And… he’s awesome (http://oldman NULL.ca). And darn it, it looks like he should be ten years older than me, not the other way ’round.
Temporary for now, but wheels are in motion for him to become permanent. *crosses fingers*
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Great little documentary (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Documentary_film) on an American’s perspective on Canadian health care (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Health_care).
We’ve been told our health care is so much superior. How many have actually compared?
Biased? Of course. Everyone is. But in light of all the rhetoric (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Rhetoric), it’s important to get the other side of the story.
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(http://reblog NULL.zemanta NULL.com/zemified/e60dc90d-2630-4b6b-83d3-dfde31a1a61b/)In another collaboration with JB Beaulieu (http://oldman NULL.ca/), we concentrate our efforts on demonstrating that DHTs can be made mobile, relational, and ubiquitous.
http://labs.oldman.ca/eree/ (http://labs NULL.oldman NULL.ca/eree/)
See also Simulating DHCP and Spreadsheets with ACANTH
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Canada is soliciting input from Canadians regarding changing copyright laws. Big Media’s voice is being heard. Is yours?
My family creates copyrightable material: stories, poetry, songs and recordings thereof. With liberal copyright options (such as Creative Commons (http://creativecommons NULL.org/) — http://creativecommons.ca/) our creations can be consumed widely whilst appropriately attributing the works to us. That’s much more useful than “all-or-nothing” laws (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Law).
We also have many friends and associates in formal arts and entertainment industries. The various attempts by Canada to deal with modern realities have only benefitted corporations and lobbyists, not artists. We have an opportunity to do something truly different, and liberalise Canada’s copyright laws. We could defy the powerful corporate slaveowners that offer chains masquerading as contracts.
We cannot stop piracy; it would be a neverending war that will never end. The only benefit is to keep citizens in fear, artists broke and bureaucrats employed. It is absolutely not worth it.
What follows is a letter written and sponsored by the Canadian Coalition for Electronic Rights (http://www NULL.ccer NULL.ca/). That’s the letter that you’d be encouraged to send by clicking the banner above.
In his article “The Bait and Switch of Contemporary Christianity (http://experimentaltheology NULL.blogspot NULL.com/2009/08/bait-and-switch-of-contemporary NULL.html)”, Richard Beck (http://www NULL.blogger NULL.com/profile/06500628452135216019) hyperbolises the problems inherent in turning Christianity into a religion of tasks rather than the total transformation that it really is.
One can fill a life full of spiritual activities without ever, actually, trying to become a more decent human being. In fact, much of this activity can distract one from becoming a more decent human being… Many churches are jerk factories.
Take, for example, how Christians tip and behave in restaurants. If you have ever worked in the restaurant industry you know the reputation of the Sunday morning lunch crowd. Millions of Christians go to lunch after church on Sundays and their behavior is abysmal. The single most damaging phenomenon to the witness of Christianity in America today is the collective behavior of the Sunday morning lunch crowd. Never has a more well-dressed, entitled, dismissive, haughty or cheap collection of Christians been seen on the face of the earth.
Performing spiritual/religious activities does not inherently make you a better person. Really becoming a better person is something that can only be done by Jesus.
We know very well that we are not set right with God by rule-keeping but only through personal faith in Jesus Christ. How do we know? We [Jews] tried it—and we had the best system of rules the world has ever seen! Convinced that no human being can please God by self-improvement, we believed in Jesus as the Messiah so that we might be set right before God by trusting in the Messiah, not by trying to be good. …I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn’t work. So I quit being a “law man” so that I could be God’s man.
Galatians 2:15-16,19 MSG (http://biblegateway NULL.com/bible?version=65&passage=Galatians+2%3A15-16%2C19)
Beck is clear: there is nothing wrong, and much that is right about private devotions, bible study, prayer, fasting, et cetera. It just can’t be a substitute for being a decent human being. We need both. What we don’t need is our churches perceived as being “Jerk Factories”.
Tiny Studies from Bryan Ens