globeandmail.com: Via Rail explores entertainment downloads.
This story passed me by last week. I bookmarked it to my delicious but haven’t had a chance to look at it until now. Via Rail offers free internet? And they want to sell content to their passengers as they travel? My God, someone at a Crown Corporation has a [...]
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Also posted in Recommended Reading, Tech
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Tagged canada, canadian, crown-corporation, delicious, globe-and-mail, internet, podcasts, the-rockies, travel, via-rail
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Four philosophical questions to make your brain hurt.
This is an awesome article. Read this. Read this now, it’s the most interesting thing I’ve posted this week.
Storm strands hundreds of vehicles in N.S.’s Cobequid pass.
Updates: ‘Let’s just share with everybody,’ N.B. woman says after long night on Cobequid Pass, Questions pile up after storm-struck travellers spend night on highway, Minister vows full review
Ahh, November in Nova Scotia, how I miss it.
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Tagged 104, canadian-press, cbc, chronicle-herald, cobequid-pass, nova-scotia, snow, snow-storm, trans-canada-highway, transportation-minister, weather
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Sir Bob Geldof wants $100,000 for anti-povery speech
I think it’s important to highlight these hypocrisies when they happen in our society.
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. – Matthew 19: 24.
KEEPING TRACK.
A Map of Broken Promises from the Sydney Morning Herald’s website – an interactive map of cancelled rail lines. This state government is very good at making announcements – not so good at paying for them.
So I’m surfing through Sydney Morning Herald’s website, checking in on the local news and I notice this on one of those “Most Popular in Technology” links:
“Too many facebook friends?” I don’t want any more so-called high school ‘friends’ trying to add me on facebook!
Well, here’s my reflections on the topic: Rin had a Facebook [...]
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Tagged canadian-tulip-festival, digihub, facebook, family, friendship, liverpool-nova-scotia, lrhs, memory-lane, mount-allison-university, old-friends, shelley-anne-perry, sydney-morning-herald
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Sydney petrol prices slashed.
$1.169/L this morning at Prestons.
Key Sydney plan redundant: councils – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
Here’s Labor’s Urban Planning Policy
Ram another half a million people into Western Sydney
Build no infrastructure
Telling everyone you’re doing your best
Either move to Coogee, get drunk at a bar in Gosford, or party naked with fellow MPs in between votes, whatever it takes to forget the [...]
I sponsored Matt Miller’s Movember fund-raising thing today, because his mustache is very sad and pathetic looking. Sponsor him, because it is a very sad and pathetic looking mustache; and because the money goes to Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and to BeyondBlue.
By Scott
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Tagged beyondblue, charity, depression, donation, fund-raising, matt-millers, mens-health, movember, mustache, prostate-cancer, prostate-cancer-foundation-of-australia
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