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Re: Questions from Hanson (Carnage & Culture)

Re: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson031502.shtml It is rare to see such a disturbing piece of isolationist fluff these days, mostly because I don’t usually take the time to read deeply conservative, revisionist rags like the “National...

Canada Wants To Tax Digital Media [MP3] Players

This frosts my hide. It’s wrong for so many reasons. Not only is the Canadian government treading into uncharted waters with a tax on a medium that they are ill-equipped to understand, but they’re merely serving to further entrench a music industry that...

Broadband Beats Dialup (first time)

OKOKOK, so it’s a survey that touts the fact that broadband users spend more time online than dialup users, but I had you fooled for a minute. Broadband’s still only @ 21%. Blah. We suck. -Ian. ———–...

Harry Connick Thinks Different

I saw this the last time Harry Connick, Jr. toured and thought it was scary: he uses flat screens in his orchestra rather than sheet music. During the concert that I went to (in 1999, in fact) he explained that he had re-arranged a bunch of new songs while riding in...

Drew Carey and the Failure of the Fourth Estate

“…there were Three Estates in Parliament; but in the Reporters’ Gallery there sat a Fourth Estate more important than them all. It is not a figure of speech, or a witty saying; it is a literal fact. Printing…is equivalent to Democracy; invent...