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Yehuda: Canadian Copyright Code, in Verse

This Tyee Article about TILMA shows how its restrictions on differential regulation make it virtually impossible for one province to implement stricter standards (in any area).

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AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Renewables Can Turn the Tide on Global Warming

Thanks to Zac at squareCircleZ for pointing out the dawn and dusk graphs at Gaisma as real-life examples of approximate sine graphs.
In fact the true time of noon appears to oscillate slightly with a 6 month period so that the Tokyo graphs are modelled pretty well by 6+1.5sin(2pix/12)-0.15sin(2pix/6) & -6-1.5sin(2pix/12)-0.15sin(2pix/6).
(Update: thanks to zac also for [...]

The New York Review of Books: Who Was Milton Friedman? by Paul Krugman

According to his publisher’s web blurb, George Monbiot has established that “we need a 90% cut in our emissions within 25 years if we are to stop ourselves reaching the point where the “climate feedback” becomes unstoppable”, and “for the first time, … explains how this cut could be achieved. ”
My problem is more [...]

Unfortunately I don’t think this initiative has had enough publicity in this part of the world for there to be a noticeable dip as seen by BC Hydro but there’s nothing wrong with joining in to the extent that we are able.
It’s a shame that we are not using air conditioning at this time of [...]

Wesley Fryer on The Egalitarian Nature of Blogging