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Minister of Industry Jim Prentice recently introduced the Bill designated C-61 into the house of parliament here in Canada. The bill for every intent and purpose is a clone of the United States’ DMCA with extra draconian clauses tacked on for good measure. Prentice and party are doing their worst best to try and put a good spin on this horrible bill but not too many people are buying it. Both the NDP and Liberal parties have overtly criticised the bill. Copyright experts such as Michael Giest and Howard Knopf have pointed out until they are blue how this bill is wrong, the public spoke out, yet Prentice proceeded anyways. We can only hope his fate is parallel to the last couple folks that tried to push the American agenda.

I’m beginning to rant and that’s not what I want, I started this article to bring to your attention some work done by a fellow named Felix G.; he put together a document showing exactly how the Canadian Copyright Act is going to be affected by this bill should it pass as it currently stands. If you have the time and legalese interest to read it, it’s a very chilling outlook.

If you don’t feel like sorting through the Copyright Act you can also check on the same page linked above, a side-by-side comparison of of Richard Stallman’s Right to Read and the new bill. The scary thing is that almost every prediction of the worst case scenario outlined in Right to Read would come true in.

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I stumbled on this video today, it’s a cool short animation story about a voodoo doll finding the courage to save his friends from being killed by a voodoo preist. Everything about this video is done well, the animation, lighting and score are a near perfect fit.

Directed by Joaquin Baldwin
Animation DigitalBETACAM
Music by Nick Fevola

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Most of my friends know that I’m atheist, or at least non-religious. My religious friends tend to wonder why I am so defensive about atheism and have a distaste for religion in my tone when I speak about it. I’ve gone blue trying to explain why I feel they are irrational, and even had them admit their beliefs are irrational but they still couldn’t understand my position. I came across this article on Craigslist today and I have to say this is the most succinct, non-confrontational piece explaining my position I could even have hoped for.

Anti-atheist Backlash on R&R Date: 2008-03-05, 12:11PM PST

I’ve noticed a recent trend on Rants and Raves where certain Christian posters are attacking atheists while strangely choosing to ignore all other brands of non-Christians. Why is this? Are these armchair disciples more concerned about saving an atheist’s soul than that of a Buddhist, Hindu, Jew, or Muslim? Sounds fairly selective to me.

I think I know what’s going on here…

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I’ve created a new Greasemonkey script called “Reddit light district” it enables easy identification of NSFW links on the Reddit site. People were complaining that NSFW links were getting seeded into the main page with little distinction. I quickly created a simple solution to this problem, now when browsing links that have NSFW in their title or are part of the NSFW sub-reddit will appear are red in the list.

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Watch as President Bush gets booed at the season open of the Washington Nationals. I really don’t have anything more to add to that other than I don’t know whether it’s funny or sad.

Source: HuffingtonPost.com

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