Apr 29, 2009

Submitted by Ruip: Sad, silly but always entertaining, FMyLife asks posters to share their everyday stories Every entry begins and ends the same way. It's the in-between that draws nearly 2 million hits a day and earned a book deal for three Frenchmen in search of a good online laugh. (Read More)

Apr 26, 2009

Submitted by Ruip: The Star asked readers as part of our Beat the Wrap campaign to send us photographs of their packaging gripes and dozens of you responded. You sent in pictures of skin cream, kitchen cloths, vitamins and environmentally friendly products wrapped in extensive packaging. We chose a representative sample and asked the manufact (Read More)

Apr 24, 2009

Submitted by Ruip: John McCain is the latest high-profile politician to repeat the diehard American falsehood that the 9-11 terrorists entered the United States through Canada. (Read More)

Apr 24, 2009

Submitted by Ruip: Apple has apologised for a "deeply offensive" iPhone application called Baby Shaker, which made a game of quieting crying babies by shaking them. (Read More)

Apr 19, 2009

Submitted by Ruip: From terrorism to the economy, `We deliver the opposite of what we intend,' says analyst. (Read More)

Apr 19, 2009

Submitted by Ruip: Traffic deaths in this country are on the decline, according to Statistics Canada. Want to make them decline even quicker? Read the rule book!Except we don't – not unless we're about to take the test for a driver's licence. Pass the test and the 228 sections of the Ontario Highway Traffic Act get forgotten more quickly than (Read More)

Apr 16, 2009

Submitted by Mogston from blog: We've seen all sorts of arguments by folks who felt defamed to get around Section 230 safe harbors that say a service provider isn't liable for the content created by a user -- but this is a first: a woman is suing Google, claiming that the safe harbors don't apply, because the allegedly defamatory content comes from a blog (Read More)

Apr 16, 2009

Submitted by Mogston from blog: Not so fast, Ashton Kutcher. The actor, still looking good on his promise to beat CNN's newly acquired Twitter account CNNbrk to 1 million followers, suddenly has new and very serious competition: a fake account named after Austrian incestuous madman Joseph Frieschel... (Read More)

Apr 15, 2009

Techdirt One of the excuses given by the various trade representatives negotiating the ACTA treaty for the fact that they were keeping it quite secret, was that it wouldn't represent any significant change to copyright laws, and thus it was no big deal. Yet, the various drafts of the proposed treaty have suggested otherwise. Torre (Read More)

Mar 25, 2009

Submitted by Rpetty: on Friday Ryan Lawler from Contentinople posted an article titled Boxee CEO: Consumers Will Get à la Carte Online. which led Mark Cuban to post Why Do Internet People Think Content People Are Stupid ? which triggered the following exchange:. (Read More)

Apr 10, 2009

Submitted by Ruip: There is a rage over cage shoes this season.It ignited at the spring/summer 2009 Yves Saint Laurent collection shown in Paris last October. Designer Stefano Pilati sent his models down the runway, their feet encased in a shoe featuring thin strips of leather that form a grid-like pattern and perched on a metal cage-inspired (Read More)

Apr 10, 2009

Submitted by Ruip: On Friday, the B.C. Court of Appeal issued a ruling that allows Adbusters Media Foundation to pursue legal action against the CBC and CanWest Global for refusing to screen its anti-consumerist television ads. (Read More)

Apr 09, 2009

Submitted by Ruip: Canada should push for the creation of an international park that would protect the area around the North Pole, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said Monday. (Read More)

Apr 08, 2009

CBC | Technology & Science News Laws in Canada and other countries are increasingly helping technology force people to identify themselves where they never had to before, a new study has found. (Read More)

Apr 09, 2009

Submitted by Ruip: The European arm of PETA has given the Pet Shop Boys something to ponder, after the animal rights activist group recently asked the synth-pop duo to change its name. (Read More)

Rui Pereira

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