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#JeSuisCharlie (And Some Tangents About Language, The Nature of Offense and the Unintended Consequences of Trigger Warnings)

Trigger Warning: This essay contains ideas you might not agree with. You’ve probably heard about the terrorist criminal attack today in Paris that targeted journalists and cartoonists with a satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo. Instead of trying to write an essay to capture my thoughts (since The Onion did a pretty good job on that front already), I’ll […]

¶ Posted 07 January 2015 § Censorship § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: atheism, history, language, philosophy

Mark Zuckerberg Starts Online Book Club – Is He The Internet Generation’s Oprah?

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has started an online book club to help facilitate his annual resolution. Other years, he’s pledged to do everything from study Mandarin to wearing a tie every day to meeting one new person (who doesn’t work for Facebook) each day. This year, he’s aiming to read at least one book every […]

¶ Posted 04 January 2015 § Internet § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, facebook

Friday Fun Link – New Copyright Laws Come Into Effect Today (On An Unrelated Note, Here’s Some Info On How To Torrent Without Your ISP Being Able to Identify You)

A new law comes into effect today which requires ISPs to forward letters to their customers that media companies suspect of pirating movies, music and other digital content via IP addresses connected to those files. On a completely unrelated note, here’s a thread on Reddit about ways that people can torrent files without your ISP knowing […]

¶ Posted 02 January 2015 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Humour § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: copyright, economics

Music Monday – “Do what you wanna do”

Not sure why I’d post this when 90% is music I don’t know or listen to. Oh well, still interesting as a snapshot of a moment in time… “United States of Pop 2014 Mashup (Do What You Wanna Do)” – DJ Earworm

¶ Posted 29 December 2014 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

“What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Ridiculous Hypothetical Questions”

¶ Posted 23 December 2014 § Internet § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, science

Music Monday – “They’re singing deck the halls/But it’s not like Christmas at all/I remember when you were here/All the fun we had last year”

Perhaps unsurprisingly, noted curmudgeonly TV host, David Letterman hates Christmas music. But each year, he makes an exception for Darlene Love’s version of “It’s Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)” which he featured on his talk show with a four piece backing band in his earliest years… …and which has grown over the years to a […]

¶ Posted 22 December 2014 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, music, television

Defending Corner Gas

An essay explaining how both “Corner Gas” the TV show and now the movie reflect the best of Canada: In fact the entire movie, about a tiny town going bankrupt, is really about how we, in Canada, react to crisis. It’s about us at our best and worst. The humour is absurdist, never mean-spirited. The […]