Well, November 28th has finally rolled around, which means my favorite international holiday can officially begin (in North America, at least, for you Brits and Aussies, etc., will just have to wait until tomorrow).  That’s right, kiddies!  Today is ‘Buy Nothing Day’ (insert cheers and applause)!!!  Your one chance every year to refuse the perpetuation [...]

They’re at it again, god bless ‘em! Those rascally Yes Men, masters of the fine art that is ‘culture jamming’, have hoaxed the American media. This time their ruse involved printing and distributing a fake version of the New York Times, predated to July 4th of next year, and chock-full of unlikely, progressive ‘if only’ [...]

This so-called ‘economic meltdown’ in my own beloved United States is, in my opinion, nothing more than a carefully-crafted misnomer designed to camouflage the much more comprehensive villainy of American capitalism. You can’t ‘meltdown’ a global system that has been gradually tearing away at economic sustainability for years! Everything that we’re experiencing now is the [...]

On the August 12th episode of Filmschool — an excellent podcast/radio show out of the University of California at Irvine (KUCI 88.9 FM) — hosts Nathan Callahan and Mike Kaspar interviewed author and filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman about her new cinematic project, Stealing America: Vote By Vote. This feature length documentary explores voting fraud and the [...]

Since starting my job lat month as a ‘computer literacy tutor’ with/for disabled adults in southeast Melbourne, I have become acutely aware of how difficult it can be for some members of our society (in this case Australia) to access certain institutions, services and cultural experiences.  These are things that individuals without disability often take [...]

As part of my graduate studies I am required to design a ‘research’ project that somehow relates to the profession of Community Cultural Development (CCD).  Initially, I was hoping to actually go out into Melbourne and engage with some undefined group of people.  Potentialities included the Chinese, youth, migrant populations, and so on.  But after [...]

Last month (I’m obviously behind the times here), the BBC reported on the opening of a memorial for slain journalists. The all glass, cone-shaped sculpture currently sits atop the BBC Broadcasting House in London, and includes a beam of white light that will be illuminated every evening at 10pm. The memorial, entitled simply Breathing, is [...]

In a throwback to 1980s kitsch, someone decided to make and market a bonafide Flux Capacitor. Far be it from me to geek-out in public from this blatant attempt to exploit my generation’s childhood memories for profit. But I must admit, it looks pretty cool.
Question: can I put this thing on my bicycle?

It looks as though the world’s multinational corporations have graduated from Maoist ‘reeducation’ camp just in time for the Summer games. According to this article in BusinessWeek, global companies, some from the United States, have recently taken a decidedly nationalistic approach to advertising in Chinese media, and all with the goal of wooing new customers to their [...]

I love Canadians.
Ars Technica recently published an article about a Canadian member of parliament (MP) named Charlie Angus, and his struggle to fight ‘traffic shaping’ by telecom giant and all-around badie, Bell Canada. Angus is a vocal advocate for net neutrality, and he apparently presented a response bill before the Canadian congress in order to spark a [...]