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Questionable Content, my favourite webcomic, and one of the greatest things to grace these glorious interwebz.
The story arc that this comic starts is great. Go here, and then click “next” to see the next few comics. I usually end up bursting out laughing like a fool when I read this. It’s seriously genius. It’s updated every day, Monday - Friday.
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Edit: I don’t know why it’s blurry, but just click-through to see it normally. It’s worth it, I swear!
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Wave Goodbye?
So after everyone (myself included) was freaking out a couple months ago about Google Wave, and how basically the whole world wanted invites to the so-called “limited” preview (which basically everyone I knew was later invited to), nobody I know actually uses it.It seemed cool at first, and I guess it still seems cool, but for the average consumer (as opposed to corporate-types) how is it so much more useful than Facebook, Gmail or MSN as to warrant switching to it.
Do you use Google Wave? If so, what for?
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Why doesn’t my email have this button?
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The Reason we have Hate Speech laws
While I’m loathe to publicize anything printed by the National Post, this article is simply too important.
Canada’s hate speech laws and the way in which they have been enforced recently have been the subject of significant criticism. People say we shouldn’t be punishing people for what they think, or that we shouldn’t be limiting their freedom of expression.
Below is an article discussing the hate-filled ramblings of a Mr. Salman Hossain, a student at York University. The fact that he makes up words like “genocided” (in reference to what he hopes happens to the Jews) aside, people like him, Jim Keegstra and Ernst Zundel are a danger to our society.
Read the article below. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the topic.
N.B. I included a “read more” link so that this post doesn’t take up your dashboard, but please do read the whole thing. It’s worth it.
Courtesy of Stewart Bell at the National Post:
Just months after Ontario decided not to charge a Toronto man with hate crimes, partly because he was undergoing rehabilitation, he is again being investigated over his online writings on a website called Filthy Jewish Terrorists.
Police are probing Salman Hossain’s recent postings on the Arizona-based Internet site on which he writes harshly about Jews, Christians and moderate Canadian Muslims, whom he calls “traitors.”
He refers to Jews as “diseased and filthy,” “the scum of the earth,” “psychotic” and “mass murderers” and writes that “a genocide should be perpetrated against the Jewish populations of North America and Europe.”
In addition, he blames Jews for terrorist plots, such as the Toronto 18 bomb conspiracy, which was the work of Islamist extremists. He also praises God for “the victorious resistance operations” in Afghanistan.
Abbee Corb of the Hate Crimes Extremism Investigative Team, which is made up of representatives of 13 Ontario municipal police forces, confirmed yesterday that an investigation was underway.
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Marshall from United States of Tara on Tumblr
Marshall from United States of Tara, who I ‘tumbld’ about yesterday, apparently now has a Tumblr! As I said before, Marshall is hands-down the best and most realistic gay character on TV, at least right now, if not of all time.
It’s the character who blogs, not Keir Gilchrist (the incredible teenage actor who plays him) and so far he’s just reviewed a bunch of artsy movies, very much in the ‘voice’ of Marshall, but who knows, maybe he’ll branch out at some point.
Anyways, anything to do with this fun and relevant show has my vote. Check it out!
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“It is not known if Kim Jong-il is a fan of Justin Bieber’s music”
No, I did not alter that screenshot in any way. See for yourself at the BBC article titled “Prank leaves Justin Bieber facing tour of North Korea”. I’m pretty sure the person who wrote this has the world’s most developed dry wit. I quite literally lolled. I mean, really, as if the article wasn’t funny enough on its own…
Note, this article also makes reference to the fact that JBeebz may or may not have syphilis.
In Soviet Russia, syphilis catches you.
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Chris Hughes: Gladwell on Social Media
One of Malcolm Gladwell’s favorite activities is taking a contrarian position on a popular topic. He learned early on that it’s a very effective way of garnering attention, regardless of the merit of the argument. Sometimes he’s right on, like with his most recent book Outliers. But…
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200GB to 25GB: Canada gets first, bitter dose of metered Internet
“The ISPs’ costs, however, to deliver a marginal gigabyte, which is about an hour of viewing, from one of our regional interchange points over their last mile wired network to the consumer is less than a penny, and falling, so there is no reason that pay-per-gigabyte is economically necessary. Moreover, at $1 per gigabyte over wired networks, it would be grossly overpriced.”
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“One certain result though, is that Bell will make much more profit on its Internet service, and discourage Canadians from watching TV and movies on the internet instead of CTV, which Bell now owns.”
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