“What’s Happening to Canada?” Ralph Nader asks. His open letter concerns Harper’s hyperbole on terrorism & the bad bill #C51 #cdnpoli What’s Happening to Canada? Open letter to P.M. | The Nader Page ... continue reading

Video of Montreal in the winter.  Michael James Murray used a drone to film it. http://goo.gl/z59GlR Montreal ... continue reading

This Walrus article explains the frightening degree to which we can be #censored, and have significant rights and #freedoms taken away through the Conservatives’ awful new #C-51, which is disguised as an anti-terrorism measure. Think Inside the Box ... continue reading

The strange voice of Edgar Allan Poe | TLS ... continue reading

This story about a couple that left their careers to immerse themselves in medical research on prions is inspiring. Insomnia That Kills ... continue reading

Council of Canadian Academies Releases Expert Panel Report “Leading in the Digital World: Opportunities for Canada’s Memory Institutions” ... continue reading

I registered as a member with the Association of Canadian Archivists and was lucky enough to win a copy of the book, Conceptualizing 21st-Century Archives. Thanks ACA! http://www.archivists.ca Conceptualizing 21st-Century Archives (print) ... continue reading

Good, thoughtful review. I can’t wait to see this! Sundance Diary Day 5-6: Advantageous and the Sundance sci-fi problem ... continue reading

It looks like soon we’ll gain access to a philosophical library of  Epicurean texts, which had been buried under lava. This is an amazing technique for recovering them. #preservation Ancient scrolls burned in Herculaneum volcanic eruption made readable ... continue reading

Neat article. One idea it raised, which I really liked was that with the limitations of what we can communicate, required some research to think of the “fractals of our existance” to give a rich insight into humanity. Also, it mentions this One Earth messages project, where you can submit a word to send into space… everyone’s voting on them. http://oneearthmessage.org/ What will a crowdso ... continue reading

Neat. Internet Archive metadata will be included in the +Outernet project. I supported their Lantern crowdfunding campaign so I’m very curious to see how these results work out. Open Library heads to the stars « The Open Library Blog ... continue reading

Great read… this looks at our attitudes toward algorithms but in a much more holistic way than people usually talk about them. The Cathedral of Computation ... continue reading

I wish I’d known about this when I visited the Czech Republic a few years ago… a hall of curiosity cabinets and 42000 ancient philosophical texts. Strahov Monastery ... continue reading