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Will probably be back in September. Comments are off to stop the spam.

Have a great summer!

Want hyperbole heaped on a hockey game? You got it when Colby Cosh talks up the Oilers. Here’s an appy.

I hope you saw it; I’ll never forget Ilya Bryzgalov’s sheepish, nervous grin as he listened to the battle hymn, nor how his team fought and nearly triumphed despite being outnumbered by hundreds to one. It’s notable that the wild violence of the first period, in which the Ducks tried futilely to fight back against the voices with their fists, was obviously stage-managed by Todd Marchant. It didn’t work, but what else did they have left? Marchant is a former Oiler; though on the opposite side, he was only doing what he had done for us, against similar odds, a hundred times before. He’s as tough and salty as a slab of horsemeat jerked under a Mongol saddle. I still miss the guy. He’ll die with his boots on. On Thursday.

You’ll want to read the whole thing – the first paragraph is something to behold. Somebody get him the front page of the Edmonton Journal or Ed Sun — at least while the Oilers live.

And somebody, please, for the love of all that is good — give Vancouver another playoff run. It’s a fine feeling — when a city is pumped up, ain’t it?

I’ve always think it strange that so many people have read so little of the Bible. It’s a foundational document to our society. At the bottom of cultural reference upon cultural reference, you will find the Bible.

If you want to understand Western culture, you have to read the Bible.

So, I like this little project here at Slate magazine (H/T LIB). David Plotz is reading the Bible starting at the beginning and blogging about his experience. You might want to read along.

Our people glow with pride over our nuclear efforts, sometimes literally. I repeat that the enrichment is for peaceful purposes only, and we seek only peace, and peace is our goal, and there is nothing more we love than peace. Except death. Sorry; forgot. Death is definitely number one. In third place of things we love, well, there were those nice ice-cream desserts they had at this little place in Tehran. When I was Mayor I had them brought in on Fridays. Good times, good times. But once I found a hair.

Read it all from Lileks.

H/T Mark Steyn on Hugh Hewitt.

A new addition. She’s beautiful.

Steven Page, of the Barenaked Ladies, writes in the Post for a collection of Canadian musical artists called the “Canadian Music Creators Coalition”. For, well, obvious reasons, the Post decided not to put this article behind their gate. The group seems to have been formed to fight the music industry’s desire to not allow me to play music from puretracks.com on my iPod.

- First, we believe that suing our fans is destructive and hypocritical. We do not want to sue music fans, and we do not want to distort the law to coerce fans into conforming to a rigid digital market artificially constructed by the major labels.

Yep, I’m with the Barenaked Lady.

- Second, we believe that the use of digital locks, frequently referred to as technological protection measures, are risky and counterproductive. We do not support using digital locks to increase the labels’ control over the distribution, use and enjoyment of music, nor do we support laws that prohibit circumvention of such technological measures, including Canadian accession to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Internet Treaties. These treaties are designed to give control to major labels and take choices away from artists and consumers. Laws should protect artists and consumers, not restrictive technologies.

Again, I’m with you, Steven. Heck, if I had a million dollars for every time I whined about DRM, I’d be rich.

Third, we strongly believe that cultural policy should support actual Canadian artists. We call on the Canadian government to firmly commit to programs that support Canadian music talent. The government should make a long-term commitment to grow support mechanisms such as the Canada Music Fund and FACTOR, invest in music training and education, create limited tax shelters for copyright royalties, protect artists from inequalities in bargaining power and make collecting societies more transparent.

Steven, I was on board. Now, I’m jumping off again. So after two points about consumer and artist freedom, your last point is about government coercion to have others pay for your art. You want the guy standing next to you at Timmie’s with two kids to pay for “One Week“. No, Steven, you owe us money for subjecting us to an overload of CanCon and way too much of that song.

Two out of three ain’t bad.

Uh Oh. This won’t go down well in the boonbloggle household. I hope those little guys are OK.

Linux has a dirty, little secret behind all the rabid anti-Microsoft hype. So far, it has not really hurt Microsoft much. However, it has really cut into the big Unix box vendors revenue numbers. HP (HPUX), IBM (AIX), and especially Sun (Solaris) have been getting killed by low-cost Linux servers running on Intel boxes. The reason for this is that while Linux seems to be a solid O/S, it generally hasn’t received the user acceptance that it needs to replace Windows on the desktop.

Novell is doing some interesting things with their Linux flavour for the desktop. A colleague sent these videos along from Novell.

That’s a verbatim quote from Ken Dryden’s “vision” for Canada, entitled “Canada needs to think big” (printed in the Saturday Post — gated). Finally, a Liberal candidate with a good immigration idea.

H/T Kate.

The whole pic.