The folks of the League of Extraordinary Peers have released the long anticipated sequel to last year’s “Steal This Film” with the extraordinarily appropriate title: “Steal This Film: II”.
In an interview with TorrentFreak, Jamie King of the League of Extraordinary Peers said the film is intended to ‘bring new people into the leagues […]

This is a talk given by Gever Tulley this past March at the TED Conference about how our societal desire to protect our kids is diminishing their ability to effectively interact with and learn from the world around them. It’s become a very Vonnegut kind of scenario we find ourselves living in these days […]

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As reported by ThinkProgress and the film industry trade paper Variety, the MPAA has rejected a poster design for Alex Gibney’s new documentary “Taxi To The Dark Side”.
The ThinkProgress post also features posters for the films “Saw” and “Hostel” - which were approved by the MPAA as being suitable for audiences of all ages. […]

A guy named Robbie Dingo has re-created Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” in Second Life. Here’s a really cool video showing the entire process, set to Don McLean’s song. It’s just beautiful to watch.

I’m taking the rest of the day to finish shopping and clean the kitchen. I have video footage of the […]

Yesterday there was a rally at Queen’s Park in support of the quest for Fair Copyright for Canadians. The group travelled down University Avenue collecting signatures on letters destined for Prime Minister Harper, Minister of Industry Jim C.S. Prentice, and others. They also handed out some great swag!
Toques and scarves.
How Canadian.
I shot video […]

I’ve been busy with all sorts of things and stuff - amongst them the Fair Copyright for Canada rally that took place today at Queen’s Park (I was there, took video, will post - tomorrow) - but I just had to take a pause after dinner (whilst Henry bedecks the tree with new lights “Do […]

Anybody who tells you that all that “Sicence Fiction crap is years and years away.” should shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down.
The future isn’t going to come from MIT or Los Alamos or some other bastion of intellectual absurdity. Don’t get me wrong - I love those places and the minds […]

BoingBoing reports on the further developments surrounding the complete clusterfuck which is the proposed new Canadian DMCA Copyright Law. Go read Cory Doctorow’s post and then be sure to visit the CBC Search Engine site where you can hear the complete blow-out of a fight that ensued in parliament.
Makes you proud to be a […]

Okay, here’s something different from my usual rants and screeds - it’s the ad Apple currently has on their site - featuring their Mac vs. PC icons - done in the style of the classic Rankin-Bass holiday stop motion television specials.

I love the dry delivery of John […]

It ain’t Round-Up Day but at least the heat is back on and now I get to go outside in the frickin’ snow. Wheee!
For those of you remaining inside where it’s nice and cozy - warm your hands (and minds) over these interesting tid-bits:
From the amazing Susan Crawford’s blog: she details (in the […]

I love Chris Jordan’s astonishing and thought-provoking photographs which show the vast scale of our consumption addiction. He spoke at Pop!Tech and it’s worth taking a couple of minutes to hear him speak and see the images he has created as a way to hold up a mirror to ourselves of what we are […]

Cory Doctorow, over at BoingBoing, reports that Jim “Chickenshit” Prentice is going to drag the intensely and disasterously flawed new Canadian copyright bill back into parliament - today.
Michael Geist is of course all over this:

Given the short delay, it is unlikely that the bill has been altered in any fundamental way. Despite claims […]

My headlines make me giggle.
The Wired blog, Threat Level reports on how Rogers-Yahoo is using data substitution to add its own content to web pages their customers visit. This is, perhaps, the most blatant and obvious intrusion into Net Neutrality that has surfaced thus far from the Canadian cable turd - as if admitted […]

I woke up this morning to find my furnace had died.
It’s the thermocoupler or some such bit of whizz-techery inside the big metal box that goes whoosh and warms up the house.
Maybe.
I don’t know.
Dammit, Jim, I’m a puppeteer not a licensed gas repairman!
So instead of attending meetings and running errands and finding other excuses not […]