A 25-year old Delta, B.C. woman died after the small car she was driving was hit by a tow truck. When investigators looked into the incident, however, they concluded she would have survived if not for her laptop computer. [...MORE...]The moral of the story? Lock down that laptop.
"The perilous state of the Canadian TV industry has been driven home by a leading analyst's recommendation that shares in Canwest Global are now essentially worthless and should be avoided. [...MORE...]"How the mighty have fallen...
"Al-Jazeera offers a very international, global look at the world. It's a channel that is based in the south and focuses overwhelmingly on the developing world and regions very underreported in the mainstream media. Al-Jazeera English has now been broadcasting for more than two years, is available in more than 140 million households worldwide and in more than 100 countries.
Canada is in an odd, and also unique, position in regards to Al-Jazeera because Canadians currently don't have the right to choose to tune in to Al-Jazeera - Canada is one of the few countries in which our channel is currently not available. Even in the U.S., where Al-Jazeera is certainly reviled in right-wing Republican circles, Al-Jazeera Arabic is available nationwide." [...MORE...]
I want, I want, I want my AJE...
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I feel bad. I missed a good friend's birthday. On March 25, 2009, Roadspill turned... wait for it... six!
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In Guatemala four years ago, 80 million documents were discovered in a warehouse. They contain evidence of police atrocities during Guatemala's 36 year long civil war. Gerry Northam investigates the story of the archive’s chance discovery.The Atrocity Archives (part one) runs 23 minutes. Listen to it HERE or download it HERE.
Broadcasting & Cable is reporting the death of Ron Burgundy-type news anchors. Those big-contract meat puppets are being replaced by multitasking reporters who actually work and work for far less."With the local TV economy wheezing, the mega-million-dollar anchor, tasked solely with reading the Teleprompter, is going the way of the LP record and the thriving daily newspaper.The times they are a changing.
In an era where content, not talent, is king, that giant salary is being put to better use in hiring a batch of hungry multimedia multitaskers. Those all-star anchors who have been able to avoid the sack thus far are often compelled to take on a wider range of duties and, with an “economic gun pointed at their head,” in the words of one industry watcher, do it for significantly less money... [MORE]"
"As it prepares to host the 2010 Winter Olympics, what it's got now is not cuddly, eco-friendly publicity, but blood-spattered streets littered with shell casings and corpses... [MORE]"Man, I am so proud of my city. But wait... I live in Guatemala, where it's much safer:
"In a country as bloody as Guatemala, the last two weeks have stood out. In the last several years, bus drivers have became targets for street gangs seeking extortion money. But the thugs are not breaking the drivers’ kneecaps — they are blowing their heads off. The number of bus drivers killed was around 80 last year.... [MORE]"Jeez. Can you tell the difference? I can't tell the difference.
After last week’s awful care-home shooting in Gibsons, users of the CBC’s website were invited to add their comments to the posted version of the story.I couldn't agree more.
This, dear reader, is what a correspondent who identified himself only as Bad To The Bone had to contribute to the on-line discussion: “Bummer.”
Which is the point at which I jammed a sharpened pencil in my eye, repeatedly. [MORE]
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It's a great subject; there is something passionate in contemplating retro technology - a strong nostalgia factor, of course, but also a "freedom of design" factor: there were no cast-in-stone design rules yet, and consumer electronics could be as wild and woolly, as consumers wanted them to be... [more]
