Posts by D. H. McKee

Cops took panhandler’s bicycle

A Brampton real estate agent and a surveillance tape spoke up when Toronto Police thought a homeless man was giving...

Equipment & Gear: Microwave Safe Containers

Leave it to an engineer to talk tech about microwave containers: In the United States, food grade containers are containers...

May The Force Please Go Away

13 reasons to be hugely grateful that “Star Wars,” the king of adolescent space epics, is finally over Can we...

Tom Cruise Slams Anesthesia as Pseudo-Science

Just days after calling psychiatry a fraud, Hollywood superstar and Church of Scientology devotee Tom Cruise is now declaring war...

Fevered Garage-Building

It’s been a little while in between postings, but for the past week, I’ve been fighting this (as yet) unknown...

Ontario bill ends censoring of films

Ontario’s film reviewers are putting away their “censored” stamp for good after the provincial government passed a bill that will...

Swiss bank accounts: myth vs. reality

Ever wanted a Swiss bank account? In David Mamet’s 1997 movie The Spanish Prisoner, a con man played by Steve...

CBC attempts record for deepest live radio broadcast

A Canadian record for the world’s deepest live radio broadcast may soon appear in the Guinness World Records book. The...

Renowned Producer Ismail Merchant Dies

We are saddened to report that Indian born filmmaker Ismail Merchant has died in a London hospital after a brief...

American treatment of prisoners assailed

Amnesty International said Wednesday that the United States’ treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib had emboldened abusive...