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Area Woman Found Buying Groceries

[QUEENS COUNTY, NS] Missing Liverpool woman found in Sobeys: Queens RCMP located a missing Liverpool woman in Sobeys grocery store June 4 shortly after 6:30 p.m. Queens detachment NCO Staff Sgt. Bruno Deveau said, “For herself, she was never lost but her family was concerned. She was found in Sobeys in Liverpool after making a phone call to her home.” Family members reported Wilma Karen Labrador missing about 1:15 p.m. that day but the woman didn’t know about their concerns or that she was considered missing. A police dog team, Department of Natural Resources helicopter and Department of Fisheries and Oceans boat crew helped with the search while South Queens County Ground Search and Rescue waited on stand-by. Staff Sgt. Deveau said, “We thank all those agencies and the general public for calling in with some information.” – Mark Roberts, The Advance

Atlantic Crime, Court & Emergencies Report | Daily Business Buzz

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Friends Without Benefits

Lots has been said about the recent (“small“) changes to Twitter that take friends @replies out of your twitter stream unless you are already friends with your friends’ friends (clear as mud? see here. People still think this has something to do with your “mentions” stream). These @replies are not completely hidden from you. You can see actively see these replies if you go directly to a friend’s twitter page or if you have their RSS feed, but if you “follow” them you no longer have the choice of seeing this correspondence. This correspondence, initially, gives you a one-sided look into other potential conversations and relationships and is an exciting part of the service. Twitter is essentially penalizing a person if you seek a fuller relationship. Since removing the option from the user, Twitter decided for us that this is mainly noise and backed this up by saying the engineers were having “technical problems” scaling with the growth of the service. That may be true, but why not turn this into a community challenge to fix (see Netflix Prize)? If you want the choice of seeing everything a friend you follow posts, you can’t use Twitter as it is presented to you in the most logical manner. You have to visit via a web page or use your feed reader, as well as your favourite app of choice.

I noticed a similar limiting behaviour with Flickr. If you grab an RSS feed of a person’s photostream, you get updated every time they post new photos. This is how I approach a stranger on the service without having to contact them. If I was brave enough to become a contact, you are given the choice of seeing 1 photo or 5 photos per upload update but not everything. It is then up to you to click on through and see if more photos had been uploaded as part of the process. See where this is going? It is another case of limiting the interaction of people that took the effort, and in this case money, to actually sign-up to a service. Is this another technical limitation? Or is Flickr deciding it is better way to present the information with limited choice. Either way, I would like the option to participate differently and increase the intimacy in world of social media.

Do you know any other examples of companies that are pinching the converted?

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Windom Earle on the Road

21-MAY-2009: WINDOM EARLE / ANGRY PARROTS / JENOCIDE @ green room (Montreal)
23-MAY-2009: OVER THE TOP – Tiny Masters, Windom Earle, The Superstitions (Toronto)

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Best Infomercial

NASCAR as we have come to know it must die. If ever there was a case for assisted suicide, it is present-day big league stock car racing. I suspect we’ve find ourselves at the bedside of this morbidly obese, gluttonous, gaudy reflection of society after following a predictable path. An arc. A gently rising arc that everything must follow. A humble birth, rising from next to nothing to the highest of highs. A child destined for greatness. Strong legs to carry it far and wide, broad shoulders to bear an ever-increasing burden. But never more than a bastard child, bred of the seed of evil – money. From the high we must decline. All things must pass. And in these end days the pace quickens. This king has been overfed.

NSCAR Must Die | Why Don’t They Have Doors?

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TV Party

TV PARTY

TV PARTY


A night of found footage deconstructed by Mark Black and Stephan MacLeod
With special guests Andrew Bush and Stephen Cooke.

13-May-09
9PM @ Gus’ Pub

Halifax Locals thread

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