Many years ago, deep in the mists of a strange time known simply as ’1992′, the Students’ Society of McGill University voted to re-name their student centre in honor of their most illustrious alumnus, the great William Shatner. Of course, the stuffy university admin didn’t want to change the name, but students still refer to their building [...]
The fine folks over at Boing Boing are reporting the Government of Canada’s new copyright bill may be on hold: The roller coaster that is the Canadian DMCA has taken another turn. Sometime between yesterday afternoon and this morning, the government decided to hold off. At 10:00 am this morning, the introduction of new government bills [...]
Gotta love humanity. Our ’we can do something, so we should do something’ spirit is so darn entertaining. And Mother Nature is just one big, giant playground for screwing with evolution. Japanese researchers have announced that they have bred a mouse that is not afraid of cats, forever shifting the feline-rodent balance of power from ‘tense stand-off’ to [...]
You’ll have to excuse this post, as I fear the potential for schmaltz is alarmingly high. But I have a thing for ‘boy and dog’ stories, so deal with it. Lex, an eight-year-old bomb-sniffing dog for the US Marines, is finally going home. Lex’s handler, Cpl. Dustin Jerome Lee, was killed almost nine months ago [...]
These shots, if you’ll excuse the rather obvious cliche, are out-of-this-world. Go here to see the full-sized originals. Incredible. The pics come from Endeavour’s last mission, STS-118. The hurricane picture is almost certainly Hurrican Dean, since this storm forced Endeavour to return home a day early. Thanks to PD for this one.
Maybe it’s just me, over-reacting bad karma boy that I am. But it seems the 21st century has ushered in a new kind of casual racism. People, often public figures, are able to toss off vaguely bigoted comments in public forums without incurring too much wrath. The media seem to give ample column inches, soundbites and due consideration of their arguments, [...]
A good friend of mine, who is also an accomplished musician, asked me to post on why the Canadian version of the DMCA is so potentially disastrous for the people of our fine nation. I’m by no means an expert, but I will do my humble best. Calling the proposed copyright legislation the ‘Canadian DMCA’ is [...]