Eric Jordan in the news.

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New Premier's Technology Council Co-President Appointed

Check this out! :-)

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Nick La Riviere

One of the local guys I follow on Twitter ("Howlabit" aka John or Mike or something VICKERS) works at this company, and recommends it (naturally) as a webhosting place.

They have a special offer around Wordpress installation, too. Click on the little "see more details" link in the box at the bottom left-of-middle part of page. (In case you don't see it, the "special" link is http://www.wedohosting.com/services/specials.htm)

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Canada Web Hosting - Private Datacentre in Victoria BC Canada.

Take a look at this Smithsonian page, look at the little graphic (expandable), located right under the big black letters NMAAHC (for National Museum of African American History & Culture).

I love how it's like a m-a-p, with nodes, which, if you click on them, expand to links. Something like that might be very flashy and cool for PlanVictoria? No idea how this was built tho. Someone tweeted it (on Twitter) and asked if anyone knew how it was built/ what was used.
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NMAAHC - Home Page

FYI ("intelligence"):

I sent a general notice about this to Werner some time ago, but it came up again on Boris's blog, so here's a reminder. I don't think any one of us has time to attend, but it *does* sound pretty interesting. I'd like to know who does go, and what ideas are aired...

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Knight News Challenge prep in Vancouver: Digital Media Experiments to Innovate Journalism | B. Mann Consulting

I'd love to go to this, just for fun. It's on a Friday, ...but in Vancouver...

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InterestingVancouver2008

We should sign up on this tomorrow/ next week?

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Welcome - National Do Not Call List (DNCL)

He's speaking your language, Adam! :-)

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Parag Khanna: Embrace the Post-American Age

Did you see this blog post by (and comments on) Fred Wilson & blog revenue?

Makes me wonder whether I shouldn't invest in yuleheibel.com and host my own blog, where I can put ads/ include some revenue-generating stuff. Ok, I only get about 300-400 unique visits a day on my Harvard blog, but maybe if I cross-link and then also really work on the blogging stuff more concertedly, I could actually make a couple of thousand???

Hmm. Where do I go to find out more?

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I Guess I'm Doing Something Wrong

Just fyi, in case you're interested, Cecil's obituary in Times-colonist

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Remembering | Victoria Times Colonist - Read and Search Obituaries, Create a Tribute for a Loved One or Offer your Condolences.

optimist. there's nothing about the actual candidates on this (or any other city) page(s)...

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City of Victoria - About Local Elections

I just posted this to my FB profile, too: Never thought I'd agree with NEWT GINGRICH, but these are strange days indeed... And after reading Larisa Alexandrovna (see http://tinyurl.com/47zex6), well...

PS: Read Dave Winer's just-posted blog entry, too:
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/09/21/weWontGetFooledAgain.html

Good stuff.

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The Corner on National Review Online

haven't read this, but you might find it interesting...?

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Ian Rankin: 'This is my Ocean's Eleven' - Features, Books - The Independent

jesus s. christ... read this and ask yourself how sustainable our (or Vancouver's) real estate prices are...???

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Vancouver Real Estate Blog » Blog Archive » Vancouver Real Estate - French Style

if you're really still interested in taking a law course...

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Justice Online

...interesting...

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Tech sector salaries highest in B.C.

...... Rich or poor, it's nice to have money.

Had no idea he was married to the 23andMe lady...

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Real Estate: Sergey Brin buys $8 million duplex in Greenwich Village

At end of article, information on which supplements might actually help joint conditions.

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globeandmail.com: Take a load off your waist to spare your knees

fascinating article that might be interesting for your biology studies. It explains a great example of biomimicry (learning from nature how to engineer stuff), and then mentions some interesting engineering applications.

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Technology Review: Synthetic Tree Hauls Water

Learning from nature (biomimicry & engineering)....

• A tree can transport water an amazing distance--from its roots, through a trunk up to 85 meters tall, and finally to its leaves, where the water evaporates. Now, scientists at Cornell University have created a microfluidic system to mimic that process. Their "synthetic tree" opens up a new way to move liquids over long distances without using mechanical pumps.


• created the synthetic tree out of a thin sheet of hydrogel, a material more commonly used to make contact lenses. They etched two networks of parallel channels into the hydrogel to represent the capillaries in a tree's root system as well as the ones in its leaves. They connected the two networks with a single channel representing the trunk of the tree.


• In a real tree, evaporation from the leaves is what pulls water up through the plant--a process known as transpiration.


• Stroock and Wheeler found that their system accurately mimics this transpiration process, pulling water through at strengths several times greater than those inside a real tree.


• Furthermore, because the water in a tree is under negative pressure--as if it were being sucked up through a straw--the water is in a metastable state, meaning it is between a liquid and a vapor. So the synthetic tree could also serve as a model system for studying liquids in this state.


• "In the case of liquid under negative pressure, it would tend to boil and become a vapor to relieve the negative pressure. But trees have managed to handle water in a metastable state very efficiently, so that's why this work is so nice."


• Stroock envisions that the synthetic tree system could be used to move liquids passively without needing mechanical pumps. In heat-transfer applications, it could cool small devices, like laptop computers, or larger ones, like vehicles, or even buildings. It could also be part of an soil remediation system, Stroock says. Instead of needing to flood soil with water to flush out contaminants, a synthetic tree could pull the contaminated water out.

noch ein Bananen-Onkel Artikel -- Schampus-Onkel, auch! :)

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Classical music fans keep eyes peeled on benefactor's $3.5-million largesse