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Barack Obama’s technology and open-government policy proposals are honestly some of the most inspiring things I have seen in years – commonsense use of available technology to decloak government operation and legislative debate as much as humanly possible. The fact that this sort of thing is practically revolutionary is kind of sad, but revolutionary it […]

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Just say no to Uncle Joey.

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Well, Marvel Comics dropped the hammer, and the interblogs are abuzz over their fancy announcement of offering comics online. And rightly so, considering this is something many of us – certainly including me – have agitated for for quite some time. Things about their model are good and others are not. They’re only dipping their […]

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On my way to school, I take the St. Clair bus (normally a streetcar, but oh well, construction, it happens) to St. Clair West station, where I catch the subway north to law school. It is usually crowded and dense. Today, outside the station, a black man – say in the range of 25-30 – […]

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Via United Hollywood, your viral video/writer’s strike mention of the day. I really kind of suspect that the studios had no idea what they were getting into when they forced a strike.

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A BEGINNER’S GUIDE ON HOW TO PLAY TEAM FORTRESS 2 So, you’ve plunked down some of your hard-earned money for The Orange Box and you’ve already finished Portal and have bugged the shit out of all your remaining friends with jokes about cake. Now what? Perhaps you want to jump into some enjoyable online competition […]

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My weekly TV column up at Torontoist, as it is every Monday until month five of the writer’s strike and all I have to talk about is Return Of Farmer Wants A Wife 2. Less amusing than my column is the debate I participated in re: voluntary black-only schools in Toronto, but it’s worth reading.

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More hip-hop in graph form here.

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People kept emailing me asking me when I was going to do another comic parody, and my answer was always the same. “When the time is right, grasshopper.” World War Hulk? No. Firstly, it was actually good; secondly, it doesn’t have a lot of clunky expository dialogue and adding it would just be clumsy. Amazons […]

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Bahlactus nasty.

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(Oh, I actually don’t have anything to write about Ron Paul particularly. I just figure if I say something bad about Ron Paul, it will give me a lot of extra traffic.)

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Found in a Pyjamas Media column’s comments: I’m not sure you do. Hollywood has made utter garbage at least 90% of the time for at least 10 years, if not more. I will provide just one factoid. In the last two decades, more actresses have won the academy award for portraying a prostitute than for […]

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Let me be plain as possible before I start giving you links: The WGA writers’ strike is practically the definition of a just strike. This is a battle over corporations earning billions of dollars and unfairly refusing to give those most responsible for the creation of the content which mandates their profits their proper due. […]

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