You have to be fucking kidding

The U.S. Government seems bent on controlling more aspects of their citizen's lives...

"The federal government's "no sex without marriage" message isn't just for kids anymore.

Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs, which include millions of dollars in federal money that will be available to the states under revised federal grant guidelines for 2007.

The government says the change is a clarification. But critics say it's a clear signal of a more directed policy targeting the sexual behavior of adults."

More here

That is no government's business, now fuck off.

Dinosaurs

Woohoo. Could you ask for more?

See 'em here

I hate Borat

There, I've said it.

Not that anyone cares.

I watch horrified as his grotesque parade passes through town, to the thunderous applause of the village idiots...

stewart lee - don't get me started

What's Wrong With Blasphemy?

Find out here

Possible Epic Stupidity

If it does turn out that Comedy Central has removed all Daily Show, Steven Cobert and South Park from YouTube, it may be the dumbest media move this decade.

Funny how it comes less than 2 weeks before their election.

I'm just sayin'.

Revisionist History Strkes Again

The mayor of Montreal, Gerald Tremblay, announced - without consultation - that Montreal's 'Avenue du Parc' would be renamed 'Avenue Robert Bourassa.' The street has a lot of history and hosts some thriving communities, so feeling is rising high on the issue. A web-consulting company - that happens to be located on Avenue du Parc - put up an e-petition. When I first saw the thing they were aiming to collect 1000 'signatures.' It's grown so fast over the past day that they're now aiming for 20000. I keep getting emails from friends with a link to the petition and it seems to be growing by the minute."

I only just heard about this on Saturday. Who the fuck does Tremblay think he is? Bourassa? BooBoo Bourassa? A street named after him (?!), and of course it's one that had an English (sounding) name. Only bunkers should be named after old BooBoo.

There is an online petition here. It can only be signed by Montrealers, so tell any if you know any!

L'avenue de Parc est maintenant avenue de Robert BooBoo ? Jamais!

How stupid does he think Americans are?

Yeah yeah, I know...

Jump!

This is just one (though perhaps the best) of several jaw dropping scenes from the last Battlestar Galactica.

Ah hell, here's another

Party Time

Chester and I have birthdays close together, so we had a party last night.



All the local celebs were there, Simone Denny, Shelley Hamilton, Liz Tansey, DJ Robert (from Barrie!) and of course The Creampuff Princess.

Fooding

Chester Wong and Princess, on a one day food tour of Toronto.

No cupcake is safe.

Toronto Zanta

Crazy man, or performance artist? No one is quite sure, but if you live in Toronto you've seen him.

He's good, but no one can match the horror of the Harmonica Lady of Montréal.

More info here

No Time for Nuts

Scrat - No time for nuts
Uploaded by Juraya

King George

The Story of 1

Hosted by Terry Jones, here

75,000-year-old shell beads

Early shell beads from recent and old excavations push back the date for human culture

"There is a heated debate on when did we become culturally modern, that is when did we develop language, symbolic thinking, religion, etc. Personal ornaments, along with art, are unanimously seen as archaeological proof of the acquisition of those abilities."

I don't see that connection but...

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Happy Bubbles, but Devoted Bubbles

Here it is Ladies and Gentlemen, the Salvador Dali Alka Seltzer ad.

Only took me 34 years to track the sucker down.

What we still don't know

which is a 3 part series available on Google:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

If this is a real Bentley ad

then their arrogence knows no bounds.

TheirTube

Google buys YouTube.

Beginning of the end of YouTube as we knew it. Corporate control will bring corporate blandness. But, it's what the viewer *really* wants, isn't it?

So just sit back and watch, like a good audience should. Leave the entertaining to the professionals.

Read what little more there is here and here

Battlestar moves to NBC

Frak.

"The question is:  will NBC be tolerant of the quasi-political themes that BSG seems to take from the most controversial page of world events?"

Quasi? Season 3's opener was a pretty clear inditement of the whole Bush mess, or at least to me it was. So yes, the network might mess with that. I'm more afraid of the "7 of 9 Syndrome", where there will be more ballistic breasts coming at you from every angle.

And that's just the men.

The Desert Origins of the Pharaohs

Interesting article about Canadian archeologist Mary McDonald and her search of the origins of Egyptian civilization.


Read it here

Torture is best before bedtime

You don't matter

Check out Answers in Genesis for the real reason behind the violence in society.

Evolution.

Yum

I went to a new Korean restaurant here in Toronto last night, and I had never heard of this kind of place.

I feel I have been under a rock on this one. You cook your meal on a grill built into the table.

There was chicken, beef, pork, salmon, whitefish, ribs....

Yum

Only negative point would be the rice, which has been standing around before we got it.

Not holding my breath

Canada to formally protest to U.S. over deported man

Read more here

"Bush is unpopular with many Canadians and the protest may help deflect opposition complaints that Harper is too close to the U.S. president."

LOFL

Lucas: Indy 4 Still Developing

George Lucas told Variety that the much-delayed Indiana Jones 4 is still in development, but not exactly on the horizon.

Let me go on the record here and state that I hope it is a film that never gets made. Mr. Lucas, the moment has passed, and that moment was in 1981.

Christie's Star Trek Auction: follow up

Star Trek memorabilia sale a big hit in New York

Read more here

Olbermann

Keith Olbermann, who sees himself as Edward R. Murrow reborn, gave another fiery attack against Bush & Co. last night.

Watch it here

He seems to be the only voice from MSM in the western world speaking about against the madness, but....

Indian XBox360 ad

300

Frank Miller's retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae is coming next March, and the offical trailer is out now (it was on a German site recently, but was pulled)

It looks amazing, can't say if the film will be any good.

Watch it here

The 'war on terror' that ruined Rome

An article exploring the parallels between Rome's response to a "terrorist" attack, and the modern equivalent.

Read it here

Dr. Bloody Bronowski

He knows everything

"Oh, I wouldn't like that, it would take the mystery out of life"*

Jacob's Bronowski's famous 1973 documentary series "The Ascent of Man" is available (at least for now) on Google video. Be warned though, that episodes 2 and 10 seem to be missing.

See part 1 here

* Monty Python, The Penquin sketch

Fish Heads

Starring Bill Paxton. Could you ask for anything more?

Must...regain...control

Anti-DRM ad

How drunk is this

Walking with Cavemen

A BBC series on the evolution of mankind.

It has perhaps an overly dramatic style, and the host reminds me of a comedian from the 60's, but...

Part 1 here

Pictures at an Exhibition

I'm in the process of making a virtual video tour of an exhibition of my work.

Stay tuned.

Decide for yourself

From Think Progress:

Last night, the CBS Evening News turned their broadcast over to a man named Brian Rohrbough, who lost his son during the Columbine massacre. Mr. Rohrbough proceeded to blame recent school shootings on: 1) the teaching of evolution, and 2) abortion. Watch it:

Christie's Star Trek Auction

From Startrek.com:

The countdown begins! This Thursday, October 5, is hammer time as Christie's auction house in New York begins bringing the gavel down on items spanning the entire 40-year career of the Star Trek franchise. This historic auction will take place over the course of three days (Oct. 5-7) and promises to be a huge hit throughout the galaxy. (We have it on good authority!)

Medieval hall discovered in barn

It's over there, under those newspapers...

Actually, "a couple from Hengoed in Denbighshire discovered one of their outbuildings was originally a 15th century medieval hall house.

Historians have dated the building using dendrochronology - the analysis of tree rings in timbers - to 1447.

Experts said the find was "extremely rare"."

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That's One Small Step for

a Man?

Seems a computer programmer named Peter Shann Ford has analyzed Neil Armstrong's first words on the moon, and discovered the missing "a".

Maybe...

Listen here and decide for your self...

I don't hear it, and have always felt the pause Mr. Armstrong takes after "man" was him saying to himself "Damn! Damn! Damn! I fucked it up!"

Apoxyòmenos

A bronze statue of a Greek athlete has been put on show in Florence, Italy, after undergoing seven years of restoration work.

The relic, thought to be 2,000 years old, was aboard a ship that sunk in the Adriatic Sea...


Read more here and watch more here

Chihuahuas & Root Beer Don't Mix

T. Rex Soft Tissue Found Preserved

Too strange.

A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil has yielded what appear to be the only preserved soft tissues ever recovered from a dinosaur. Taken from a 70-million-year-old thighbone, the structures look like the blood vessels, cells, and proteins involved in bone formation.

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Fallen Art

wow

The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project

Scientists are to begin work on the second phase of a project aimed at piecing together the history of human colonisation in Britain

Neanderthal News

SCIENTISTS are attempting to extract DNA for the first time from the fossilised bones thought to be of a Neanderthal man who roamed Britain 35,000 years ago.

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Neanderthal 'butcher's shop' found near Somme, France

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