Posts by D. H. McKee

Animator Makes Waves as Artist

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, oversized heads, alarmingly cherry-red lips, blotchy skin and sharp scroll-like claws...

Thanksgiving: A Canadian Original or a U.S. Copy?

While the Pilgrims occupy centre stage in traditional American Thanksgiving celebrations, it was Ontario’s Protestant Clergy, and later, commercial and...

Urban Legend: Boxing Day comes from the need to rid the house of empty boxes

False. Few Americans have any inkling that there even is such a thing as Boxing Day, let alone what the...

Not so nebulous after all.

Ok … so, just to help out on the whole Thanksgiving issue, check out this link to a York University...

Happy Leaster!

I’m sitting in 1842, by the window facing Princess St., drinking a tall Americano in a white ceramic cup. The...

Check my credit card signature?

Every time you make a credit card purchase, they’re supposed to match your signature against the one on the back...

IMAX theaters reject film over evolution

IMAX theaters in several Southern cities have decided not to show a film on volcanoes out of concern that its...

PublicIp’s ZoneCD – revisited

Been looking at the latest build of the Linux wireless gateway software from the folks at PublicIP. They’ve done some...

Man Accused of Having Sex With Cows

A 63-year-old man is charged with sexual gratification with an animal for allegedly having sex with calves. Harold G. Hart,...

Open-source programmer alleges Linux misuse

An open-source programmer stopped by the CeBit trade show in Hannover, Germany, this week to tell Motorola and 12 other...