Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
As reported by the Globe and Mail, a poll commissioned by the Canadian Recording Industry Association, tries to link free downloading – which is not illegal in Canada – as a gateway crime leading to bigger illegal things. “Not only Continue reading Crimilisation and stigmatizing of P2P continues
Update : Late Winter 2006 is up Omni TV 2 (channel 14 on Roger’s here in torontoland) has posted their listings (now at now at http://www.omnitv.ca/ontario/tv/supercinema/, see below) of “Super Cinema Night” for Sept Oct, Nov and early Dec are Continue reading Saturday Night Hong Kong Films in Toronto (Omini TV ) Fall 2005
Boing Boing reported that TiVo won’t save certain shows or allow moving them, and the refuted claim by Tivo that “noise” could cause a TiVo to block recording. (trust me instances of standard TV shows being affected by new copy Continue reading “Don’t Trust, Don’t Store” variation on Trusted Computing (Trusted Transmission)?
Cuban folk musician José Aquiles is performing at Toronto’s Brazilian-inspired Caju Restaurant (Queen & Shaw in the West Queen West part) on August 4st. Tell them False Positives sent you. Having heard José Aquiles at the Free times Cafe last Continue reading José Aquiles at Toronto’s Caju
Kelly McManus reviews Cory Doctorow‘s “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town” in the The Globe and Mail Book section : The novel presents some of Doctorow’s most striking insights into the cultural implications of new technologies, making it his Continue reading Here be monsters : Cory Doctorow’s "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town" in the Globe and Mail
The New York Times saturday magazine has a piece on Ron Moore’s Deep Space Journey (here’s the no registration link, and now on SlashDot) and his re-creation of Battlestar Galactica (which started it second season on the USA SciFi Channel Continue reading SciFi on TV?