Walking by the TIFF Bell Lightbox building on King West on the way to work this morning, a guy in front of us strolls along with a hint of a drunken swagger. Dressed in ripped and soiled jeans, a dirty jacket that’s too big for his slight frame and carrying a green plastic bottle crate, he weaves …
Category Archive: People
Dec 20 2011
Pale Blue Dot
On this day in 1996, American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist and author Carl Sagan passed away. Sagan is known for the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he narrated and co-wrote, a series I remember watching avidly in my youth. Along with David Attenborough, Sagan was one of my heroes as I was …
Nov 22 2011
Abusing animals is such fun!
This morning on Breakfast Television there was a segment on GatorLand in Florida, where they showed an alligator with a heavy rubber band around its snout, being straddled by a not-too-small man, stamped on and having its tailed pulled. This was, I believe, classed as a ‘ride’ at the park and the host, Dina Pugliese, and her …
Nov 18 2011
Benetton and the pope
There’s an (primarily) online phenomenon called the Streisand Effect in which any attempt to hide or remove a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely. This happens because the information in question gets picked up by news sites, blogs, Twitter, Facebook etc., thereby causing it to be disseminated more and more. Well …
Nov 17 2011
Damian Goddard, fired for tweeting
Damian Goddard was a Toronto-based broadcaster for Sportsnet who was fired from his job six months ago for a tweet he posted on his personal Twitter account, expressing his views that only marriage between a man and a woman is a “true” marriage. The posting on Twitter was in support of hockey agent Todd Reynolds’ …
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I was born in England, spent part of my childhood in Zambia and eventually immigrated to Canada. This is a blog about the news and events in my life, my interests in politics, religion, human rights, science, reason, and the odd post here and there about my cats.
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