7 shootings in 24 hours have Toronto officials worried.

7 shootings in 24 hours have Toronto officials worried. Perhaps the time has come to pay closer scrutiny to people who come from the US to Canada by car.

Health Canada investigating reports that Viagra may make some blind.

Health Canada investigating reports that Viagra may make some blind. Does it also give you hairy palms, I wonder?

Study: Microsoft’s monopoly deals cost the IT industry $10 billion/year.

Study: Microsoft’s monopoly deals cost the IT industry $10 billion/year. That’s what happens when “innovation” comes to mean “keeping the other players from being able to play the game.”

Say W.O.T.?

Say W.O.T.? The War on Terror is dead. Long live the long-term-ideological-struggle-on-terror. Is this more than a mere attempt at keeping up the impression that something is being done?

Phone company Telus’s ‘friendly future’ apparently includes censorship, on their own networks and on the networks unfortunately enough to use them as an uplink.

Phone company Telus’s ‘friendly future’ apparently includes censorship, on their own networks and on the networks unfortunately enough to use them as an uplink. Who the hell would want to deal with a communications company so keen on not letting the message out?

GP d’Allemagne: Alonso remporte sa 6ème course de l’année.

GP d’Allemagne: Alonso remporte sa 6ème course de l’année. Ça en vient presqu’aussi monotone que d’entendre défiler les victoires de Michael Schumacher dans les années passées! Alonso est vraiment l’homme du moment en Formule 1.

Tony Blair’s makeup bill runs almost 2000 pounds so far.

Tony Blair’s makeup bill runs almost 2000 pounds so far. Maybe it has to do with that whole ‘metrosexual’ thing.

Inter’s England trip back on after all.

Inter’s England trip back on after all. Pressure by the British Sports Minister might have had something to do with it.

Inter Milan goes chicken, cancels English trip.

Inter Milan goes chicken, cancels English trip. If Inter is going to see its fans throw fuses and other objects at opposing players, it’s going to be at their own stadium.

Apparently Yahoo has no policy preventing the disclosure of information to repressive governments for use in political crimes trials.

Apparently Yahoo has no policy preventing the disclosure of information to repressive governments for use in political crimes trials. There’s another firm that’ll go to no length to protect its users against persecution and possibly death. More background on the case here. Fuck Yahoo. I will no longer use their services, and would urge anyone else sick of seeing duplicity in the PRC’s political persecutions not to use Yahoo services either.