May
09
2006
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CBC links to Winnipedia

Awww.. even CBC likes Winnipedia. It looks a new show aimed at educators includes this link to the Canadian Forces’ Operation Charging Bison.

Makes sense, I suppose, considering that every other website with the mere mention of the miltary exercise has an angry bias of sorts.

Speaking of the Operation Charging Bison, check out twigg’s video on the subject.

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May
08
2006
0

Switch campaigh switches to comparison

Apple’s cute little ads are back.

http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

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May
07
2006
0

Second homicide in 14 months at prison

A two-time killer, Sheldon McKay, was found dead in his jail cell last week at the Stony Mountain Penitentiary. The McKay family says the RCMP told them he died from a stabbing, while an official press release of the autopsy of McKay says he was died of asphyxia.

Either way, it’s likely he died as a result of somone else’s actions.

Last year, in March 2005, when 40-year-old David Tavares was serving a three-year sentence for impaired driving in connection with a car crash in 2000 near Thunder Bay – where Tavares lived – he was fatally beaten in a public recreation area.

While some will point to ironic justice in this recent case, I ask where are we safe, if even in prison, people murder without clue?

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May
05
2006
0

How not to understand the Internet

Interesting story.

(since posted, the ad agency has withdrawn their lawsuit. The popularity of blogs directed the media, which directed a politician, which directed a counter-campaign to retract ‘whatever we said’.)

Lance Dutson, a blogger at the Maine Web Report (was) being sued by an ad agency for criticizing an ad developed for the Maine Office of Tourism. They (were) claiming defamation, libel and copyright infringement because Lance placed a copy of this ad on his site, and dared to criticize the fact that instead of the proper Maine tourism number, the ad agency placed a number that rings through to a phone sex line.

Pretty much the whole deal…

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