Posts Tagged: Radio and TV
Biometric Day
Posted by on Thursday, January 8, 2004 in - 4 comments
Yesterday was very biometric: • The date for my seminar with the Surveillance Project at Queens was reset for later this month. I am going to talk about my thesis on the constitutionality of automated biometric surveillance and the recent cases on the liberty right in section 7 of The Charter of …
Oswald
Posted by on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 in - 11 comments
Children's TV is a wasteland. Smarmy Barney is banned from our house. Caillou is nothing but an example of the whinging bad child. Clifford is a big red moralizing freak surrounded by little pink moralizing freaks banished to the Island of the impossible economy. Hidden within the chaff is a gem …
...and the Obligatory Look Back for Yule...
Posted by on Saturday, December 20, 2003 in - 9 comments
The warnings are out there. Even Dave3 is saying that you have to expect the oxygen levels on your aggregator to thin out. As so much of what is written on blogs is the same six stories being passed around like a party platter of dried marble cheese and curling crackers softened by gherkin juice …
Best of...
Posted by on Friday, December 19, 2003 in - 5 comments
Nominations are being accepted for the Genx40 Best of 2003 Awards in the categories of music, books, TV, the web, ale and cheese. No movies please as I saw one this year and it was good.
I Am Crushing Saddam's Head
Posted by on Tuesday, December 16, 2003 in - 1 comment
At work at 70...and at home at 43 • It has not always been the public eye for Donnie Rumsfeld. Earlier in his life, he led more secretive life, honing his skills, planning his day on centre stage. Preparing to crush a really big head.
Spit Law
Posted by on Tuesday, December 16, 2003 in - leave a comment
In perhaps a related story indicative of what constitutes a crime now that Saddam is behind bars, the RCMP have declared spit a weapon and the saying that you will spit on the PM a threat to the nation. A Halifax woman sent this email and received this treatment. Nice to see that the RCMP listens …
BBC Monitoring
Posted by on Saturday, December 13, 2003 in - leave a comment
One of my favorite parts of the BBC - and a fantasy employer from my teen radio nerd days - is • the Monitoring Service: • “BBC Monitoring, based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 …
365 Days
Posted by on Saturday, December 13, 2003 in - leave a comment
Just in case thee are a few people out there slower on the uptake than me, via CBC's DNTO, the 365 Days Project has a few weeks to go during which a new wacko song a day is added. I woke up from my mid-day Saturday snooze to William Shatner singing croaking "Rocket Man".
Stinky Roo and Tijuana Bibles, Too
Posted by on Saturday, November 15, 2003 in - 1 comment
“I live right inside radio when I listen... • “ • “Marshall McLuhan, 1964 ” • ” • ” • Radio, • like beer and soccer, is totally immersive. As Ian illustrates this • morning, the seduction of the immersive can lead to strange places and • thoughts. Indeed, as M.McL. went on to say …
Ontario Debate
Posted by on Tuesday, September 23, 2003 in - leave a comment
Memo to me. Do not let this be said after one of the most important public appearances of my career: • “The premier...looked grim-faced and refused to look at the Liberal leader, scribbling instead on a notepad. David Docherty, a political science professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, was …
