After three straight weeks of work, most evenings and both weekends, it was wonderful to get away. Anne and I went up to a beautiful bed & breakfast in Penetanguishine, Canopy of Trees. We had a great and relaxing weekend, cross-country skied in Awenda Provincial Park, and walked around the town’s Winterfest celebrations. On the […]
Well, it’s a disappointing week for content consumers, with the Eldred v. Ashcroft case decision coming down firmly on the side of Disney and the established content industry. The lawyer for Eldred (and the side of good), Lawrence Lessig, is in understandable anguish over having lost probably the most important case of his career, poor […]
Apparently a backlash against S.U.V.’s is picking up momentum. Can’t come too soon for me: it’s ridiculous (1) that these things are treated as pickups (2) that pickups are allowed to have crappy fuel mileage and (3) that governments aren’t making reduction of oil usage a national priority. There are now a couple of ads […]
Third post of the day on this topic. Check out this wonderful article on the current state of the liberal movement in the U.S.. God knows how or why, but the NYTimes seems to have put it in the Travel section. Hilarious. Here’s an important part of this article: One chilly evening in late November, […]