Yes, Bill C-61. Ashamedly, I feel I haven’t discussed it on here as much as I should. Luckily, Michael Geist has reorganized his entire blog for learning about and engaging the bill’s life ahead. Please check it out until I get something more thorough up here.
Here’s a new user rights video from OpenSourceCinema that [...]
I absolutely adore the internet. Elections were so boring and serious without.
With an election imminent in Canada, the federal Liberals would likely be better served by a Bollywood-themed viral campaign than anything else they’re planning/not-planning-at-all. It’ll fare much better than the Mugabe-themed campaign that the Tories now aspire to. Electoral law be damned, I [...]
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 [...]
The New York Times reports on this “Bush Surprise Serenade,” a hidden G.W. recording at an eerily friendly elite media-political event.
Bush has had a complex history with his artistic/cultural skills and social media. In the past few weeks, cell phone videos of Bush’s funky dancing in Africa made it to YouTube and others. And [...]
Alex Steffen at Worldchanging points us to Ethan Zuckerman’s superb recap of his talk at ETech. In it, he outlines his “Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism” which is both prescient and perversely hope-inspiring, making one feel more safe from government censorship.
Zuckerman’s theory goes as follows (1) create web to share research, (2) develop [...]
A Saul Bass, famous title and graphic designer, paleo-remix of the Star Wars opening credits.
Paleo-remix. There. I’ve just coined my very own neologistic portmanteau.
(Via kottke.)