If you’ve been watching or listening to CPAC, you may have been mislead by a very bad translation. CPAC’s podcast Canada’s House of Commons – Question Period for June 14th 2010 |MP3| (20:30 – 23:00) The exchange in English, for the television broadcast (and captured in the podcast), went like this: Carole Lavallée, Member of […]
The Canadian Federation of Students has a new video designed to rally Canadian students for the fight against the forthcoming DMCA-style copyright bill. [via MichaelGeist.ca] Posted by Jesse Willis
Prime Minister Stephen Harper‘s recent prorogation of the Canada’s House Of Commons has left one of the few advocates of fair copyright for Canadians without a voice in the House. Here is his YouTube (!) calling out to the PM. Of course unlike a session in the House the PM has no obligation to answer […]
The Spider On The Web podcast, has a terrific Hugo winning story from 1982! This is a story made for BoingBoing.net, its creative commons licensed, a Heinleinesque Science Fiction tale in which a shadowy killer meets with a corrupt senator who’s been paid to back a proposed copyright extension bill. As Robinson sez “Copyright is […]
Brick By Brick: How LEGO Rewrote The Rules Of Innovation And Conquered The Global Toy Industry By David Robertson and Bill Breen; Read by Thomas Vincent Kelly Approx. 10 Hours 23 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Random House Audio Published: June 25, 2013 ISBN: 9780449806524 Themes: / Non-Fiction / Business / LEGO / STAR WARS / Denmark […]
The SFFaudio Podcast #187 – Jesse, Tamahome, Julie Hoverson, Luke Burrage, and David Stifel talk about the audiobook and podcast of Tarzan Of The Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Talked about on today’s show: the classic Tarzan yodel, the dum-dum service, Tarzana, California, those beautiful Burroughsian run-on sentences: “From this primitive function has arisen, unquestionably, […]