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12:03 am

Vanishing Point: Meteor (based on a story by John Wyndham)

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12:31 am

SF as an American Brand (Revisited)

- 10 comments

10:02 am

Abigail Nussbaum's The 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist, Part 2

- 10 comments

10:03 am

So as not to mess up the discussion of the discussions

- 22 comments

01:55 pm

Dr. Elizabeth “EFM” McClung (1970 – 2013)

- 2 comments

07:32 pm

"Poll: 29% Think Armed Rebellion Might Soon Be Necessary"

- 40 comments

08:14 pm

The Arthur C Clarke Award 2013 winner



08:35 pm

Poor Unnamed

- 24 comments

11:39 pm

"The Harpers liked the one with the blue borders," Harper said with a smile, (...)

- 28 comments

2nd
12:56 am

I don't know how to embed this here

- 9 comments

08:23 am

"The adaptation potential of extremophiles to Martian surface conditions"

- 4 comments

09:40 am

Conservative government under shadow of vast election fraud acts to cripple Elections Canada

- 12 comments

09:42 am

The Basics of Space Flight

- 2 comments

09:47 am

When sexual harrassment deviates from the harrasser's plan

- 19 comments

10:33 am

As pointed out in email: " There are girl cooties on my space ship–on women writing hard SF"

- 28 comments

3rd
08:17 am

Not my idea

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10:43 pm

Home safe!

- 18 comments

10:56 pm

Orbit One Zero Parts One to Six

- 2 comments
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11:16 pm

In my defense

- 8 comments

11:57 pm

PBS: The Movie

- 10 comments

4th
10:07 am

SFWA election results

- 14 comments

11:50 am

Promises, promises...

- 13 comments

01:08 pm

comet Hartley 2

- 7 comments

01:29 pm

You know what would be neat for tor.com to have?

- 5 comments

06:00 pm

Assume a live-action Captain Scarlet movie

- 10 comments

11:48 pm

Niall Ferguson in the news!

- 17 comments

5th
12:00 am

Keynes, Keynesians, the Long Run, and Fiscal Policy

- 5 comments

11:09 am

I had no idea this existed

- 22 comments

12:23 pm

This is my sad face

- 22 comments

12:56 pm

The Stone That Never Came Down?

- 8 comments

02:30 pm

Recommend Works for the 2013 James Tiptree, Jr. Award

- 1 comment

02:31 pm

A question I keep meaning to ask

- 30 comments

06:16 pm

SF 68: Survival (John Wyndham)

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06:38 pm

SF 68: Wanted in Surgery (Harlan Ellison)


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6th
12:09 am

SF 68: A Sound of Thunder (adapted from a story by Ray Bradbury)

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12:19 am

Sf 68 The Answer (adapted from a story by Philip Wylie)


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12:46 pm

As pointed out in email:

- 5 comments

05:20 pm

SF 68: The Will (Adapted from a story by Walter M. Miller, Jr.)


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06:24 pm

Air Force sex assault prevention chief charged in sex assault

- 21 comments

07:27 pm

Folk music...FROM SPACE!

- 3 comments

10:00 pm

Silly question

- 17 comments

11:26 pm

Trouble in Paradise

- 4 comments
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7th
12:12 am

The Upside for Prenda Law

- 21 comments

12:20 am

Sf 68: Routine Exercise (adapted from a story by Philip E. High)

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12:26 am

Sf 68: Jenny With Wings (adapted from a story by Kate Wilhelm)

- 3 comments
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09:34 am

The basic problem

- 52 comments

11:30 am

The Snubbed Seven

- 11 comments

01:32 pm

Ray Harryhausen (1920 - 2013)



01:43 pm

Ray Harryhausen (1920 - 2013)

- 7 comments

02:24 pm

19 July 2013 (UK) / 23 August 2013 (US)

- 7 comments

10:00 pm

Trouble in Paradise (2)

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11:16 pm

SF 68: The Cage (adapted from a story by A. Bertram Chandler)


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11:28 pm

SF 68: The Space Cow (adapted from a story by William Morrison's Country Doctor)

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8th
09:50 am

Audi finds a way to get millions of nerds to link to an ad

- 12 comments

10:29 am

Crippled census still has interesting details

- 13 comments

01:36 pm

How my grand-father got his Navy Cross and I got my middle name

- 16 comments

11:59 pm

The Adventures of the Blue Calico Brigade (repost)


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11:59 pm

The Adventures of the Blue Calico Brigade (repost)


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9th
12:54 am

Stupid Caliber Question

- 6 comments

09:36 am

2013 Locus Awards Finalists

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10:13 am

SF 68: Watch Bird (adapted from a story by Robert Sheckley)

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10:29 am

Ecclesiastes 1:9:

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10:29 am

Ecclesiastes 1:9:

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10:32 am

When the Joy Dies: Tobias Buckell's " The fate of today’s book bloggers"

- 29 comments

11:00 am

Adventurer Conquerer King: Session One

- 5 comments
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04:46 pm

Huh.



04:46 pm

Huh.

- 7 comments

10:03 pm

When Educated People Attack!

- 10 comments

11:23 pm

How well trained is Fig?

- 9 comments
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11:30 pm

SF 68: The Castaway (adapted from a story by Murray Leinster)


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11:38 pm

SF 68: The New Wine (adapted from a story by John Christopher)

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10th
01:06 am

Today I learned

- 8 comments
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10:45 am

Presumably, the autocannons and missile pods get added later

- 11 comments

10:47 am

Doomed Casino Proposal Doomed

- 7 comments

10:57 am

Speaking of activities where it might be an idea to keep an eye on the gender ratios

- 5 comments

11:11 am

Starship Century Symposium f/m

- 17 comments
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04:47 pm

A 'Marooned' for the 21st Century?

- 1 comment

04:47 pm

A 'Marooned' for the 21st Century?

- 10 comments

07:03 pm

Flying car crashes near Vernon, B.C., school

- 8 comments

08:54 pm

Project Neo-PETM hits new benchmark

- 2 comments

11:43 pm

SF 68: Grenville's Planet (adapted from a story by Michael Shaara )

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11th
09:57 am

2013 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for the best short science fiction of the year) Finalists

- 1 comment
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10:27 am

No idea if this will get a North American release

- 7 comments

10:35 am

The Birds

- 10 comments

10:54 am

Next Up: Tales of Tomorrow



11:02 am

Housekeeping

- 3 comments

11:19 am

There is nothing as alarming

- 9 comments
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12:54 pm

Jason Richwine Resigns from the Heritage Foundation

- 7 comments

01:56 pm

Wait

- 1 comment

02:28 pm

A podcast on Fountains of Paradise

- 8 comments

06:01 pm

Bean is sick

- 23 comments
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06:52 pm

Something else to track down

- 2 comments

07:51 pm

Former Presidential hopeful baffled by combination Etheric Telephonium-Logic

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09:11 pm

Did Warren Thompson live and fight in vain?

- 20 comments

12th
12:34 am

Science Fiction Encyclopedia Contributors f/m

- 22 comments

10:24 am

2000x/Beyond 2000: By His Bootstraps (Based on a story by Robert A. Heinlein)



10:24 am

2000x/Beyond 2000: By His Bootstraps (Based on a story by Robert A. Heinlein)

- 8 comments

10:37 am

Benjamin Rosenbaum's Third Draft Struggles

- 12 comments

10:45 am

Conversations on the bus

- 13 comments

12:07 pm

Cora Buhlert's The Latest on the Women in SFF Debate



12:07 pm

Cora Buhlert's The Latest on the Women in SFF Debate

- 7 comments

01:51 pm

"A thin polymer membrane (...) enhancing survival across the continuum between air and high vacuum"

- 2 comments

02:28 pm

A Canadian WI

- 8 comments

13th
08:03 am

Quotation source, please

- 46 comments

12:20 pm

From ISS



12:20 pm

From ISS

- 13 comments

12:24 pm

My idea for a post-2300 2300 AD campaign

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01:05 pm

Uh Oh

- 7 comments
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01:30 pm

Tales of Tomorrow: Betelgeuse Bridge (Based on a story by William Tenn)

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01:36 pm

Tales of Tomorrow: Martians Never Die (Based on a story by by Lucius Daniel)


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01:44 pm

Tales of Tomorrow: The Girls From Earth (Based on a story by Frank M. Robinson)


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14th
12:15 am

Kitchener council unanimously rejects casino

- 3 comments

08:45 am

On the plus side, this could distract the American conservatives from that Benghazi thing

- 18 comments

09:14 am

Nicked from the 2300 FB group

- 14 comments

09:32 am

A new peak

- 7 comments

10:49 am

Speaking of Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc

- 7 comments

10:55 am

I think we've all had days like this

- 7 comments

02:28 pm

2013 Campbell and Sturgeon Finalists f/m

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09:23 pm

A lot of business owners would give their left arms to make Forbes

- 10 comments

11:32 pm

2000x/Beyond 2000: R.U.R. (Based on a story by Karel Čapek)

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15th
12:27 am

What Fig is terrified of

- 13 comments

01:43 am

soldier in charge of a sexual assault prevention program arrested on sexual abuse charges



01:43 am

soldier in charge of a a sexual assault prevention program arrested on sexual abuse charges

- 3 comments

10:00 am

So what are the major juried awards of SF?

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01:54 pm

today's video

- 2 comments

02:07 pm

I know very little about the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award

- 11 comments

02:22 pm

A trope I only just now encountered

- 9 comments

02:25 pm

Cassini Shapes First Global Topographic Map of Titan

- 1 comment

06:54 pm

Yay

- 8 comments

11:10 pm

Adventurer Conquerer King: Session Two

- 16 comments
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16th
11:37 am

Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards

- 4 comments
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01:27 pm

Rob Ford: the standard by which mayoral eccentricity will probably be judged in Canada's future

- 16 comments

01:53 pm

Ed Yong's 3-D Scans Reveal Caterpillars Turning Into Butterflies

- 3 comments

03:00 pm

Next Up: CBS Radio Workshop

- 7 comments

08:10 pm

Question

- 2 comments

08:14 pm

Once is chance, twice is coincidence....

- 25 comments

09:37 pm

We were just talking about the OLG

- 1 comment

17th
09:18 am

Always something new with Mr. Ford

- 12 comments

09:36 am

One part 'interesting if true' and one part 'take title with grain of salt'

- 40 comments

11:17 am

The lastest Ford thing as seen from Popehat



11:17 am

The lastest Ford thing as seen from Popehat

- 6 comments

11:32 am

As pointed out in email

- 42 comments

12:30 pm

Hamutal Dotan's What We Do and Do Not Know about Rob Ford and Drug Use

- 17 comments

03:20 pm

Bean (1995 - 2013)

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03:20 pm

Bean (1995 - 2013)

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06:13 pm

Today I got an arc as a gift

- 12 comments
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06:45 pm

Who has worse odds of their character surviving?

- 11 comments

07:39 pm

And what does Taiwan think of recent events in Toronto?

- 1 comment

11:41 pm

Rob Ford: 42 remarkable moments from Toronto mayor’s career

- 4 comments

11:43 pm

Brave New World Part 1 & Part 2 (Based on a novel by Aldous Huxley)

- 25 comments
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18th
12:00 am

CBS Radio Workshop: Storm (Based on a novel by George Stewart)

- 2 comments
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11:07 am

An answer to a question I never thought to ask

- 28 comments

11:21 am

From a recent discussion elsewhere

- 18 comments

12:48 pm

Bah

- 19 comments

01:09 pm

Dear subconscious

- 6 comments

01:55 pm

A sudden epiphany

- 17 comments

02:13 pm

Discovered by accident

- 4 comments

07:44 pm

CBS Radio Workshop: Season of Disbelief & Hail and Farewell (based on short stories by Ray Bradbury)


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11:20 pm

CBS Radio Workshop: Colloquy #1- Interview with William Shakespeare

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11:42 pm

Watch the Nebulas Live!

- 6 comments

19th
12:10 am

More trouble in paradise

- 3 comments
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08:56 am

2012 Nebula Award Winners Announced

- 3 comments

08:59 am

2012 Nebula Award Winners f/m

- 8 comments
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10:54 am

And another one goes under the bus

- 8 comments

10:56 am

urbophobia in the London Free Press

- 11 comments

02:11 pm

As pointed out to me on FB

- 8 comments

09:20 pm

Would anyone know

- 5 comments

20th
12:13 am

CBS Radio Workshop: Voice of New York


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12:15 am

CBS Radio Workshop: Report on ESP

- 5 comments
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12:17 am

CBS Radio Workshop: Cops and Robbers

- 2 comments
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12:24 am

My computer mouse is dying

- 6 comments

08:21 am

What an odd point of view

- 25 comments

09:45 am

Nina Allen's 101 #womentoread

- 2 comments

10:37 am

Well, poop



11:08 am

Huh

- 1 comment

11:08 am

Huh

- 10 comments

11:18 am

Analog Analytical Laboratory 1979 - 2012 f/m

- 4 comments
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01:17 pm

Where should I send someone who wanted to

- 11 comments

06:47 pm

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley

- 6 comments

11:12 pm

CBS Radio Workshop: The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes


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11:19 pm

CBS Radio Workshop: The Ex-Urbanites

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11:25 pm

The Nina Allen 101 Women to Read Meme

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21st
09:09 am

It's not exploration if it doesn't involve burly men and women in see-through space suits,



09:09 am

It's not exploration if it doesn't involve burly men and women in see-through space suits,

- 29 comments

09:39 am

As seen on FB

- 25 comments

10:00 am

Gollancz Masterworks f/m

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10:29 am

Casey Dreier's Planetary Science Echoes Through the Halls of Congress

- 3 comments

11:46 am

Do you like a specific hazelnut chocolate spread?

- 10 comments

12:01 pm

Can Americans Understand Eurovision

- 9 comments

12:09 pm

Alec Ash's Science Fiction in China: A Conversation with Fei Dao

- 1 comment

02:52 pm

Jasmine's obit for Mr. Bean

- 5 comments

11:22 pm

Lost cat up near Stanley Park Mall (Kitchener)

- 6 comments

11:34 pm

Vexed far-right extremist desecrates church

- 6 comments

22nd
12:09 am

Astronaut Chris Hadfield Plays Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage's Space Game on the ISS

- 4 comments

12:11 am

CBS Radio Workshop: Speaking of Cinderella-If the Shoe Fits


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12:19 am

CBS Radio Workshop: Jacob's Hands (Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood)

- 3 comments

09:13 am

In retrospect



09:13 am

In retrospect

- 30 comments

09:42 am

At the one minute fifty second mark

- 12 comments

10:23 am

Toronto's world-class mayor brings city fame it so desires

- 11 comments

10:24 am

Yet another thing I didn't know about when I woke up

- 9 comments

11:13 am

Experience trumps youth

- 5 comments

12:23 pm

Gosh

- 50 comments

12:30 pm

What Harper knew and when he knew it curious left ambigious

- 5 comments

12:57 pm

India Mars Probe articles

- 2 comments

02:09 pm

Hurricane season for Titan's northern hemisphere?

- 1 comment

02:21 pm

Noble V: Greylancer Giveaway Contest

- 2 comments

02:40 pm

Venus Probe Success/Fail

- 8 comments

11:46 pm

So, is it just that these are now being reported or are incidents like this more frequent?

- 6 comments

11:46 pm

So, is it just that these are now being reported or are incidents like this more frequent?

- 23 comments

23rd
12:07 am

Many cats can tell the difference between cat treats and finger tips

- 12 comments
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12:20 am

As pointed out in various places



08:55 am

I have an opinion!

- 11 comments

12:02 pm

For no good reason

- 25 comments

11:57 pm

CBS Radio Workshop: Living Portrait - William Zekendorf, Tycoon

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11:59 pm

CBS Radio Workshop: The Record Collectors

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24th
01:25 am

Eve No Jikan

- 3 comments

10:02 am

cabal poised to seize power

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10:19 am

Will association with scandal-plagued Rob Ford cause problems for scandal-plagued ReformaTories?

- 4 comments

11:58 am

Adventurer Conquerer King: Session Three

- 12 comments
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05:42 pm

Ford breaks silence

- 20 comments

08:11 pm

American authorities assert vital bridge so fragile minor collision triggered collapse

- 27 comments

09:08 pm

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

- 17 comments

11:53 pm

The dolphins are stampeding! The dolphins are stampeding!

- 4 comments

25th
12:41 am

I wonder

- 58 comments

11:39 am

I don't know if this is true for other people

- 19 comments

01:31 pm

CBS Radio Workshop: The Toledo War

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01:34 pm

CBS Radio Workshop:The Enormous Radio (based on a story by John Cheever)

- 8 comments
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01:48 pm

Hope Johnson's The Natural Satellites Song -

- 1 comment

01:53 pm

Spotted in various places

- 3 comments

06:46 pm

More developments in Ford Saga

- 15 comments

11:35 pm

I completely forgot having done this on shwi

- 2 comments

11:59 pm

CBS Radio Workshop: Lovers, Villains and Fools


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26th
12:01 am

CBS Radio Workshop: The Little Prince (based on a story by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

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12:18 am

A Matter of Logic


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10:57 am

Convicted rapist takes stand against women's rights

- 67 comments
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12:41 pm

The building Now and Then Books used to be in

- 8 comments

06:51 pm

Speaking of Tombs of Certain Doom

- 10 comments

07:59 pm

Krugman on Charles Stross' Neptune's Brood

- 20 comments

10:13 pm

The cruel costs of Obama care

- 21 comments

11:42 pm

CBS Radio Workshop: Bring on the Angels

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11:44 pm

CBS Radio Workshop: The Stronger

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11:59 pm

"Firefighters attack blaze in downtown Kitchener"

- 3 comments

27th
10:38 am

A thought about Fuzzy Nation

- 45 comments

10:41 am

It got worse

- 32 comments

02:22 pm

More SchadenFord

- 7 comments

11:35 pm

Shock-horror in Winnipeg

- 1 comment

11:48 pm

An interesting pair of articles

- 16 comments

11:59 pm

Epic Cane Shaking

- 58 comments

28th
09:54 am

Two more Rob Ford articles

- 21 comments

10:35 am

Who actually commits acts of terrorism in Europe?

- 29 comments

10:54 am

...

- 8 comments

01:06 pm

CBS Radio Workshop: Another Point of View

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01:09 pm

CBS Radio Workshop: The Eternal Joan


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11:26 pm

I can see no way in which this could go horribly wrong

- 59 comments

29th
10:18 am

CBS Radio Workshop: Portrait of Paris

- 5 comments
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11:31 am

Django Wexler’s Female Warriors in Fantasy

- 11 comments

12:20 pm

Damsel in Distress: Part 2 - Tropes vs Women in Video Games

- 34 comments

01:03 pm

Hey, remember the Air Force Base that lost track of some nukes in 2007?

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01:31 pm

Dr. Henry Morgentaler (1923 - 2013)

- 5 comments

02:34 pm

As pointed out in email:

- 9 comments

02:43 pm

So I remember to listen to this

- 2 comments

11:22 pm

Jack Vance (1916-2013)

- 9 comments

30th
12:34 am

You know what's almost as bad as homossssssssssssssssssexuals?

- 51 comments
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08:52 am

Interesting if true

- 15 comments

10:08 am

CBS Radio Workshop: The Case of the White Kitten

- 3 comments
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10:12 am

CBS Radio Workshop: Portrait of London


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10:58 am

She doesn't need to be faster than the T Rex

- 18 comments

11:26 am

A poll

- 34 comments

01:16 pm

From io9; a visualization of the drop in price of deadly solar energy

- 27 comments

01:35 pm

Adventurer Conquerer King: Session Four

- 9 comments
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02:20 pm

More staff depart Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's office

- 18 comments

31st
11:27 am

Canada's most popular comic promises long career

- 1 comment

12:04 pm

Even the National Post is piling on

- 5 comments

12:52 pm

Meanwhile, over in the SFWA's Bulletin

- 24 comments

01:13 pm

CBS Radio Workshop: Star Boy

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02:05 pm

Nate Silver on Canada's long Stanley Cup Drought

- 4 comments

02:18 pm

A sign of the tough job market

- 4 comments

02:30 pm

Is the Earth threatened by a spreading plague of prosperity?

- 3 comments

02:47 pm

So, who is SFWA going to get

- 31 comments

06:13 pm

And down one more

- 3 comments

07:28 pm

Kameron Hurley's Dear SFWA Writers: Let’s Chat About Censorship & Bullying

- 4 comments

09:09 pm

Signal Boost

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