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You may have heard the old phrase “…like a fish needs a bicycle to describe something ridiculous. I’m proposing a new meme — write it on your blog or LJ and link back here: come up with the best simile you can for something, well, completely ridiculous. Totally implausible. Not gonna happen. Here’s mine: …like …

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Happy Canada Day, everyone! In honour of this, I’ll share a few facts about Canada. Here’s the first one: Most Americans don’t know Canada is their biggest oil supplier: A new poll suggests that only a tiny minority of Americans — four per cent — know that Canada is the largest supplier of crude oil …

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British girl describes (in hilarious manner) her (mis)adventures. Stoeis include how to travel by coach, avoid “religious nutters,” and what to do when approached by women carrying clipboards. read more | digg story

Last year, I put together a web site that generates schedules for the Ice Oasis hockey leagues. This worked well up until a month or so ago. Then this started happening:

ISO 3103, the international standard for brewing tea.

A lot of the smart, interesting people I’ve met lately have come frm Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and the School of Information at UC Berkeley. What other interesting information- and design-focused grad schools are out there? Update: Symbolic Systems at Stanford.

Heather and I spotted this on the way out of the hockey arena in Yerba Buena in San Francisco.

The CBC’s The National ran an exposé on Dr. Ranjit Kumar Chandra. It turns out he’s been faking his research data for 20 years: Chandra claimed to have given 96 healthy seniors from St. John’s a daily multivitamin pill for a year. He then tested their memory for improvements. But the test results didn’t make …

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