Courtesy of Justin Mohareb (mo’ hareb, mo’ problems, that’s what I always say), I found Sun Media’s wonderful expose on the world of ILLEGAL INTERNET DOWNLOADING. And who gets quoted more than anybody else in this series of articles? Why, Graham Henderson, of course, the head of the CRIA, which is like a Canadian version […]

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I am totally stealing Scott Keith’s old bit there, but it’s thematic. Bear with me. So Rob Brown sent me this email after reading this statement by Chris Kanyon, professional wrestler (and, having had the opportunity to meet him at a fan weekend once, let me say that like most professional wrestlers, a genuinely nice […]

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THINGS YOU CAN SAY WHILE WALKING AROUND IN A STORE WITH A SLEDGEHAMMER YOU JUST PURCHASED ELSEWHERE WHEN PEOPLE ASK YOU ABOUT THE SLEDGEHAMMER “I like my pancakes to be really, really flat.” “I’m a big Peter Gabriel fan.” “This? Oh, you know. Sledging. Various sledge-related activities. That sort of thing.” “Ballet. Why do you […]

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An interesting photoessay: one week’s worth of food, around the planet.

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…and another edition of my weekly TV column over at Torontoist.

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The Canadian judicial system is held in high esteem for its fairness and dedication to good justice. Other countries often look to our judiciary, particularly our Supreme Court, and wonder what the secret of good Canadian jurisprudence is. It is really quite simple. One of the strictest requirements for membership in the Supreme Court of […]

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Having been ably helped by my readers over the weekend in identifying a Rammstein song which apparently everybody but me already knew about, I am giving back. If you were not previously aware of the Magic Numbers, here now are two of my favorite songs of theirs. It’s driving power-pop, fast and melodic and just […]

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When they get around to making a Scott Pilgrim movie, they should use “Happy Boys and Girls” by Aqua for the trailer music. You know I’m not wrong about this. (It would also work for a live-action Ranma 1/2 movie.)

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Normally when I hear a bit of a song and I want to download it, I do a lyrics search on Google and get the song title in seconds. But here’s the problem: the song I want to download is by Rammstein. So the lyrics are in German. So I can’t really Google it accurately. […]

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If you want to read one of the most startlingly bullshit interviews I have seen in ages, go here and read Marvel publisher Dan Buckley’s comments on their new online initiative and illegal downloading. It’s almost infuriating. The level at which Buckley flatly refuses to engage perfectly valid questions and concerns about Marvel’s digital model […]

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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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