Singapore will introduce new legislation that will make it harder for foreigners to evade taxes back home by hiding their money in bank accounts in the city state. Singapore will “assist (other countries) on bona fide requests for information�, the Finance Ministry announced on Friday. The annou...

Yesterday I tested Catholic priest and radio personality John Corapi’s prediction that… If we do not soon stop the genocide of abortion in the United States, we shall run the course of all those that prove by their actions that they are enemies of God—total collapse, economic, social, ...

Leuk om te zien dat de presentatie door velen wordt gevonden. Zo besteed Hans Mestrum er een aardig stukje aan, waarbij hij een en ander ook nog eens aanvult met een podcast! Prachtig, zo zou bloggen moeten werken... Op de weblog van Hans reageert ook Wilfred Rubens op de cijfers uit de presentatie ...

Update: If I had watched the class lecture video before writing this, I would have known exactly what role open source played in early thinking about open educational resources. My bad. This is the first assignment post for the Introduction to Open Education (ITOE) class that I’m sitting in o...

This post has been submitted by I’m Right You’re Wrong: The brilliant Jews, A Yiddeshe Kop. These are all descriptions used to describe the intellect of the Jewish mind. Well leave it to the Israeli education system to dispel these stereotypes. Only in Israel do school age kids think that 7+8=21...

Crackers, Cyber Terrorism and Malicious Software! If you want to know how to become a hacker, though, only two are really relevant. The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them. Hackers built the Internet. Hackers made the Unix operating system what it is today. Hackers ru...

A decade ago, I lived in a small town in Nova Scotia while working for csmonitor.com. Windsor had a population was about 3,500 and I don’t imagine it’s grown much since then. But even back then, I had high-speed broadband access, which at the time was almost unheard of in Boston. In fact, I used...

The author of 'The Truth about Canada' on damning stats, deluded pride, foreign control, and more....

Monday I posted about the Top ten hardest working countries in the world, according to OECD's Factbook 2008 data. I've looked a little closer at the data and asked the question, Does it pay to work so hard? Take a look at these two tables, both built from data in the Factbook. The first lists the to...