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  • Revisiting file sharing in Canada

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    It comes as no surprise that legislators are revisiting the question of the legality of filesharing in Canada, which until now has been sort-of vaguely considered legal, but this is ridiculous: “The Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage has also called for changes to the Copyright Act to make Internet Service Providers (ISP) subject to…

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  • Glamorous Dunstan

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    “It’s midnight. I’m standing in the kitchen of my temporarily-rented apartment, clad in nothing but my underpants. I’m watching the Chicago DVD on my 17in Powerbook, and repeatedly lifting a kitchen chair above my head for exercise. If you want, you can touch me; some of the glamour might rub off on you.”

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  • Brutally Honest Personals

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    “The singles below are real people with real issues. Some are overweight. Others are crippled by debt. Quite a few live with their parents. But they all have one thing in common: They are available. And they’ve put themselves out there with the hope of finding someone willing to accept them at face value. So,…

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  • The times, they are a changin’

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    Yep, that’s Donald Rumsfeld shaking the hand of Saddam Hussein in this photo dated December 20, 1983. The National Security Archive at George Washington University has published a series of declassified documents detailing U.S. support for Saddam Hussein in the early 1980’s. The documents show that during this period of renewed U.S. support for Saddam,…

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