Ode, a fabulous magazine out of Rotterdam, gives a nod to This and to Broken Social Scene in the June 2005 issue. “According to This, Broken Broken Social Scene is a successful example of a new movement in the music world that has declared cooperation as the key to creativity…. This believes this breakthrough of […] More »
Hola cada uno. A Ethpanya hoy. El ningun blogging por 10 dias por lo menos. Si algunos cuidados, mi revision de todo malo son buenos para usted aparecen en Poste Nacional de manyana. Aqui esta un bromista: Everything Bad is Good For You: How Today’s Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter By Steven Johnson […] More »
So, all excited I went and bought “Make Believe”, the new Weezer album. It is beyond garbage. The best review I’ve seen so far is — alas — the Pitchfork review, which gives it 0.4 out of 10. As the reviewer points out, Make Believe is one of those things, like Phantom Menace or the […] More »
Just to repeat a point made a couple weeks back, Independent MP David Kilgour now appears to be the most powerful person in Canadian politics. With his all-important vote pretty much deciding the immediate fate of Paul Martin, Steven Harper, etc., he has the ear of all those who may have something to say about […] More »
Compare and contrast: The aggressive, bloodthirsty rush to depose the Liberals exhibited by Stephen Harper, with the slow-motion 10-year coup that Paul Martin carried out against Jean Chretien. Discuss in light of Machiavelli’s The Prince, especially with respect to the following passage from Chapter 8 (emphasis added by the instructor): Some may wonder how it […] More »
Bring out your dead! Wolfgang Puck introduced a new line of lattes this month. That the Los Angeles chef has stamped his name on yet another product isn’t surprising. But the container is. It heats itself. It took a California company named OnTech seven years and $24 million to create the self-heating cans, which are […] More »
Stephen Harper, with apparently no regard for his reputation as a warm-blooded sentient being, gets all robotic and snakey on Canada’s ass. From the Globe story on today’s pathetic, I mean political, maneuvering: Two Tory MPs who have cancer are being flown in for the vote, and all 54 Bloc MPs are in Ottawa today. […] More »
I’m being a delinquent Web Editor by posting to the blog when I need to get the current issue up, but here’s an important development for those of you in Toronto: on Wednesday city council will be voting on whether to implement video screens throughout the subway system (in stations and on train cars) as […] More »
Joe Heath and I are going to Spain next week to promote the Spanish edition of the thing we wrote. I’ll blog if anything interesting happens, but otherwise I’m going to spend this week reading a couple of histories of Spain. I can’t wait to visit a country with an even weaker central government and […] More »
Kansas is at it again. According to a report in the NYTimes, the State Board of Ed in Kansas, backed by a conservative majority is holding hearings designed to introduce new science standards — standards that would leave the door open for teachers to disregard the ‘theory’ of evolution in favour of the ‘biblical fact’ […] More »