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The Armchair GM’s Rx for the #Canucks in 2009/2010

May 13, 2009

Once man’s recipe to salvage the Vancouver Canucks’ chances at a playoff run in 2009/2010

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More Canadian Wireless Carrier Greed

July 8, 2008

Apparently trying to steal the thunder of customer ire from Rogers Wireless’ ill-considered iPhone launch, Bell and Telus are trying to slip out the back door with an announcement that they’re going to be charging users extra for text messaging. To be specific, that charge is $0.15 for each incoming message you receive, whether you [...]

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2008-2009 NHL Season to Start in Sweden?

January 5, 2008

There are rumours circulating that the NHL season will start with games in Sweden and possibly other European capitals for 2008. This might vindicate my post from a few days ago which stated that the league needs to start a dialogue with fans in Europe. Looks like the NHL would start the season with a [...]

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How to Properly Export Hockey

January 1, 2008

It ended this afternoon (early evening, Buffalo time) with a shoot-out goal by phenom Sidney Crosby on Buffalo goalie Ryan Miller before 70,000 freezing, mostly-drunk fans mixed from Canadians and the occasional actual Buffalo Sabres fan amid a blinding snow storm. If you squint a little, that’s kind of how professional hockey began, more than [...]

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Male birth control that actually works (and no, this isn’t a spam ad)

September 4, 2003

Begin forwarded message: > From: bitbitch > Date: Wed Sep 3, 2003 4:50:45 PM US/Pacific > To: FoRK > Subject: Male birth control that actually works (and no, this isn’t a > spam ad) > > Fanfucking -tastic. As for the argument that men don’t like having > their junk touched, to this I say, [...]

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Wireless and Web Buzz Again as Wifi Catches On

May 13, 2003

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cidX2&ncidX2&e=5&u=/nm/20030513/wr_nm/tech_wifi_dc Wireless and Web Buzz Again as Wifi Catches On Tue May 13, 4:09 PM /By Christopher Noble/ PARIS (Reuters) – Landgrabbing and takeover frenzy are again dominating technology headlines as if the Internet bubble had never burst and giving old buzzwords a new lease of life. At the center of it is WiFi, a [...]

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News Flash: War in Iraq Is About Oil?

April 8, 2003

Okay, I’ll admit to skimming this, however this might explain why EU resistance to this action in Iraq was so fierce.. and is yet another perspective on the overly-simplistic “War is about oil” mantra. -Ian. —-

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Not Sold On The Stupid Network…

January 31, 2003

http://www.ispcon.com/SNEditorial/sn_detail.asp?ID7 Wednesday, October 30, 2002 The stupid network: Why I’m not sold…yet There may yet be a place for special packet treatment, and the silicon to do it By Scott Mace, SERVICENETWORKS.com You know things are bad in the Internet industry when the best-sounding idea out there is David Isenberg’s call for the return to [...]

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2002: Year of Hockey Night in Canada…

December 25, 2002

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news/20021225/yearendnhl.html *Hockey 2002: Go north, young man – and woman* December 25, 2002 By Daren Smith SportsTicker Hockey Editor JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (Ticker) – It’s been almost a decade since a Canadian team captured the Stanley Cup. But make no mistake, Canada was the center of the hockey universe in 2002. Canada reclaimed its [...]

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Widening Inequality and the Envy Politic

October 24, 2002

George W. Bush should be glad that CNN and CNBC are being plastered with aerial shots of crime scenes from the random killings in and around DC. Before the Washington Sniper started popping suburbanites, America was just starting to get down to a serious discussion of America’s exceedingly disproportionate distribution of wealth, specifically as exhibited [...]

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