Gun Control Revisited
I’m for gun control. I have been for a long time, it’s probably just a natural part of being Canadian. I don’t think we need to carry...
Excellent Interview on Cybercrime with Misha Glenny
If you get the chance, absolutely watch/listen to TVO’s interviews with Misha Glenny on cybercrime. They’re really fascinating stuff, even to someone like me who already knows...
Penn’s Sunday School
When you hear someone say the phrase “truth is stranger than fiction”, they’re talking about Penn Jillette. The talking half of Penn and Teller is perhaps one...
ECCC 2012: Star Wars Trilogy: The Radio Play
Most of the cast of Futurama, plus the cast of Animaniacs, plus Batman, doing a readthrough of the Star Wars radioplay script in various character voices. Has...
Flashback! Revenge of the 80s: It’s All In The Reflexes
I’ve fallen out of love with anime over the years, but during the late ’80s and early ’90s I lived and breathed anime. (I even started London’s...
The Roundtable Podcast (on Writing)
This week I started listening to The Roundtable Podcast after hearing about it on the Dead Robots’ Society writer’s podcast. The premise is simple enough: each the...
Costumes and Gimmicks at Nanning Middle School Sports Meet in China
This looks like a lot of fun! Aren’t our high schools supposed to be the ones teaching creativity? Why aren’t we doing this? Looks like China is...
Battle in Outer Space Theme
Another great tune from the 60’s (actually 1959, but close enough!), this one from the Sci-Fi movie Battle in Outer Space by the music master Akira Ifukube....
Greatest 60’s Monster Movie Themes
The Words Get Stuck in My Throat from War of the Gargantuas (Oh, the irony!) Beware of THE BLOB! (This one’s been stuck in my head since...
Paranominal and other Weird Stuff Sites
I stumbled across this today- Paranominal is a clearing-house website for weird stuff stories of many different kinds- UFOs, Ghosts, Cryptozoology, you know the drill. Seems like...