From Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing:
Last year, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation created a new radio show, Search Engine, to chronicle the shifts being wrought upon global culture and politics as a consequence of technology. It was smart, funny, broke important stories, changed Canadian politics, won awards, and was a global success.
So the CBC cancelled it.
A [...]
Hate pervades Calgary.
Or at least compared to the national average. So says Statistics Canada in a new report.
They provided some facts on the state of hate and violence in Canada:
Among the 220 hate crimes reported by police to be motivated by religion, offences against the Jewish faith were the most common, accounting for [...]
Here in Calgary Broken City’s Celebrity Hot Tub and the HiFi Club have localized the global trend of paparazzi-style party pictures.
HoboGestapo, nightlife photographer in Sydney, captured pics of a stabbing outside of a club on film.
HipsterRunoff, who pointed me to the pics, asks:
I don’t think many people have a problem with party pix [...]
I assure you, this will be the most incredibly impressive thing you see today.
BLU produced a stop-motion animation creature that criss-crosses Buenos Aires and Baden and, now, the deepest, darkest crevasses of my black and white nightmare lands.
The care and thought that went into this is difficult to comprehend; watching the intricate animation [...]
Did an entirely strange anachronistic-cultural meme emerge without me being aware of it? Having abandoned MySpace for all but occasional music needs I had forgotten how strange and fascinating it could be.
A story about a London DJ troupe The Shellac Sisters, who only spin 78s on wind-up gramaphone in period dress, showed up on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I always find these stats fascinating.
Via Andrew Gelman (h/t: Richard Florida)
Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Professor and founder of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is considering running for Congress.
The passing of representative Tom Lantos in the California 12th, a Facebook group, and DraftLessig.org have encouraged him to do so.
For the [...]
