Archive for July, 2006

Swish if you love terrorism

Friday, July 21st, 2006

And now, Middle East political analyst Bob the Angry Flower on proportional response.

Lockout and the damage done

Friday, July 21st, 2006

So much for all that “I like the CBC better now!” noise we were hearing during the lockout.

The lockout ordered by CBC management last August cost Canada’s public broadcaster a large share of its listening audience, according to data from an annual survey covering more than 90,000 radio listeners. — StatsCan

Discussed on Inside the CBC, CBCwatch and Dot Dot Dot.

John Hodgman (the PC) on net neutrality

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

John Hodgman with a surprising good explaination of net neutrality for the Daily Show.

This was a great opportunity to poke fun at Hodgman’s other gig.

“Uh, what kind of computer would you be?”

“It doesn’t– I could be a home computer or a network server.”

And then later:

“Cats dressed as nuns eating from dishes of gravy.”

Wuh?