I realise that by writing this, I’m being a bit hypocritical, but I’ll abstract this as best I can. Recently a crazy, right-wing American came to Canada to plug their book. In this person’s first speaking engagement, this person made racist remarks. Unfortunately, this was to be expected and is exactly what [...]
Entries from March 25th, 2010
The Difference Between A Terrorist And Someone Who Flies A Plane Into A Building
March 14th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Rants
Recent events in the US involving some pretty high-profile incidents where individuals have gone on a violent suicidal rampage in protest of oppressive government. One of the incidents involved someone in a shootout at the Pentagon and another famous incident where a person flew their single-engine plane into an IRS building.
Politicians in the US [...]
Tags: US
Google Books Fails With Popular Science
March 9th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Topics Of Interest
I just mentioned that Google Books and Popular Science had published a significant portion of the Popular Science archive, online for free. I had added the caveat that it only went as far back as 1926. Turns out that’s not true at all. If you go down to the halfway point on [...]
Old Popular Science Online
March 5th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Topics Of Interest
In conjunction with Google, Popular Science has put a significant chunk of its archive online. At first it looked like all of it, but as I began to browse through the first issue listed from May 1926, they were celebrating their 52nd anniversary!!!
After browsing a little, I thought I’d share a few chunks that [...]
Tags: books