Agreed - it is not all of Oregon doing this. It is the representatives of Oregon who are doing this. Let the true voice of Oregon rise up and smite these dull and blunt minded trolls. Please!

It's amusing to continue reading about this but it's also sooooooo disheartening to continually hear about bureaucrats from whatever region or political stripe who continue to abuse their perceived authority in this regard. Knock it off already!

Oregon. Oregon. Oregon.

Make them stop!

Please.

Oregon.

cheers

Where's my worm? I wanna go fer a ride on my worm!

Fond memories of Red Dragon blotter - between this post and the one on Dr. Hoffman I'm having a rather pleasant day of flashbacks. Thanks!

Pinching the winner of the Eddie Van Halen look-alike contest for sleeping in a portable toilet is indeed a colossal waste of time - unless there was a line up outside.

mmm - bacon cigarettes

piggie ciggies

mmmmm

Tis angry cuz it has to wait - for YOU.

Sorta like the colour scheme of McDonalds - designed to keep people moving and guarantee a limited amount of 'hangin' 'round time'.

Some one else is waitin' to use the loo.

An angry buck naked pouty faced garden gnome kid.

Run away! Run away!

Zip up later.

Run away!

I'm a strong proponent of the "5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do" - and am proud to have already done 4 with my son ... I don't drive so the car thing is up to his mom.

As a writer and producer of children's television for many years it was continual battle agains the forces of absurdity in attempting to depict "normal" kid behaviour. What the television gatekeepers always sought would have made Diana Moon Glampers almost smile. When it comes to children I'm definitely in the camp of Carlin.

Looking forward to more from Skenazy.

Cheers.

I like the idea of a salon being able to etch the hair so it acts like some kind of prism - giving the customer a shiny (real shiny) head of refracting rainbow hair - sort of like a party clown with batteries in its skull and an audience on acid.

Hmmm - I like it it. It has texture.

cheers

That was beautiful. I remember something similar doen for Sesame Street back in the '70's - a guy in a white suit walking through New York. Lovely. Thanks.

I've said it before - I'll say it again: Teach your kids to read the Koran in Mandarin.

And move to New Zealand.

Cheers.

Does that mean whomever finds the ring gets to marry him? Even if it's a cormorant gagging on a wad of shredded latex with something hard inside? I smell a re-make of "The Red Balloon" coming on.

Oh that is sweet!

I just finished watching Frank Capra's classic 1931 adventure: Dirigible and this is like icing on the cake.

Thanks.

Methinks yon unicorn is distressed at the thought of being used as an implement of zit removal. Methinks the lady bears an expression of waiting for us to avert our eyes so she may proceed. Let us now bow our heads in prayer for the safe passage of both zit and young unicorn.

WHAT is wrong with those people?!!

It's bad enough they thought it was a good idea - but that should have passed through their alleged minds rather quickly before being summarily discarded.

I think we should all start mailing bags of Skittles to the Principal - or is that "Principle", now they are obviously no longer any one's "pal"?

Sheesh!!!

I feel sorry for the kid.

For the record - Piggy doesn't have hooves.

Very funny stuff. It even made the cow puppet I had on my hand spew milk from its nose.

Cheers.

The Dangerous Book For Boys is flippin' awesome!

It legitimizes every sharp, flaming and explosive endeavour I undertake with my son - much to his mother's chagrin and concern. It's okay though - we still have all our fingers.

But there's even really cool simple stuff in those pages, like making a battery out of pennies and vinegar.

My only quibble is: they don't go far enough. They need to issue a full-blown "McGyver" version with recipes for thermite and how to gut & skin a squirrel - which, oddly enough, can be found in earlier editions of "The Joy Of Cooking".

Cheers.

"baloneyshit"

hee hee

xeni said "baloneyshit"

for some reason that just brought out the sniggering kid in me - from now on all incidences of hypocritical self-serving fartward censoring will be referred to as "baloneyshit"

hee hee - baloneyshit

I refer you to the Saturday editorial in the Globe & Mail. Here’s a portion of what was written:

“The Conservatives say they aren’t censoring anyone with their changes to the Income Tax Act, soon to be passed by the Senate. Artists will be free to express themselves as they wish without government funding. That misses the point. Those artists who have something to say that Heritage Minister Josée Verner and some unaccountable bureaucrats in Justice and Heritage find “contrary to public policy” (as the new law puts it, without elaboration) will be placed at a disadvantage by government. Of course it’s censorship. The government is sending artists it doesn’t like to the back of the bus.”

— the Globe editorial concludes thusly:

“The tax-credit regulations already require that the productions not be pornographic. The government has not spelled out why more public-policy vetting is needed. It was the Soviets who required that art serve the public good. Democracies don’t do that.”

The Facebook Group Keep your censoring hands off of Canadian film and TV! No to Bill C-10! now has over 10,000 members and lots of good resources for us to express our outrage and concern to our elected representatives. Don’t under-estimate the power of Facebook - go join the group and lend your voice.

Kill Bill C-10.

Cheers.

I just love the idea of engineering clockwork driven LED light fixtures.

Very steam punk.

Drag out and dust off those old family heirlooms - hack 'em with small generators and pimp 'em out with LED's. Real grandfather clocks that illuminate. Jam a bright blue bulb up the arse of that little annoying bird that pops out al the time. Make a sensuous glow come from your great grannie's old mantel clock.

Brilliant!

Man, oh man, oh man - when Cory comes back to work he comes in gangbusters!!

Either that or he can type faster with baby poo on his fingers.

Congrats again - and it's good to see the Doctorow Tsunami of Info back in action.

Cheers

Mutants rule! My best to you all.

You can now look forward to 20 years of sleep deprivation.

Cheers.

It's very penile - especially with those blobs of Orkneys spraying out all over the place.

Use napalm. But be sure to dust it with cinnamon first - maybe a few raisins.

I am possessed by visions of tomorrow's archeologists, sifting not through sands but digging deep into obsolete tech with the hopes of scraping free some vestige of lost, forgotten and unreadable data - searching for the technical Rosetta stone to decypher it all - unaware that our past had been buried under layers of blind, stubborn, incommunicative greed - and equally unaware that what would eventually be revealed and finally put on display for all the world of tomorrow to see were the mysterious remains of the cult of LOL Cats.

Sounds like Cory's had an extra cup of coffee.

I remember making the shift in gears from my life in da toobs via DialCom, billboards, UseNet and the deep late night dips into the Well - from there to the World Wide Web, when it finally came along, lookin' all fancy with its pictures and pages - oh yeah, my first Mosaic browser, as clunky as it was, seemed soooooooo revolutionary - and then shortly after that I was always always always on with the Netscape - that was my toob truck - riding the big N on the infobahn - flipping the bird to IE whenever I got the chance - what a ride - never thought it would ever end - and I didn't stop driving the N 'til I went on Safari - even then, it was with guilt and wistful apprehension - leavin' a friend behind. Of course now the Safari's over and my Fox is on Fire! I knew the toob music had died the day the AOLsters gobbled up the big N - 'twas only a matter of time - and so where do we go from here? No matter where, nor how, there will always be hanging in the bright aurora of the toob lit night sky the luminescent shadows of that big N and the memories and knowledge of where it took us all.

G'nite N.

W. James Au: very inconsistent indeed - and not just limited to posters. The only thing consistent about the MPAA's decisions is their unflinching support of major studio releases and their determination to suppress independent voices in film.

Remember the hue and cry about "Natural Born Killers" which was certainly intense and potentially "mentally scarring" where one of the shots the MPAA objected to was when the Robert Downey Jr. character got a hole blown through his hand. No one seemed to recall Gene Hackman blowing a hole through the head of Keith David in "The Quick and The Dead" - or Arnold Schwarzenegger flinging aside the shorn off arms of Michael Ironside in "Total Recall" with the glib line: "See you at the party." And - one of my favourites - Paul Newman blasting a hole through Stacey Keach (as "Bad Bob") with a shotgun, whereupon the director (John Huston) pulls a rapid zoom in to show us the beautiful desert landscape - through the hole.

The approved posters for "Saw" depicted battered, splintered fingers - freshly pulled bloody teeth hanging from strings - a victim bound and masked, shackled to a metal chair - and the aforementioned body in a bag being dragged across the floor. The poster for "Hostel II" featured a head and shoulders shot of a woman - in obvious distress, weeping, hanging upside down.

It is not the inconsistency of the MPAA, and other media "guardians", which disturbs me - it is their smug hypocrisy. The patronizing attitude of "We know best - go sit in the corner."

There has to be some kind of cultural shakeup in the U.S. - and I suspect it is about to burst upon them - not just because it is long overdue but also because we have the means now (in forums like this and others) to join the voices of discontent and shout back at those who tell us to shut up and sit down.

Sometimes all it takes is a poster - a single image - to break the top of the advancing wave and bring it all crashing down.

Let us hope so.

Cheers.

What is it about human beings in generel - at least these days - that lead them down such paths of folly? Wasn't it Albert Einstein who defined insanity as committing the same act repeatedly in anticipation of different outcome? When are we (or at least, the rest of us) going to wise up and stop trying to control everything? News like this just makes me sad and disgruntled - and I much prefer being happy and gruntled.

Cheers.

So what we're all saying here is that the appendix is the sour dough starter of human beings?

You have got to be frickin' kiddin' me!!

It's not mbarrassing enough we get tagged with mounties, beavers, snow and maple syrup?!

Now we have to be associated with complete retards?

geeze louise

Poo was my first thought too. I sure hope those little guys aren't just storing it up in there.

What I'd love to see is a permanent HD camera up there - looking back at us - with a dedicated link so we can all check in from time to time - like putting eyes on the woman in the moon.

"I can see my house from up here!"

Cheers.

This goes beyond the usual thoughtless bureaucratic bumbing in Ottawa and smells a lot like Stephen harper's nose after a visit with his pal King George. There's a lot this self proclaimed "new government" of Canada is doing behind closed doors, creating fait accompli policies that never get aired in public debate or parliamentary votes.

Thanks to Michael Geist for bringing this out in the open. Call your elected representatives and get them to keep shining a light on this one.

Cheers

The other aspect of the magician's method is one of small community. If everyone was possessed by the desire to perform magic tricks you'd see it all fall apart. Instead, it's like a small town where everbody knows everybody else's business.

Everyone loves this stuff because it has appeal.

sorry

Reading that was like watching an episode of "Mad Men" whilst experiencing a very good acid flashback.

Tony Schwartz's book "The Responsive Chord" is essential reading for ANYONE working in the television industry. It was a bible for anyone who looked to use the medium to influence - from educators to marketers. What Walter Murch was to sound & cinema so too was Schwartz to audio & video, and his understanding of how video is "sound to the eyes" fed a lot of McLuhan's insights.

How this affects the ability of the current user-generated age of media I have no frickin' idea - but I'm digging out my copy of "The Chord" to refresh my mind and see what sticks. Wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where a single 30 second media event could have such a profound change? Of course, Schwartz's insights were agnostic to ideology so maybe it's not such a good thing after all.

Cheers.

Unfortunately, it seems if this ever gets into a real public debate the issue wil be clouded with concerns over "regulating the market" when in fact it is a Free Speech issue; and in this regard the DoJ should come down on the side of the First Amendment but that doesn't seem to be what's happening.

Not only is the DoJ messing with policy and handing over control of the information infrastructure to a handful of Telcos - who bleat about the high cost of setting up the broadband architecture they have already woefully neglected, whilst raking in huge profits, resulting in other countries (like Japan) racing ahead in net traffic capacity - they are also allowing First Amendment rights to be tangled up in their anticompetitive oversight ... so called.

It's utterly bogus claptrap. This administration has no interest in protecting citizens rights and is only too eager to see everyone treated as consumers of the tiered information "products" provided on their behalf by the same people who are conducting warrantless spying on their behalf. This will take away the ability of citizens to speak openly with each other.

How will the FCC respond? How will elected representatives and potential candidates respond? How will the public respond? That will determine how damaging this DoJ statement may become. If it is not slapped back in their faces immediately, loudly and angrily you can kiss the First Amendment goodbye - along with Habeus Corpus and the Fifth, which have already been sacked.

Net Neutrality = Free Speech.

Fight for it.

And, as reported today in the Globe & Mail, Apple has fired back at NBC saying they won't wait for the contract to run out - they just won't carry any of the new season's shows.

Ouch. It looks like last place NBC has just flushed their ability to leverage online content via iTunes to promote their upcoming season. NBC had been asking for more than double the wholsesale price - which would have put the cost for users up from $1.99 to $4.99. Apple, of course, says: It ain't gonna happen.

Poor NBC - maybe someday they'll get it.

Here's the Globe article link:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070831.wgtnbc0831/BNStory/Technology/home/

It has a flavour!

And comments!

KThnxBai

I was a fan of the Mighty Mites myself.

Boba's not only spindly legged but also barrel chested, stocky, big-boned or, dare I say it, chubby? He's stressing out the damn armour! Could it be possible that Mister Lucas himself is in there, in cognito, in Boba?

I thought it would be better to send up a model of the Falcon and take it out for a wee bit of an EVA - great photo op with the Earth. Ah well, next time.