpings of the not-traditionally-pretty and scrappy heroine, the independent heroine [as much as there could be in that genre, after all they always did end up with a man], and a sprinkling of the erotic read. I've never picked up a Harlequin Romance since but, there were the seeds of the independent, yet sensual, career woman I became.
As an adult I graduated to Danielle Steel, amassed a collection, shared them with my Mother and Sister until I learned her formulas and became jaded against "the same ol' story". In recent years, culling the book shelves to make room for the craft room stuff, Danielle Steel has become the fodder for our Altered Art creations.
Once I was over Danielle, I delved into the likes of Stephen King, Patricia Cornwell, Tom Clancy, and Anne Rule and thought I left the romance novel behind.
In the mid-'80s on a recruiting trip to the back of beyond, some isolated part of Northwestern Ontario, Northern Manitoba or Saskatchewan, and looking for something to read I happened upon LaVyrle Spencer. And thus another collection began.
I haven't read one of her books for over a decade but when the great cull happened, I gave up my Stephen King books but couldn't part with my Lavyrle Spencer's. Her books don't make it into my annual revolving list of series authors but I can't give them up either. She's in the shelf with my Margaret Atwood and, my smaller, Alice Munro, collections. Maybe it's time to re-read some of them.
I'm wondering if 2017 may be the year of Literary Hub being my "go to" website instead of Bored Panda? The language is denser, the thoughts more profound and frankly it stretches and hurts my brain reading some of the articles but, today anyway, that feels like a good thing.
It's too easy learning new things by reading the internet. When you stumble across something you don't know, a quick highlight, right click, "Search Google for ____" answers the question. Thus, today I learned the meaning of and how to pronounce "Synecdoche". I also glanced at the incredible list of Literary Devices and got excited about a whole year's worth of learning!
Yesterday I got caught up in and shared on facebook:
- NOTABLE LITERARY DEATHS IN 2016
- IN MEMORY OF GEORGE MICHAEL, IN PRAISE OF MISTAKES
- five biggest literary stories of 2016
- Remembering the literary greats we lost in 2016.
There's so many place to go and read:
- Canadian writers on their favorite places in the Great White North.
- Resistance Lit:
- CAN SCIENCE FICTION SAVE THE EARTH?
- THE MANY BAD MOMS OF CHARLES DICKENS
- HOW A GROUP OF 20TH CENTURY ARCTIC EXPLORERS CELEBRATED THE HOLIDAYS
- HUMAN HAIR, DOLLS CLOTHES, LOVE LETTERS AND OTHER STRANGE THINGS FOUND IN OLD BOOKS
There is one section Lit Hub Daily, which, as the title suggestions is a Daily list of about a dozen links to literary related places on the 'net.
Every Saturday though, is a "Best of the Week:" compilation, a slightly longer [I'm guessing to appeal to the leisure of the weekend of "normal" people] list of the Daily links. I wonder how that is determined? "Most Viewed", "Most Shared"?
All in all, a huge, HUGE collection of intellectual, brain stimulating writing on one of my favourite, life-long pleasures. I've been casting around for a "new project" since the demise of my World of Warcraft involvement.
Himself once observed that every two years or so I change focus of my hobby. When we lived in Churchill it was "Cooking for the Freezer", when we first moved to the farm I learned all about Landscape Gardening, then it was Yoga for a few years.
My first move to Thompson was swimming with intellectually and physically challenged kids, the second Thompson move was Air Cadets and the third, taking a three year long night-course on Management and Supervision.
There were a few years of Paint Shop Pro graphics and a couple of learning to CSS code our own farm website, the internet saved my sanity during the first decade of living as a disabled, physically challenged, isolated person.
Yes, I'm thinking that a 2017 year of Literary Hub would be good for me in more ways than one, and pleasureable to boot!
Think I'll start by learning the definition of and how to pronounce: lucubrations and Why Calvin and Hobbes is Great Literature.
Who are your favourite authors? Do you have a list of annual or occasional "re-reads"?
Thursday, September 01, 2016
High hopes for mandatory Indigenous courses set to start at U of W - Aboriginal - CBC
A good start. I think it should begin in High School myself.
High hopes for mandatory Indigenous courses set to start at U of W - Aboriginal - CBC:
"According to a 2011 Statistics Canada report, nearly 17 per cent of Manitoba's population identified as aboriginal — four times the Canadian average."
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Zoo
High hopes for mandatory Indigenous courses set to start at U of W - Aboriginal - CBC:
"According to a 2011 Statistics Canada report, nearly 17 per cent of Manitoba's population identified as aboriginal — four times the Canadian average."
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Zoo
Monday, November 17, 2014
Drunk birds sober up in Environment Yukon holding tank - North - CBC News
Silly birds! Great photo with this article
Drunk birds sober up in Environment Yukon holding tank - North - CBC News: "Birds in Yukon are getting tipsy on fermented berries, so Environment Yukon has set up an avian drunk tank where they can sober up safely."
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Drunk birds sober up in Environment Yukon holding tank - North - CBC News: "Birds in Yukon are getting tipsy on fermented berries, so Environment Yukon has set up an avian drunk tank where they can sober up safely."
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Sunday, November 09, 2014
Fall of the Berlin Wall - Google Search
Today, 9-Nov-2014 is the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. My daughter was born in Dec. 1989 and has never known a world with the wall in it.
Her grandfather was a paratrooper at Normandy.
I wish she had grown up in a world without war at all.
You would think that after all these thousands of years we would know better.
Being born in the sixty's I guess I'm just naive in wishing for "live and let live."
Fall of the Berlin Wall - Google Search: "Fall of the Berlin Wall"
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Her grandfather was a paratrooper at Normandy.
I wish she had grown up in a world without war at all.
You would think that after all these thousands of years we would know better.
Being born in the sixty's I guess I'm just naive in wishing for "live and let live."
Fall of the Berlin Wall - Google Search: "Fall of the Berlin Wall"
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Wednesday, November 05, 2014
'The beginning of the long dash' indicates 75 years of official time on CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News
I didn't know that the CBC was involved in the telephone talking clock or the Network Time Protocol!
I used the telephone talking clock at least once a week before the advent of the internet. Working in a round-the-clock shift worker household and with aviation's precision time-keeping, it was important to me that our household clocks reflected the "real time".
Then the internet replaced the phone calls to the NRC clock. I always was mildly curious about who ran the internet clock.
It's taken me years of retirement to let go of my obsession keeping all the clocks in this rural home "on time". I always expected our electricity to be somewhat less than perfect when we were living up north. I was surprised, though I don't know why, to discover rural electricity "down south" can be just as variable.
Last weekend when the fall time change happened I realized how lax I've become. The clocks from one end of the house were out by as much as 10 minutes from the other end! I can imagine what it will be like when Himself retires as well.
With no one at work and no one in school, with the "farm time" beating in weeks and months, I imagine our non-computer clocks will suffer even more from lack of attention.
At least there's always the CBC radio on in the background of the craft room. The hourly long dash keeping me at least peripherally aware of the passage of time.
'The beginning of the long dash' indicates 75 years of official time on CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News: "The control room contains the systems used to disseminate official time to the public, including the telephone talking clock, the CBC daily time broadcasts, computer time clocks, and the internet servers for Network Time Protocol (NTP). (NRC)"
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I used the telephone talking clock at least once a week before the advent of the internet. Working in a round-the-clock shift worker household and with aviation's precision time-keeping, it was important to me that our household clocks reflected the "real time".
Then the internet replaced the phone calls to the NRC clock. I always was mildly curious about who ran the internet clock.
It's taken me years of retirement to let go of my obsession keeping all the clocks in this rural home "on time". I always expected our electricity to be somewhat less than perfect when we were living up north. I was surprised, though I don't know why, to discover rural electricity "down south" can be just as variable.
Last weekend when the fall time change happened I realized how lax I've become. The clocks from one end of the house were out by as much as 10 minutes from the other end! I can imagine what it will be like when Himself retires as well.
With no one at work and no one in school, with the "farm time" beating in weeks and months, I imagine our non-computer clocks will suffer even more from lack of attention.
At least there's always the CBC radio on in the background of the craft room. The hourly long dash keeping me at least peripherally aware of the passage of time.
'The beginning of the long dash' indicates 75 years of official time on CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News: "The control room contains the systems used to disseminate official time to the public, including the telephone talking clock, the CBC daily time broadcasts, computer time clocks, and the internet servers for Network Time Protocol (NTP). (NRC)"
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Thursday, August 14, 2014
Bountiful sect members face polygamy, child-related charges - British Columbia - CBC News
If, after almost 10 years of investigation, the justice system can't legally charge these folks with any crime, isn't it time to just let them be?
Don't get me wrong, I'm against polygamy and am especially disgusted with Mr. Blackmore. He's a pompous ass. I feel for the women and children that have so little control over their own lives and suffer from a lack of education.
However, we, Canadians, believe in religious freedom. There are many women who leave the community, they have set up organizations of their own to help those who wish to leave. Apparently, they are not breaking any laws.
We, Canadians, have a poor track record when it comes to "helping
civilize" peoples we feel need it. Residential schools anyone?
Enough already.
Bountiful sect members face polygamy, child-related charges - British Columbia - CBC News:
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Don't get me wrong, I'm against polygamy and am especially disgusted with Mr. Blackmore. He's a pompous ass. I feel for the women and children that have so little control over their own lives and suffer from a lack of education.
However, we, Canadians, believe in religious freedom. There are many women who leave the community, they have set up organizations of their own to help those who wish to leave. Apparently, they are not breaking any laws.
We, Canadians, have a poor track record when it comes to "helping
civilize" peoples we feel need it. Residential schools anyone?
Enough already.
Bountiful sect members face polygamy, child-related charges - British Columbia - CBC News:
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Saturday, July 26, 2014
Google Love ... with a side of Pasta
gawd ... I love Google!
and, ... if you're interested, ... the links:
Guide to Noodles
Cook's Thesaurus: Pasta Rods
Different Types of Pasta Explained
I'm catching up on the current season of "Hell's Kitchen", I've always wondered what exactly "capellini" is. OK, so it's a pasta, rod shaped. How does it differ from other rods? Now, thanks to Google, I know.
Thanks again Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
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| Google knows what I need, better than I do! |
and, ... if you're interested, ... the links:
Guide to Noodles
Cook's Thesaurus: Pasta Rods
Different Types of Pasta Explained
I'm catching up on the current season of "Hell's Kitchen", I've always wondered what exactly "capellini" is. OK, so it's a pasta, rod shaped. How does it differ from other rods? Now, thanks to Google, I know.
Thanks again Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
Monday, July 07, 2014
"Hurry up, kids! We’re late for school!"
Urocyon's Jaunts: "
catsbeaversandducks:
"Hurry up, kids! We’re late for school!"
Photo by ©Jeanette DiAnda
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| "Hurry up, kids! We’re late for school!" |
Living with Chronic Illness
I've been "at home, sick" aka on disability pension, since March 2002. Generally, I've been living my "new normal" for a long time and don't often think about "being sick". My illness is as managed as it can be, I know my body's limitations and, more or less, live within them. There are still the odd days that I long to be back at work but as more and more of my old co-workers retire, it happens less and less.
What irks and saddens me most though, is how small my world has become. My immediate family, a sister, a long-distance crafting buddy [weekly skype dates] and my health care professionals. These are the people I see.
I absolutely dread running into anyone that knew me "before I got sick". Ugh. The weight gain, the lack of mobility, my drunken gait [vertigo, not booze], the ravages of my medication that show on my skin and hair.
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Thank goodness for the internet. My connection to the world, news, entertainment. I visit on blogs like I used to go for coffee. I don't have to excuse my looks. Hell, I don't even have to be showered and dressed! Plus, if I'm awake at 3am, my "pals" on the internet are too. Thanks for being there internet.
What irks and saddens me most though, is how small my world has become. My immediate family, a sister, a long-distance crafting buddy [weekly skype dates] and my health care professionals. These are the people I see.
I absolutely dread running into anyone that knew me "before I got sick". Ugh. The weight gain, the lack of mobility, my drunken gait [vertigo, not booze], the ravages of my medication that show on my skin and hair.
Urocyon's Jaunts: "IN TODAY'S SOCIETY, CHRONIC ILLNESS IS VIEWED AS A PERSONAL FAILING › When I recently read the phrase, “I’m embarrassed to be sick,” it made my stomach clench and my breath catch. ... a reluctance to be seen or even talk to people–especially those that knew me before I became chronically ill. ... ... In our competitive society, chronic infirmity or illness is viewed as a personal failing rather than the random stroke of fate that it is. "
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Thank goodness for the internet. My connection to the world, news, entertainment. I visit on blogs like I used to go for coffee. I don't have to excuse my looks. Hell, I don't even have to be showered and dressed! Plus, if I'm awake at 3am, my "pals" on the internet are too. Thanks for being there internet.
Monday, June 02, 2014
Wasagamach children still live without running water ...
... or flush toilets, but the Harper Government is spending an outrageous amount of money for their temporary quarters during a renovation.
The Harper Government should re-locate to St. Theresa Point during their reno project. Perhaps they'd get more work done surrounded by the beauty of the Canadian Shield and Boreal forest. As well as develop a better understanding of life in Garden Hill, St. Theresa Point and Wasagamach.
I can not believe our government is seriously spending this kind of money on a temporary structure. I wonder how many Aboriginal homes could be supplies with running water and flush toilets for this amount of money.
Shameful.
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The Harper Government should re-locate to St. Theresa Point during their reno project. Perhaps they'd get more work done surrounded by the beauty of the Canadian Shield and Boreal forest. As well as develop a better understanding of life in Garden Hill, St. Theresa Point and Wasagamach.
I can not believe our government is seriously spending this kind of money on a temporary structure. I wonder how many Aboriginal homes could be supplies with running water and flush toilets for this amount of money.
Shameful.
$42M glass dome approved for Parliament - Politics - CBC News: "The temporary Commons chamber will have exactly the same dimensions and layout as the existing one, complete with tiered seating for MPs and overhanging visitors' galleries. The soaring glass ceiling is being designed to match the neo-Gothic architecture of the rest of the Parliament Buildings."
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Monday, May 12, 2014
Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel prize winning biochemist, celebrated in Google Doodle | Technology | theguardian.com
Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel prize winning biochemist, celebrated in Google Doodle | Technology | theguardian.com: "Hodgkin remains the only British woman to have ever won one of the Science Nobels, which she was awarded in 1964. Photograph: Google
Google has honoured the Nobel prize winning biochemist Dorothy Hodgkin, with her very own Google Doodle on what would have been the scientist's 104th birthday."
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
The Spoon Theory written by Christine Miserandino | But You Dont Look Sick? support for those with invisible illness or chronic illness
This is one of the better explanations I've read for what it means to live with chronic illness.
The Spoon Theory written by Christine Miserandino | But You Dont Look Sick? support for those with invisible illness or chronic illness:
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"I don’t have room for wasted time, or wasted “spoons” and I chose to spend this time with you.”
The Spoon Theory written by Christine Miserandino | But You Dont Look Sick? support for those with invisible illness or chronic illness:
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Friday, April 04, 2014
It's official: Winnipeg's winter the coldest since 1898 - Manitoba - CBC News
It's official: Winnipeg's winter the coldest since 1898 - Manitoba - CBC News: ""
"- and it's not over yet! ... don't get carried away, because 12 per cent of Manitoba's annual snowfall arrives in April."
"We do see a significant change of a season when you get into April," he said. "The bad news is, don't put away the snow shovel."
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"- and it's not over yet! ... don't get carried away, because 12 per cent of Manitoba's annual snowfall arrives in April."
"We do see a significant change of a season when you get into April," he said. "The bad news is, don't put away the snow shovel."
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Sunday, March 30, 2014
Dear Ellen Come to Nunavut and educate yourself and your fans.
Ellen needs to visit this girl and get a Nunavut Education. As well as education her followers and fans on the Inuit way of life.
Friday, March 28, 2014
A new Webcam to Watch
There is also a chat associated with this camera and I learned that everyone was on "hatch watch". These are always exciting times for birding webcams as I've been on a few "hatch watches" with the Peregrine Falcon cams in Manitoba.
The camera is set up in someone's front yard in California and there is quite the community "on the branch". I checked in tonight and sure enough, there was a pre-dawn hatch today, March 28, 2014.
Here are a couple of screenshots I captured.
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| Phoebe, a non-migratory Allen's Hummingbird |
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| less than one day old |
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| Open wide! |
Phoebe Allen's Hummingbird.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Edward Snowden did us all a favour, it's time to curb the snooping - World - CBC News
Edward Snowden did us all a favour, it's time to curb the snooping - World - CBC News: "It is no longer radical to be alarmed that trillions of records of phone calls and emails have been maintained for years now in massive government "haystacks" — just in case."
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Extreme Ice Survey: memory of a landscape - World - CBC News
Very cool photos of glaciers around the world. Love the colour of the old year ice!
Extreme Ice Survey: memory of a landscape - World - CBC News:
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Extreme Ice Survey: memory of a landscape - World - CBC News:
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