Monday, August 31, 2009
Even God doesn't trust you Harper
Our beloved PM Stephen Harper has joined the growing number of hack politicians hiding behind God's skirts. I wonder what God's feeling on rank hypocrisy is? We mere mortals are clearer on that issue...
Stephen Harper says he's more concerned about God's judgment than how history books rate his term in office, telling a Quebec magazine in a markedly personal interview that preserving relationships with family is far more important than worrying about a political legacy.
Read more here.
Stephen Harper says he's more concerned about God's judgment than how history books rate his term in office, telling a Quebec magazine in a markedly personal interview that preserving relationships with family is far more important than worrying about a political legacy.
Read more here.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
The Wilderness of Manitoba: Worst Publicity Shot of the Day
Toronto folk "ensemble" The Wilderness of Manitoba may make fine music, but after this I'm too afraid to find out....omg people, what were you thinking?
The cat needs to seriously look around for a new agent.
"We're a spiritual band"
Have you considered exorcism?
Friday, August 28, 2009
I want simply to learn about the world and to live freely
Well I guess she learned a lesson, the world ain't free.
And a word to all the 13 year olds out there. Don't try and do anything exceptional, or you too will be put under psychiatric care.
A Dutch court has put a 13-year-old girl under state care for two months, stalling her bid to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.
The decision by three Utrecht judges means Laura Dekker's parents, who support her plans, temporarily lose the right to make decisions about her.
A child psychologist will now assess her capacity to undertake the voyage.
Read more here.
And a word to all the 13 year olds out there. Don't try and do anything exceptional, or you too will be put under psychiatric care.
A Dutch court has put a 13-year-old girl under state care for two months, stalling her bid to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.
The decision by three Utrecht judges means Laura Dekker's parents, who support her plans, temporarily lose the right to make decisions about her.
A child psychologist will now assess her capacity to undertake the voyage.
Read more here.
Tiny ancient shells point to earliest fashion trend
Shell beads newly unearthed from four sites in Morocco confirm early humans were consistently wearing and potentially trading symbolic jewellery as early as 80,000 years ago. These beads add significantly to similar finds dating back as far as 110,000 in Algeria, Morocco, Israel and South Africa, confirming these as the oldest form of personal ornaments.
Read more here.
Read more here.
Swedish archaeologists uncover 7th century ship
Swedish archaeologists have announced the find of a 7th century burial ship, the oldest of its kind to be discovered in Scandinavia.
The ship, thought to be from the Vendel era (550-793) of Swedish prehistory, was found in Sunnerby on the island of Kållandsö in Lake Vänern in central Sweden and, according to Lake Vänern Museum, is the only known ship burial to be uncovered in Sweden.
Read more here.
The ship, thought to be from the Vendel era (550-793) of Swedish prehistory, was found in Sunnerby on the island of Kållandsö in Lake Vänern in central Sweden and, according to Lake Vänern Museum, is the only known ship burial to be uncovered in Sweden.
Read more here.
The Toronto Music Industry Town Hall
Tonight the government held its second copyright town hall. Only it wasn't really a copyright townhall in the sense of bringing the community together to talk copyright in an open and balanced manner. Instead, the music industry stacked the room to such a degree that little else was discussed. There was the odd intervention from ACTRA, the Writers Guild, the education community, and software developers (and a self-professed pirate who may have worn a fair copyright shirt but did not discuss anything that resembled fair copyright), but the repeated music industry representation was the dominant theme of the night.
Read more here.
Read more here.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Pastor Steven Anderson: Hypocrite of the Day
Behold Pastor Steven Anderson, Obama and gay hating man of God.Who is he trying to kid? Look at that picture, the picture that is setting off Gaydar alarms across the planet ("Me thinks she doth protest too much.")
As they say, the last person to know you're gay is you.
On his radio show, Alan Colmes hosted Pastor Steven Anderson, who recently gave a sermon at Faithful Word Baptist Church in which he said, "When I go to bed at night Steven L. Anderson will pray for Barack Obama to die and go to hell."
Colmes asked the pastor about his views on gays...""I believe that every homosexual in the world is a deviant, is evil, and is a predator that is out to recruit others through molestation, through rape."
Read more here.
U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins: Idiot of the Day
Republicans are looking for the "Great White Hope".....
Luck for us Palin turned out to be the Great White Dope.
Early music discovered on carving
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.
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.
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.
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