CBC Budget Cut? We Asked for It.

Facebook just spent a billion dollars on a tiny little internet startup called Instagram.

Meanwhile, our own beloved/celebrated/maligned/despised CBC is figuring out how to suffer through a $115 million budget cut.

650 people will lose their jobs at the CBC, and at least 6 programs will be cut.

Instagram, on the other hand, only employs 13 people. They were all just made instant millionaires.

Okay, I get that the trials and tribulations of a national public broadcaster are very different from the success of a private firm that has experienced a high profile aquisition. That’s very much an apples-and-oranges story.

But that’s not the story. The story is us.

Yukon is Digital Soweto

Jesse’s right. And that makes the Yukon the shantytown of the world.

Lose Weight Fast

Scientists finally figured out teleportation last summer. It took them long enough. I mean, they’ve been teleporting things around on Star Trek since time immemorial.

They did with just an atom, though. One single little atom. What’s that good for?

The Rise of PR

The last few decades have seen public relations, or PR, become the most effective way to have commercial messages enter our collective cerebral cortex. That’s when companies convince the media to dress up their press releases as news.

Be Nice to Geeks

This is a story about a guy named Ned. Ned is a geek. In his spare time he does fun stuff like recode functions in Linux. To really relax he updates his weblog with notes about his stuffed Dilbert collection.

His shirts are too big for him and there are coffee stains all over his pants. Ned doesn’t bathe much and always carries a faint aroma of BO.

Yeah, you know the guy I’m talking about.