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February 26th, 2008,
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The Race Toward Clean Cloud Computing

A few months ago, I wrote about infrastructure opportunities, seems I’m not the only one thinking along those lines:

Locating the server farms in the Canadian north offers several environmental advantages. These include easy access to clean energy sources such as wind and geo-thermal energy and, given the colder climate, decreased energy requirements to cool the computer server farms. In fact, St. Arnaud argues that the heat generated by the computers can be captured and used to heat nearby buildings leading to zero carbon data centres.

In addition to the environmental considerations, locating computer server farms in Canada would offer Canadians better privacy protection since their data would never leave the country and would be subject to national privacy laws.—The Race Toward Clean Cloud Computing

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February 25th, 2008,
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A who’s who of powerful companies and business associations have banded together to push for less restrictive copyright reform, driving a stake into the heart of the federal government’s argument for its new copyright bill.—Business coalition opposes harsh copyright reform

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February 24th, 2008,
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The trailer for Indy 4 is out, I’m convinced I want to see it, not convinced yet it’s going to be any good. Please be good.

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February 24th, 2008,
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These wine bars — all based on an honor system — have a charming, if maybe a bit naïve, faith in mankind’s honesty. For the price of 1 euro (about $1.50), you rent yourself a glass and get to sample as many of the wines as you want. At the end of the night you throw some bills or coins into a big jar, the amount based on what you think is fair.—Berlin: Weinerei

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February 24th, 2008,
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Those were just some of the many questions I had about EveryBlock, which launched a few weeks ago with the help of a $1.1 million Knight News Challenge grant. A few stories and interviews popped up when the site launched, but I noticed that the interviewers seldom asked the other questions that I had about the site. So I decided to ask site’s founder, Adrian Holovaty, some questions directly.—An Interview with Adrian Holovaty

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February 21st, 2008,
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I’ve read journalists complain that you can’t get at the hard drive in the MacBook Air. What? I have no fucking idea where the hard drive is in my MacBook Pro, and even if you drew me a damn diagram with labels and numbers and gave me a replacement drive I wouldn’t open my machine even in exchange for a year with Zooey Deschanel. Ok, yes I would, but you get my point. I’m sorry, Zooey, I didn’t mean it, baby.—MacBook Air Haters: Suck My Dick

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February 19th, 2008,
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Le président Fidel Castro renonce au pouvoir après 49 ans à la tête de Cuba. Le leader cubain de 81 ans n’occupera plus la présidence du Conseil d’État et le rôle de commandant en chef en raison de son état de santé. Il en a fait l’annonce dans un message publié dans le quotidien officiel Granma.—Fidel Castro renonce au pouvoir

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February 13th, 2008,
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Seems there are a lot of Montréalers going to SXSW Interactive this year, I created a Facebook group to help people know about each other. Add yourself if you’re going.

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February 13th, 2008,
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Un bon projet urbain, c’est un projet qui surgit de l’esprit et de la culture des lieux: il nécessite un concept d’aménagement adapté, original, qui s’inspire de la trame urbaine, des bâtiments existants et de la vie communautaire locale pour faire émerger un scénario d’aménagement capable de mettre en valeur une culture et un patrimoine distincts de façon à ensemencer l’avenir. S’imaginer qu’en superposant un concept de centre commercial de banlieue sur la trame et l’héritage urbain de Griffintown et qu’en jouant avec la couleur de la brique on va engendrer des lieux de résidence et d’usage captivants, c’est s’illusionner. Pire, s’imaginer qu’en amenant la population à participer à l’amélioration d’un concept aussi inadapté et aussi banal on va réussir à créer un quartier qui a de l’allure, c’est une idée qui n’a pas d’allure.—Projet Griffintown: Montréal mérite mieux

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February 12th, 2008,
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We have a unique opportunity to shape Griffintown to face the world of tomorrow. In a world where energy will be expensive, local economies will be of primary importance. We can grow Griffintown into a place that is historically sensitive, architecturally interesting, citizen-oriented, energy-efficient, and built to last. Griffintown’s buildings could be designed to be repurposable for centuries.—Hyde Park: Shaping Griffintown for Montreal’s future

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