Acer T231H Windows 7 and 8 touch monitor
Surprisingly the Acer T231H bmid is the only $300 monitor that delivers a multi-touch in Windows 7.
Once I started using this monitor, it was hard to give it up, so I bought another one to replace an old Samsung.
There is only a small cost premium over a non-touch monitor. Continue reading
The Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, is about to put the Copyright Modernization Act through the Canadian Parliament.
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“Eyes Open” Official Video by Taylor Swift
Fifteen tracks available from iTunes.
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Updated with full audio – The Hunger Games is sci-fi movie set in the future where teenagers fight to the death on television, sort of The Running Man without Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The song is a foray into our lack of privacy with words like “Everybody’s waiting / Everybody’s watching / Even when you’re sleeping, keep your eyes open.”
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Mike Masnick founder of TechDirt
TechDirt is one of a kind – editor Mike Masnick works tirelessly writing stories every day to promote freedom of speech and freedom on the internet.
Mike has written articles denouncing censorship, state control around the world including the US Congress attempt through SOPA to shut down the internet as we know it. Continue reading
Reina Makino as Chieko in Babel rave scene (photo Paramount Pictures)
I was watching the DVD of Babel
Suddenly the viewer is immersed in the world of the deaf. The effect is quite startling. You can instantly feel Chieko’s isolation from the crowded and noisy rave.
Chieko’s disability is a compelling part of the story, the emptiness of communication. It forms an ironic counterpoint to the miscommunication or babel of the non-deaf characters.
God speaks to Moses from the burning bush The Ten Commandments
By Stephen Pate – To almost 4 billion Christians, Muslims and Jews, God is the great “I AM.”
He is the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob. He is the God that influenced the world, especially the Western world I was born into.
Last night we watched a bit of The Ten Commandments on TV. I wanted to hear God speak those words again to Moses from the burning bush.
“And He said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Continue reading