davidl on October 8th, 2009

It all well and good to use fancy words and soaring rhetoric.   It even better if you actually know what the words mean, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post:

“It was easy to say, ‘Hey, I support COIN,’ because nobody had

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Eric Florack on October 8th, 2009

The Welcome to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… This is the BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

ramble-Touristrap This is the Tourist Trap Edition

The picture is shamelessly stolen from the REAL “Tourist Trap” on Hwy 7, Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova

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Eric Florack on October 8th, 2009

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Most people will remember, I think… at least those not ‘educated’ at government schools… that Hiroshima was hit by a bomb at the end of world war two… and we’ve all seen some of the destruction wrought by that attack.

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“In recent years an ongoing debate has brewed over advertisers and fashion magazines using photographs, particularly photographs of women, that have seemingly been altered, or “retouched,” by airbrushing and photo editing software such as Photoshop. The latest such image to

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