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Very quietly, just before Thanksgiving so nobody would notice, Marvel and DC sent cease-and-desist letters to zcultfm.com. For those of you who do not know, zcultfm is – or, rather, was – the comic book torrents site, with an immense library of torrents, many of which even worked. It is also how I have first […]

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Ben Goldacre writes a long, long and extremely pointed post on homeopathy and its practitioners. Short version: he does not like it greatly!

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MOVIE August Rush PLOT SUMMARY Fairytale scenario about kid whose parents never even knew he was born and who sets out to find them via twin powers of music and hope WAIT, YOU ACTUALLY SAW THIS? Blow me MOVIE EQUALS Amadeus times The Journey Of Natty Gann DIRECTED BY Kirsten Sheridan WHO LAST DIRECTED A […]

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This makes me want to play World of Warcraft slightly more than I did previously. We are now up to “probably never” from “definitely never.” This is the type of power Mr. T possesses. Also: Shatner.

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Patrick Metzger, my fellow Torontoista, posted this recently on Facebook (presumably because Patrick is the very model of irony personified), and I thought it deserved wider distribution than his circle of Facebook friends. Facebook, the bloom is off the rose. A few months back I gushed like a schoolgirl about the Internet phenom that’s turned […]

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Robots are not very good at stand-up comedy.

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An open letter to Subway.

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Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier has been hailed in some quarters as a masterpiece, in others as Alan Moore’s worst excesses all combined into a single dense volume. I’m not sure yet where I stand on this axis, but a few things about the book puzzled me. […]

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My weekly television column is, as it is every Monday, up at Torontoist. Go forth, and read.

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Specifically, Canada is totally getting the shaft when it comes to mobile phone costs. Check out those graphs. We’re worse than Rwanda, for crissake. This is just another example of how Canadian politicians’ rhetoric about wanting to make Canadian industry competitive are all too often just empty rhetoric. See also: Canada’s continuing paucity of funding […]

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New Zealand to rest of world: “no fatties, please.”

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Just so everybody knows, I joined the New Democratic Party today. This may make a difference to some people, it may not. Some of you might ask: “Why the NDP? Come to think, why join a political party period?” Consider it the best way I can think of to express the belief that politics in […]

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I remembered reading a while back about Nanosolar, the company trying to perfect extremely cheap, non-silicon based solar cells. And it occurred to me yesterday, “hey, how is that going, anyhow?” After some Googling, it turns out that the answer to that question is very, very good indeed. The dawn of individual power generation is […]

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British Airways is flying empty planes across the Atlantic, wasting fuel and creating tonnes of CO2, in order to not let other airlines get the takeoff and landing slots at the airport. Someone tell me again about how voluntary emissions reduction is the answer to the global warming crisis, please?

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