Gore must know Harper really well...
Al Gore condemned Canada's new plan to reduce greenhouse gases, saying it was "a complete and total fraud" because it lacks specifics and gives industry a way to actually increase emissions.
"It is designed to mislead the Canadian people."
Yes, some of them will be mislead...they voted for Harper after all...
Read more here.
Monday, April 30, 2007
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Fark can Fuck off
From backingwinds blog:
FARK.com just underwent a major site redesign, and lost among the clutter is their new legal policy. One would intuitively think that simply posting a photograph to the forums over at FARK.com would not mean that one is surrendering their copyright to FARK.com for all time, but it would appear that that is no longer the case:
Fark.com is the legal owner of all copyright interests of Fark.com content. Each and every submission to Fark.com carries with it an implied assignment of the entire copyright interest in the submission. In exchange for the content and publication of that submission on Fark.com, Fark.com grants back to the submitter a non-exclusive, non-transferable and royalty-free license to republish that submission in any and all forms.
Essentially, this means that posting any of your content to FARK, be it photograph, text, or whatever, immediately and forever transfers your copyright ownership to the owners of FARK.com.
Read more here.
FARK.com just underwent a major site redesign, and lost among the clutter is their new legal policy. One would intuitively think that simply posting a photograph to the forums over at FARK.com would not mean that one is surrendering their copyright to FARK.com for all time, but it would appear that that is no longer the case:
Fark.com is the legal owner of all copyright interests of Fark.com content. Each and every submission to Fark.com carries with it an implied assignment of the entire copyright interest in the submission. In exchange for the content and publication of that submission on Fark.com, Fark.com grants back to the submitter a non-exclusive, non-transferable and royalty-free license to republish that submission in any and all forms.
Essentially, this means that posting any of your content to FARK, be it photograph, text, or whatever, immediately and forever transfers your copyright ownership to the owners of FARK.com.
Read more here.
Text reveals more ancient secrets
Experts are "lost for words" to have found that a medieval prayer book has yielded yet another key ancient text buried within its parchment.
Works by mathematician Archimedes and the politician Hyperides had already been found buried within the book, known as the Archimedes Palimpsest.
But now advanced imaging technology has revealed a third text - a commentary on the philosopher Aristotle.
Read more here.
Works by mathematician Archimedes and the politician Hyperides had already been found buried within the book, known as the Archimedes Palimpsest.
But now advanced imaging technology has revealed a third text - a commentary on the philosopher Aristotle.
Read more here.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Signs and Wonders
Awesome God, NEW Jesus SIGHTING in Google Maps.
The Medieval mind continues to amaze me.
Second Life pVIII
A report from inside.
I've been inside for a month now, and have learned more about SL (as it is referred to inside. Outside is RL...)
On the downside, SL is expensive if you want to "own" land and build. First you pay outright for the land, then a monthly "land fee", depending on how much land you own.
I am presently at 1, 536 sqm, and am desperately looking around for a money raising scheme.
What makes money here? Land, gambling and sex (as well as clothing and body enhancements. Penises seem to go for twice the price of a whole body...and they're are different models and levels of functionality).
At the end of the day, SL is a chatroom (ok, rooms). It has its strange subcultures (Furries for example), and worlds of roleplay and violence. But it is multi-varied and always visually interesting (or shockingly tacky. Malls here can be nightmares).
When if finally comes in. Like a gif in the 90's, worlds in SL can take time to download and complete ("rezzing"), resulting in wonderful surreal landscapes.
My own landscape grew last week with the purchase of a piece of land next to my first. I took down the "house/gallery" on the first, replaced it with a park and began to build a new gallery.
So I settling in to the new world, developing my character and his role there...
Cirque du Soleil
I just don't get the point of Cirque du Soleil
Even though I come from Montreal, I have to agree with the writer of the following article and it's commentors...
There's no denying the skill of the performers, but it just seems so full of it's own self-importance. It's acrobatics and gymnastics - not the Cistine Chapel
Their marketing is Pretention of the highest order. My thoughts on the Love show are here.
Read more here.
Even though I come from Montreal, I have to agree with the writer of the following article and it's commentors...
There's no denying the skill of the performers, but it just seems so full of it's own self-importance. It's acrobatics and gymnastics - not the Cistine Chapel
Their marketing is Pretention of the highest order. My thoughts on the Love show are here.
Read more here.
Zeke's Gallery
Zeke Gallery blog has been getting cease and desist letters bacause of a posting:
Over the weekend I apparently got a visit by a bailiff. It appears that Pierre Antoine Tremblay doesn't like this here blog. Specifically, this post from November.
It also appears that M. Tremblay needs to learn the difference between the subject of a sentence and the object of a sentence. I very frequently have the same problem in French. However, in English (and especially if you click on the links in the post) it is obvious that Mr. Martorana was the catalyst for all the arrests and investigating. Personally, I like how M. Tremblay doesn't complain about me writing that he tried to sell some fake paintings to Loto-Quebec.
Then don't even get me started about what I think about his gallery.
Having had my own run in with creeping lawyers and their letters, Zeke should not be too put out.
Over the weekend I apparently got a visit by a bailiff. It appears that Pierre Antoine Tremblay doesn't like this here blog. Specifically, this post from November.
It also appears that M. Tremblay needs to learn the difference between the subject of a sentence and the object of a sentence. I very frequently have the same problem in French. However, in English (and especially if you click on the links in the post) it is obvious that Mr. Martorana was the catalyst for all the arrests and investigating. Personally, I like how M. Tremblay doesn't complain about me writing that he tried to sell some fake paintings to Loto-Quebec.
Then don't even get me started about what I think about his gallery.
Having had my own run in with creeping lawyers and their letters, Zeke should not be too put out.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Adobe must be kidding
From the Adobe website:
Trademarks are not verbs.
CORRECT: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.
Trademarks are not nouns.
CORRECT: The image pokes fun at the Senator.
INCORRECT: The photoshop pokes fun at the Senator.
Always capitalize and use trademarks in their correct form.
CORRECT: The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.
INCORRECT: The image was Photoshopped.
INCORRECT: The image was Adobe® Photoshopped.
Trademarks must never be used as slang terms.
CORRECT: Those who use Adobe® Photoshop® software to manipulate images as a hobby see their work as an art form.
INCORRECT: A photoshopper sees his hobby as an art form.
INCORRECT: My hobby is photoshopping.
Trademarks must never be used in possessive form.
CORRECT: The new features in Adobe® Photoshop® software are impressive.
INCORRECT: Photoshop's features are impressive.
Trademarks are proper adjectives and should be followed by the generic terms they describe.
CORRECT: The image was manipulated using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: The image was manipulated using Photoshop.
Trademarks must never be abbreviated.
CORRECT: Take a look at the new features in Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: Take a look at the new features in PS.
The trademark owner should be identified whenever possible.
CORRECT: People can say whatever words they choose.
INCORRECT: Corporations have a say in it.
Trademarks are not verbs.
CORRECT: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.
Trademarks are not nouns.
CORRECT: The image pokes fun at the Senator.
INCORRECT: The photoshop pokes fun at the Senator.
Always capitalize and use trademarks in their correct form.
CORRECT: The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.
INCORRECT: The image was Photoshopped.
INCORRECT: The image was Adobe® Photoshopped.
Trademarks must never be used as slang terms.
CORRECT: Those who use Adobe® Photoshop® software to manipulate images as a hobby see their work as an art form.
INCORRECT: A photoshopper sees his hobby as an art form.
INCORRECT: My hobby is photoshopping.
Trademarks must never be used in possessive form.
CORRECT: The new features in Adobe® Photoshop® software are impressive.
INCORRECT: Photoshop's features are impressive.
Trademarks are proper adjectives and should be followed by the generic terms they describe.
CORRECT: The image was manipulated using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: The image was manipulated using Photoshop.
Trademarks must never be abbreviated.
CORRECT: Take a look at the new features in Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: Take a look at the new features in PS.
The trademark owner should be identified whenever possible.
CORRECT: People can say whatever words they choose.
INCORRECT: Corporations have a say in it.
Catholic Church buries limbo after centuries
The Roman Catholic Church has effectively buried the concept of limbo, the place where centuries of tradition and teaching held that babies who die without baptism went.
In a long-awaited document, the Church's International Theological Commission said limbo reflected an "unduly restrictive view of salvation".
A long held belief is just tossed out? I guess without a monopoly you have to soften the message. Whatever dudes.
That's one piece of the medieval mind done away with. Now, what about woman, gays? Do they wait another 700 years?
Read more here.
In a long-awaited document, the Church's International Theological Commission said limbo reflected an "unduly restrictive view of salvation".
A long held belief is just tossed out? I guess without a monopoly you have to soften the message. Whatever dudes.
That's one piece of the medieval mind done away with. Now, what about woman, gays? Do they wait another 700 years?
Read more here.
Friday, April 20, 2007
Chinese couple sue Yahoo! in US over torture case
In a brave legal action against the great firewall of China, a jailed political prisoner and his wife have sued Yahoo! in a US court, accusing the internet firm of contributing to torture by helping authorities identify dissidents who were later beaten and imprisoned.
It won't happen, but I hope this fucks Yahoo over.
Read more here.
The human rights group Amnesty accuses Yahoo!, as well as Microsoft and Google, of facilitating or colluding in China's censorship of the net. Amnesty rejects the argument that the companies are "bringing the internet to China" , saying they are merely interested in getting into the market.
Yes of course, and I'm the King of Spain.
It won't happen, but I hope this fucks Yahoo over.
Read more here.
The human rights group Amnesty accuses Yahoo!, as well as Microsoft and Google, of facilitating or colluding in China's censorship of the net. Amnesty rejects the argument that the companies are "bringing the internet to China" , saying they are merely interested in getting into the market.
Yes of course, and I'm the King of Spain.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Uranus rings 'were seen in 1700s'
The rings around the planet Uranus may have been spotted 180 years before the accepted date for their discovery, according to a theory.
According to the orthodox view, the rings around Uranus were detected during an experiment in 1977.
Now, a scientist has re-evaluated a claim made in 1797 by astronomer Sir William Herschel that he saw rings around the seventh planet.
The claim had previously been dismissed as a mistake.
Read more here.
According to the orthodox view, the rings around Uranus were detected during an experiment in 1977.
Now, a scientist has re-evaluated a claim made in 1797 by astronomer Sir William Herschel that he saw rings around the seventh planet.
The claim had previously been dismissed as a mistake.
Read more here.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Would you believe...?
They'll miss it by that much....
Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway are set to play Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 in a movie version of Get Smart.
Will it be set today? Will Agent Smart have to battle the Forces of Evil of today? Will Mel Brooks help write?
"This is Al Queda, We Don't giggle here..."
I may need the Cone of Silence.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Richard Dawkins interviews the Bishop of Oxford
Why can't all those who disagree disagree in this way?
Apple TV Commercial
We control content on your computer. We control content on your iPod. Now, pay us and we'll control content on your TV.
Smoke and mirrors on the water...
Honours MP apologises for 'drunken romp'
"...in the interests of everyone concerned I have nothing further to say on this matter."
Read more here.
Read more here.
Private Launches, New Tech
... This Isn't Your Parents' Space Age...
True, we *actually* went somewhere. What a condescending headline.
Anyway, read more here.
True, we *actually* went somewhere. What a condescending headline.
Anyway, read more here.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Joan of Arc remains 'are fakes'
Bones thought to be the holy remains of 15th Century French heroine Joan of Arc were in fact made from an Egyptian mummy and a cat, research has revealed.
In 1867, a jar was found in a Paris pharmacy attic, along with a label claiming it held relics of Joan's body.
That really burns me up...
Read more here.
In 1867, a jar was found in a Paris pharmacy attic, along with a label claiming it held relics of Joan's body.
That really burns me up...
Read more here.
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