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DOA on XM radio

The smartest guys in the satellite radio business may be the geezer punkers who get a second life, and the guys who get to write about it:


"Joey Shithead, meanwhile, doesn't care about any of that. Lounging in XM's
parking lot, exposed to direct sunlight for perhaps the first time in two decades,
the punk rock svengali shrugs. "Hey, XM's beer is cold," says he. "That's good
enough for me."

Meanwhile, the kids out there fully understand P2P bittorrent and streaming media.

Really, it washes off....

I got quite the reaction at work.

My kids had a wee bit of fun with chalk paint at last weekend's street party.

Quailtarnation II

My Quailtarnation post seems to confuse blogger, which stored the post, but can't remember it. Bugger.

Hello Polly

I'm having some weird blogger issues with posting.

Bear with me.

Hip-hop cover of Mozart's "Magic Flute"

Canada's CBC celebrates Mozart's 250th birthday by having a contest where young people submit their performances of Papageno’s aria “A Girl or a Little Wife” from The Magic Flute.

There are 10 official finalists, the youngest is 8 (an honorary one is 4 and a half). Nice, serious, highbrow stuff, except when you get to some 19 year old name Zoltan, who interprets The Magic Flute as hiphop including a libretto done to a rap beat.

Star Trek: Documentary

Apparently, transparent aluminum got invented in 2004. And right now the US government
is working on something akin to warp drive where a space ship gets shoved into another dimension so that you can get to Mars in three hours, and to other star systems in days. Really. No tinfoil hats or anything.

Reported in The Scotsman, of course. Perfect.

Don't Piss Off Paul Wells

I've got new admiration for Paul Wells, one of the few journalists that doesn't play kissy-toes with any of the pols, who calls Paul Martin as the useless sap that he is, reminds us that Stephen Harper, while smart, is made of wood, and that Jack Layton in another life would be a fine manager at Best Buy.

This post is but an example, giving the embarrasing one-up to a smarmy toad of a campaign staffer for Michael Ignatieff, who has been lauded as Trudeau II, but is turning into a wee bit of a joke for the high-handed and, shall-we say, somewhat vice regal way his campaign has been run.
It's clear that Ignatieff is TOO BUSY doing IMPORTANT THINGS at HAHVAHD to do something as plebian as, ugh, door-to-door campaigning in Etobicoke.

Czar Michael's staff might think that walking amongst the plebes is so condescending, especially with a journalist, but it might have worked a little to give the appearance of a common touch, no matter how fake it might be.

CBC News: Sponsorship whistleblower to run for Tories

Harper pursuades Allan Cutler to run against David McGuinty in Ottawa South. Allan Cutler was the whistleblower who got fired because he started the process that led to the Gomery inquiry.

This is the same riding where Maher Arar's wife Monia Mazigh ran for the NDP in the 2004 federal election. If she runs it will make Ottawa South an interesting stop for the media.

Imagine

George W. Bush covers imagine. Amazing.

Hello Cthulhu

Best. Lovecraft. Spoof. Ever!

Perfect

Why the Lego ruling matters

Canada's Lego ruling has huge implications for the technology sector.

You own a patent on protocol or method X, which is, say, a text-based derivative of another protocol. Hrm.

Patent expires or is recalled or can't really be defended. Lots of crap patents out there.

You put "trademarked by so-and-so", in the text of the patent description, or in the actual protocol exchange.

Not silly, really. Bear with me. This is being considered out there. Really.

Some free software guy makes a free widget that talks to your thing.

You sue him for copyright infringement.

His lawyer brings up the Lego case in any Magna Carta derived court of law (UK, Canada, Britain, OZ, NZ).

Good chance you lose.