Hey Ryan, Long time, no talk! I hope doctoring is going well, married life is treating you swimmingly and your decision to leave politics behind continues to be the right decision. I suspect I know your answers to those questions which makes this next statement a hard one to make. But with the announcement of […]
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“Imagine for a moment that you know a man who beats his wife.”
Sorry to go to “all WikiLeaks, all the time” lately but this story really interests me for all the implications it has in a number of areas – from world politics to freedom of speech to corporate power to the overarching impact of the Internet in each of those realms. Here’s another editorial which I […]
WikiLeaks: Free Speech, Cyberwar 1.0 and Corporate Control of the Cloud
WikiLeaks (which is down as I write this for reasons I’ll get to) is a site that’s been around since 2006 and first got a mention on this blog just over a year ago for a library-related story. Since then, the site has released two fairly large dumps of information obtained from a single army […]
Ex-Nazi Head of Worldwide Pedophile Ring Warns of “Atheist Menace” (cue laughter from irony police)
Atheist menace? Sure thing, Emperor. 👿 UK officials had some good ideas about the Perp’s visit initally but I think persecuting him for crimes against humanity is a better option. I mean, his “get out of jail free” card is pretty flimsy by any standard. Oh well, we can hope! (most links via Reddit and […]
Fuck The Rain
Seriously.
High School Reunions (& Other Marathons)
Two fairly diverse things converged this weekend to inspire this post. Out of the blue, I got a Facebook message from a high school classmate saying a couple people are starting to talk about our twenty year high school reunion next year. She asked if I’d mind setting up a Facebook group where people could […]
10 Similarities Between Sport & Religion
The Riders once again beat the Bombers in the annual Labour Day Classic at Taylor Field and, with the game happening on a Sunday, I got to thinking about some of the similarities between team sports and religion… TEN SIMILARITIES BETWEEN SPORT & RELIGION 1. Both sport and religion take place in ornate temples regarded […]
Library Meeting Rooms: Exempt From Library Values?
If you’ve read my blog for any length of time, it’s probably pretty clear that I’m not a big fan of religion (having an atheist theme for my annual Christmas post is a pretty big clue!) But as someone who feels just as strongly about the importance of core library values and especially providing access […]
Five Pet Peeves
When you’re sitting at home sick and shivering with a (slightly less) sick kid sitting beside you, that’s a good time for a post listing some of your biggest pet peeves… 1. Captchas that use nonsense words and/or stretch words so that it’s almost impossible to decipher them. (“Is that an ‘i’? An ‘l’? A […]