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 […]

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 […]

In his 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man, famed media scholar Marshall McLuhan wrote these words:

Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don’t really have any rights […]

The buzz phrase Web 2.0 has become a tired axiom in the attempts of the geek community to redefine itself after the first internet bubble burst. The term bubble itself has become an over-tired expression of unbridled human greed and folly. Most everyone now agrees that Web 2.0 is not much more than […]

I don’t think I have ever done this before - but it’s late and I can’t sleep and so here it is:
I received a comment today on a previous post about Bill C-10 to which I felt compelled to reply.

My basic position on the proposed bill, to adjudicate and control content of Canadian produced film […]

I love the TED Talks and I just stumbled over this one at Violet Blue’s web site and was utterly gobsmacked by where all these technological innovations are leading us. Terrific eye candy, to be sure, but it will also lead the way in new ways of seeing, thinking and speaking to each other […]

Wow - in my procrastination ramblings through the net today I came across a post from The Daily Galaxy all about Hyper-Speed Evolutionary Leaps.
This isn’t the sort of thing I usually rant about but similar stuff has come up from time to time on these pages - with inevitable references to Ray Kurzweil and Kevin […]

Ars Technica reports Apple has just passed Wal-Mart to become the number one retailer of music in the U.S.
And everybody said it wouldn’t work.
Well, everybody in the rotting old asshat end of the music industry anyway. They probably would have figured it out sooner if they didn’t insist on clinging to their dying rip-off […]

Michael Geist has posted on how the recent clusterfuck with Bell (throttling P2P traffic on ISP resellers) is bringing into the light the issue of Net Neutrality and Free Speech in Canada.
He makes a good point that we’ve been hearing most of the shouting about Net Neutrality from south of the border but nary a […]

The Peace Symbol is 50 years old.
I didn’t know until today that I was roughly the same age as this wonderful icon.
There are numerous posts out there in the inter-tubes commenting on the 50th anniversary of this iconic combination of lines and a circle which has meant to so much to so many for so […]