Episode 181 – Jurassic Snark
Preamble
- A soft-sell of NSTIC from this YouTube vid. More below.
Priva-see
Cana-duh
- Halifax studio – and possibly 22 Minutes — to be axed by CBC?
- But the beleaguered broadcaster may have an ace up its sleeve: satellite radio.
Copyfight
- 5,000 artists line up for promotion on The Pirate Bay.
- Proposed Chinese copyright term is three months!
Edumacashun
- Poland open sources textbooks. There’s a joke in there somewhere.
- Disappointing ROI for OLPC in Peru.
Thanks For The Memory
- RIP Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore.
- How the walled gardens of yesteryear are like the walled gardens of today.
It’s Not News, It’s Pew-Pews!
- M$ now owns Netscape IP. Oh noes!
- Calgary mayor the latest darling of Twitter and reddit.
- No shit, Sherlock: Rogers contracts unconscionable, says lawyer not paid by Rogers.
- Only in Canada: The quarter that costs thirty bucks.
- MintChip: It’s like BitCoin, but stupider.
Shout-outs
- It’s true, you know… They really do.
- Thanks to our retweeters, as well!
Music
- Great Lake Swimmers channel Neil Young in their new track, The Great Exhale.
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