The video is part of a Consumer Watchdog (USA) lobbying effort to stop Google's spying acivities. The creepy creature driving the ice cream truck is a caricature of Google CEO Eric Schmidt.Read More http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/google-mocked/#ixzz0yW7KSQBzRead More http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/google-mocked/#ixzz0yW6B0OIq
I’ve only “met” Smitherman once, several years ago. I happened to be at an OLP fundraiser where he was the keynote speaker. I was a bit bored and wandering about when I realized I was standing directly behind George, then Minister Smitherman. I found myself watching a middle-aged man version of a temper tantrum; he was barking at a staffer, for some perceived transgression. I [...]
A number of bloggers have been asking about a browser called "Rippers 0." It seems to be a browser employed by the United States military but nobody knows just what it is or why it's being used.I came across it today thanks to a hit from the (US) Navy Network Information Center at Norfolk, Virginia. A Google search showed that Rippers 0 is also employed by another periodic visitor to this blog, the US Army Information Systems Command. Some claim it's a site-hacking software/browser.Has anyone else encountered Rippers 0?
In response to an Ottawa Sun editorial about the hundreds of unnecessary arrests at the G20 protests, Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union president Dave Coles writes a letter to the editor I was there and tried to help diffuse the tension caused by police behaving violently but, of course, there were other agendas at play -- like trying to justify the $2-billion security price tag. And like arresting journalists to try to prevent them from doing their jobs, which would expose that fact.The Toronto police are finally admitting that mistakes were made -- even though they are now blaming the Queen and Spadina ketteling on a mysterious group of 60 Black Bloc anarchists that nobody ever mentioned before, who were apparently "armed" and were "apprehended heading to the area." So I guess it was all the Black Bloc's fault again! Quel suprise!And one more observation -- remember how the Iraq War cheerleaders tried to deflect blame for the Iraq War by proclaiming it was actually the D...
Care for some blues? There's some interesting guitar technique here. I can't make out a lot of the lyrics so they're here if you want them. But I can make out enough to know that he doesn't sing them in the same order. This is Booker T. Washington White. He was also known as Bukka White but he apparently preferred the proper spelling of his first name. The song is Aberdeen, Mississippi Blues....
Did you know that Chavecito's not just a president, he's also a slam poet?
Okay, that's not his own poem he's reciting there (with guitar accompaniment by the great Cuban folk singer, Silvio Rodríguez). It's a poem by Alberto Arvelo Torrealba about Simón Bolívar, called "Por Aquí Pasó" (Through Here He Passed). Here's my (admittedly rough) translation:
Through here he passed, comrade,
toward those distant mountains.
Look at that trail through the grasses,
look at it, comrade,
it's like the clear rains
in the dust-dry landscape,
like a well among tablelands,
like a star in a tunnel,
like the heron in the rushes,
like flights in the evening sky,
like the snow on the mountaintop,
like a fire in the night,
like a firefly in the air,
like the moon among sand dunes,
like the white horse on the coat-of-arms
and the tricolor in the sky.
Through here he passed, comrade,
toward those distant mountains.
There goes his only image,
grave, but aquiline,
saddle of burnished leather,
dappl...
I had to chuckle when I read Thomas Walkom’s latest piece -A gun-toting gun registry skeptic recants- in the Toronto Star. Apparently the RCMP’s report on the registry convinced Walkom that he was wrong. The fact that the “unbiased-just-the-facts-report” brings nothing new to the table seems to elude Walkom. So what revelation convinced Walkom of [...]
Responses to a questionnaire for a Spanish News Agency.1. How are the new technologies revolutionizing education, especially at schools?This is a very large question with no simple answer. It depends very much what technologies are being discussed and what school system is being discussed. As well, the impact of new technologies outside schools is having a pervasive impact within schools.If I had to generalize (which I really hate to do, because there are always inherent inaccuracies) I would venture to say that new technologies are making schools more open. By that, what I mean is that the barrier between school and non-school has become much more permeable. What happens inside school has become much more public, and what happens outside school has had a greater impact in school. 2. In your opinion, which of the new teaching tools have produced more positive results or had a bigger impact on teaching?This again is a very general question and depends very much on what we mean by ‘pos...
Levant and Geller. That would make three boobs.
I think Conventional Wisdom is swinging against the Harper Conservatives. A summer marked by a thousand needless arrests, tanking poll numbers, stupid press conferences, arbitrary firings and PMO office resignations has forced even John Ibbitson to raise a mild question about Prime Minister Sweater's managerial brilliance. And Harper shouldn't be waiting for Kory Teneycke to cover his back -- Kory has got some credibility problems of his own to deal with.
Quittin'MyDayJob...ForThreeDaysStraightVilleYup, that's right.We're hitting the road.Or, more accurately, forking out all our dough to BC Ferries so we can make the trip across the Strait of our fair Georgia to Victoria.Which means you can catch us....Friday Night on the 8:00pm sailing of The Queen of New Westminister (Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay run)....Usually we hang out near the stern to get out of the wind.Later Friday Night @ Auntie R and S's Birthday Party (yes, they're Twins!) in Sidney ....Somewhere near the Airport.Saturday Morning @ Beacon Hill Park, hopefully by about 11:30am....Either on the very top of the Hill or down front, at the Dallas Road Dog Park because we'll have the Whack-A-Doodle!Saturday Night @ Grandpops and Grandma-Ants place out in Colwood....If you're walking the Galloping Goose near the Cemetary you might be able to hear us, with Special Guest Uncle C., from the Trail - Ha!Sunday Morning on the Swan Lake Nature Trail....Maybe.Moving pictures, with sound,...
The following interview was conducted by Scott H. Payne, of the Canadian Council for Democracy. I have reproduced the interview and Scott’s overly generous introduction here. Anyone who has paid any attention to the Census debacle has probably heard or read the name Dr. Alex Himelfarb. Dr. Himelfarb has been a stalwart opponent of eliminating … Read more
You have to give her this. Brewer gets the hint - she is no match for her opponent. So, what else can she do? Like her buddy from Alaska, if you can't handle the heat - quit.
This what Kory Teneycke mentioned on CBC's News Network Power and Politics:"We are not nor have we even asked for mandatory carriage of this station where Canadians would have to be obliged to pay."TVA Group Inc. is seeking a Category 2 licence with "an exception to Broadcasting Regulatory Policy 2009-562 by applying for mandatory access."The applicant argued that Sun TV News requires short-term and time-limited mandatory access by broadcasting distribution undertakings for a maximum period of three years to effectively expose and promote its programming to viewers across Canada.The applicant stated that it was not seeking mandatory basic distribution, but only to be made available on cable and satellite distribution undertakings, allowing the public to have access to Sun TV News without any obligation to choose it.As TVA Group Inc. defines mandatory access, broadcasting distribution undertakings (cable and satellite distribution companies) would be require to carry th...
Spotted on the back of a sign, near downtown Regina:
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The ILO and the IMF are holding an important high level conference in Oslo on the “Challenges of Growth, Employment and Social Cohesion” on September 13. In advance, they have released an important joint discussion paper. The summary - highly reflective of the ILO contribution but not contradicted by the IMF contribution - makes a [...]
And it is being provided by Krafty Kory. Imagine what was running through his mind as he sits in front of his internet machine to pound out today's editorial.* (you don't really have to hit the link. It's not that good. The informative stuff follows). He must find a way to inoculate Fox News North from the Avaaz internet petition against his nascent network.How does he attempt to do this? The way any true conservative would of course. Invalidate this expression of the popular will (Over 62,000 signatories as I type this. Don't be afraid to add yours) by adding several fake names. Throw in the names of some public figures who really should be impartial (Kady O' Malley and Chris Hall of the CBC to name two) and the whole thing can be brushed off.Done and done. Now he can get back to the really important things like finding synonyms for words like lock. And load.But a funny thing happened on the way to media domination. He got found out. Those journalists smart enough that th...
Here's another terrific column, this one thanks to David H. Just think how frightened we should be of canoesBy Dan GardnerI do not wish to alarm the public, but I must urgently report the discovery of a disturbing fact: It seems that in 2006 -- according to the most recent StatsCan data -- two Canadians were killed by lawn mowers.As I said, disturbing. And there's more. Much more.Also in 2006, nine Canadians were killed in accidents involving kayaks or canoes. Three were killed by dogs. Six by hot tap water. Thirty-two drowned in pools. Fifty-four were killed by falls from ladders, while three more died after falling from trees. One person was killed by contact with a thorny plant. Another died after being stung by an unspecified "nonvenomous insect." Medical "misadventure" claimed the lives of 18 more.Four were struck dead by lightning. Forty-one were killed by accidents in bathtubs.One Canadian was killed by "exposure to high and low air pressure and changes in air pressure." I don't...
Some prog-blogging friends got up to no good recently, and this is what they brewed:
Suddenly it all makes sense. THAT's why the cops charged the G-20 demonstrators for singing what we thought was our national anthem--IT'S NOT OUR CORPORATE JINGLE!!!
(And, worse--they sang lyrics that Stevie the Spiteful didn't personally approve, as CEO of Canada, Inc.)
Holy bait Batman. I see that Kory Teneycke is still carrying the ball fish for Fox News North. And that it's getting really stinky.Which is fine if you like rotten fish. But if he insists on masquerading as the head of a "straight" news organization he should really get his facts straight.(1) When he complains about this:It also picked up on the slur from Sun TV News’ competitors, calling the channel “Fox News North.” Fox, and its parent company Newscorp, are not owners of this channel, nor are they involved in its development.He has only himself to blame.The first time I met Kory Teneycke, he told me that Canada needed a Fox News channel of its own.I impolitely told him what he could do with the idea and we didn't speak again for four years.Remember? Idiot.(2) When he gets all indignant over this:Dwight Shroot (from The Office), Boba Fett (of Star Wars), Snuffaluffagus (Sesame Street) and Homer Simpson are also signatories. Clearly the CRTC should take note of such distingu...
