by Rob Cottingham | Jan 27, 2005 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn
(If that headline doesn’t get us bumped off Google’s “Safe Search” list, nothing will.) My friend Denise Blinn’s comedy short The Porcelain Pussy has been criss-crossing Canada and will finally come home to Toronto — before jetting... by Rob Cottingham | Jan 26, 2005 | Media Mix, Politics
It’s been days since Bush’s inauguration, and yet the aftertaste persists. (Kind of a mix of sulfur and that waxy taste you get when someone’s been spraying pesticides nearby.) For some, it was the grotesque spectacle of dropping $40 million on a... by Rob Cottingham | Jan 25, 2005 | Technology
Back in the winter of 1984, Steve Jobs got up on a stage and pulled a little miracle out of a bag: the Apple Macintosh. The event was preserved for posterity by Scott Kastner, and ODTAA is (or, rather, was) pleased to mirror the video here. Twenty-one days (one for... by Rob Cottingham | Jan 25, 2005 | Politics
Two disturbing pieces from this week’s Sunday Times: Frank Rich on how easily the Abu Ghraib atrocities have vanished from our TV screens, and Andrew Sullivan’s review of two books on the scandal. Both are worth reading, but Sullivan’s piece is... by Rob Cottingham | Jan 23, 2005 | Everything Else
Martin threatens same-sex election Bishops freak: “Now the friggin’ elections are going to be same-sex, too?!” Methane rain forms rivers on Titan, probe finds Eliza Doolittle buys rhyming dictionary to look up “Titan” Doubleday to publish...
