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Gubuntuk

11/12/2007 by Single Lane Media 2 Comments

For some time I laboured under the mistaken impression that I was running the Kubuntu operating system on my computer at work. I had installed Ubuntu, and then the KDE desktop environment, and Ubuntu with KDE is Kubuntu, or so goes the conventional geek belief. Unfortunately it’s not as simple as that, as I discovered […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: buntu, computers, Gnome, KDE, kubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, operating systems, ubuntu

The Amazing Five Minute News Cycle

02/20/2007 by Single Lane Media Leave a Comment

by guest blogger Zeff Davies You’ve heard of the 24-hour news cycle created by the incessant need of cable TV news for new sensations? Well, always glad to advance the state of art, we here at backofthebook.ca now present The Amazing Five Minute News Cycle: 5:35 p.m. I, Zeff Davies, would like to announce that […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: bad behaviour, celebrity, news

Avast ye, eh?

02/18/2007 by Single Lane Media Leave a Comment

Avast ye, and listen well. Ol’ Joe Biden has turned his guns to North and is taking aim at our Great White Land o’ the Pirates, aye. Seems he and his Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus gave fair warning three years ago when they put us on a watch list, but e’en so we did not […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: computers, copyright, digital restriction management, digital rights management, DRM, file sharing, intellectual property, internet, MPAA, p2p, piracy, RIAA

Music that wants to be free

02/04/2007 by Single Lane Media Leave a Comment

I’ve been distracted by a lot of really cool things lately (Never Drank the Kool-Aid, bloggin as nihilism, Little Mosque on the Prairie, and a spate of good weather). And music, of course. In light of what’s happened with DJs Drama and Canon recently, I’m going to try to use this post to give you […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: music

Goodbye, Brave New Waves

01/24/2007 by Single Lane Media Leave a Comment

This — this is a lament. This is an ode and a eulogy. Good bye Brave New Waves. You shall be missed. It’s been a while since last we spoke. Sorry about that. Been very busy. Please, don’t take it as a slight — everyone’s busy these days — we had our separate lives and […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: CBC, CBC Radio, music

Rhythm and sex?

01/07/2007 by Single Lane Media Leave a Comment

I’ve been wondering for a while — since when did modern soul/ r ‘n’ b become synonymous with sex? I was digging through the r ‘n’ b bins of my local record store when I stumbled on a modern soul comp, Midnight Soul 3. The track listing was tight — remixes from cats like Japan’s […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: music

December playlist: Ho ho friggin’ ho

12/19/2006 by Single Lane Media Leave a Comment

I’m glad that Christmas only comes around once a year. I dislike the season, a lot. I hate the forced cheer, the over-priced crap we’re forced into buying: everything about the season makes me cringe, and especially the music. I was asked if this month’s playlist would have any good Christmas music. I responded that […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: music

myCBC: Integration or homogenization?

12/11/2006 by Single Lane Media Leave a Comment

“Our reporters will no longer be radio reporters or TV reporters — that particular T-shirt will be put aside and there will be far more contributions to the web, far more mixing and movement among the various networks and platforms.” Tony Burman, CBC News Editor-in-Chief. Things are a-changing at the CBC (yes, again). They’re killing […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: CBC

Canadian TV: The Inferior, The Poseur, The Invader

11/26/2006 by Single Lane Media Leave a Comment

According to University of Calgary professors Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan, Canadians should be worried about HDTV. They argue that the new format will weaken Canada’s cultural independence. I haven’t read their book, Canadian Television Today, so I won’t comment on their theories or arguments. I’m also not interested in discussing desperate attempts to sex […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: television

Memo to Jesus: you need a better ad agency

11/12/2006 by Single Lane Media Leave a Comment

Maybe you’ve seen the above ad. Maybe you haven’t. It’s part of a new controversial and irreverent campaign put together by the United Church of Canada. The church needs to renew its steadily aging congregation and they’re targeting a younger, more liberal audience that already sees itself as Christian but doesn’t necessarily attend church, and […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Christianity, religion

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

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The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

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My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

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Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

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The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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