Internet and telecom infrastructure in northern Canada is so bad it threatens the whole region. That’s the conclusion from a new
report cited in a
Globe and Mail article, which notes: “The government of Nunavut bought new digital cameras to produce photos for driver’s licences. But the photo files were too large for local E-mail systems and so must be loaded onto memory sticks and flown to Iqaluit for processing.”
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posted by joeclark
on Sep 8, 2011 -
78 comments
A founding father of DIY indie rock, Will Rigby recounts the pilgrimages to locate underground rock legends
Alex Chilton, (during his wry Americana deconstructo anarchy phase), and the 'McCartney' to Chilton's Big Star 'Lennon', the Brydsian Chris Bell. Blogs on bands may not seem to rate but cats with these sensibilities, unlike today, seemed incredibly uncommon then . Also mentioned, the Dbs, Little Diesel, and Mitch Easter. Free Mp3s of the rare 45s included.
posted by celerystick
on May 2, 2008 -
12 comments
Scientists find a 'mummified' Hadrosaur in North Dakota "He looks like a blow-up dinosaur in some parts," said Phillip Manning, a paleontologist at the University of Manchester in England who is leading the inquiry. "When you actually look at the detail of the skin, the scales themselves are three dimensional. . . . The arm is breathtaking. It's a three-dimensional arm, you can shake the dinosaur by the hand. It just defies logic that such a remarkable specimen could preserve."
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posted by Uther Bentrazor
on Dec 3, 2007 -
52 comments
Air samples over North Korea show no radiation "It is possible there was no radiological data. That could be the case if: the North Koreans successfully sealed the site; it was such a small detonation and so deep underground there was no escape of nuclear debris; or the test was actually conventional explosives."
posted by Artw
on Oct 13, 2006 -
57 comments
North by South : web content on the Great Migration, the result of a six-year, NEH-funded collaboration between Kenyon College and K-12 students in Ohio and various Southern communities.
posted by Miko
on May 1, 2006 -
3 comments
Man tells President Bush that he should be ashamed of himself. Bushie has been touring the country talking to the people and the people have been talking back. Today he met with his toughest and most elequent angry citizen, one Mr. Harry Taylor who began with this salvo:
Q: You never stop talking about freedom, and I appreciate that. But while I listen to you talk about freedom, I see you assert your right to tap my telephone, to arrest me and hold me without charges, to try to preclude me from breathing clean air and drinking clean water and eating safe food. If I were a woman, you'd like to restrict my opportunity to make a choice and decision about whether I can abort a pregnancy on my own behalf. You are --
THE PRESIDENT: I'm not your favorite guy. Go ahead. (Laughter and applause.) Go on, what's your question? (
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posted by tsarfan
on Apr 6, 2006 -
106 comments
In Europe, it's debated whether it's
Suchowola
Poland, the village of
Krahule near Kremnica Slovakia,
Dilove in western Ukraine, or
Bernotai Lithuania. In Asia, there are more disputes, but
Kyzyl put up an obelisk and stages tours. Various places claim that the
Central African Republic is at the geographical centre of Africa, but that seems more likely based on looking at a map than measuring anything. On January 9 1956,
Admiral Byrd
flew over the geographical center of Antarctica.
Alice Springs is pretty close to the centre of Australia. The center of North America is at
latitude 48°21'19" north, longitude 99°59' 57" west in
Rugby North Dakota. South America's center is officially
Chapada
dos Guimaraes in Cuiaba Brazil.
posted by Kickstart70
on Dec 1, 2005 -
11 comments
North Korea is the most secretive country in the world today, with its main railway lined with walls so high that its foreign passengers can't see the countryside.
posted by semmi
on Jan 22, 2005 -
19 comments
