December 2011
58 posts
YRT union refuses to cast ballots on contract →
The only thing more bad-ass than voting 100% to reject a contract, is to refuse to even consider it.
“VW’s e-mail server will stop sending messages to an employee’s...”
– Volkswagen Is Forcing Employees to Turn Off Their BlackBerrys So They’ll Stop Working All the Time
Investigation: Windsor police officers accused of... →
“Ontario’s top police complaints watchdog says officers on the Windsor, Ont., police force tried to cover up a case of excessive force and false arrest.”
“There is no god and that’s the simple truth. If every trace of any single...”
– Amazon.com: God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales by Penn Jillette (via Daring Fireball)
“Nobody hates them for being successful… What makes people furious is that...”
– Politics: A Christmas Message From America’s Rich (via Daring Fireball)
Occupy Wall Street imagined as Lego sets for... →
(via Gizmodo)
Study: Rich People Are Unfeeling Robots Devoid Of... →
“the lower the subjects’ family income, the higher their score on compassion”
US asks scientific journals to censor bird flu... →
Victory! Boycott forces GoDaddy to drop its... →
Optimus Prime, Eeyore, and the first Mario were... →
Report: Someone At The RIAA Downloaded $9 Million... →
Kim Jong-il’s Real Name was Yuri Irsenovich Kim →
Also, he never pooped.
Toronto sex shop purchase outs Republican mayor... →
7 Reasons Kale Is the New Beef →
“Cheap literature served the United States well, both in terms of educating the...”
– Meera Nair: A Christmas Carol
'10 for Tebow' Encourages Donating to Pro-Choice... →
What Happened to the PIPEDA Review? →
The government is legally required to review PIPEDA in 2011—not gonna happen.
UMG claims "right to block or remove" YouTube... →
Hey!
Baluga:
Taking a Second Look at those Attawapiskat Numbers →
Lorraine Land:
Should Toronto be put under third party management? That community has been running a deficit for years, and the combined total of all government spending (federal, provincial and municipal) is $24,000 a year for each Torontonian.
Attawapiskat, on the other hand, which is only funded by one level of government — federal – received $17.6 million in this fiscal year, for all of the...
Junkyard Gives Up Secret Accounts of Massacre in... →
Michael S. Schmidt
The 400 pages of interrogations, once closely guarded as secrets of war, were supposed to have been destroyed as the last American troops prepare to leave Iraq. Instead, they were discovered along with reams of other classified documents, including military maps showing helicopter routes and radar capabilities, by a reporter for The New York Times at a junkyard outside...
“I heard a speech by Noam Chomsky who said that corporations are like super...”
– Hi I’m Louis C.K. and this is a thing (via Daring Fireball)
Snow Cat
Pure fuzzzzz:
Isaac Newton's Papers and Notebooks Now Available... →
San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City To Cross $10... →
Trillion-Dollar Jet Has Thirteen Expensive New... →
Those are the jets Canada ordered. The flaws will cost $1,000,000,000 to fix and will delay delivery by up to 7 years.
Boxes
of the cat-approved variety. (cc @davescrivener):
“Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone...”
– Andy Baio: No Copyright Intended (via Daring Fireball)
Fired RIM execs 'chewed through restraints' on... →
“If IP rightholders can’t be trusted to use the tools already at their disposal —...”
– Corynne McSherry Universal Censors Megaupload Song, Gets Branded a “Rogue Label”
And In An Alternative Universe...
Stranger things happen every day:
BP says Halliburton 'intentionally destroyed... →
Boing Boing Gift Guide 2011 →
My favourite list of gift suggestions.
“The report argues that piracy is only a significant concern for “large...”
– Swiss government: file-sharing no big deal, some downloading still OK
“Yet, unknown to the public and the Congress, these same banks had been borrowing...”
– Eliot Spitzer: The $7 trillion secret loan program - Slate Magazine
Move over Movember and bring on the beards! →
I totally won second place!!
Alex Himelfarb on the consequences of tax cuts... →
Meta Cat
Wut!!:
Yo dawg I heard you like cats…
*punch*
Take that Internet.
