Politics
DND on friendly fire: Wikileaks, US don’t know squat
July 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Alison@Creekside One of the Wikileaks war logs released yesterday contained a friendly fire report filed by the 205th RCAG U.S. military unit which states four Canadian soldiers were killed and seven other Canadians and an interpreter were wounded on Sept. 3, 2006, when a fighter jet dropped a guided bomb on a building they occupied during the second day of Operation MEDUSA [bracketed explanations mine]: At 030414Z Sept 06 received SAF[small arms fire] & RPGS from sawtooth building. returned fire 1x GBU [Guided Bomb Unit] dropped on it. Sawtooth building is heavily damaged. only 4x sections... [Read the full story]
Living
The UVic rabbit problem: lessons from the woods
July 10, 2010 · 1 Comment
By Bev Schellenberg Imagine Avatar with a few plot changes. Keep the introduction, the meeting with newly-blue Jake and nimble Neytiri, and the seeds of Eywa floating around Jake in ethereal, foreshadowing bliss. Keep Jake’s hunting mission and the introduction of the Turuk. However, change the plot from the point when the Colonel tells Jake to get aboard a shuttle to regain his legs. In the new, improved version, Jake refuses to leave, and states that the Na’vi are living beings and the Unobtanium is unobtainable by humans after all. The Colonel huffs and puffs, but somehow, amazingly,... [Read the full story]
Media
Maclean’s gives the G20 The Onion treatment
July 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Alison@Creekside It’s been pretty difficult to find any humour in G20, hasn’t it? Inside — a billion dollar bunfest in which leaders talk about implementng austerity. Outside — 20,000 police decline to confront a hundred or so rioters in favour of spending the following day assaulting and arresting a thousand nonviolent citizens and locking them up in cages for a day. Undaunted by the emergence of uglier and uglier police stories, culminating in the one where police yank off an amputee’s prosthetic leg and order him to hop to his own arrest, Maclean’s appears... [Read the full story]
Technology
Tired of Twitter
July 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Mark Evans Don’t get me wrong, I love Twitter as a way to share and consume information but I’m tired of the coverage lavished on it as a revolutionary entity. The latest breathless article appeared in The Toronto Star recently in which the author, Antonia Zerbisias, talked about how Twitter was used during the G20 meetings, and how a digital divide is being created between people who get their news via Twitter, and those who receive it using traditional media sources. It’s yet another example of Twitter getting far more credit than it really deserves. Yes, Twitter is an exciting new communication... [Read the full story]
The Sexes
Emphasis on the strip
July 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
by Jodi A. Shaw When I think of burlesque, I immediately picture Liza Minnelli in Cabaret. So when I went to a burlesque show for the first time, I was expecting high heels, garter belts, and tight, sexy clothing. I saw the outfits I expected, but I didn’t expect to see all those items of clothing on the floor when the dance was over. Though they are not to be confused, burlesque involves a whole lotta stripping. Burlesque has always been theatrical and humourous, frequently involving parody and exaggeration, but it wasn’t until the 20th-century that striptease became the main attraction.... [Read the full story]
Culture
A post-Steve Carell “The Office”? Cue the shark.
July 3, 2010 · 3 Comments
By Rachel Krueger Steve Carell made the more-or-less-already-official rumors official when he announced that he really will be leaving “The Office” after his contract is up in 2011, thoroughly surprising everyone who thought “That will probably be my last year” was Italian for “I’m holding out for teh moneys.” I like “The Office” as much as the next girl-who-watched-the-first-three-seasons-zealously-and-then-started-watching-seasons-in-fits-and-starts-and-sort-of-ran-out-of-steam-circa-Christmas-and-hasn’t-really-gotten-around-to-finishing-this-season-yet.... [Read the full story]
Technology
Tired of Twitter
By Mark Evans Don’t get me wrong, I love Twitter as a way to share and consume information but I’m tired of the coverage lavished on it as a revolutionary entity. The latest breathless article appeared in The Toronto Star recently in which the author, Antonia Zerbisias, talked about how Twitter was used during...
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Living
The UVic rabbit problem: lessons from the woods
By Bev Schellenberg Imagine Avatar with a few plot changes. Keep the introduction,...
Kate Gosselin: Go dancing with your kids, now
By Jodi A. Shaw Dear Kate Gosselin: What a long, twisty road you have travelled!...
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Media
Maclean’s gives the G20 The Onion treatment
By Alison@Creekside It’s been pretty difficult to find any humour in G20, hasn’t...
Sorry, Rupert, I already have Twitter
By Frank Moher The Times shut down its old website on Tuesday and started directing...
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