Bully for Gordon!

If nothing else, this should get PlaymobilFisher Price banned in British Columbia. It’s a brutal little stop-motion animation that takes you through the past four years of B.C. politics (a.k.a. “the tinfoil era”) in six minutes. About as subtle as a...

I Hate Huckabees

Jake at Community Guy has kindly extracted the top ten “I Hate (insert name of clod-like corporation here)” web sites from an article at Forbes. Here’s a little background, for the curious: Back in 2001, Canadian Tire tried to separate Mick McFadden...

A chilling picture of global warming

That photo you may have seen over the past few days – a balding Kilimanjaro, courtesy of global warming – comes from a new web site, North South East West. The site is worth a visit for an astonishing range of photographs documenting the impact of climate...

More is Lessig

As promised, a link to how Lawrence Lessig’s decision to bail on restrictive academic publishers resonates close to home. In Otherwise Engaged, Alex writes: Refusing to publish under restrictive agreements is a good option for senior academics with tenured...
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