The PM vowed today not to ‘interfere politically‘ if Lord Conrad Black, convicted felon, seeks to return to Canada while on bail, or regain his Canadian citizenship. An important point to make, since a criminal record has a way of complicating a visa application. Still, Harper’s statement is interesting in its specificity. Sure, he won’t interefere politically, [...]
Some disturbing news in the Globe and Mail today- 13 Russian journalists have been murdered in the past decade, and none of the cases have been solved. This alarming statistic comes from the Committee to Protect Journalists. The murders include the brutal slaying of Anna Politkovskaya, a crusading reporter gunned down in her apartment buidling. She [...]
Not getting enough G-time on Nunc Scio? I’m also writing for blogTO now, on Toronto media and some sundry topics. You can read my first post here. BlogTO is a great source for Toronto arts, entertainment and city news by some really great contributors. Check it out when you get a chance. I should be [...]
Gather ’round kids. This is a Nunc Scio first, and will never, ever happen again. I am going to thank Ronald Reagan (or ‘Raygun’, in Dead Kennedys parlance) for something. Gasp. While reading Wired‘s excellent coverage of the new Transformers movie, I learned something surprising. Without Ronnie’s 1983 deregulation of television advertising aimed at children, [...]
Google, almighty lord of the Internet, has yielded to privacy concerns and rolled out new cookies that erase themselves after 2 years, rather than 30. Thirty years? Who has a computer that lasts that long? Cookies are little programs that remember things like your password, preferences and online behaviours. Google made the move to diffuse [...]
If you’re in Paris and you need a bike, you’re in luck like never before. The city has unveiled its Velibre bike rental program, making 10,000 bikes available at 750 locations. Just swipe your credit card, and you’ll have a pearl-grey, built-like-a-tank bike all your own. For a few hours anyway. The program, unprecedented in [...]
Everyone likes chimps. They’re cute, they make funny and inappropriate faces, and remain largely indifferent when people put clothes on them. But I could never truly respect the common chimpanzee, because I always thought that I could beat one up in a fair fight. Until now. Scientists have discovered a community of super-sized, hardcore chimps [...]