Um, yeah ok...
Markings on a 16th Century carving from Stirling Castle could be the oldest surviving piece of written Scottish instrumental music, historians believe.
A sequence of 0s, Is and IIs have been found on one of the Stirling Heads - wooden medallions which would have decorated the castle's royal palace.
It is believed the music could have been played on instruments such as harps, viols, fiddles and lutes.
An experienced harpist has been trying to play the tune.
Read more here.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Fuck you Adobe
An ham fisted attempt to get us to upgrade to CS4, obscenely overpriced at $700.
Adobe announced this week that it has not tested and will not support its Creative Suite 3 line of products, including Photoshop CS3, on Apple's new Snow Leopard operating system.
John Nack, the principal product manager for Photoshop at Adobe, announced on his official blog that CS3 and earlier have not been tested on Snow Leopard. He provided a link to a compatibility document from Adobe that went even further.
"While older Adobe and Macromedia applications may install and run on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6), they were designed, tested and released to the public several years before this new operating system became available," the document states. "You may therefore experience a variety of installation, stability, and reliability issues for which there is no resolution. Older versions of our creative software will not be updated to support Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6)."
Read more here.
Adobe announced this week that it has not tested and will not support its Creative Suite 3 line of products, including Photoshop CS3, on Apple's new Snow Leopard operating system.
John Nack, the principal product manager for Photoshop at Adobe, announced on his official blog that CS3 and earlier have not been tested on Snow Leopard. He provided a link to a compatibility document from Adobe that went even further.
"While older Adobe and Macromedia applications may install and run on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6), they were designed, tested and released to the public several years before this new operating system became available," the document states. "You may therefore experience a variety of installation, stability, and reliability issues for which there is no resolution. Older versions of our creative software will not be updated to support Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6)."
Read more here.
Neolithic cathedral in Orkney
Article about this recent discovery, marred by a tangent into the nature of religion, and why it's not going away anytime soon.
And so it goes on – yet another spectacular archaeological find in Orkney, but this one is a real “biggie”, an astonishing discovery which is really exciting archaeologists. VisitScotland is also pretty chuffed, especially as tourism is expected to take a bit of a knock in the aftermath of the al Megrahi business.
So, what's it all about? Experts have unearthed a Neolithic “cathedral” – a massive building of a kind never before seen in Britain. It has left archaeologists stunned.
This is not like finding a couple of bits of broken pottery. This is literally groundbreaking.
At 82ft long and 65ft wide, it is placed between two of Orkney's most famous Neolithic landmarks, the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness.
You may remember that, in one of his TV series, Billy Connolly cavorted naked around the Ring of Brodgar. Nothing quite like one ancient relic dancing around a whole lot of others.
Read more here.
And so it goes on – yet another spectacular archaeological find in Orkney, but this one is a real “biggie”, an astonishing discovery which is really exciting archaeologists. VisitScotland is also pretty chuffed, especially as tourism is expected to take a bit of a knock in the aftermath of the al Megrahi business.
So, what's it all about? Experts have unearthed a Neolithic “cathedral” – a massive building of a kind never before seen in Britain. It has left archaeologists stunned.
This is not like finding a couple of bits of broken pottery. This is literally groundbreaking.
At 82ft long and 65ft wide, it is placed between two of Orkney's most famous Neolithic landmarks, the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness.
You may remember that, in one of his TV series, Billy Connolly cavorted naked around the Ring of Brodgar. Nothing quite like one ancient relic dancing around a whole lot of others.
Read more here.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Toronto's most evil landlord
Toronto's Arrabiata restaurant at Yonge and Isabella is closing soon, as its evil landlord wants it for himself to open one of his awful Zelda's.
Uck.
I know at least 2 loyal Arrabiata costumers that will be boycotting any future Zelda incarnation.
Texas to make things all right
Bias in history books meant for the classroom is nothing new.
As children, we in Canada were treated to the story of the British and French "colonization" of North America, with the harmless colonists painted as nobel Christian saviors, while the evil and primitive natives had the nerve to reaction violently to our humanitarian effects to "civilize" them.
Ingrates!
If your European name ended in a vowel, you might get a footnote. Non European? Forget it.
Just the muddy history of Dollard des Ormeaux gives you a hint at how history is used by those in power to influence the present.
* the urban legend that he died by having the as yet unexploded bomb he threw at native warriors thrown back and exploding in his fort is more than likely Anglophone propaganda to make the French look bad. What hand held bombs did they have in 1660 anyway?
Texas high school students would learn about such significant individuals and milestones of conservative politics as Newt Gingrich and the rise of the Moral Majority — but nothing about liberals — under the first draft of new standards for public school history textbooks.
And the side that got left out is very unhappy.
As it stands, students would get “one-sided, right wing ideology,” said Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, chairman of the House Mexican American Caucus.
“We ought to be focusing on historical significance and historical figures. It's important that whatever course they take, that it portray a complete view of our history and not a jaded view to suit one's partisan agenda or one's partisan philosophy,” he said.
Read more here.
As children, we in Canada were treated to the story of the British and French "colonization" of North America, with the harmless colonists painted as nobel Christian saviors, while the evil and primitive natives had the nerve to reaction violently to our humanitarian effects to "civilize" them.
Ingrates!
If your European name ended in a vowel, you might get a footnote. Non European? Forget it.
Just the muddy history of Dollard des Ormeaux gives you a hint at how history is used by those in power to influence the present.
* the urban legend that he died by having the as yet unexploded bomb he threw at native warriors thrown back and exploding in his fort is more than likely Anglophone propaganda to make the French look bad. What hand held bombs did they have in 1660 anyway?
Texas high school students would learn about such significant individuals and milestones of conservative politics as Newt Gingrich and the rise of the Moral Majority — but nothing about liberals — under the first draft of new standards for public school history textbooks.
And the side that got left out is very unhappy.
As it stands, students would get “one-sided, right wing ideology,” said Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, chairman of the House Mexican American Caucus.
“We ought to be focusing on historical significance and historical figures. It's important that whatever course they take, that it portray a complete view of our history and not a jaded view to suit one's partisan agenda or one's partisan philosophy,” he said.
Read more here.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Drew Barrymore is...
the Godmother of the late Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's daughter, Frances Bean
Now I've heard everything...
Now I've heard everything...
Runway found for flying reptiles
O..k..sure
An ancient runway for flying reptiles called pterosaurs has been found in France, say researchers writing in a Royal Society journal.
Read more here.
An ancient runway for flying reptiles called pterosaurs has been found in France, say researchers writing in a Royal Society journal.
Read more here.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
FBI home to dangerous idiots
What planet do they spend most of their time on?
A notorious New Jersey hate blogger charged in June with threatening to kill judges and lawmakers was secretly an FBI “agent provocateur” paid to disseminate right-wing rhetoric, his attorney said Wednesday.
Hal Turner, the blogger and radio personality, remains jailed pending charges over his recent online rants, which prosecutors claim amounted to an invitation for someone to kill Connecticut lawmakers and Chicago federal appeals court judges.
But behind the scenes the reformed white supremacist was holding clandestine meetings with FBI agents who taught him how to spew hate “without crossing the line,” according to his lawyer, Michael Orozco.
Read more here.
A notorious New Jersey hate blogger charged in June with threatening to kill judges and lawmakers was secretly an FBI “agent provocateur” paid to disseminate right-wing rhetoric, his attorney said Wednesday.
Hal Turner, the blogger and radio personality, remains jailed pending charges over his recent online rants, which prosecutors claim amounted to an invitation for someone to kill Connecticut lawmakers and Chicago federal appeals court judges.
But behind the scenes the reformed white supremacist was holding clandestine meetings with FBI agents who taught him how to spew hate “without crossing the line,” according to his lawyer, Michael Orozco.
Read more here.
Robert Zemeckis must be stopped
Even the Boob thinks it's a bad idea....
Disney and director Robert Zemeckis are negotiating to remake “Yellow Submarine,” the 1968 psychedelic animated film based on the music of The Beatles.
The studio has been quietly brokering a complicated rights deal that would give Zemeckis access to 16 original Beatles songs for a movie he will direct in the performance-capture 3-D digital production
Read more here.
Disney and director Robert Zemeckis are negotiating to remake “Yellow Submarine,” the 1968 psychedelic animated film based on the music of The Beatles.
The studio has been quietly brokering a complicated rights deal that would give Zemeckis access to 16 original Beatles songs for a movie he will direct in the performance-capture 3-D digital production
Read more here.
Ink found in Jurassic-era squid
Palaeontologists have drawn with ink extracted from a preserved fossilised squid uncovered during a dig in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
The fossil, thought to be 150 million years old, was found when a rock was cracked open, revealing the one-inch-long black ink sac.
A picture of the creature and its Latin name was drawn using its ink.
Read more here.
The fossil, thought to be 150 million years old, was found when a rock was cracked open, revealing the one-inch-long black ink sac.
A picture of the creature and its Latin name was drawn using its ink.
Read more here.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Model wins right not to be called "skank"
Court forces Google to tell model Liskula Cohen identity of blogger that called her 'skank'
And "ho" and "psychotic" and "lying" and "whoring"....
Read more here.
And "ho" and "psychotic" and "lying" and "whoring"....
Read more here.
Something is rotten in Harperland
We seem to be living through the worse government this country has ever seen, and after Mulroney that's quite the achievement.
The whole afraid concerning the Canadian woman Suaad Hagi Mohamud, who was detained in Kenya charged with being an impostor, keeps getting stranger.
The Canadian diplomat who officially disowned Suaad Hagi Mohamud as an "imposter" has been recalled from Kenya.
Liliane Khadour has "concluded" her posting, a consular official at the Canadian High Commission said yesterday from the capital, Nairobi.
"Her tour of duty is over," he said, explaining that Foreign Affairs employees rotate posts every two or three years, and Khadour had been in Nairobi for two. "I am not very sure where she went."
Khadour is now in Ottawa.
Although she owns a condominium apartment there with her partner, Jason Joyce, the two are staying at a downtown hotel. Both had been working at the commission in Nairobi as first secretaries.
When reached by cellphone yesterday, Joyce hung up almost immediately. Neither answered the phone in their hotel room or returned messages.
The Canada Border Services Agency has opened an internal investigation into the handling of Mohamud's case.
Had this been a white woman, the Harper government would have had her back in 24 hours, given her a ticker tape parade, and blamed the whole thing on the Liberals...
Read more here.
The whole afraid concerning the Canadian woman Suaad Hagi Mohamud, who was detained in Kenya charged with being an impostor, keeps getting stranger.
The Canadian diplomat who officially disowned Suaad Hagi Mohamud as an "imposter" has been recalled from Kenya.
Liliane Khadour has "concluded" her posting, a consular official at the Canadian High Commission said yesterday from the capital, Nairobi.
"Her tour of duty is over," he said, explaining that Foreign Affairs employees rotate posts every two or three years, and Khadour had been in Nairobi for two. "I am not very sure where she went."
Khadour is now in Ottawa.
Although she owns a condominium apartment there with her partner, Jason Joyce, the two are staying at a downtown hotel. Both had been working at the commission in Nairobi as first secretaries.
When reached by cellphone yesterday, Joyce hung up almost immediately. Neither answered the phone in their hotel room or returned messages.
The Canada Border Services Agency has opened an internal investigation into the handling of Mohamud's case.
Had this been a white woman, the Harper government would have had her back in 24 hours, given her a ticker tape parade, and blamed the whole thing on the Liberals...
Read more here.
Colder than most people from Toronto
Coors should be sued for false advertising. Nothing is that cold.
You may be cold, but many of you apparently can get pretty steamed when the city is insulted.
Molson Coors Canada is pulling billboard ads that make fun of people in Hogtown after receiving complaints about the slogan that boasts Coors Light beer is "colder than most people from Toronto." The ad was on billboards only in British Columbia but visitors from Toronto who spotted them weren't impressed.
Read more here.
You may be cold, but many of you apparently can get pretty steamed when the city is insulted.
Molson Coors Canada is pulling billboard ads that make fun of people in Hogtown after receiving complaints about the slogan that boasts Coors Light beer is "colder than most people from Toronto." The ad was on billboards only in British Columbia but visitors from Toronto who spotted them weren't impressed.
Read more here.
Bloor 1 sold to "mysterious" buyer
The developer who had been clinging to control of the once-lauded One Bloor Street East condo development announced last night that the project has been sold.
The One Bloor tower has been mired in a struggle after its developer, Bazis International Inc., defaulted on the loan it used to buy the land. The tower, planned for the southeast corner of Yonge and Bloor streets, had once been billed as Canada's tallest residential structure, with about 80 storeys.
Read more here.
The One Bloor tower has been mired in a struggle after its developer, Bazis International Inc., defaulted on the loan it used to buy the land. The tower, planned for the southeast corner of Yonge and Bloor streets, had once been billed as Canada's tallest residential structure, with about 80 storeys.
Read more here.
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