Fuck You Rogers.
No - that isn’t me on my usual tirade; it’s an actual website where people have been signing on to a petition and statement of intent that says simply: “We love the iPhone but Rogers is fucked in the head.”
Check it out.
Sign your name.
Tell Ted Rogers - and Steve Jobs - that [...]

Stephen Fry recently gave a speech on behalf of the BBC and he has reproduced it for his podcast as Episode 4: Broadcasting.
You should listen to it for a number of reasons: Stehen Fry is a wonderful speaker and writer, he is an admiringly geeked out technophile and he is probably one of [...]

I will admit that the past week has not been easy - and so I haven’t been posting very much. My dear friend Cheryl sent this to me via Facebook - and it made me cry.
It was a good cry.
So of course I’m going to share it with you.

UpDate - I found a better [...]

I’ve mentioned George Carlin a few times in these pages. Here he is for a well deserved encore.
It’s all about context:

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Cheers

Welcome to “Monkeys With Car Keys”>
This is the first of many many many videos which we are producing and will be posting online in the coming weeks and months. The official website itself isn’t ready yet, but will be soon. A preponderance of funny shit with people and puppets will proliferate even as [...]

As posted by Cory Doctorow over on BoingBoing the folks at Open Source Cinema have put their latest PSA against Bill C-61, the Canadian DMCA, which is given freely for distribution and you can even re-edit it and add your own shit and what ever else you want to do.
Here it is:

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And just so you [...]

Hey there! Hi there! Ho there!
It’s a special Bill C-61 Round-Up Day!
Round-Up Day? Yes! The last day of the week where we collect the best or most interesting posts you might have missed from previous days. I’ve been remiss in keeping these pages up to date and for that I [...]

The New York Times reports that veteran commercial producer, audio archivist and media guru, Tony Schwartz, has passed away at the age of 84.
Schwartz was perhaps best known for the famous “Daisy” ad that ran once in the 1964 U.S. presidential campaign and clinched the election for Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater.

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But Schwartz was more [...]

Head on over to Michael Geist’s blog and have a read on how the U.S. media lobby and political pressure from Washington was exerted on the compliant Harper government to create Bill C-61 - Canada’s own DMCA.

Sources say that emboldened by the successful campaign for anti-camcording legislation, U.S. officials upped the ante at the Security [...]

Hey there! Hi there! Ho there!
Yup, it’s Round-Up Day here at the ol’ Millsworks blog but instead of giving you a fat list of my past posts here’s my coverage on the newly introduced Canadian Copyright Bill C-61.
We knew it was coming, we knew they were gonna try and sugar-coat it and we [...]

It’s official.
I am now accessing the net through my new TekSavvy DSL connection and it is superbly fast, delightfully cheap and comes with no limits on my bandwidth usage. I highly recommend them.
I’ve been with Rogers for years and was constantly bitching and complaining about their inconsistent speeds, arbitrary capping of bandwidth, throttling of [...]

When I saw this photo the hair on the back of my neck went up.
Click on it for a closer view - it’s just stunning.

The image was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
There are obvious comparisons to the famed Earth Rise photos made by [...]

Gizmodo has a post about an upcoming release of a Slingbox app for the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
Go the Gizmodo post to watch a video of it in action - it’s pretty fucking cool.
For those of you unfamiliar with Slingbox (and their other related products) it is essentially a way of connecting you with [...]

For those who don’t know 5-25-77 is a feature film about a young high school student completely obsessed with Star Wars.

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Not to be confused with the upcoming (we hope) Fanboys - this film resonates so frickin’ strongly with my own geeked out youth. I remember seeing [...]

I was saying it for months before the damned thing was ever released into the real world and now, with the next iteration of the iPhone looming on the horizon, I found this nifty video over at the MAKE blog. It showcases an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch called Piano.
Sweet.

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And then there’s [...]

I found out about the National Conference for Media Reform through Susan Crawford’s blog. She spoke there yesterday and today Bill Moyers gave his talk and I’ve posted it here for you.

By all means check out the full site for the conference because it’s informative and inspiring. Moyers, of course, possesses the ability [...]

You can find the 2 updates
at the end of this post.
It’s not really a Round-Up day but since the Harper government seems determined to coat their reprehensible copyright reform act with copious amounts of their odious slime in order to slip it through Parliament (quite possibly today) I figured we needed a collection of resources [...]