bmcraec

Recent Actions

• Commented on Alternate Star Trek pilot to be released
  Hmm, definitely recorded off an old-fashioned, curved CRT TV set. Most memorable is the as yet unestablished back story for Spock. Smiles, then talks about "your human emotions", then displays irritation himself? Human woman one of his ancestors? I loved...
• Commented on Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
  Hmm, this almost looks like the trigger for the beginning of the Bitchin' Society, from Cory's first novel, *Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom*. Let's storm the battlements! It's either that, or the world as seen in Paul Voerhoven's...
• Commented on Night Cars: gorgeous dreamlike picture book about the traffic below the bedroom
  Man, Cory, these are the foundational times. The books I read to my three, over and over, really working on the cadence and meaning, and just the sweet, sweet time where there is nothing but you and your kid. Your...
• Commented on Depressing 1950s Jell-O commercial
  The scariest part of the "debates' like GammaBlog & Ghede's is that the "audience" generally gets about 5% of the content, filtered by familiar sounding phrases, or what scared the specific audience member last, or typically just the summatory statements....
• Commented on Uighur crisis in Xinjiang: updates, link roundup, images.
  Re: ♦ A report filed nearly 10 years ago by Rebecca MacKinnon, then CNN's Beijing bureau chief: "Rumblings of discontent among ethnic Muslims on China's Asian frontier" Last time I thought about this, "ethnic Muslims" couldn't exist. Muslim describes a...
• Commented on Rushkoff on Apple fanboy rage at Steve Jobs for having the audacity to have had a liver transplant
  Hmmm, saw a tweet convo yesterday, RT'd by Brent Spiner: You know, @rocky69rhodes, if you're going to wish death on someone (hardly ever a good idea) I'm sure there are better candidates. 2:30 PM Jun 20th from web RT @rocky69rhodes...
• Commented on Illustrators upset over Google's invitation to contribute free art
  People on the Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC.net) listserv were discussing this situation at length this morning. Here’s the link to a YouTube video that sums it up pretty well: “No, I don't want you to work for free, but...”...
• Commented on Michael Geist explains Canada's screwed-up Internet to the Canadian Senate
  I read through the complete transcript, and now if only the results of this committee has real teeth, perhaps things might move. Prof. Geist did a fantastic job presenting the landscape, and the players, and perhaps a direction for the...
• Commented on Canadian ISPs need you to tell the regulator to force Bell to stop screwing them -- and the Canadian public
  FWIW, here's mu submission to the CRTC. "It is my understanding that certain primary Internet access wholesalers (eg, Bell Canada,Telus) are throttling access speeds to other secondary resellers of network access, to the detriment of the customers of these secondary...
• Commented on Canadian copyright lobbyists leaned on "independent" researchers to change report on file-sharing
  Nice summary, Cory, thanks! It's a bit scary how many people profess to not understand the implications of this chain of events. Although I have been following this story since it first came out on Michael Geist's blog, I have...
• Commented on USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people's access to written material
  I've just sent the following to a list I hang out on with the GDC (Graphic Designers of Canada). I forwarded the above article, and got some interesting responses back, about the plea for support using "Chicken Little" tactics, without...
• Commented on Canadian think-tank that spent tax-dollars plagiarizing US copyright lobby press-materials ignored its own expert's conflicting research
  #4: I've seen three mainstream reports (admittedly only websites) on this in the last 24 hours; CBC, Global (Canada.com) and MediaCaster. I've not gone looking for anything else (as either Prof. Geist is likely to be watching, and posts on...
• Commented on Canadian think-tank spends tax dollars to plagiarize and regurgitate talking points from US entertainment lobby group
  Wow, great find Cory. I've already left a comment on Michael's site. This really needs to get reported in the mainstream media as well. How do Canadians feel about their "elected" government funding support for a False-Flag approach, and so...