Start off with non-political toons. A guy in Winnipeg was ticketed $237 last week for having a 4 inch layer of snow on the roof of his vehicle while he was driving. That hard snow can break off and fly into the vehicle behind. Is it that hard to scrape off roof snow while you are scraping the rest of the car? He deserved the ticket.
Today Donald Trump called CNN “fake news”, and he referred to U.S. intelligence as something out of Nazi Germany. Oh my!
There are unsubstantiated reports that Trump compromised himself while visiting Russia a few years ago. Story still unfolding.
Tony Rosato (December 26, 1954 – January 10, 2017) was an Italian-Canadian actor and voice actor who appeared in television and movies in both Canada and the United States.
Rosato was born in Naples, Italy, and raised in Halifax, Ottawa, and Toronto. He planned to study chiropractic medicine, but dropped out of the University of Toronto after he began doing improv comedy at The Second City. Rosato first gained attention when he and Robin Duke joined the cast of the first incarnation of SCTV in its final season during the fall of 1980. His most well-known character on the program was a notoriously drunk TV chef named Marcello Sebastiani.
One of the classiest president’s of all time bids farewell. Whatever your political stripe, this man was highly intelligent, compassionate and had the best interests of all people at heart. And he got Bin Laden!
The Department of Defense has released remarkable footage showcasing a project aimed at creating a swarm of micro-drones that act autonomously.
The video comes from a test of the concept which took place back in October when three jets released over 100 six-inch-long UAVs known as Perdix drones.
Incredibly, the tiny flying devices are not individually operated and, instead, work together collectively in a fashion akin to insects in nature.
Once released into the air, the drones exchange information amongst each other with the goal of completing their mission with almost no human input beyond an initial instruction.
Pentagon officials say that the purpose of a drone swarm would be to collect surveillance information rather than be used as an offensive weapon, although such a scenario is a possibility.
The almost-autonomous nature of the drone swarm is sure to raise concerns among academics and activists who have cautioned that the emergence of such technology could spell disaster for humans if it becomes out of control.
Indeed, seeing the drone swarm in action conjures worrisome visions of a modern re-imagining of Hitchcock’s infamous Birds only with tiny UAVs tormenting people on the ground.
The Capitol Records Building, also known as the Capitol Records Tower, is a Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District building that is located in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The building is a thirteen-story tower that was designed by Louis Naidorf (who was working at Welton Becket Associates at the time), and is one of the city’s landmarks.[4] Construction occurred soon after British company EMI acquired Capitol Records in 1955, and was completed in April 1956. Located just north of the Hollywood and Vine intersection, the Capitol Records Tower houses the consolidation of Capitol Records’ West Coast operations and is also home to the recording studios and echo chambers of Capitol Studios. The building is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
The building houses the Capitol Studios, a recording facility which includes eight echo chambers engineered by guitarist Les Paul and three main studios, A, B, and C. Frank Sinatra had a close association with the studios, and the Georg Neumann U 47 microphone that he carried around with him is housed there, and is used and maintained regularly for studio sessions. The first album recorded in the tower was Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color. In 2012, Studio A received a brand new AMS Neve 88R mixing console, and was designed and built for Al Schmitt and Paul McCartney.
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