[via Michael Geist] The Conservatives have an ad titled Even Liberals (it’s on their site) that features a clip of (Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister) Paul Martin at a town hall meeting televised on the CBC. In the clip — barely a couple of seconds long — Martin makes the embarassing admission that he [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2006
Jan
17
2006
More Questions from the All-Candidates Meeting
Sorry it took so long, but here’s more from the All-Candidates Meeting. If you missed the other installments:
All-Candidates Meeting: Opening Statements
All-Candidates Meeting: First Two Questions
Question 3: The “Psychotropic Drugs” Question
“There’s no right answer to this question,” said the guy who was next in line, “but I’m just as interested in the way you answer it.” [...]
Jan
16
2006
Big Content: Ice Harvesters of the 21st Century
I’m going to talk a little bit more about copyright and Big Content this week. By “Big Content”, I am referring to the corporations that produce movies, televisions, records,
books and even web sites. I thought I’d start by
introducing something that “copyfighters” (those who fight for better
copyright laws and against [...]
Jan
16
2006
Bulte Round-up
Boss Ross Gets in on the “Remixing Sam” Act
I’m not the only one into the commentary-on-Bulte-by-Photoshop game. My boss, Ross, has taken a crack at it and he’s done a pretty nice job:
Ross won’t mind if you copy this graphic and stick it on your own site.
Ross also notes that he took advantage of advance [...]
Jan
16
2006
Happy MLK Day!
It’s Martin Luther King Day, a holiday in the United States. To all my American readers (especially my mother- and father-in-law, who took advantage of the long weekend to visit Wendy and me), Happly MLK Day!
The story goes that Dr. Martin Luther King was going to go with a short, formal, pre-written speech when gospel [...]
Jan
15
2006
Far Better Than the Real "Mary Worth" Strip
Ever wished Mary Worth would stop dropping Hallmark-card proverbs and just get down and get funky? Your wish has been fulfilled: here’s Mary and her friend Jeff doing The Black Eyed Peas’ My Humps!
(Click the image below to see the full comic.)
Bonus Reading: Josh Frulinger has a blog called The Comics Curmudgeon (formerly known as [...]
Jan
14
2006
The Rephrasing Spider-Man
Spider-Man not only fights crime, he also fights the misuse of words!
Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Jan
13
2006
Mesmerizing Animated Graphic of the Week
Until I stumbled across this animated GIF, I didn’t know that Jean-Claude van Damme (”The Muscles from Brussels”) was in the Breakin’ movie. Not only that, it was his first onscreen appearance!
Click the image to see Jean-Claude strut his stuff [1.6MB animated GIF].
Click here to see a rather disturbing picture of Jean-Claude van Damme and [...]
Jan
13
2006
January 31st: ESRI Canada/Bell Mobility Location-Based Services Seminar
ESRI Canada, in
cooperation with Bell
Mobility, is hosting a seminar on location-based services that will cover “how
developers can capitalize on this exciting Canadian opportunity in
LBS”.
The organizers say that
attendees of the seminar will:
Learn about
what is working in the Canadian LBS market
Discover the sales and marketing [...]
Jan
13
2006
All-Candidates Meeting: First Two Questions
Here are my notes from the first two questions asked at Wednesday’s all-candidates meeting. Just in case you missed it, I also have an entry containing my notes on the opening statements.
Question 1: Island Airport
[As a resident of the area] we are in the flight path leading to the Toronto Island airport. We expect that [...]
Jan
13
2006
Photos from Wednesday’s All-Candidates Meeting
In case you were wondering: yes, I actually did bring the accordion to Wednesday’s all-candidates meeting (you know, the one with the now-infamous Bulte video). Its purpose was strictly visual: I was simply making my presence known.
Paul Nielsen pointed me out to this photo album of shots taken from that meeting, which includes the pic [...]
Jan
13
2006
It’s Accordion Patent Day!
Dave “Dave’s Picks” Polaschek reminded me via email that today, January 13th, is the anniversary of Anthony Faas’ filing of a first U.S. patent — number 11062 — for accordions, or more accurately, “certain new and useful Improvements in Accordions”.
(The oldest patent for the accordion belongs to Cyrill Demian from Vienna; that one is dated [...]
