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Sarah Palin, as interpreted by William Shatner

On “This Week in Sarah Palin”, Sarah Palin’s extremely odd final speech as the governor of Alaska Sunday was interpreted by Master Thespian William Shatner for Conan O’Brien last night.  Genius.  You’re the man, Bill.  With the loss of...

iPhone translator: Thank you, Captain Kirk

It doesn’t have the convenience of a Babel Fish, but this is about as close as we can get with modern technology.  Sakhr, a company specializing in English/Arabic translation which serves such clients as the U.S. Department of Defense and Homeland Security, has...
Twitter and the thought maelstrom

Twitter and the thought maelstrom

When I was a boy growing up in Burnaby, we would gather each March in the parking lot at the Crest Plaza strip mall to plot our baseball season.  Inside of the local eatery parents and league officials would conduct a draft, seeding players onto teams and organizing...