The Bulldogs are Cheating

Last week was South by Southwest time again, reminding me again that I wish I had more time to seek out cool/weird new music. Not to mention a few grand for travel, accommodations and a platinum badge, plus a few more for show access bribes… Thanks to the crew over at the AVclub and Decider [...]

…but at least it wasn’t a majority. Fuck you Alberta.

Despite the somewhat shaky nature of Studio 60 and the what happened to the West Wing when he got all coked up and had to leave… I love Aaron Sorkin. He’s probably my favorite Hollywood writer and the sheer force of oratory that he can write for his characters can leave me weak in my [...]

Apologies for the interruption, the internet connection in Big Sky was the shit (I was only able to steal wireless from another condo at long range) so updating was so inconvenient that I became lazy. Who wants an update without photos anyway! Besides which, time was pretty packed while we were there and evening mostly [...]

Direct confirmation of earlier almost-proof as the Mars Phoenix Lander has officially “tasted” water inside its special little soil baking ovens. Scientists are now trying to determine if the water ever thaws to the point where it’s available for any sort of biological reaction. NASA has also extended funding for the mission an extra five [...]

As many people know I’m a bit of a Russophile; I love old propaganda posters and probably know more Soviet and Russian history (both political and military) than I realistically should as a Canadian kid who grew up in the 80′s. I know how to swear in Russian, took a year of Russian in university [...]

Happy Canada Day Weekend everyone!

Twitter is all the rage these days. Taking the concept of a constantly updated Facebook or MSN status and running with it, there are thousands of users updating their every move via web or cell phone. It seems now that the robots are getting in on the act… Yesterday afternoon the Mars Phoenix Lander posted [...]