DivaBlog: “Anyway, the presenter was doing his pitch in a polished way and at one point he said he wanted to show us a “really cool” feature and he looked up into the audience and said “Show of hands…How many of you use Internet Explorer?”. Probably 99 times out of 100 when he asks that…

Doonesbury dropped by Continental Features for anti-Iraq sentiments. Linda Ronstadt gets booed, escorted off premises of Aladdin hotel-casino for calling Michael Moore a “great American patriot.” Slim-Fast drops Whoppi Goldberg as spokesperson after cracks she made about George Bush

Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!

A pharmacist rescues an ancient pickle.

Under much protest from technology companies and internet providers, Senator Orrin Hatch intends to move ahead with the controversial Induce Act. The Induce Act, would make “whoever intentionally induces any violation” of copyright law legally liable for those violations. Ostensibly a way to outlaw P2P Networks and designed to overturn an April 2003 ruling that…

Scott Ritter, a UN weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-1998 on Iraqi resistance since the transfer of sovereignty to the new Iraqi government. “We will suffer a decade-long nightmare that will lead to the deaths of thousands more Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis. We will witness the creation of a viable and dangerous…

The Ontario Liberals may have come to power on a slogan of helping “working families,” but it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the new Liberal credo is “make the middle class pay” — for everything. You only have to look at this week’s announcement from Universities Minister Mary Anne Chambers that in future, refugee claimants will…

Duke University freshmen will be getting a brand new 20Gb iPod loaded with all kinds of useful information like orientation schedules, calendars, campus tours and the Duke fight song.

How nice that Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government wants to buy out seven private MRI and CT clinics across Ontario. Now for the big questions. How much is it going to cost us and how will it improve public access to MRI and CT scans? As a health ministry spokesman noted yesterday, these clinics…

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