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		<title>Maury Chaykin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maury Chaykin died yesterday. A dual US/Canadian citizen, his career goes back to before he had a role on the quintessential Canadian TV show, The King of Kensington (he missed The Beachcombers).&#160; Jiam Gomeshi of CBC Radio One&#8217;s Q interviewed him in February of this year. Of course, even if his name means nothing to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/07/28/maury-chaykin/</link>
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		<title>Trailer &#8212; yes, trailer &#8212; for Robert J. Sawyer&#8217;s novel Watch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve read Wake, the first of Sawyer&#8217;s WWW (Wake, Watch, Wonder) trilogy, and am nearly finished Watch. They are, as always with Sawyer, excellent. In the WWW trilogy Sawyer&#8217;s exploring the meaning and consequences of several varieties of consciousness &#8212; human, primate and artificial. Throw in BlackBerrys, EyePods [not a typo], a LiveJournaling blind-from-birth teenage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/07/27/trailer-yes-trailer-for-robert-j-sawyers-novel-watch/</link>
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		<title>Dara O&#8217;Briain bit on woo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boy, he covers a lot of ground in this 6-minute bit, but he speaks the truth.]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/06/23/dara-obriain-bit-on-woo/</link>
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		<title>Daniel Lanois: The Birth of Bellavista Nights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Black Dub w/ Daniel Lanois: The Birth of Bellavista Nights from Daniel Lanois on Vimeo. Sadly, the purchase option on BlackDub.net seems not to be working. Hopefully Lanois will recover fully from his motorcycle accident soon.]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/06/23/daniel-lanois-the-birth-of-bellavista-nights/</link>
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		<title>A collection of recent articles about Facebook and privacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It might be handy to keep my bookmarked articles about Facebook&#8217;s recent troubles regarding the backlash against their heavy-handed and arrogant approach to their members&#8217; privacy. These are roughly in chronological order, starting on May 7th: May 7, 2010 &#8212; Wired kicks things off with &#8220;Facebook&#8217;s Gone Rogue; It&#8217;s Time for an Open Alternative&#8221;. Best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/05/24/a-collection-of-recent-articles-about-facebook-and-privacy/</link>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;ve (re)joined the 6,400,000,000 people who aren&#8217;t on Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had it with Facebook. Seriously. I&#8217;m out. Wired has an article on Facebook privacy that articulates a number of my reasons. Fundamentally, I think people are missing the big picture with regard to online services such as those offered by companies like Google or Facebook. Yes, they offer services, and those services have value. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/05/12/why-ive-rejoined-the-6400000000-people-who-arent-on-facebook/</link>
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		<title>OK Go Ditches Label Over YouTube Embedding Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Banner day for EMI: &#8220;OK Go Ditches Label Over YouTube Embedding Rights&#8220; (Via @johnsgunn.)]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/03/11/ok-go-ditches-label-over-youtube-embedding-rights/</link>
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		<title>Pink Floyd to prevent individual tracks being sold online?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PinkFloyd.co.uk has won a court ruling against EMI in their suit preventing EMI from selling individual tracks online. Should they choose to enforce the ruling (they might simply have wanted to prevent EMI from stepping outside of their agreement, thereby establishing precedent, or they might be using the ruling as a bargaining position come renegotiation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/03/11/pink-floyd-to-prevent-individual-tracks-being-sold-online/</link>
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		<title>James Cameron: Before Avatar &#8230; a curious boy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Failure is an option, but fear is not.&#8221; A great talk by James Cameron at TED, February, 2010; touches on his early love of science fiction, his love of diving, working with Stan Winston at Digital Domain, and his work on The Abyss, Titanic and Avatar.]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/03/10/james-cameron-before-avatar-a-curious-boy/</link>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens: The New Commandments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By way of Vanity Fair magazine: Hitchens dissects the best-known commandments (there are, of course, far more than the top-10 that they teach in Sunday school) and proposes 10 new ones (begins at 6:16): Do not condemn people on the basis of their ethnicity or their colour. Do not ever even think about using people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/03/06/christopher-hitchens-the-new-commandments/</link>
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