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Why should websites bother with reader comments?

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins/ When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins… In the beginning, there were messageboards.  And messageboards were with the Internet, and messageboards were the Internet. Then, as webpage design simplified and WYSIWYG templates advanced, came the glamour pages.  [...]

Pasty reports cause anthrax scare at Woodstock bible college

An anthrax scare at a bible college near Woodstock turned out to be a false alarm, but not before the school and hazmat crews shut down the entire front of the campus. Hazmat crews from Halifax worked through the night, and students say New Brunswick Bible Institute officials told them the alleged anthrax is assumed to [...]

Subtlety and screaming

Luke Rogerson sits in his dim basement, balled up in an armchair. He’s explaining last night, when the sound guy stomped on the smoke machine half-way through the show because he’d forgotten about it earlier. The make-up smoke plumed up onto the stage, then out into the 200-strong mass of bodies pulsing to unforgiving drums [...]

World War Two? Nah, this is Modern Warfare (Two!)

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Remembrance Day officially started at midnight. When the calendar turned over, Brandon Barton was six beers in and seeking ammo for his AA-12 automatic shotgun. A few hours before, he and some Russian ultranationalists opened fire on civilians in a Moscow airport. When the FSB rolled onto the runway in armoured trucks, Brandon paused and [...]

H1N1 vaccine in short supply, New Brunswickers asked to wait

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The H1N1 priority list has changed again.  University students and most other New Brunswickers will have to wait a few more weeks for swine flu immunization. According to a memo released this morning by the Horizon Health Network to Moncton Hospital staff, Public Health officials are laying out new prioritization criteria for the vaccine.  Due [...]

Facebook posts first profits, but changes its game plan

Facebook’s co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announces Facebook Connect to investors in Dec. 2008.

With Facebook finally cracking open its code to third-party integration after years of public refusal, many critics are wondering what took so long. In May 2007, Facebook began a successful campaign of expansion, urging third-party developers to create and sell software for and through the popular social networking tool.  At the time, Mark Zuckerberg, the [...]

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