In celebration of 42 day this Sunday here is an entry I offer from Pop The Stack for inclusion in that most remarkable of all books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The subject is an introduction to some democratic systems in use around the galaxy. This should […]
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Pop The Stack: What does 42 mean to you?
This is a call to all geek bloggers out there. This upcoming sunday is 10/10/10 no matter which way you order your Gregorian calendar which is 42 in binary…. If you don’t know the significance of that number you can stop reading now, sorry for wasting your time. It’s not my fault you aren’t interesting […]
Continue readingPop The Stack: Call for Discussion of Abortion, How About a Call for Data First?
Tasha Kheiriddin over at the National Post just posted a generally pretty reasonable call for discussion on abortion in Canada. I don’t disagree with her general conclusions, that a law, crafted properly in a civilized manner, would be better than no law. But she makes the mistake of assuming one is needed based on […]
Continue readingPop The Stack: 2010 vs 1972
All agree that yesterday’s gold medal hockey game was on par with the greatest hockey games of all time. Viewer ratings of the big game bare this out. About 80% of Canadians watched at least some of the game and it was the most watched hockey game of any kind in the US since the […]
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