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The corruption pyramid in Egypt

January 28, 2011 | less than 1 minute read

The vast majority of the internet was shut off in Egypt yesterday. (graph). Wikileaks has responded with a bunch of Egypt related cables. A cablesearch.org s...

OpenTransitDB is now live

January 25, 2011 | less than 1 minute read

Last week-end I was a part of the OpenDataBC hackathon. This is where a group of people interested in using open data (data that was previously confidential,...

Isn’t blaming the weapon a little premature?

January 19, 2011 | 1 minute read

I just read the Victoria Police Department's press release regarding the attempted murder of Cst. Lane Douglas-Hunt yesterday. It makes me angry, frustrated,...

What do you do when no one is looking?

January 16, 2011 | less than 1 minute read

Reddit pointed to this imgur image entitled "My wife made her wear this as punishment": and it made me recall some of the not-so-socially-acceptable thing...