Today's Links
The afternoon CBC talkshow Here and Now, hosted by the very capable Matt Galloway, is today featuring a story on German "Hobby Indians" - Germans who dress as North American indians. Fascinating. The legit indian community doesn't really know what to think about it - considering that the Germans are proving themselves so good at producing their own accurately designed and implemented clothing and accoutrements.
findarticles.com seems to be a wellspring of hard-to-get magazine articles from the present, recent and not-so-recent past. For instance, here's an article from the May, 1993 issue of OMNI on the 25th anniversary of "2001: A Space Odyssey" - a good read.
In this time when science textbooks are being labelled with warnings of their 'evolutionist' content and the 'leader of the free world' promises to veto stem cell research, it is all the more important for articles like Scientific American's July 2002, "15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense" to be reprinted.
ttcrider.ca has a handy PDF guide to where the exits are at each station on the Toronto subway line, so you can plan your trip efficiently.
This guy wants to rid the world of a terrible evil: the dime. Of course, he wants your help in the fight and is willing to take all of your dimes as donations to aid in the fight. Right.
DVS is a form of close-captioning - but for the blind - a separate audio track that accompanies the dialog of a show, describing the action. This blog of a radio station somewhere in the US, includes a 21 megabyte mp3 file of the DVS from the "Rupture" episode of The Simpsons. Quite humorous!