It’s a good day if you like any combination of the following: the Internet, Canadian film, free stuff, and enlightened copyright practices. The National Film Board of Canada has put its archives online, all 100 per cent free and awesome. There are 700 films up already, with more on the way. This is a good [...]
World Barack Obama has shut down the CIA’s network of ghost prisons. To be clear, this is not like when that jerk from the EPA shut down the ghost containment grid in Ghostbusters, and all Hell literally broke loose. Fidel Castro admits he may not be long for this world. A Texas highschool girls basketball [...]
Remember the movie The Boys From Brazil? Yeah, it wasn’t great. For the uninitiated, it’s about a sinister plot by surviving Nazis – including Josef Mengele – to clone Hitler. An interesting idea, but a bit clumsly in execution. Nobody wants to see Atticus Finch (aka Gregory Peck) play a monster. While not the pinnacle [...]
I don’t really care for PETA. There are a lot of reasons. They’re preachy and a bit crazy. They are endorsed by celebrities I find annoying. And they make me feel bad about doing things I enjoy, like eating cows. But mostly, I resent PETA because they are smarter than me. Take this photo from a recent protest [...]
Well, the 2009 Oscar nominees have been announced. For some reason, freaky Brad Pitt reverse-aging film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leads the pack with 13 nominations, including best picture. I find this lame for two reasons. First, as this excellent video points out, TCCOBB is basically a re-worked version of Forest Gump: Second, it’s [...]
World The totally idiotic objections to the Atheist Bus Campaign have been rejected by the UK’s advertising regulator. Buffalo is running out of chicken wings. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Just to be on the safe side, Obama re-takes the Oath of Office after Chief Justic Roberts muffed the first try. A contractor working on the Hurricane Ike cleanup [...]
Canada York University is still on strike after union rejects latest offer. Sigh. World Mississippi places disclaimers in evolution textbooks. Dummies. Inauguration day, from 423 miles up. Two men claim they spent 25 days floating in a cooler after their boat sank. Fishy. The rising problem of postal workers who hoard mail. Former Bush speechwriter [...]