This is the first of a series of posts on free culture and podcasting. I’ll be pulling out some of my favourite podcasts for discussion and highlighting some of the best podcasting available in the commons.
Free Culture Podcasts: One
Canada’s Robert J. Sawyer on TVO’s Big Ideas
Science fiction — or, as it is often wished to [...]
You Are At The Archives for March, 2008
Robert J. Sawyer on SF and Society 03.31.08
CBC Televison among the first to play catch-up 03.27.08
CBC News has posted a story about the CBC Television decision to distribute Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister via the bittorrent p2p protocol.
Turns out a lot of downloaders were surprised to discover that Rogers and Bell shape traffic on legal downloads. Many more familiar bittorrent users were surprised to discover that CBC isn’t very [...]
DVNO: Beautiful memories of youth 03.26.08
I sure do adore Justice.
DVNO, from their album †, has a new music video. Like their other videos, it is very impressive and very unlike videos from their musical peers.
The video is a visual-pastiche of reworked 1980s/90s television bumpers and is fascinating to watch. There certainly was a distinctive design aesthetic for [...]
If they mated… 03.25.08
Argh!
New Republic Profiles Androgynous Liberal Deathbot [via Wonkette]
Canada, U.S. agree to use each other’s troops in civil emergencies 03.25.08
Did you hear about this? I sure didn’t. Which is surprising as I read six newspapers and several dozen news RSS feeds a day. Sounds like our governments were purposefully trying to keep this secret, too. From the Ottawa Citizen on February 22, 2008:
Canada and the U.S. have signed an agreement that paves the way [...]
REMIX: There Will Be Vader 03.24.08
A brilliant and impressive remix of the Star Wars (episodes 4-6) with There Will Be Blood. Darth Vader is re-dubbed as Daniel Day Lewis’ Daniel Planview character. Only makes sense if you’ve seen the second film, probably — but well worth it if you have.
The strength of this work is another argument for supporting [...]
Standard Operating Procedure - trailer for the new Abu Ghraib doc 03.24.08
Trailer for Standard Operating Procedure a new Abu Ghraib documentary by award-winning Fog of War director Errol Morris.
RateMyCop.com more for tickets than murder 03.23.08
The media has shown some interest in a new police officer rating web site RateMyCop.com. It’s similar to campus offerings like RateMyProf or disgusting newcomer JuicyCampus, where students anonymously post which youngsters are SLUTTS at UCLA and who the sexiest varsity water polo player is Harvard.
As discussed last week, people are increasingly using technology [...]
Widening life expectancy gap between rich and poor Americans 03.23.08
A report in today’s New York Times reveals a large and widening gap in life-expectancies between rich and poor Americans. During most of the previous century, life expectancies tended to improve roughly equally across income divides. Since the 1980s this is no longer the case as poorer Americans see life expectancies improving much slower then [...]
Arthur C. Clarke: The Final Interview 03.21.08
Wired’s Danger Room points us to The Final Arthur C. Clarke Interview. Clarke gave few interviews later in life and this offers a good summary of why the man was important and what he was thinking about toward the end of his life. He, as always, has interesting and sensible comments about our future in [...]
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