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updated
May 5, 2006
I haven't been keeping this page up to date (in case you hadn't noticed!). If you REALLY want to see what's new and up to the minute, go the the blog home page and look at the right-hand side of the page under 'Recent Posts'. There you'll see the last ten items posted. If they're all new to you, chances are you've missed something (we often have that many posts in a couple of days), so look at the calendar at the right. Days in which articles have been posted are shaded. Click on the date to see posts. I do update this page regularly, oh once a week or so. But a lot can (and does) happen here in a week! |
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New Scrap Metal Sculpture by David Work: 'Party Frog' and 'Dobro Player II' | May 5/06 | word up!, products & services words |
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‘Recycling Adventures in Nicaragua’ DVD New DVD by David Work | May 4/06 | word up!, products & services words |
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Summer Employment Opportunity HICEEC student job available to conduct a survey of summer visitors | May 4/06 | word up! |
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What kind of tourism do we want? Presentation and discussion at New Horizons, sponsored by HICEEC | May 4/06 | word up: events |
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Eagle Hatch Watch Now Drawing 10M Hits a Day More on the eagle eye cam from CBC | May 3/06 | worldwide words: canada |
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mathematical biologist dumps HIV theory This will make you say 'wow'... see comments | May 2/06 | worldwide words: health |
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Gender equality at last! Ah, these May-December romances... | May 2/06 | world wide words |
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Media touted Bush’s routine at Correspondents’ dinner, ignored Colbert’s skewering The major news media behaving typically see comments | May 2/06 | worldwide words: issues |
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Harpers Weekly Review May 2, 2006 Is it just me or is the world really getting weirder by the week? | May 2/06 | world wide words |
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Sustaining our Community + HICEEC AGM Sunday 2pm at New Horizons: special presentation by Sandra Mark | May 2/06 | word up: events |
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Setting Grandmotherhood Aside, Judge Lets 18 Go in Peace 18 grannies, arrested trying to enlist, are released | May 2/06 | worldwide words: issues |
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Hundreds of Thousands March in Support of Illegal Immigrants People came out in droves all over the US | May 2/06 | worldwide words: issues |
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Stephen Colbert’s Take at the White House Correspondents Dinner The text of Stephen Colbert's parody of the right-wing point of view in front of GWB | May 2/06 | what's so funny words, worldwide words: issues |
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Protesters Hail ‘Day Without Immigrants’ Immigrants' buy-nothing-day Monday | May 2/06 | worldwide words: issues |
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B.C. eagle egg given ’slender’ chance of survival The eagles are old; the hatching is late; that's not good | May 2/06 | worldwide words: canada |
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What You Need to Know About May Day according to this, May Day symbolizes the global struggle of workers | May 1/06 | worldwide words: issues |
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Tribal Connectionz from North Carolina Shannon W. and Bridge will be coming back to Hornby in a VegeMighty bus... | May 1/06 | words from away |
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April Fools, Alberta Rules, Snoop Dogg Drools… April in review from the Tyee | May 1/06 | worldwide words: canada |
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Lobster for Iran Israel Shamir discusses the 'threat' from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | April 30/06 | worldwide words: issues |
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Paul in Africa: “Iron like a lion in a zion” Softy Paul says you have to be hard in Africa | April 30/06 | words from away |
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Sonar Use May Be Linked to Deaths of Hundreds of Dolphins Not that it's going to stop them, of course... | April 30/06 | worldwide words: environment |
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‘Eagle Fever’ Soars as World Waits For Eaglets Hatching When will they hatch? One egg has gone missing...eagle fever! | April 30/06 | worldwide words: canada |
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Debating the May Day Boycott link to an audio file of the debate around Monday's proposed immigrant buying boycott | April 30/06 | worldwide links |
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Howard Zinn Calls for Bush’s Impeachment link to short audio file... | April 29/06 | worldwide links |
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Rash Afghanistan mission produces corporate profits The real reason we're there | April 29/06 | worldwide words: canada |
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Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets a dirty story... the effects of depleted uranium on returned US soldiers | April 29/06 | worldwide words: issues |
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Reefer madness from 'The Economist' no less... 'Marijuana is medically useful, whether politicians like it or not' | April 29/06 | worldwide words: issues |
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Units of measurement you may need sooner than you think… eg. 2000 mockingbirds: 2 kilomockingbirds | April 29/06 | what’s so funny words |
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worldwide words subcats I've added a few new subcategories to make life easier... | April 28/06 | general words |
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Killer or geek? Can you tell a serial killer from a computer geek? Apparently phee can... | April 28/06 | worldwide links |
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The Fight Against Hidden Diseases fighting the hidden causes of cancer | April 28/06 | worldwide words: health |
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Gorbachev Urges G8 to Back Solar Power, Not Oil or Nuclear Good for Gorby... Russia learned the Chernobyl lesson the hard way; must we? | April 28/06 | worldwide words: environment |
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A Way Forward, Out of Iraq is there a light at the end of the tunnel of war? | April 28/06 | worldwide words: issues |
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Hungry And Shell-Shocked A view into the harsh and terrifying world that is Gaza now | April 28/06 | worldwide words: issues |
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Neil Young: Exclusive ‘Impeach the President’ Lyrics lyrics for Neil's much-ballyhood new song... see comments for a link to listen | April 28/06 | A & E words, worldwide words: issues |
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The Confusion of Tongues insight into the media spin demonizing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | April 27/06 | world wide words, borrowed words |
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Revealed: UK develops secret nuclear warhead but don't hold your breath waiting for them to bomb Britain... | April 27/06 | world wide words |
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Tiny Reactor May Aid Biodiesel Production Ah, technology... 'the easier the better I suppose,' sez phil | April 26/06 | world wide words |
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Recycling Spam III An excerpt from the Spamville Community News, by Deadline K. Lent see comments | April 26/06 | what’s so funny words, borrowed words |
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One ‘Granny’ Dissatisfied With Disorderly Conduct Trial phil sez: 'remember the “Raging Grannies”from the mass trials in B.C.? I wouldn’t mess with them.' | April 26/06 | world wide words |
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Celtic Weekend Coming Up The Hall will be jigging and reeling all weekend | April 26/06 | word up: events |
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Crisis Building in White House Over Iraq War sez Phil: "it sure is taking a long time for these folks to realize the obvious" | April 26/06 | world wide words |
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CAAR - Farmed and Dangerous Bennett Point to get another open net-cage farm | April 26/06 | world wide words |
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Raw meat… a new Edmonton ‘hockey tradition’ Where's the beef? On the ice... | April 25/06 | world wide words |
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As Gas Prices Climb, Wind Power Wins Over New Fans a good idea or not? see comments | April 25/06 | world wide words |
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Harper’s Weekly Review April 25, 2006 worldwide weirdness gets weirder by the week... | April 25/06 | world wide words |
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President Stephen Harper: Oil for one, one for oil? Is he governing for Canada, or just Alberta? | April 24/06 | world wide words |
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Paul in Africa made it out of the city into the hills to stay with the rastas... | April 24/06 | words from away |
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Pretend medicine: Let’s play doctor! 'conventional medicine, as practised today, is really pretend medicine' | April 23/06 | world wide words |
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Grounded along with other fellow terrorists Official US 'terrorism paranoia' is getting WAY out of hand... | April 23/06 | world wide words |
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Yet another 9/11 video focuses on eyewitness accounts and real-time news reports at the time of the attacks | April 23/06 | world wide words |
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Anti Terrorism law in the USA has become more Totalitarian Conservative gov't puts Canadians at risk of similar totalitarianism | April 23/06 | world wide words |
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Dreher’s Jamaican Pregnancy Study: More Suppression of Marijuana Research suppressed study shows infants of mothers who used cannabis during pregnancy do fine | April 23/06 | world wide words |
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God Bless Neil Young Why does it take a 60-yr-old Canadian musician to generate political activism in America? (does it? see comments) | April 22/06 | world wide words |
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Dog Wanted Somebody looking for the Hornby person who has Border Collie + Australian Cattle Dog cross pups, also in free classifieds | April 22/06 | word up!, free classifieds |
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Save The Internet Don't let the US Congress sell out the Internet to big corporations | April 22/06 | world wide words |
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It’s JerryTime Amazing photorealistic collage web animations, nominated for Emmy | April 20/06 | world wide words, worth a thousand words |
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Trailer for “Winter Soldier” 1972 documentary film, until recently unavailable, Vietnam veterans' testimony about US war crimes | April 20/06 | A & E words, worth a thousand words |
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Amazing Instructional Tools link to a Flash animation video about nuclear bunker buster bombs, and to website full of animations | April 20/06 | world wide words, worth a thousand words |
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The Iran Plans Yes, Bush plans to go to war... Article by Seymour Hersch, from the New Yorker | April 20/06 | world wide words |
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Woman Allegedly Smuggles Grenade Into Jail In her WHAT? Yowza... | April 20/06 | world wide words |
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United States is No Help to Iraqi Women Iraqi women's-rights groups say they were treated better under Saddam see comments | April 20/06 | world wide words |
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Asbestos / Tampon Scare It's a hoax, but there's some interesting information about it from Snopes.com | April 19/06 | world wide words |
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Webitorial: Denman voices WoMb is opening its doors to Denman Islanders. Sister islands unite! | April 19/06 | webitorial words, speak the word |
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Update from Paul in Mali Paul was robbed, but he's staying positive... visions of returning with friends (with photos I forgot to post from before) | April 19/06 | words from away, worth a thousand words |
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Good News for Community Radio! We will be able to broadcast using Cable FM, in a CRTC ruling favouring C&C Radio, by John Harris Stevenson see comments | April 19/06 | world wide words |
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Prominent U.S. Physicists Send Letter to President Bush Fifteen physicists protest the proposed use of nuclear bombs in Iran (yikes!), from PhysOrg.com | April 19/06 | world wide words |
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Harper’s Weekly Review April 18, 2006 more weekly weirdness from harpers.org | April 18/06 | world wide words |
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Michael Franti In Iraq Michael Franti has a movie out about his experiences in Iraq see comments | April 18/06 | world wide words |
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Canada’s Debt to Afghanistan Afghan people want disarmament, justice and reparations by Dru Oja Jay | April 18/06 | world wide words |
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Life Mentoring Introductory Talk - This Wednesday Peter Cloud Panjoyah's 'Introduction to Life Mentoring' evening talk Wednesday April 19th | April 17/06 | word up: events, products & services words |
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Here come Big Brother and the Chicken Police Good news for factory farms, bad news for us... from vegsource.com by Rabbi Yonassan Gershom | April 17/06 | world wide words |
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Neil Young, Son of Famed Reporter, Records “Impeach the President” Song Who says Neil Young isn't political? From Editor & Publisher | April 17/06 | world wide words |
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More on the Eagle Cam from an addict (phee) see comments | April 16/06 | speak the word |
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Microwaved Water And Plants Scary science experiment... Kids, try this at home! | April 15/06 | world wide words |
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McDonald’s Accused of ‘Acting Like the Taliban’ Mickey D's accused of heavy-handed tactics to suppress author's work by Oliver Burkeman | April 15/06 | world wide words |
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Common Hornby Behaviours and Disorders A helpful guide for visitors and newcomers, by Schuyler Matthews see comments | April 14/06 | what's so funny words |
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Libra Full Moon It may be raining but the Moon is full... | April 13/06 | astro*words |
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Whale Tale - Daring rescue of whale off Farallones Amazing story of humpback whale rescue, from SFGate.com | April 13/06 | world wide words |
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Harper’s Review April 10, 2006 weekly weirdness, worldwide from Harpers.org | April 11/06 | world wide words |
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WARNING: THIEF / HOME INTRUDER ON THE ISLAND Charlotte Spencer warns fellow islanders of experience with young intruder see comments | April 11/06 | speak the word |
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Why Our Small Town Called for Bush to be Impeached On March 7th, the townspeople of Newfane Va. voted for Bush's impeachment. Here's why... | April 10/06 | world wide words |
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More from Paul in Africa Paul's still in Mali, having shaken his sidekick, and he's finding his groove | April 10/06 | words from away |
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V for Very Political: Movie Review Just how revolutionary is V for Vendetta? by Anthony Kaufman see comments | April 9/06 | A & E words, world wide words |
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“FROM PASSION TO LIVELIHOOD” Free workshop on preparing your business for the marketplace | April 6/06 | word up: events |