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Clickbait & The Taxonomy of Chum
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Via The Awl - A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum, dissecting those awful banner ads that appear too frequently in the margins of "reputable" news sites, Clickbait that lures you onward and downward into the abyss that has become the internet.
Gold 'N' Treasures
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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While exploring Creston with the daughter I discovered this shop:
Link: http://www.goldntreasures.ca/Home
Without a doubt the best prospecting shop I've been in. Nothing in Calgary comes even close, in Edmonton - well, Bedrock's fine, but not this good, and the shop I hit in Vancouver couldn't compare either. It has everything - a dozen different pans, screens, sieves, crevicing tools for snipers, sluice boxes, mats, metal detectors, EVERYTHING.
She had to drag me out of there, prices, reasonable, selection, terrific, and handily located to my explorations...
On the Assassination of George W. Bush
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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A thought experiment along the ilnes of "If you could go back in time and stop world War 2 by killing Hitler"... but instead, we'll only back a couple of decades to George W. Bush. We don't need to look to the deep past for villains. Now, the consequences of the Iraq War - unjustly, arguably illegally instigated - have been well documented. They include (by some estimates) over a million casualties, many of which were civilian - women and children. Other consequences include the destabilization of the Arab World, it's unlikely that Egypt, Syria and Turkey would have faced the revolutions they faced without the US's intervention, and it's arguable that the current rise of ISIS and Islamic Fundamentalism in large part was fueled by the power vacuum left in Saddam's absence.
So, knowing the consequences and ongoing catastrophes that have resulted from the Iraq invasion, if you could go back in time and Assassinate George W. Bush, would you? Would you take it into your hands to take one life to save a million? Or is it too uncomfortable to recognize that in many - even most - of the world's narratives, we are the villains?
Something to think about. Because Democracy is failing, and very soon we all may well be looking back to the "good old days" of Bush...
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