With Apple’s refusal to approve apps which display even a smidgen of nudity, I got to thinking about what kinds of images would get your app excluded from the sanitized and Disneyfied world of Apple.
Category: Spleen
The category, Spleen, is for posts that make us angry.
Ulysses Unseen or How Apple got into the Censorship Business
Remember Apple’s “1984” commercial — the one where the woman smashes the giant video screen while thousands of blank-eyed automatons look on, and then a voice tells us that “On January 24th Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you’ll see why 1984 won’t be like ”1984.””
Bill C-32 – Copyright Modernization Act and DRM
The conservatives said they were going to introduce new copyright legislation within six weeks. That was back on May 05, 2010 and true to their word, they introduced Bill C32 — the Copyright Modernization Act on June 2nd.
Poem: There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea
A children’s verse takes on a sinister tone when it’s tied to the irresponsible conduct of BP, the world’s 4th largest TNC, an organization which continues to feed us lies even as it becomes apparent that BP has perpetrated one of the worst environmental disasters in history.
Margaret Atwood Acknowledges Mistake
One of the most difficult things for a person to do is to admit when he’s wrong.
Writer’s Digest posts advice from Jerry Jenkins
There’s a post on Writer’s Digest titled “8 Basic Writing Blunders” directed at writers of fiction. Pretty standard stuff: avoid clichés of one sort or another; don’t tell the reader what s/he’s supposed to think; don’t be all preachy; don’t use more than one coincidence to drive the plot. But notice who wrote the article: Jerry B. Jenkins.
Mt. Allison to confer honourary doctorate on Heather Reisman
Mt. Allison University, one of Canada’s premiere undergraduate universities, has found itself at the centre of a controversy for its decision to confer an honourary doctorate on Heather Reisman.
Dead Baby Birds
I shot this photo beside the entrance to the George Ignatieff Theatre on the U. of T. campus. Mounted on the wall is a sculpture made of iron rods, creating a mesh that’s ideal for bird nests.
Quit Facebook Day
Facebook has taken some hits for repeated changes to its privacy policy that seem to compromise user privacy to the benefit of advertisers.
Harper says DMCA-style copyright bill in six weeks
Michael Geist reports that PM Stephen Harper has resolved a dispute between Industry Minister, Tony Clement, and Heritage Minister, James Moore, by siding with Moore and opting for DMCA-style copyright legislation. This would bring us more in line with American policy notwithstanding the fact that copyright consultations last summer suggested that popular opinion favoured something less stringent.
Should racist book be banned?
The Guardian reports that a Congolese man, Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, now living in Belgium, has applied to the Belgium courts to have Hergé’s Tintin in the Congo banned. He alleges that it is racist. Hergé created the cartoon in 1930 when the Congo was a Belgian colony.
I’m Ditching the Huffington Post
I have now officially removed The Huffington Post from my news feed and have stopped following it on Twitter. Not because it’s too left or too right. But because it’s too vapid.
The Necessary Blindness Of Focused Writing
If a god were to blog, I think the result would look a lot like mine, i.e. not very good, at least not very good when measured by worldly standards where traffic is king.
Poem: Red, Black & Blue
A warm and blustery wind from the southhas caught me full on my mouthand turned to red and black and bluea cheek that once shone white for you. I wanted a single room apart,but you demanded all my heart.What you asked I gave for free,withholding nothing, me to thee. On flat stomach and virgin monsran…
This Blog Doesn’t Allow Head Coverings
This blog does not provide services to women who wear certain head coverings. If you are a female Viking, your browser will no longer work properly and you will be redirected to more suitable web addresses. Here are the reasons: 1. I am a white dude and it’s my god-given right to treat with suspicion…