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Cancer

Does WiFi pose health risks?

Posted January 4th, 2012 by Julia Belluz

If you fear WiFi, you may also want to steer clear of baby powder

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General

New Year, new online tools

Posted January 3rd, 2012 by rabble staff

January is always a good month to start something new: a soon-to-be-ignored gym membership, a holistic-detox-cleansing diet you’ll realize is nonsense by Day Three, or, trying new productivity software, sites and services to save you time and headaches…

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Entertainment

The Top 11 PC downloads in 2011

Posted January 3rd, 2012 by Marc Saltzman

If you’d like to load up your new Windows computer with new software, check out this list of the 11 most popular downloads of 2011.

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Entertainment

The hottest Mac downloads of 2011

Posted December 30th, 2011 by Marc Saltzman

Did you get a new Mac computer over the holidays and don’t know where to start? Here’s a look at the year’s most downloaded software — many of which are free to use.

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Advice

Russell Brand Spotted in London Not Wearing His Wedding Band!

Posted December 30th, 2011 by Allan W Janssen

That’s it! Nothing else to add……… the headline says it all folks! Now the reason I put it up this morning is to make a point. This headline will draw more readers than just about anything else I can do on this publication boys and girls! I could write on just about any subject, or [...]

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General

2011 and the decline of authority

Posted December 30th, 2011 by M.Gregus

Time magazine named The Protester its 2011 “Person of the Year” because, for decades till recently, most protests “seemed ineffectual and irrelevant.” That’s just silly. You can always find resistance and, depending on how you judge, it’s often relevan…

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Canada

Excited Delirium: Global Research ’2011 Year of the Dupe’: An Awesome Read

Posted December 28th, 2011 by Excited Delirium

Read ’2011 Year of the Dupe’ by Global Research. You’ll enjoy it and appreciate some truth for a change. – Syndicated from http://www.exciteddelirium.ca

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Capitalism

Strategic Forecasting, Inc. (STRATFOR) and "Many More Whitehats and Intelligence Targets"

Posted December 27th, 2011 by The Public Eye

You think we are done? stratfor was the beginning. Many more whitehats and intelligence targets to go. We are #antisec. We are Anonymous.by “Sabu”As originally posted on: The Real Sabu (anonymouSabu) on TwitterDecember 25, 2011

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General

Things That Happen On The Internet Every Sixty Seconds

Posted December 23rd, 2011 by The Nag

Link Via John Gushue

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General

How Bell will charge you for using Netflix

Posted December 23rd, 2011 by Jesse Brown

If they can’t throttle you, they’ll make you pay

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Entertainment

OMG! iMAME arcade emulator at App Store — for now

Posted December 23rd, 2011 by Marc Saltzman

Fans of classic arcade games – such as Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Joust and Galaga – can now play these and more on their iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. But here’s what you need to know in order to pull it off.

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Canada

Online Privacy and the Police

Posted December 23rd, 2011 by Tim McSorley

Tory government pulls controversial online security bills, but concerns remain

VICTORIA—It won’t be long before Canadian privacy laws regarding tele…

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Games

Then and now: How music, movies and games are cheaper today

Posted December 22nd, 2011 by Marc Saltzman

Before you complain about the cost of media, here’s a look at how much we were paying before the pre-digital revolution.

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Business

Comedian Louis C.K. proves DRM-free video can pay the bills

Posted December 18th, 2011 by Lee Mathews

Some people in the entertainment business would think Louis C.K. was crazy for releasing a video that he expressly stated you could burn to a DVD and share, but that’s exactly what he did. And it paid off, big time.

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Canada

Oh Canada, here’s our top Google searches in 2011

Posted December 15th, 2011 by Marc Saltzman

It’s that time of the year again, when Internet search giants release their Top 10 lists of what we searched for the most over the past 12 months. Here’s what Google Canada has found. And guess what, tech is pretty hot, which makes us happy.

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Energy

Things Are Good: Sustainable Power for Facebook

Posted December 15th, 2011 by Adam

Greenpeace has worked with Facebook to convert Facebook’s coal-powered datacentres to environmentally friends power sources. In April 2011, a Greenpeace report, How Dirty is your Data?, calculated that 53.2% of Facebook’s electricity was g…

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Bizarre/Oddities

Mid Week Mayhem, or, I’m Pissed!

Posted December 14th, 2011 by Allan W Janssen

Dear Readers; Let this be a lesson to you not to let your guard down for a second when it comes to malicious viruses! I was on a site I trust this morning when a pop-up appeared telling me the site needed to access the Internet. What I didn’t know was that it wasn’t the [...]

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Education

Stop making our copyright and digital laws worse

Posted December 14th, 2011 by Romeo Saganash

Canada’s copyright and digital policies aren’t working. That’s what I’m hearing from artists, independent Internet service providers, and consumers.
Our laws are out of date; they were written before file sharing or Facebook, before iPods or BitTorrent…

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General

SOPA critics are ready for a showdown

Posted December 14th, 2011 by Jesse Brown

The protesters’ arsenal includes a censor-yourself app for Twitter, email and status updates

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General

THE FIFTH COLUMN: The Stages of Human Communication Technology

Posted December 12th, 2011 by rww

Language (pre-history) Written Language (circa 3200 BC) The Printing Press (circa 1440 ) (Johannes Gutenberg) Telephone (1861/1875) Radio Broadcasting (circa 1910) Television Broadcasting (1928/1936) The Internet (1969) (ARPANET) Smart Phones (1992) (R…

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