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	<title>Alex Reid</title>
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	<description>Canadian Citizen At Large</description>
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		<title>More English teachers should rap battle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, I think more English teachers could engage students by acknowledging that (most) rap is often a poetry challenge. Check out this rap battle between a kid and an English teacher (NSFW). Also check out Mr. Mark Grist&#8217;s web site.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2012/more-english-teachers-should-rap-battle/</link>
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		<title>How to forward emails to text messaging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can easily have emails sent to you, forward on to your cell phone via text messaging. You just need to know the number and the carrier. Here is a list of the emails of different carriers: * Rogers Wireless: [10-digit phone number]@pcs.rogers.com * Fido: [10-digit phone number]@fido.ca * Telus: [10-digit phone number]@msg.telus.com * Bell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2012/how-to-forward-emails-to-text-messaging/</link>
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		<title>Stephen Wiltshire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Wiltshire is a British architectural artist. He draws detailed panoramas from memory. In this short excerpt from the film Beautiful Minds: A Voyage into the Brain, Wiltshire takes a helicopter ride over Rome and then draws a panoramic view of what he saw.]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff Nobody in Winnipeg Says</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cute video by the guys at Hot 103, following the &#8216;Shit people say&#8217; trend.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2012/stuff-nobody-in-winnipeg-says/</link>
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		<title>The fruit trees of Vancouver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday night (Jan 24th, 2012), the City of Vancouver added a dataset of Street Trees to the City’s Open Data catalogue. The dataset includes a full address listing of all boulevard trees on the streets of Vancouver, along with species type and other characteristics. The next afternoon, this food social group got on the case and created [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2012/the-fruit-trees-of-vancouver/</link>
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		<title>After the breakup, change your passwords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting New York Times article published last week speaks to an eerie new trend: In the digital era, teenagers in love want to share their most intimate secrets, ideas and, of course, their Facebook accounts. It&#8217;s about trust and according to a 2011 Pew Internet and American Life Project study, girls are more trusting than boys. About 30% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2012/after-the-breakup-change-your-passwords/</link>
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		<title>SoundCloud Hits 10 Million Users</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SoundCloud announced today that it has reached 10 million registered users. Last January, the music platform web site only had 3 million users. To celebrate, SoundCloud co-founders Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss launched a new feature today called “Story Wheel,” which “allows anyone to record their own narrative around a series of images to tell a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2012/soundcloud-hits-10-million-users/</link>
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		<title>If you&#8217;ve tried to contact me..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s come to my attention that my contact form hasn&#8217;t been working for the past month; so any messages anyone has sent me, I didn&#8217;t get them. Please email me at alex@alexreid.ca]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2012/if-youve-tried-to-contact-me/</link>
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		<title>Understanding SOPA &amp; PIPA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch this talk from TED to understand the background and mechanisms of SOPA and PIPA.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2012/understanding-sopa-pipa/</link>
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		<title>Websites To &#8220;Go Dark&#8221; In Protest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Student warning!&#8221; Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales tweeted on Monday. &#8220;Do your homework early. Wikipedia protesting bad law on Wednesday!&#8221; The bad law is the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act and the backlash officially starts tomorrow. See here for more info. Wikipedia&#8217;s decision to participate with a 24-hour blackout was a decision of the Wikipedia community, and [...]]]></description>
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