- Instant Server.
With one button you get free access to an Ubuntu Linux VM for 35 minutes.
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- Feedly Cloud is Now Available to All Users.
It’s pretty fantastic. I’m conflicted, because I don’t see how these guys are going to stay in business.
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- Wedding gift spat spirals out of control after bride demands to see receipt.
Oh man, that couple sounds so horrible. Giving people a gift basket does seem a bit clueless, but bringing it up at all is so omega rude.
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- Trees come down on Bloor and condos will go up.
You gotta love the OMB.
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- Vin Diesel tells us why Riddick is one big game of Dungeons & Dragons.
How could I not link to this. I love this guy. He is so ridiculous.
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- Using Metadata to find Paul Revere.
This is pretty great.
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- YouTube: How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus.
This is probably NSFW. John McAffee explains how to install the software he helped create. You may recall he is kind of crazy.
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- Ancient Roman Concrete Is About to Revolutionize Modern Architecture.
I had no idea Roman’s knew how to make concrete better than us.
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- Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum arrested.
In November, Applebaum was sworn in as Montreal’s 42nd mayor, vowing to combat corruption at City Hall, replacing Gérald Tremblay, who resigned amid allegations of corruption.
Come on Toronto, we need to step up our game!
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- Chalkboard notes on Atlas Ave. brighten neighbourhood.
My coworker lives in the area and mentioned this story. It’s nice to see people being neighbourly. When I lived in the condo (our now friends) Mel and Anthony from France put posters up on our floor inviting people over to their place for a “we just moved in” party. I couldn’t go, but I told Shima she had to: that sort of thing seems so uncommon in Toronto to not participate.
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- Massive police raid launched in Toronto.
This story seems to have no end. That said, Rob Ford is doing a pretty fantastic job riding this out. That man is a champion.
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- YouTube: Guardian Reporter Glenn Greenwald: We Have List of NSA Targets.
This is a great little interview. Greenwald is all, “do your fucking job shitty reporter lady.”
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- YouTube: The Dark Sorcerer.
Definitely watch to 1:46. This is a crazy tech-demo.
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- Capturing Life With Cancer At Age 28.
These stories of getting cancer in America are all the more heart breaking because they all seem to include people having bake sales to pay for chemo.
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- The Order 1886.
Video games just get crazier and crazier.
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- NSA surveillance: The US is behaving like China | Ai Weiwei | Comment is free | The Guardian
Ai Weiwei on the American government spying on its citizenry.
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