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• Wolf Blitzer gets an unexpected answer from Oklahoma tornado survivor.

CanaDUH

• Downloading torrents. Everybody’s doing it.

Copyfight

• Teacher uploads book for students, with predictable results.

Going Mobile

• How Ottawa failed to break the big three’s wireless stranglehold.

Khaki Pants

• Competition Bureau to investigate Google Canada, and why it probably won’t matter.

Pew-Pew

• Bell liable for 911 charges to customers who didn’t receive service, plans appeal.
• Cellular contracts are so fucked up here that there are professional contract negotiators now.
• Finally, some good news: How’d you like to charge your phone in twenty seconds?
• And this, ladies and gentlemen, is crowdfunding at its very best.

Shout-outs

• Props to fellow Drupal user and listener Mike Gifford.

Music

• Swan Song for Mobilicity? Here’s Doin’ It Unlimited, one of the many guerilla videos on their YouTube channel.

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• “Minister Paradis… is a lame duck.” OH SNAP!

CanaDUH

• Guess who’s falling behind the rest of the world on open data and government?

Priva-see

• Saudi surveillance. If it can happen there…

Khaki Pants

• The Facebook Home disaster.

Going Mobile

• All hail… Koodo?

Tired Old Media

• YouTube deals “a coup” for Canadian producers.

The NeverEnding Story

• Neflix rearms for a Canadian onslaught.
• Canipre v. TekSavvy reaches a wider audience via the CBC and Macleans.
• U.S. Homeland Security becomes aware of Bitcoin, acts predictably.

Pew-Pew

• Zomg, 2013 World Press Photo of the Year UZD PHOTOSCHLOP FILTERZ!!1!
• As jokes go, file this one under too easy.

Shout-outs

• What do this and this have in common? Find out tonight!

Music

• Because David Bowie in space, that’s why.

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• Hey kids, BitTorrent says it’s cool for pay for shit now…

CanaDUH

• That $3-billion BCE/Astral deal is good for Canadians? Prove it, says CRTC.

Going Mobile

• Speaking of silos…

Tired Old Media

• Redditors to marketers: Stop telling us how to be Canadian!

Priva-see

• Another reason to not make phone calls.

Khaki Pants

• Facebook’s newest security innovation: your friends.

Thanks For The Memory

• RIP Ray HarryHausen.

The NeverEnding Story

• From bad to worse for Prenda.
• Welcome to the era of open-source guns.

Pew-Pew

• So all those jokes about Staples weren’t so far off…
• Movie piracy worse than ever. IMAGiNE that!

Shout-outs

• Zomg, moar blog commentz!!1!

Music

• An absolutely cringe-worthy Maple Laffs anthem from another era. Please be eliminated soon!

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• Samsung’s billion-dollar worldwide GS4 marketing campaign in action.

CanaDUH

• That’s a lot of breaches, yo.

Tired Old Media

• Some tough questions for that all-Canadian movie channel.
• Making cents of/in streaming music services.

Going Mobile

• On the economics of SMS, and its future.
• Ontario looks to regulate cell phone contracts.

Thanks For The Memory

• The world wide web’s first site is back online.

The NeverEnding Story

• Google Fiber the remedy for stagnant ISPs.
• CISPA DOA, for now.
• Is there anything 3D printers can’t do?

Pew-Pew

• Bitcoins are taxable, says CRA.
• Awesome. Impressive. Fascinating. Stupid.
• I guess this is a generational thing…?

Shout-outs

• Help the PPCA keep their official party status.

Music

• From 1988′s Today, here’s Galaxie 500 and their track, Tugboat.

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• Political attack ads: You’re doing it right.

CanaDUH

• City of Vancouver has a digital strategy, says Vancouver-based lobbying group.

Priva-see

• Can Facebook, Google and Twitter be trusted?

Freedom

• Japanese ISPs urged to block TOR. Bonus insight into Japanese judicial system here.

Khaki Pants

• reddit reflects on a witch-hunt.

Tired Old Media

• Why Canaduh sucks at TV.

Going Mobile

• A weekend with Bell’s MiFi and LTE.

The NeverEnding Story

• San Diego police confirm that camera phones are the new guns.

Pew-Pew

• That’s some fast Internet, yo.
• Toddlers need treatment for iPad addiction.
• Chechen President responds to Boston bombings on Instagram.

Shout-outs

• Our superstar web designer is thinking about a new theme for our humble site. Egg him on!

Music

• Deliberately using this to plug this. For the rest of the story, watch this.

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• The Boston Marathon bombings, via Boston.com — wise words about that here.

Cana-duh

• OpenMedia campaign gets Industry Minister’s attention.

Khaki Pants

• RyWi rants about anti-social media. Possibly-related link from WIRED here.

Copyfight

• Swedish Pirate Party crowd-sources settlements.

Tired Old Media

• The economics of Girl Talk.

Going Mobile

• If at first you don’t succeed, merge?

Thanks For The Memory

• The Archive of Historical Computer Software is here, and it is very, very large.

Pew-Pew

• Google prepares for your death.
• Amazon Android app store coming to Canada.
• BlackBerry 10 by the numbers.
• What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon? This.

Shout-outs

• Thanks to the Miro Guide for acknowledging our existence.

Music

• From All Day here’s Girl Talk, with “Jump on Stage”.

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• Let’s call it a surprise shall we …

Cana-duh

• RBC BAD ?
• Hoote not so sweet?

Copyfight

• Access copyright against fair dealing!
• US Patent office lowers standards to fix backlog ? Issues self Patent for idea

Freedom

• Instagram again in the news.

Mobile

• App attacks are under way
• Mobile Trio to exit lobby group, claim big player bias

Tired Old Media

• Bubble Check, Check 1, Check 2
• Aereo we go again this week.

Pew-Pew

• No one like video ads then?
• Lasers and Drones in the same headline. $%(&#^(#!

Shout-outs

• The A B C’s

Music

• Lee Reid and John P- Written Large

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Preamble

• An honest cable provider…

Cana-duh

• DSL rates drop in Ontario. Oh Shane what say ye West Coast
• Supreme court rules in favour of …why didn’t we have this protection already?

Freedom

• So long as you don’t poke the Google

Tired Old Media

• Millions of mini antennae, but is anything really on? Aereo is like rabbit ears for you smart device.

Privacy

• Citizen, please return your Glass to it’s upright and recording position

Copyfight

• Want to resell your MP3s online? You must this one blew up the Reddit
• ReDigi loses in US District Court copyright fight. The G&M covered it here
• Prenda lawyers take the fifth

Khaki Pants

• A little less spam with your Google News
• Getty getting in on some Instagram scratch

Pew-Pew

• Alerts on watch ?
• Bigger is not bettar?
• Condom company cooks one up

Shout-outs

• What would we do without Saint Reddit

Music

• Stripped down in RyWi’s living room: The Wilderness of Manitoba

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•  A partially-printed AR-15. Eep.

Cana-duh

• Jesse Brown, George Burger and Robert Lantos — oh, my!

(the opposite of) Freedom

• Homeland Security has a look at Canadians’ health records, with predictable results.

Privacy

• FBI wants in on your GMail. In real time.

Copyfight

• Help the FSF fight Hollyweb.

Khaki Pants

• A Tiny Tiny solution to Readergate. Also, this.

Going Mobile

• With WIND Mobile apparently up for sale, there are two ways T-Mobile USA could save it. Here’s one.

The Neverending Story

• A small victory in the ongoing fight against the TPP.
• YOU ARE NO LONGER BEING TRACKED. Check out our new sharing buttons, courtesy of Bruce Schneier (via Mark ST).

Pew-Pew

• Corrupt congressman caught bragging on Twitter about pro-CISPA payola.
• There’s a Bitcoin ATM now.

Shout-outs

• Our thoughts are with Gary Miller and his dad…

Music

• An ode to mainframe computers, via YouTube.

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• From reddit to YouTube, Explain Like I’m Five.

Cana-duh, Fuck Yeah!

• Toronto tech startup’s brave new Android keyboard.
• Canada loves Square even more than ‘murica.
• Chromebooks are coming. Do we care?

Freedom

• UK government inks mandate for open source software.

Privacy

• Federal judge finds NSLs unconstitutional and bans them.
• The Internet is a surveillance state.

Copyfight

• Supreme court to Jamme Thomas-Rasset: “Nope.”

Khaki Pants

• God damn it, Google…

Going Mobile

• An introduction to the Android modding community.
• God damn it, Android…

The Neverending Story

• Wireless mythbusters debunked. Again.

Pew-Pew

• The 1982 directory of Internet users.
• “My Amazon bestseller made me $12,000 nothing.”
• Are you ready for 3D-printed guns?
• How about the image toaster?

Shout-outs

• Sometimes it’s the little things. Props this week to redditor Sachryriel.

Music

• Everything Everything was at SXSW?!! Here’s their free track, COUGH COUGH.

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