This series is called “What’s Wrong with Ontario Colleges?” A number of you have pointed out, on Twitter and elsewhere, that what i’m describing is what’s wrong with all colleges. But now, i want to shine the spotlight on perhaps an unexpected target, and suggest that not only are colleges flawed, but so [...] Keep Reading

Ubi Soft, a very large video game company from the People’s Republic of French, is opening a studio in Ontario. A year before i heard the announcement, i attended an interactiveontario event called GameON: Finance, which focuses on the money stuff in the video game industry. The conference was attended by reps from the [...] Keep Reading

Apple debuted their new device today, a large-format iPod Touch that they’re calling the iPad. The first thing that may come to mind when you think of the word “pad” is “menstrual pad”, which is a spongy mesh-covered product that ladies put in their underpants to blot the flow of blood from their periods. Nearly [...] Keep Reading

The film world sticks to a plot device that grows increasingly implausible as time marches on. In film (and teevee), nobody checks their phone messages like a normal human being. Here in Canada, you pay the phone company for the Call Answer service. Messages are recorded silently through your phone. To check [...] Keep Reading

Interrupting Cow Trivia, a fun new trivia game that you can play online with your friends, is now in open public beta. Based on your feedback from our first MULTIPLAYER TEST-A-THONS last week, we’ve made some very big changes to the way you play the game. Here’s the feedback we keyed in on, based on [...] Keep Reading