There’s a lot I can say - and maybe shouldn’t say - don’t get me started - please - about everything that’s happening south of our borders. But I do think it’s profound when a political song in this day and age comes across not so much as a call to arms or exhortation [...]

I’ll be away for a week with the family. In my absence I thought it would be good to leave a post with at least some socially redeemable value. Here you go - it’s the Hamster Cam:
Webcam chat at Ustream
Cheers.

I’m sorry for this - my sister, Toni, put me up to it.

Enjoy the weekend.
UPDATE: Blame my sister again - but, of course, you can’t have Lenny without a dose of Bill; so here’s Mr. Shatner with his inimitable version of “Rocket Man”.

Cheers.

As reported in Lawrence Lessig’s blog, the FCC has issued its ruling against Comcast’s sleazy efforts to throttle BitTorrent and other P2P traffic.
Why sleazy?
Comcast at first denied it was happening. They stacked a public hearing with paid seat warmers to keep irate customers and activists from speaking to the FCC - when this [...]

This isn’t apropos of anything - I just like watching well performed close-up magic.

Okay - this is just a quickie test of the Wordpress app for the iPhone which will, theoretically, allow me to annoy you from anywhere on the planet - and totally annoy my wife when I try doing this from bed.
Now - how do I post a photo?
Hmmm.

This is young Severn Suzuki speaking to the U. N.’s Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro - in 1992.

Ms. Suzuki was 12 then. She is 28 now.
Aside from her age - what has changed?
Cheers.
Thanks, Ali.

I found this over on Gizmodo and it’s just so frickin’ cool:

I just finished a lengthy email rant/exchange with my friend Bryan about the future of humanity and the advent of ubiquitous computing merged with virtual worlds and the price of a really good cup of coffee. We sometimes got off topic, as you [...]

Folks have been doing some interesting “bag art” in New York and elsewhere - using the subway vents in the streets to inflate and animate sculptures hewn from plastic bags. Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
And speaking of monkeys … here’s the Air Ape:

Cheers.

Mike Wesch, an assistant professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University has posted this great video presentation of a talk he gave at the Library of Congress wherein he examines the history, growth and uses of YouTube and concludes that 88% of the content there is original.
Suck that, Viacom.
It runs a tad over 55 [...]

I found on Michael Geist’s blog a link to this National Post story on how the Harper government is cutting a $4.7 million program that funds travel to promote Canadian culture worldwide.

The federal government will cancel a program on Friday that sent artists abroad to promote Canadian culture because the program’s grant recipients included “a [...]

Okay, okay, okay - yeah, yeah, yeah - I know — I’m an unrepentant Apple fanboy.
Fuck off. I can’t help myself.
But this WordPress plugin called WPTouch is just sooo totally cool!
If you’re looking at this page on an iPhone you can check to the left for a link that will take you to the [...]

My friend Bryan and I were only just yesterday (I think) discussing our faulty memories - specifically a big blank spot that runs from 1978 to 1980, but that’s another story - and today I find this handy interactive timeline showing all the major (and minor) memes which have cropped up via the internet.
Have fun [...]

After posting the previous Muppet classic, I was presented with this from my mentor, Jerry, and I am compelled to share it with you.

It brings to mind a long and tangled story about another show of my own that I will not indulge in berating you with - right now - but suffice to say [...]

I found this Muppet classic through a post by a friend on facebook:

Thanks, Ali!
Cheers.

I found this over on Gizmodo - it’s an archive clip from the recently canceled CBC series Market Place featuring, of all people, Jack Nicholson, in 1978 extolling the virtues of a hydrogen fueled car - and the hydrogen is generated through solar power.

That was in 1978 and he’s talking about creating hydrogen with solar [...]

Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is the porcess by which everything that travels through the intertubes is read, analyzed and (with increasing frequency) fucked with by your ISP. The telcos and cable companies say they are using DPI to better manage traffic through their pipes - and at the same time they’re bleating about providing [...]