One more thing before I lay down my weary head.
BoingBoing reports that the CBC radio show Search Engine is soliciting questions from listeners via their web site which they hope to put to Harper’s Bum Boy Canada’s Industry Minister Jim Prentice - all about the impending copyright legislation those dickwads - uh - nickel-lickers - […]

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WTF there!
Yeah, yeah, I know - Round-Up Day is supposed to be on Friday but I’m going to be busy tomorrow and I have a few disconnected things here that I wanted to blog about but I’m too frickin’ lazy to give each one its own separate post […]

Cory Doctorow, the copyfightin’ member of BoingBoing reports on impending legislation to fuck up reform Canada’s copyright laws.

The Canadian government is about to bring down Canada’s version of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and it promises to be the worst copyright law in the developed world. It will contain an “anti-circumvention” clause that prohibits […]

Now I’ve seen everything.
As reported in the Globe and Mail, the characters Rusty the Rooster and Jerome the Giraffe are leaving the CBC.

Two of the most enduring characters in the history of Canadian children’s programming, Rusty the Rooster and Jerome the Giraffe, are about to quit the building. The children of actor […]

As reported in BoingBoing by Cory Doctorow (suggested by Michael Geist) there’s an article from New York Magazine about an upcoming interview in the December issue of Wired Magazine with Universal Music CEO, Doug Morris, where he effectively proclaims the music industry is in the shitter and they haven’t got a fucking clue what they’re […]

This turd actually has a heart?
You gotta be shittin’ me.
The New York Times reports that Mister Dick “Go Fuck Yourself” Cheney was admitted to hospital and treated for atrial fibrillation - an irregular heart beat.

The condition occurs when the heart’s top chambers, called the atria, get out of sync with the bottom chambers’ […]

Yesterday was Thanksgiving day for my friends in the U.S. and I neglected to wish them well.
I’ll let William Burroughs do the talking.

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And if that’s too down for you then sit back and embrace this absolute gem from Ze Frank, where he gave thanks for the community which grew around him and his works last […]

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Yes, it’s Round-Up Day again and it’s been a long time since the last one.
Usually on Round-Up Day I offer up a collection of links to prior posts that you may have missed or might benefit from enduring again. Since I have been remiss in posting recently […]

Amnesty International is launching a new campaign to encourage citizens to “unsubscribe” from the use of torture in their names. The first video deals with stress positions. They used an actor as the detainee prisoner but went to extraordinary lengths in making this video - the actor spent six hours enduring this stress […]

Just a quick post to celebrate the fact I feel better and it’s all because of the glorious, talented, waaaay smart and medically proficient Harmony Wagner.
Harmony is a registered acupuncturist, based in P.E.I. and if you’re ever out that way and need to be made whole again she’s the one to call. She graciously […]

This is a real excuse - as opposed to a fake one - for my not having the first of the online puppetry workshop videos posted by now. There’s lots of other excuses but none as good as this one:

I posted this as well on the […]

There is no one on the planet more capable than Lawrence Lessig, in expressing the issues so deeply embedded within the current arguments surrounding the “war on culture” which is being fought today through the internet. Here’s his TED Talk on How Creativity Is Being Strangled By The Law.

All the crap I’ve been ranting […]

Washoe, the first chimpanzee to learn sign language and show definitive communication abilities with humans, has passed away.
For those of you who do not know about Washoe it’s worth paying a visit to The Friends of Washoe website where her story is told.
They posted this yesterday:

Our beloved friend Washoe passed away Tuesday evening, […]