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• CRTC denies internet throttling appeal
  Shared by bitbucket bastards!! The CRTC has denied an appeal from a group of internet providers to force Bell Canada to stop its internet traffic management, otherwise known as throttling.
• Saskatchewan bans cellphones while driving
  Saskatchewan's legislature has banned drivers from talking on cellphones that aren't the hands-free kind.
• Stewart Alsop Trashes the Droid
  He blames the OS, not the hardware, and complains that the UI is frequently not responsive. It’s always interesting to see reviews after a device has been out for a month, but I haven’t (yet) seen any others like this about the Droid. (Via Michael Gartenberg.)  ★ 
• Claim Chowder: Stewart Alsop in 1997 on Apple’s Acquisition of NeXT
  Stewart Alsop in February 1997: Let’s get this straight right away: Apple Computer did the wrong thing. On December 20, Apple announced that it would spend $400 million to purchase Steve Jobs’s company, Next Software. The company said it would adopt Next’s NextStep operating system for future versions of the Macintosh computer. Most of the commentary I’ve se […]
• Why e-mail has become the new snail mail - Times Online
  Why e-mail has become the new snail mailTimes OnlineIf you want a response from him, you have to get him by telephone, or text message, which brings us to yet another surprising thing about e-mail in 2009: it ...
• Take your apps to the table with these iPhone icon coasters
  Filed under: Humor, iPhone With over 100,000 applications available, there's no shortage of ways people are using the iPhone's features. But how about on the coffee table or in the dining room? A new website is offering sets of coasters featuring the iPhone's default application icons. According to the website, the coasters are genuine app ico […]
• Mobile marketing takes to the streets of Whitehorse
  Who said that treasure hunts were only for pirates and small children? Texthorse, Whitehorse’s first text-messaging game, aims to show that anyone with a cellphone and fast fingers can get in on the action.
• Our Rwandan betrayal
  Ottawa has acknowledged the Armenian genocide and apologized to native Canadians. Will it do the same for its abandonment of the Tutsi?
• Bob Sheppard Officially Steps Aside as the Public Address Voice of the New York Yankees
  The man whom Reggie Jackson dubbed “The Voice of God” officially retires at age 99.  ★ 
• Mininova ends illegal torrents
  Shared by Andrew Yeesh. There goes the neighbourhood. A Dutch court ruling forces the file-sharing website Mininova to remove all torrents linked to copyright material.

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• Depeche Mode – Lilian
• Depeche Mode – Damaged People
• Depeche Mode – Introspectre
• Depeche Mode – Nothing's Impossible
• Depeche Mode – I Want It All
• Depeche Mode – Macro
• Depeche Mode – Precious
• Depeche Mode – The Sinner In Me
• Depeche Mode – Suffer Well
• Depeche Mode – John The Revelator

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