by Rob Cottingham | Oct 18, 2005 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn, How to..., Technology
(See more cartoons at Noise to Signal) Update: This post is now 12 years old, and I have no idea how current the information is in it. So please take it with a grain of salt. [et_bloom_inline optin_id=”optin_3″] — So — now that the service is... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 18, 2005 | Politics
The tobacco industry, including the market leader Imperial Tobacco, is quick to yell “freedom of expression” whenever governments take measures to curtail its ability to advertise. (See their so-far-unsuccessful attempt to overturn federal legislation on... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 17, 2005 | Everything Else
NDP candidate Paul Summerville keeps surprising me. The first surprise was that he’s a social democrat at all. It’s not something you expect from an economist whose resume includes names like RBC Dominion, TD Bank Financial Group, Jardine Fleming and... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 17, 2005 | Communicating, Technology
We’re trying a new piece of software, BurnoutMenu 2.0, which we hope will be our long-sought-after way of giving iCal a half-decent to-do list. But this piece of copy on their web site gives me pause: BurnoutMenu 2 is a complete refit of the original idea. Built... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 14, 2005 | Technology
A few days ago, to much oohing and aaahing, Steve Jobs released the first-ever video-playing iPod. Or did he? It turns out the open-source community may have beaten him to it. The fine folks who are hard at work porting Linux to the iPod managed to run video on an...
