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Published Letters: 4

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 08:30 PM
Original article: Beyond the Multiplex

Who needs old media when there is bittorrent?

I checked torrentreactor.net for this film and there were at least 5 possible downloads.

Torrentspy.com had 11 files some with more than 100 people sharing it.

Get azureus from azureus.com for the bittorrent client, then download the film, you'll be dead before PBS gets the guts to broadcast it.

Time for some viral propagation here, get the file, burn the DVD and pass it around. You could give it away at $.50 for a blank.

I saw it on CBC, us Canadians are all commies don't you know, Americans will have to rely on the net to get any truth.

Richard

Monday, November 20, 2006 08:52 PM

Neal Stephanson - the heir?

It took quite a while but after finishing Neal Stephanson's Baroque trilogy, I thought of Pynchon and how much I had enjoyed Gravity's Rainbow.

But not really Vineland and I could not get started with Mason and Dixon.

Stephanson's energy and narrative drive to me have that scope and fun I enjoyed in GR and before.

I'll still try this one, but will be comparing it to Stephanson all the way.

Richard Baer

Sunday, January 21, 2007 08:12 PM
Original article: Colorblind

Thomas Sowell and immigrants of colour.

Dickerson's article struck a chord.

I remember many years ago reading a stat in a Thomas Sowell book comparing the income levels of black people from the Caribbean (Colin Powell anyone?) with other immigrant groups and with native born white Americans.

The difference was very small.

Education, attitude? Who knows.

But it does indicate that skin colour is not the only aspect of being what we think of as black.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 09:27 PM
Original article: Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0

Our apologies

Sorry guys, us Canadians try to export only our best like Steve Nash, but it's an open border and people will find their own level. Steve is one level, Rachel is another.

Anyone with access to Frank Magazine, our homegrown "Private Eye" now at frank.ca can find even more wonderful detail.

Call me Ismael.

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