lovehatethings

With the myriad of films released each summer, it takes a discerning formula to parse out the titles I will NEVER see from the ones that I might. As such, I offer up a filtering system to reduce your summer wallet suck to a minimum.

I will not see any summer movie that...

1. Has Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, or Jack Black.
2. Has Sara Jessica Parker, Renee Zellweger.
3. Has people wearing leather armour, chaps, or quivers.
4. Has the word Fockers, Karate, or MacGruber in it.
5. Has candy-ass sparkle vampires.
6. Has the words Nightmare, Elm, and Street.
7. Is an animated film featuring a green ogre, an over-sized dog, step-dancing or cheerleading.
8. Has a title beginning with "Legend of the Guardians" or ending with "The Owls of Ga'Hoole".
9. Has 3D in the title.
10. Is a sequel, remake, re-imagining, has a "Part" or colon in the title.

Wow... guess I just saved ALL my money this summer.

This week I got some Radio-Friendly Canadian Rock of the 80s. Hopefully it kickstarts some very cool memories for you. While almost everything else on lovehatethings is Creative Commons, this is not, and if the CRIA or any of the artists order me to take this down, I'll gladly comply. But until then, if you dig it, maybe you'll go and buy it, which will make everyone happy in the end.

"Bill Gates, the Microsoft billionaire, is funding research into machines to suck up ten tonnes of seawater every second and spray it upwards. This would seed vast banks of white clouds to reflect the Sun’s rays away from Earth... A fleet of 1,900 ships costing £5 billion could arrest the rise in temperature by criss-crossing the oceans and spraying seawater from tall funnels to whiten clouds and increase their reflectivity."

Apparently every cloud has a Silverlight... sorry, silver lining.

It never fails that a couple of times of year I'm stunned that I turned out so well.

Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I watched Sesame Street a couple of hours a day while I was a kid, and if this stuff didn't mess me up, I'm sure it left some rewired synapses.

I apologize for the sound quality. I'd had such good results up to this point with the Blue external microphone I'd purchased for the iPhone. After getting myself in a bit of a funk at Podcamp London 2010, I decided an impromptu podcast was necessary. Grasping at straws, I instead found chips, and thus began the rant.

A bit of invective-laced ranting about Stevie Harper, Jimmy Moore and how Canada's copyright system is about to be sold down the river to Uncle Sam.

WTF? "The Globe is partnering with Bono, Geldof, and their organization ONE to explore these issues in advance of Canada hosting two critically important summits of world leaders in June – the G8 and the G20. The crisis of extreme poverty in developing countries, particularly in Africa, will be a focus at both meetings. This will be the first time the Globe has invited guest-editors into the newsroom, and the first time Bono and Geldof have guest-edited a North American newspaper."

EDIT: BTW, Information on Muhammad Yunnus of the Grameen Bank can be found at grameen-info.org.