A little humour this evening - source unknown:
Stopping the Weapons of Math Instruction

At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a setsquare, a slide rule, ...   more »

The hits just keep on comin' up here in the Great White North.
The Supreme Court here will hear a landmark Internet case on Wednesday Dec. This is from my report on this today:
Canada's songwriters will ask the Supreme Court of Canada next week to force Internet service providers ...   more »

The e-governance Institute at Rutgers University and a Korean university surveyed the online presence for 100 of the world's biggest cities and determined that Seoul, Korea is the model cities should emulate when it comes to providing services and information to its citizens. New York was 4th, and Toronto was ...   more »

John Dvorak, PC Magazine's high-octane columnist, writes:
"Blogs, or Web logs, are all the rage in some quarters. We're told that blogs will evolve into a unique source of information and are sure to become the future of journalism. Well, hardly. Two things are happening to prevent such a ...   more »

The Pew Internet and American Life Project (and if that isn't a pretentious name for an ongoing research project, I don't know what is) concludes that television is on the outs as an information applicance and the landline telephone is becoming less relevant as a communication tool, particularly for people ...   more »

There are a number of surprises in the first ever global index that ranks countries based on the ability of citizens to access information and computing technologies. The index was prepared and released by the International Telecommunications Union. Canada ranked 10th, the highest ranking among the world's developed economies. From ...   more »

BlogTalk 2.0, a European conference on blogging to be held in July 2004, has posted calls for proposals and other preliminary information about the event.   more »

Frederiction, New Brunswick is a charming city in a charming province and is even more so now for the foresight of its municipal council and leaders. Late last week, Frederiction announced it was, so far as anyone knows, the first municipality in Canada to light up a Wi-Fi network. The ...   more »

Toronto police arrested a man this week and laid what is believed to be the first-ever charge of "Theft of Telecommunications". The case involves accusations of child porn and Wi-Fi. We led our national newscast with this item on Friday night and yet, so far as I can tell, ...   more »

I've been telling PR types and others for more than two years where they can find me on various instant messaging networks and I'm surprised that the response has been so underwhelming. I almost never hear from someone via IM who's trying to reach me in a professional capacity, i.e. to ...   more »