In a previous post I discussed the BlueRay and HD-DVD format war. In it I concluded that Sony could lose, and I would hope that they do loose. Although I still hold that conviction, there's a third side that might be better. Over a decade ago people were upset with formats changing too quickly. 8 Track, cassette, to CD in 50 years. VHS to DVD in the same time. In my other article, I assumed that one of the new formats would become the standard. Often, parrellels are shown between the current BlueRay/HD-DVD and BetaMax formats. And there are lots of parallels, in fact. But there ...

Recently I read Richard Dawkin's the Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life. It's a biology book (currently on sale at Chapter for $10 CAD) which starts with modern humans, and goes back through the ages describing what our common ancestor with other animals would have looked like. One of our first stops is the common ancestor we have with other modern apes. From their, we visit the common ancestor of us and monkey, all the way back to fungi and single celled organisms. For every common ancestor we meet, they have a tale to tell us. Each of these tales explains something ...

2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: freedom of conscience and religion;freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;freedom of peaceful assembly; andfreedom of association. (Canadian Chart of Rights and Freedoms) Living in Canada is like living next to a loud mouthed neighbour. Many Canadians have a better understanding of American history than Canadian history. This is probably because American patriotism and nationalism oozes out of their media, and we Canadians to to see a lot of it. As a ...

The Harper Government has imposed a tax on income trusts, after specifically saying that they would not tax income trusts. This, of course, help people to make the decision to pour their money in to income trusts. Now, all of a sudden, there is a tax on income trusts. So lots of people lost their money who wouldn't have if a) the government kept their word, or b) they said up front they would tax it and the people would have found safer places for their money. [Flaherty] defended the surprise nature of the announcement. "Well, the last government did nothing but muse about it and ...