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Free Dakota: A Review

Let me start this off by stating that I'm probably not the good person to review fiction. Following my review of The Free Market Existentialist, Dr. Irwin offered to send me a review copy of his recently released Free Dakota, and I gladly accepted

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The Free Market Existentialist: Review and Musings

When I first joined the libertarian camp through my membership and subsequent candidacy in Trois-Rivières for the Libertarian Party of Canada, I had low expectations as to quality of the philosophical discourse I would be hearing. In terms of political philosophy, I had read

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52B/52W, Week 4: Fin de cycle

Fin de cycle - Mathieu Bock-Côté Mathieu Bock-Coté is another author whom I had the pleasure of being able to listen to, and speak to, before reading his book. Here again, the habits in writing are very similar to his manners of speech. In

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52B/52W, Week 2: Nationalisme et Démocratie

Nationalisme et Démocratie: Réflexions sur les illusions des indépendentistes québécois - Jean-Pierre Derriennic I'm not gonna lie, I only read this because I'm a fanboy. Mr. Derriennic is a teacher of mine at the political science faculty of the University Laval, and one of

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Mid-2013 Apple Macbook Air: A More Likely Match Than You'd Think

I have recently made the switch to a Mac, and really wanted to share my experience. Turns out it took the form of a review, where I focus on matching the product to the customer, something which I had applied many times as a

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Camillus CUDA: Don't be fooled by the gimmicks

A knife, especially a carry piece, is supposed to be a go-to tool, a dependable object that gets the job done 100% of the time. This knife I am reviewing is NOT that kind of object. The Camillus CUDA looks cool, and when I

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Lian Li PC-V354B: Small is the New Big

As a computer enthousiast, I have live the most part of my life dreaming of big computer rigs. Gigantic cases with massive airflow, push-pull fan setups on everything, LED-lit this and that, all that jazz. After owning progessively bigger and bigger cases, from a

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Scuba: Personality

It's been out for a couple of days now and it already has dozens and dozens of rave reviews. The release of Scuba's third full length album on Hotflush has been long awaited, as has been the release of anything on this label these

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The Bellroy Slim Sleeve, or How I Freed my Pockets

Back in the days of my brief visit at CMR Saint-Jean, one of my extraordinary instructors taught us a piece war-time wisedom that I still remember: wearing the same combat uniform for 30 straight days is hell, but lugging around too much fresh gear

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B&W Zeppelin Air: A typical B&W product... Outstanding!

My lust for B&W products dates back to a while. Back when I was a kid, this friend’s father, all-around enjoyer of fine things, built a home cinema setup decked out with a full set of Bowers and Wilkins speakers. The

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Intel X-25M (Gen 2): The Single Best Upgrade for your PC

Let's face it, storage is probably the computer component with the least sex-appeal. When building a computer, consumers usually put the latest multi-core processors, monster video cards and screaming fast memory at the top of the list, while the hard-drive is considered last. As

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Klipsch S3: Solid, No-fuss Intra-Aurals

The purchase of my Klipsch S3 was pretty much a spur of the moment thing. Two years of accumulated rage against the old Sony earbuds that I owned took its toll, I guess. I use full-sized headphones normally when I'm not in the gym,

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D-Link DNS-323: The Everyman's NAS

As an in-store technician for a big box retail, I am shocked by how little people are aware of the evanescence of computer storage. Countless times I have seen customers come back with defective hard drives in their 6 month old laptop and be

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Cooler Master RC-590: A Beefy Mid-Tower, In All Regards

It's by accident that I discovered the Cooler Master Centurion RC-590. When my server was running out of space for hard drives, back in the days where it was built in an Ultra Grid chassis, I set out to find a case that was

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Logitech G500: The Rebirth of a Classic

If you know gaming peripherals, chances are that you have owned a G5 by Logitech. This mouse, one of the best selling "gaming" mice out there, has become a true classic on internet forums and gaming groups because of it's relatively low price, excellent

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D-Link DIR-655: The Power-User's Router

Back in the days it seemed like D-Link made inferior products; in the time where the WRT54 was the king of the castle, D-Link was cheaper made, had a less extensive list of options available from the web interface, and generally was less appealing.

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Epinions Review: D-Link DGS-1005D

Every geek's LAN takes on unhealthy proportions at some point or another. At first, it's just two machines, his and her's. Then a fileserver. Then a media server. Then a Bluray player. Next thing you know you know you've got network cables running through

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My Return to 35mm: Pentax Rig & Opticfilm 7200

Digital photography isn't a fact anymore, it's a standard. When I bought my DSLR over a year ago, I never even considered film as a viable option, even though my father's Pentax Super Program was just begging to be used, old and dusty in

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Logitech G5: Probably the Best All-Around Mouse

Today, I reviewed my Logitech G5 mouse, which I've been using for about a year now. Out of the packaging, you know this mouse means business. The packaging, while on par with other comparable mice, is eye-catching, the only aspect that really impressed me

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Motorola PEBL U6: Solid, No-Fuss Phone, and it's not a RAZR

Razrs are everywhere. My friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, septic tank drainers, pushers and hookers have Razrs. It was quite a revolutionary phone at it's launch, but today they are some many in the wild that owning one of those will get people to whisper