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		<title>Fuck You Rogers Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The link to ruinediphone.com, aka fuckyourogers.com,
has been attracting a lot of attention with close to 30,000 angry citizens signing the online petition expressing their outrage over the usurious Rogers/Fido voice and data plans for the iPhone in Canada.
While it is doubtful the delivery of the petition on July 11 will actually result in Ted Rogers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/07/03/fuck-you-rogers-update/</link>
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		<title>Pirate&#8217;s Dilemma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cory Doctorow over at BoingBoing posted about Matt Mason&#8217;s Pirate&#8217;s Dilemma, a book about our current culture of piracy.  Seems the book is being turned into a series with the help of Jesse Alexander (&#8221;Heroes&#8221; and &#8220;Lost&#8221;) and here&#8217;s the trailer:



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Cheers.
P. S.  Today is a holiday here in Canada and that means I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/07/01/pirates-dilemma/</link>
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		<title>Fuck You Rogers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Fuck You Rogers.
No - that isn&#8217;t me on my usual tirade; it&#8217;s an actual website where people have been signing on to a petition and statement of intent that says simply:  &#8220;We love the iPhone but Rogers is fucked in the head.&#8221;
Check it out.
Sign your name.
Tell Ted Rogers - and Steve Jobs - that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/29/fuck-you-rogers/</link>
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		<title>Stephen Fry On Broadcasting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Fry recently gave a speech on behalf of the BBC and he has reproduced it for his podcast as Episode 4:  Broadcasting.
You should listen to it for a number of reasons:  Stehen Fry is a wonderful speaker and writer, he is an admiringly geeked out technophile and he is probably one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/28/stephen-fry-on-broadcasting/</link>
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		<title>Where The Hell Is Matt?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will admit that the past week has not been easy - and so I haven&#8217;t been posting very much.  My dear friend Cheryl sent this to me via Facebook - and it made me cry.
It was a good cry.
So of course I&#8217;m going to share it with you.

UpDate - I found a better [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/26/where-the-hell-is-matt/</link>
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		<title>George Carlin - At His Best</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve mentioned George Carlin a few times in these pages.  Here he is for a well deserved encore.
It&#8217;s all about context:

  
      

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Cheers

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		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/23/george-carlin-at-his-best/</link>
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		<title>Monkeys With Car Keys - First Steps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to &#8220;Monkeys With Car Keys&#8221;>
This is the first of many many many videos which we are producing and will be posting online in the coming weeks and months.  The official website itself isn&#8217;t ready yet, but will be soon.  A preponderance of funny shit with people and puppets will proliferate even as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/23/monkeys-with-car-keys-first-steps/</link>
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		<title>George Carlin</title>
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		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/23/george-carlin/</link>
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		<title>Canada DMCA - Open Source PSA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As posted by Cory Doctorow over on BoingBoing the folks at Open Source Cinema have put their latest PSA against Bill C-61, the Canadian DMCA, which is given freely for distribution and you can even re-edit it and add your own shit and what ever else you want to do.
Here it is:



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And just so you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/21/canada-dmca-open-source-psa/</link>
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		<title>Round-Up Day! - Kill Bill C-61</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey there!  Hi there!  Ho there!
It&#8217;s a special Bill C-61 Round-Up Day!
Round-Up Day?  Yes!  The last day of the week where we collect the best or most interesting posts you might have missed from previous days.  I&#8217;ve been remiss in keeping these pages up to date and for that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/20/round-up-day-kill-bill-c-61/</link>
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		<title>Tony Schwartz - RIP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports that veteran commercial producer, audio archivist and media guru, Tony Schwartz, has passed away at the age of 84.
Schwartz was perhaps best known for the famous &#8220;Daisy&#8221; ad that ran once in the 1964 U.S. presidential campaign and clinched the election for Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater.


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But Schwartz was more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/16/tony-schwartz-rip/</link>
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		<title>How The U.S. Got It&#8217;s Canada Copyright Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Head on over to Michael Geist&#8217;s blog and have a read on how the U.S. media lobby and political pressure from Washington was exerted on the compliant Harper government to create Bill C-61 - Canada&#8217;s own DMCA.

Sources say that emboldened by the successful campaign for anti-camcording legislation, U.S. officials upped the ante at the Security [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/16/how-the-us-got-its-canada-copyright-bill/</link>
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		<title>Round-Up Day: - Canadian Copyfight Carnage!  -  UPDATE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey there!  Hi there!  Ho there!
Yup, it&#8217;s Round-Up Day here at the ol&#8217; Millsworks blog but instead of giving you a fat list of my past posts here&#8217;s my coverage on the newly introduced Canadian Copyright Bill C-61.
We knew it was coming, we knew they were gonna try and sugar-coat it and we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/14/round-up-day-canadian-copyfight-carnage/</link>
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		<title>Hello TekSavvy - Goodbye Rogers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
It&#8217;s official.
I am now accessing the net through my new TekSavvy DSL connection and it is superbly fast, delightfully cheap and comes with no limits on my bandwidth usage.  I highly recommend them.
I&#8217;ve been with Rogers for years and was constantly bitching and complaining about their inconsistent speeds, arbitrary capping of bandwidth, throttling of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/12/hello-teksavvy-goodbye-rogers/</link>
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		<title>Earth And Moon - From Mars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I saw this photo the hair on the back of my neck went up.
Click on it for a closer view - it&#8217;s just stunning.

The image was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA&#8217;s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
  There are obvious comparisons to the famed Earth Rise photos made by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/08/earth-and-moon-from-mars/</link>
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		<title>Slingbox For The iPhone - Final Stake In Heart Of TV Industry?</title>
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Gizmodo has a post about an upcoming release of a Slingbox app for the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
Go the Gizmodo post to watch a video of it in action - it&#8217;s pretty fucking cool.
For those of you unfamiliar with Slingbox (and their other related products) it is essentially a way of connecting you with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/08/slingbox-for-the-iphone-final-stake-in-heart-of-tv-industry/</link>
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		<title>Whatever Happened To 5-25-77?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those who don&#8217;t know 5-25-77 is a feature film about a young high school student completely obsessed with Star Wars.

  
      

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Not to be confused with the upcoming (we hope) Fanboys - this film resonates so frickin&#8217; strongly with my own geeked out youth.  I remember seeing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/08/whatever-happened-to-5-25-77/</link>
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		<title>More Than Just A Phone - iPhone Piano Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was saying it for months before the damned thing was ever released into the real world and now, with the next iteration of the iPhone looming on the horizon, I found this nifty video over at the MAKE blog.  It showcases an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch called Piano.
Sweet.


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And then there&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/07/more-than-just-a-phone-iphone-piano-video/</link>
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		<title>National Conference for Media Reform - Bill Moyers Speaks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found out about the National Conference for Media Reform through Susan Crawford&#8217;s blog.  She spoke there yesterday and today Bill Moyers gave his talk and I&#8217;ve posted it here for you.


By all means check out the full site for the conference because it&#8217;s informative and inspiring.  Moyers, of course, possesses the ability [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/07/national-conference-for-media-reform-bill-moyers-speaks/</link>
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		<title>Canadian Copyfight Round-Up  -  Up Dated!</title>
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You can find the 2 updates
at the end of this post.
It&#8217;s not really a Round-Up day but since the Harper government seems determined to coat their reprehensible copyright reform act with copious amounts of their odious slime in order to slip it through Parliament (quite possibly today) I figured we needed a collection of resources [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/04/canadian-copyfight-round-up/</link>
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		<title>Marshall McLuhan On Net Neutrality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his 1964 book Understanding Media:  The Extensions Of Man, famed media scholar Marshall McLuhan wrote these words:

Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don&#8217;t really have any rights [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/31/marshall-mcluhan-on-net-neutrality/</link>
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		<title>Big Buck Bunny - Open Movie Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Peach Open Movie Project has released &#8220;Big Buck Bunny&#8221;, a very clever and well produced short CG animation created by the Blender animation community.  Blender is an open source animation program that rivals many commercial pro-software offerings.



	Big Buck Bunny from Blender Foundation on Vimeo.
Big Buck Bunny is impressive not just for the technical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/30/big-buck-bunny-open-movie-project/</link>
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		<title>Bell Class Action Suit + ACTA Gaining Steam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So much for not blogging anymore today.  Here&#8217;s two quick links to posts by Michael Geist:
Bell Hit With Quebec Class Action Over Throttling Practices
A class action lawsuit has been launched against Bel Canada for its admitted practice of throttling internet traffic:

The suit, which is seeking certification on behalf of all provincial subscribers, argues that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/30/bell-class-action-suit-acta-gaining-steam/</link>
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		<title>Linkin Park - Hands Held High</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


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My sister, Toni, sent this to me.  Thank you, sweetie - that caught me at the right moment.
Today is starting off wonderful and will, no doubt, end up the same way.  There will be grey in the middle of it.  I&#8217;ve endured a lot of grey lately and I&#8217;m tired of it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/30/linkin-park-hands-held-high/</link>
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		<title>Buster Keaton + Radiohead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred sent me this via Facebook and I just had to share.
I&#8217;ve loved Keaton&#8217;s work from back when I was a kid and through my own less than illustrious days as a clown and mime.  His physical theatre is stunning and surreal and beautifully collected here with the mesmerizing sounds of Radiohead.
Enjoy and share.



Thanks, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/29/buster-keaton-radiohead/</link>
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		<title>Net Neutrality Bill For Canada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Angus, the NDP member of parliament who is really good at poking Jim &#8220;Chickenshit&#8221; Prentice in the eye over the pending DMCA copyright bill and Bell Canada&#8217;s throttling of traffic, has introduced a private members bill seeking to ensure Net Neutrality as a right for Canadian citizens.

You can find all the details in posts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/29/net-neutrality-bill-for-canada/</link>
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		<title>Canada Secretly Negotiates Copyright Reform Agreement &#038; Fucks Democracy</title>
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The Canadian government is secretly negotiating via the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to revamp international copyright laws which could make the information on Canadian iPods, laptop computers or other personal electronic devices illegal and greatly increase the difficulty of travelling with such devices.
Michael Geist reports on this and you can find the leaked document in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/28/canada-secretly-negotiates-copyright-reform-agreement-fucks-democracy/</link>
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		<title>Surf Your Worlds With Hacked Wii Balance Board</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found this over on Gizmodo and thought it to be trés cool.  It&#8217;s two German students at a centre for studies in artificial intelligence who have hacked the Wii balance board so they can literally surf through Google Earth and Second Life.
Just as Johnny Lee hacks the Wii to create cutting edge tech that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/28/surf-your-worlds-with-hacked-wii-balance-board/</link>
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		<title>I Like Ike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The current U.S. Presidential campaign is so ludicrously surreal as to make Vonnegut and H. S. Thompson seem as hard-core realists.  I remember fondly this bald dumpy old fella with the personality of a sack of fertilizer who led a nation through military victory and subsequent cultural recovery.  His parting words, alas, were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/27/i-like-ike/</link>
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		<title>How To Shit In The Woods</title>
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This post is apropos of nothing - absolutely nothing - to do with the copyfight, net neutrality, free speech, fucktards, politics, puppets or any of the other crap I tend to rant on about here in this pathetic excuse for a blog.
This post is just about crap - plain and simple.
Actually, it&#8217;s about a book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-to-shit-in-the-woods/</link>
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		<title>Ten Awkward Questions For Jim &#8220;Chickenshit&#8221; Prentice</title>
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Cory Doctorow over at the ubiquitous BoingBoing leads the way to a Michael Geist post where we find 10 Questions For Industry Minister Prentice.
These are great and pointed questions crafted by Professor Geist that poke massive holes in the lie of copyright reform the Harper government is trying to quickly and slickly pass into Canadian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/26/ten-awkward-questions-for-jim-chickenshit-prentice/</link>
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		<title>Bell Launches On-Demand Video Service - Hopefully Chokes Itself To Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Geist posted on Bell Canada launching a new video on-demand service and points out his own prescience from earlier in the year how Bell&#8217;s practice of throttling traffic would collide with their aspirations to serve video.

The major ISPs claim that throttling is needed to ensure better quality of service to all customers, yet it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/23/bell-launches-on-demand-video-service-hopefully-chokes-itself-to-death/</link>
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		<title>Pork and Beans - Weezer&#8217;s New Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Weezer has posted a video on YouTube for their new song &#8220;Pork and Beans&#8221; - and it features a vast array of internet &#8220;stars&#8221; - including having the bdan playing in the midst of a Coke + Mentos deluge.
Brilliant stuff.



I think Weezer has consistently held their thumb on the pulse of current culture.  Can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/23/pork-and-beans-weezers-new-video/</link>
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		<title>Kevin Kelly On Speed Racer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just reading that headline makes me laugh.
I posted a while ago in this pathetic excuse for a blog about how I thought the Wachowski sibling&#8217;s latest film &#8220;Speed Racer&#8221; was going to mark a new era in cinema.  At that time, and certainly since with the dismal box office performance of the film, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/21/kevin-kelly-on-speed-racer/</link>
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		<title>Canadian DMCA Redux - or - Let&#8217;s Make Jim &#8220;Chickenshit&#8221; Prentice Our Bitch!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Industry Minister Jim &#8220;Chickenshit&#8221; Prentice is set to re-introduce the Canadian DMCA bill which caused such a deserved fuss the last time he proferred that turd before parliament.

While Prentice continues to claim that he is actively working on a bill that meets the needs of creators and consumers, the talk in Ottawa is that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/21/canadian-dmca-redux-or-lets-make-jim-chickenshit-prentice-our-bitch/</link>
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		<title>CRTC To BELL:  Bend Over, Turn Your Head &#8230; Now Cough It Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ars Technica reports that the CRTC has handed Bell Canada a list of very detailed questions they want answers to regarding Bell&#8217;s alleged confirmed throttling of internet traffic.

One of the claims that Bell Canada makes in its defense is that 5 percent of users generate 60 percent of its total traffic and that 60 percent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/21/crtc-to-bell-bend-over-turn-your-head-now-cough-it-up/</link>
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		<title>New York Times Calls For Net Neutrality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As reported on Wired&#8217;s Threat Level blog, the New York Times published an editorial yesterday calling for the passage of Net Neutrality legislation to prevent discriminatory practices over internet content.


This sort of discrimination would interfere with innovation. Many major Web sites, like eBay or YouTube, might never have gotten past the start-up stage if their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/20/new-york-times-calls-for-net-neutrality/</link>
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		<title>Holy Crap!  - mADness!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully most of you missed what happened to these pages earlier today.

I&#8217;d been messing around with GoogleAds and AdBrite yesterday - just trying out a few things - seeing what might work and what might not in an effort to subtly eke out a few bucks from this daffy exercise of mine.
But I fucked up.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/20/holy-crap-madness/</link>
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		<title>Canadian Copyright Questions In Parliament - Industry Minister Answers Out Of His Ass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cory Doctorow posted this over at BoingBoing - it&#8217;s a video of MP Charlie Angus (NDP) questioning Industry Minister Jim Chickenshit Prentice over the proposed copyright bill and the lame, uninformed and evasive answers Prentice fumbles out of his mouth.  It might just be the camera angle but it sure as shit looked like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/16/canadian-copyright-questions-in-parliament-industry-minister-answers-out-of-his-ass/</link>
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		<title>Some Geist and Crawford Links</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Susan Crawford wrote a great post today with respect to Bell Canada&#8217;s position that they own the internet and thus get to scour every red cent out of it - even if it means fucking everybody else - drawing very accurate comparisons between Bell Canada&#8217;s position today with that of AT&#038;T back in the days [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/15/some-geist-and-crawford-links/</link>
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		<title>Bill O&#8217;Reilly Meltdown Dance Mix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found this over on BoingBoing.
I would never recommend this sort of behaviour for my friends and colleagues in the news media - unless they want to partake in the on-air equivalent of a lease breaking party.
These pathetic antics, at best, merely leave the lingering sort of stain (and attendant aroma) which no one would desire [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/14/bill-oreilly-meltdown-dance-mix/</link>
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		<title>TED Talks - Alisa Miller: Why We Know Less About The World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in:  our news media outlets are making us stoopid.
Alisa Miller, CEO of Public Radio International, gave a talk at TED where she shows (with lots of nifty graphics) just how most of us in North America (no, alas, Canada is not immune) are being fed far less about what we need and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/14/ted-talks-alisa-miller-why-we-know-less-about-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Wired:  U.S. Air Force Wants &#8220;Total Control&#8221; Of Your Computer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Wired report follows up on a couple of stories I posted earlier - revealing the U.S. Air Force Cyber command (which deems the internet itself as an enemy) is actively working to attain &#8220;total domination&#8221; - (their words not mine) - over every activity and and every participant on the net.
This means you.



I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/14/wired-us-air-force-wants-total-control-of-your-computer/</link>
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		<title>Threedie Ceegie - Name Dropping Redux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I posted this earlier but I just now got around to posting it on YouTube and thought I&#8217;d stick it back up here again:

    
Cheers

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		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/09/threedie-ceegie-name-dropping-redux/</link>
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		<title>Web 3.0 - Where We Are Going</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The buzz phrase Web 2.0 has become a tired axiom in the attempts of the geek community to redefine itself after the first internet bubble burst.  The term bubble itself has become an over-tired expression of unbridled human greed and folly.  Most everyone now agrees that Web 2.0 is not much more than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/09/web-30-where-we-are-going/</link>
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		<title>Things Are About To Get Busy.</title>
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Things are about to get busy for me.
According to my Horoscope - which, I assure you, I never consult:

The time is ripe for you to dissect less
and build more.

I had, of course, already arrived at that conclusion myself and was in no need of any arbiter of the passage of stars to tell me this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/08/things-are-about-to-get-busy/</link>
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		<title>Michael Geist Round Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You should just go read Michael Geist&#8217;s blog on a regular basis - but in case you don&#8217;t:  here&#8217;s a quick run down on what he&#8217;s been posting lately:

IP Caucus Rolls Out Welcome Mat for the U.S.
Sources indicate that the Parliamentary IP Caucus, co-chaired by Liberal MP Dan McTeague and Conservative Gord Brown, plan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/07/michael-geist-round-up/</link>
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		<title>Test Your ISP For Bit Torrent Throttling</title>
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As reported on TorrentFreak, there is a new and easy on-line test for you to test your ISP to see if it engages in the practice of throttling your Bit Torrent traffic.
The test is provided by The Max Plank Institute For Software Systems.
Major ISPs like ComCast, Bell Canada and Rogers have been lying less than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/07/test-your-isp-for-bit-torrent-throttling/</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Spam!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gizmodo proclaims today is the 30th Birthday of SPAM - not the tasty yummy delicious canned luncheon meat - the commercial electronic shite which clutters our online lives.

Thirty years ago, on this day, you came into the world as a little misguided e-mail sent by an equipment engineer over Arpanet to promote a new line [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/03/happy-birthday-spam/</link>
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		<title>Cause Caller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading about Cause Caller on various BoingBoing posts but haven&#8217;t dug deeper into the story to see what it could do - until today.  It&#8217;s freakin&#8217; awesome!Talk about the emerging power of social media via the internet.  
What is Cause Caller?
It&#8217;s a web-based VoIP application combined with a wiki of causes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/05/02/cause-caller/</link>
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