by Rob Cottingham | Jun 16, 2005 | Politics
Today, as Chris Booke at Virtual Stoa reminds us in his Dead Socialist Watch, is the anniversary of the execution of Imre Nagy: Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary, hero of 1956, condemned for Right Deviationism and deposed by Krushchev’s tanks; born in... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 15, 2005 | Technology
Before you answer that, see what they’re saying over at Andy Budd’s Desert Island Fonts post. I’m fickle with fonts (although the current Helvetica trend has to stop now. Please. Think of the children.) A font like Formata had me ga-ga in 2001,... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 14, 2005 | Blogging, Media Mix, Politics
Responding to a complaint at TPM Cafe that reporters never come right out and use the “L” word in describing George W. Bush’s mendacity, a journalist writes: I think you’re asking too much of reporters to label something as lies when its just... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 14, 2005 | Blogging, Media Mix, Politics
We like to gripe about news coverage here at ODTAA – particularly the kind of horse-race-and-poll-fixated news coverage that so often passes for Canadian (and American) political analysis. Turns out that’s a problem over in Europe as well. Dominique... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 14, 2005 | Everything Else
Oh, man, this is cool. Derek Miller’s digicam caught video footage of a wannabe tornado that never quite makes the big time. (Actually, that probably means this is the quintessentially Canadian tornado movie. Even more so if the tornado is passive, has a weird...
