Jeffrey Simpson on The Rant
"The ad, trying to be distinctly Canadian, is more American than the Americans. Can you imagine how high Canadians would ride on their horses of moral indignation if an American ad ever did a similar riff on the United States versus Canada? But then it would never, ever occur to an American ad agency to bother, since Americans are already convinced theirs is the best country in the world, and the fastest way of losing an American audience is to mention the word 'Canada.' " Meanwhile, The World wonders
what are those wacky Canadians getting so excited aboot? (real audio)
Claude Lalumiere : A Short History of American Comic Books
I haven't seen or spoken to Claude in years, but he used to run one of the very best comix shops ever and for that he is The Man (not to be confused with
the man.)
Dahlia Lithwick : Waltzing Miranda
"Being tapped by the Supremes to defend a statute that neither party to the case wants any part of is like being appointed hall monitor-ratting out your buddies for extra credit." via
qDon't worry kids.
Apparently the open source movement is, at its roots,
nothing more than ego-fucking. see also
Andrew Leonard : Finland -- the open-source society