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The Shop: Toronto's new inclusive makerspace Toronto's great wealth of makerspaces continues to grow: now there's The Shop, an "all-inclusive makerspace with a focus on woodworking, metal and ceramics." They offer members access to well-stocked workshops with metal/woodworking tools and ceramics equipment; and they run regular classes on making various useful and lovely things at all levels of mastery, and they have a retail shop where makers can sell their creations. Read the rest... Man attempts to bathe a Great Pyrenees This is pretty much what life with Nemo, my Great Pyrenees buddy, is like. Video Link Thanks, Great Pyr Rescue of Northern California! Read the rest... Letters of Note, in book form TODAY As previously noted, the wonderful blog Letters of Note (mentioned here numerous times!) has spawned a book, called Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience. Read the rest... Hannibal's long(pig) con "Naka-Choko" [TV Recap, S2E10] "Boundaries will always be subject to negotiation," Alana tells Hannibal. It's almost like she's watching this show. This week's offering was another "palate cleanser" course in Japanese cuisine and that slice of ginger became much, much more literal. Read the rest... 'Orphan Black': Mingling Its Own Nature With It [TV recap, S2E3] Goodbye Big Dick Paul, hello hopefully equally well-endowed Cal! Orphan Black introduces a new character this week and he adds a jolt of energy to an episode that otherwise slows things way down and examines what makes its characters tick. Read the rest... Straczynski: "The New Aristocracy" Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski has posted a brilliant, inflammatory set of "rules of the new aristocracy: "We are the New Aristocracy because we were born into it. Read the rest... Wooden marshmallow catapaults, arbalests, and trebuchets I'm at Penguicon -- a science fiction and free software convention in Michigan -- this weekend, and my top dealer's room find were the wooden armaments of Ancient Artillery. Read the rest... Glenn Greenwald and Michael Hayden debate surveillance Every year, Canada's Munk debates feature high-level, high-profile debates on burning policy issues. This year, they debated surveillance, and the participants were Glenn Greendwald and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian on the anti-surveillance side and former NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz on the pro-surveillance side. Read the rest... Washington AG files first crowdfunding consumer protection lawsuit State of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed suit against Altius, a company that raised $25k with kickstarter but never delivered. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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