Stephen Colbert remix

The Colbert Report is the best comedy show on television. And my favourite TV show of all time.

Colbert is a “well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot”, a caricature of televised political pundits like right-wing idiot Bill O’Reilly.

Colbert debated Lawrence Lessig, “a founding board member of Creative Commons, a board member of the Software Freedom Law Center and a former board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications.”

Needless to say, Colbert pretended to be outraged against anything “free” on the net, especially illegal downloading.

Here’s one clip from Colbert’s ongoing coverage of the internet.

Stephen Colbert makes a remix featuring himself on some “jaw dropping, ear popping fresh” beats so others won’t 🙂

stop emailing videos

I got a funny video in an email from Rocco the other day.

I could open it because I have VLC and sixteen other video players installed on my Mac.

But other friends could not open the video.

STOP EMAILING VIDEOS. They are problematic big files that clog the tubes.

Much better is to email with the URL link to the video. Here she be:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iqm6NbGQQ90

global freezing in Calgary

The next Ice Age looms.

Here’s the evidence.

… a month that saw three times the normal amount of snow snarl city streets and put a damper on the plans of thousands of travellers eager to make it home for the holidays.

If winter weather was delayed in coming, Mother Nature packed a wallop when the first of many big winter snow storms hit Dec. 12.

Calgary International Airport saw 49 centimetres of snow during the month –more than triple the usual amount for December.

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Calgary Herald – December’s cold, snow made lives miserable

related: News.com.au – Climate change questioned after 2008 tipped to be coolest year of the century