(Trying the “Press This” WordPress bookmarklet…) 8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet. [Edit: Oh, and here’s a Reddit thread that summarizes,
A Google Labs project, the strangely named NGram Viewer allows you to search for various words and see how their usage in books within the Google Books archive
A Religious Bird, originally uploaded by headtale. I don’t normally make a habit of taking photos of strangers without their permission (honest!) but I thought this one was
WikiLeaks (which is down as I write this for reasons I’ll get to) is a site that’s been around since 2006 and first got a mention on this
A fun graphic which matches the list of “Largest Countries in the World (geography)” against the list of “Largest Countries in the World (population)” So, for example, Russia
A few years ago, I went on record as saying that I rarely to never wore a poppy on Remembrance Day (a personal belief I admitted was the
Watching the rescue of the trapped miners in Chile over the past 24 hours, I thought it might be interesting to try to rank the most engrossing TV
We had our annual New Staff Orientation Day on Friday. It’s a day when we get all of the staff who’ve joined RPL within the past year to
You may be familiar with CBC Radio’s “Great Canadian Song Quest“, a contest where people could write-in votes for different locations in each of Canada’s provinces and territories
Two fairly diverse things converged this weekend to inspire this post. Out of the blue, I got a Facebook message from a high school classmate saying a couple
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