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Welcome to 'the Bunker,' where crafters, hackers and makers build beautiful things, together. VHSMainRoom_600px.jpg The Vancouver Hack Space celebrates its…

Update: here are some images in a pdf that demonstrate greenfield and brownfield use of this app. There are two ways to conceive of the built environment: as a…

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore , the debut 2012 novel by former Twitter executive Robin Sloan, drew praise for its deft navigations between dual spheres of…

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How Trevor Gretzky, middle child of Canada’s best and most celebrated athlete, is chasing a legacy of his own in America’s game. By Brett Popplewell |…

the Capitol Building Oct 03, 2013 Tom Featured , Updates from the Blog 4 Don’t blame Washington for the failures of a dysfunctional Congress . We don’t blame…

Shelf Esteem is a weekly measure of the books on the shelves of writers, editors, and other word lovers, as told to Emily M. Keeler. This week’s shelf belongs…

www.mygirlfund.com/apt_no_7 The Feminist Selfie Why history will certainly judge selfies to be a feminist creation Imagine you had an over-sized hardcover book on your coffee table. On the modern and matte dust jacket is a picture of you. Underneath that image is a piece of brilliant looking and…

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I just got back from another amazing weekend in Portland attending the second installment of the XOXO Festival put on by Andy MacMillan and Andy Baio. I referred to it in the title of this post for hopefully the obvious reason that very few sequels live up to the original. The Empire Strikes Back is…

Regardless of the rights or wrongs in a case, I have always found public shaming something to avoid. People acting in a mob are rarely at their best, and they can end up harming themselves as much as their target. My objections have nothing to do with a belief in due process. I have a lifelong…

What is “transit efficiency”? My doubts began while I was in the middle of a long research session, constructing what became one of my first popular posts on…

In this file photo, Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons, left, argues a seventh-inning call with umpires during a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York, Thursday, April 25, 2013. The Yankees defeated the Blue Jays 5-3.KATHY WILLENS/The Associated Press On the…

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Back Story Run for your life! The world, according to the Oscars The Academy Award nominees for Best Picture are entertainingly frantic and defiantly political What to watch this week Our choices explore the power of appearance—but one story cannot overcome its flaws Design an Economist cover Enter…

Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change, and where did it originally come from? It all started with “cybernetics,” an obscure term popularized by a mathematician named Norbert Wiener in the 1940s.…

Photo credit Marta Manso: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ladypain/ We know we don’t want Pax Dickinson or TitStare. Let’s hack tech culture, together. Khadijah M. Britton 5 min read· Sep 12, 2013 -- On Tuesday, the tech world got a rare glimpse at gender justice: a dude was fired for being the exact…

How do you go about making your dream bike come true? In this column, cyclist Cecily Walker and bike builder Darren McKay from Dream Cycles explain how they turned Walker’s wish list into a reality. Walker made the decision to go with a semi-custom build (loading a Rivendell stock frameset with…

Tales From The Playa are dreams and memories of events that took place at Burning Man, as told by its participants. One hot Thursday afternoon in Black Rock…

Nationals first baseman Adam LaRoche plays in a city plenty familiar with lobbying efforts, and he’s run a small one of his own with manager Davey Johnson. The…

On the bright side, the Parti Québécois and its Minister for Democratic Institutions Bernard Drainville, have laid their cards on the table . Some recent reports suggested they would release their proposals for a “Charter of Quebec Values” only in dribs and drabs over the autumn, the better to let…

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