Archive for April 2009

World Wide Studio

This video of the classic tune “Stand by Me” is so cool. The video producer started by taping a street musician in Santa Monica, California. He then had other musicians around the world add their piece as they listened to the original on headphones. Watch it by clicking here.

Our Wondrous Brain

Sit on a chair. Raise your right foot and move it in small clockwise circles in the air. Keep the foot going and then take your right hand and draw a ’6′ in the air. What happens to your foot’s direction?

Oral Sex Is the New Goodnight Kiss

[warning: some readers may find the following graphic talk about sex disturbing. In that case, switch sites now.] “Oral Sex Is the New Goodnight Kiss” is a new book by Sharlene Azam that will probably both shock you and open your eyes. We are not talking traditional prostitution here. We are talking high school girls [...]

Commentary on News Sites

The Globe and Mail’s website ( http://www.theglobeandmail.com/ ) allows reader comments on many of its stories. Reading these can cause you to laugh or maybe express some naughty words. I read their story about yet another political candidate who has resigned over inappropriate material coming to light. In this case it was a racy photo [...]

Internet Sales Tax

There are literally thousands of different sales taxes across the United States at the state, locality, tax district (and other) levels. This makes it an atrocious system for an online retailer like Amazon.com to maintain. Thus, the logic in a 1992 tax case was decided in favour of out-of-state retailers and they were not required [...]

Can Man Alter the Weather?

To some degree the answer to this question is “Yes”. Best example is cloud seeding to encourage rain. But can we control hurricanes? If we could, think of the savings, not only in lost property, but actual lives. Aw, but whatever man can think up to come to the aid of mankind, military thinkers can [...]

Arrrggghhh Matey!

Pirate Bay. If you are in the know about internet matters and downloading music and video, then you know about Pirate Bay. The owner’s of this notorious website were recently found guilty of breaking some laws regarding their site helping people download pirated materials. I posted a comment on the Globe and Mail’s article about [...]