Al Purdy, 1918 - 2000
"He wrote about going to good hockey games and fighting with the foreman at work... the kind of things that occupy ordinary people."
Wired asks 'What is your price for being ad-jacked?'
Despite the fact that "ad-jacking" is an especially clever play on words, the time has come to make
The Magic Christian mandatory reading in high school. "Some friends, when I pulled up, they were like, 'What the hell is that on your car? Did you start working for an insurance company?' I'm like 'No, I'm getting paid to have advertisements on my truck.' And they're like, 'Oh, are you gonna sell your soul next?' I said I already sold it. It already belongs to someone." see also :
RTMark's The Magic Christian Fund.
Meanwhile, rumours are afoot
that CBC [television] is set to begin "de-commercializing" itself
by cutting 14 minutes of advertising per hour, although seemingly at the expense of local newscasts. "We have to take risks and we have to return to our roots as a public-service broadcaster. There is a role for the CBC, and that isn't doing what CTV does. Instead, we need to complement, not compete with, the private sector, whether there are 10 channels, 20 channels or 140 channels."
The nice fellow who wrote the suite of PalmOS related Perl modules
has also written
a command-line tool called ColdSync which has USB support for the Visor under FreeBSD 4.0. Yay!