George Carlin has us all dead to rights
George defines the Modern Man. Brilliant. Thanks to Niblett for spying this YouTube video.
George defines the Modern Man. Brilliant. Thanks to Niblett for spying this YouTube video.
Another Vancouver blogger is fired up over a School Board trustee’s guns. Walter Schultz correctly observes that the story about COPE Trustee Sharon Gregson and her advocacy for concealed weapons has been spun into a more benign “right to bear arms” issue in only a few days. CBC’s Early Edition actually broke this story (Realaudio […]
The Toronto International Film Festival, my country’s annual celebration of its own inferiority complex, has come up with a golden idea — Canada’s Top Ten Films of the Year. If there was ever a glaring example of what a disaster the Canadian culture industry is, it is our attempts at theatrical release cinema. In the […]
Here's Rick Mercer's take on today's same sex marriage vote in the House of Commons. A modest proposal, he hears, is being devised by Canada's New Gov't™ to have a wee re-think on most minority rights, and by drawing the rights out of a hat during caucus meetings it will help to keep it fair. […]
The very interesting and committed blogger Paul Kedrovsky has been writing a lot lately on the subject of stock spam. I’ve written recently on the staggering increase in online spam, driven, in part, by Russian bot-nets doing micro-cap stock flogging, but seeing the numbers directly is stark stuff. According to Postini, unwanted email is now […]
Here’s a very thoughtful analysis of the PS3 launch, the competitors, and the realities of the gaming marketplace. The Betamax reference is a little cruel, but there are parallels. The question of whether Blu-Ray Disc (BD) will be adopted as the next-gen disc media is a few years away. With the world going crazy for […]
Jeffrey Veen describes syndication feed systems like Bloglines as a type of social glue. In particular he flags the unfolding Microsoft RSS feed strategy. This is probably because the software giant has a poor track record of following open standards. I’m not surprised that more people don’t rely upon RSS readers as part of their […]
Every new Windows operating system is supposed to improve the experience of what we've had before. Supposed to…but never does. This post about how something as simple as TURNING OFF your computer is anything but illustrates how the evolution of computing has stalled. We don't need a new OS for running PCs. We need something […]
Sun columnist Pete McMartin writes about Councillor Suzanne Anton standing up to an angry group of neighbours in Dunbar, and how she addresses them with frankness and moxie. We had the exact same panic on Fraser street about the Triage facility, and it was a no-win for any person or political figure to defend it. […]