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(Inspired by the Church Sign Generator)
Via Slashdot, this story bounced over from Canoe.ca(CP) about a mother of 3 in Waterloo, Ontario who set up a website in April to document her complaints about “questionable building practices and labour-code violations” of a local developer. She even wrote to the Ontario Ministry of the Environment to report her findings. I only found this Google cache copy of an over-quota Geocities account, so I have no idea of the nature or extent of her claims (see Robert’s links in comments).
The developer, Activa Holdings, has now launched a punitive libel suit against Louisette Lanteigne for $2 million. Here’s what’s interesting: Activa’s lawyer, Greg Murdoch (looks like a nice enough guy), crows that Activa is “confident the right public perception will come about.”
Now, maybe it’s the naive little boy in me that thinks this is the dumbest way for a company to restore its besmirched reputation. You can’t polish a gold turd with sandpaper, to coin a phrase.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am not a The Darkness fan. So it’s with some amusement that this report showed up on The Register.
To summarize, Justin Hawkins, singer of The Darkness, found an advance industry copy on eBay of their upcoming CD (due out at the end of November) that some industry slimeball had put up for auction. Hawkins paid £350 to reclaim it, stating the move was to stop the CD from being leaked prematurely.
To quote, “I’ve bought our own album back off this character who’s selling it on eBay,” he told the BBC. “It cost me £350 and it’s going to be a tenner when it’s in the shops - with artwork.”
The best part of this quote is the “with artwork” bit. For a taste of what passes for The Darkness artwork, open wide and click on the image below for more
Much ado about famed BBC DJ John Peel and his beloved wooden box full of 7″ singles (MetaFilter, BoingBoing). Only the ILoveMusic discussion group has been trying to gather the tracks together and finally somebody has posted a torrent.
It’s a work in progress apparently. I’m guessing the sheer scattered, eclectic nature of a collector like Peel means that the average muso has never even heard of most of these artists, nevermind rip them from their collection. For sure, some great tracks and then some tracks that only a mother could love (or an archivist like John Peel).
This is unbelievably hypnotic.
I thought is was common knowledge, but Bob Marley passed away back in 1981. Imagine the BBC’s embarrasement when they recently emailed a request for an interview with the Tuff Gong.
Mi naa jesta, mon. Naa, everytin cook an’ curry.
The LCBO (yes, that’s pronounced “lĭk-bō” - or at least in my house it is) here in Ontario is the “world’s largest purchaser of beverage alcohol, buying wine, spirits and beer from more than 60 countries for Ontario consumers and licensees.” Of course, they also mark it up at exhorbitant rates and make a tun of loot like some drunken pirates on the high seas.
Erstwhile drummer for Split Enz and Crowded House was found dead, apparently by suicide in a park in his hometown of Melbourne, Australia Friday night at age 46.
Condolences to his family and Friendz.
BoingBoing points out a press release from Silver Bullet Comic Books about the English premiere of The Golem, a daily comic strip “featuring Israel’s first nanotechnology-powered superhero” on Ynetnews.
The strip is based on the book, The Golem, a mock history of the character’s path through Israeli comic books. Despite the lengthy volume’s extensive artwork showing The Golem in a series of comics and styles from the 1940s through 1990s, the “history” evoked is fake; none of the comic books in which The Golem is said to have starred actually were published.
The Golem, incidentally, is a MacGuffin used in transporting Joe Kavalier out of pre-WWII Prague in Michael Chabon’s Kavalier & Clay.
You know that feeling you go “home” after you haven’t been “home” for a while? Well, that’s how I felt when I went back to Infiltration.org just today. The site is your essential guide to urban exploration. Specifically, about “going places you’re not supposed to go.” Which I love (reminds me of spelunking at school in the UofWaterloo tunnels).
