December 2010
21 posts
Glenn Gould | The Idea of North
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The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service. Read...
César’s Bark Canoe
This documentary shows how a canoe is built the old way. César Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve north of Montreal, uses only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots and gum. Building a canoe solely from the materials that the forest provides may become a lost art.
Bill Mason | Path of the Paddle: Solo Basic
Or click through for Doubles Basic, Solo Whitewater, and Doubles Whitewater.
You’ll never do the goon stroke again.
“Kaputt by Malaparte, which Bejar has never read… Kara Walker, specifically the...”
– Dan Bejar sums up the new Destroyer record, Kaputt.
I’m ready for this.
“The End of America should come as no surprise to any Canadian.
A nation...”
– Connecting those big, glaring dots. Sometimes readers’ comments are the most rewarding part of news and opinion articles. Or is it just me?
The Anonymous WikiLeaks protests are a mass demo... →
asmodi:
If you’ve been following the Wikileaks situation, you’ve probably given some thought to the significance of the recent denial-of-service attacks on Amazon, PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard. It’s actually quite easy to frame these attacks as illegal. However, Richard Stallman, who knows a thing or two about digital liberty, has a different view. He makes a very persuasive argument. Read it...
“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving...”
– Godwin’s Law
“Although deliberately framed as if it were a law of nature or of mathematics, its purpose has always been rhetorical and pedagogical: I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler or to Nazis to think a bit harder about the Holocaust,” Godwin has written.
The New Class Warfare over Bicycles | Tyee →
The car’s proponents invoke class even though all other forms of land transportation are eminently more accessible. Shoes, a bike, or a metro pass are all cheaper than a car with its gas, insurance and upkeep needs. According to the American Public Transportation Association, individuals who get around with a bus pass instead of a car can save a whopping $8,368 annually.
When the...
Sally Hawkins’ Persuasion vs Sally Hawkins’ Happy Go Lucky.
