The art of server noise

Sitting in Cafe 1842, trying to calm myself down after a particularly gruesome server crash. Apparently one server in this...

Push on for February long weekend

A backbench politician from Nova Scotia wants to give her province a long weekend in February, joining the chorus of...

Privacy chief takes aim at spammers with e-mail ruling

Two executives meet at a function and exchange business cards. This makes the information public and allows it to be...

Biologist sounds battle cry against unwelcome amphibian

A conservation biologist is urging an all-out assault on the American bullfrog in British Columbia this spring, saying the amphibians...

Actress Sandra Dee dies

Sandra Dee, the actress who brought teenage life to the silver screen in the 1960s and was married to pop...

Hunter S. Thompson dies

Hunter S. Thompson, the U.S. writer who pioneered the super-subjective form of journalism known as “gonzo,” has killed himself, his...

RFID Tracking Pilot Program Ended in Sutter School

The Sutter-based company InCom announced last night, at a packed special school district meeting, that it would end its pilot...

Napoleon Die-namite

Beginning in January 2005, rumors circulated nationwide that Jon Heder, the 26-year-old star of the film Napoleon Dynamite, had died...

electric sheep screensaver

This software owes its name to Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It realizes the collective...

Famous Players cuts same-sex ads after threats

[Z] – I sadly wonder about people who fight *against* the Charter of Rights and Freedoms : Canada’s largest movie-theatre...