Archive for August, 2006

SOCAN is ridiculous

Thursday, 24 August 2006

In doing some research for UMES today, I was browsing the SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) website. While I guess I can see the need for all of the different tariff classes that they have for use of music, some of them seem a bit ridiculous. Want to run an [...]

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Danger, Will Robinson!

Wednesday, 9 August 2006

A group of students (Pegasus Aircraft Group) from York University wants to build the next generation of short-haul jetliner, beating Airbus and Boeing to the punch, through the efforts of approximately 10,000 undergraduates from across Canada. This plane is supposed to include: Full composite airframe and fuselage Narrower wingspan than either the B737 or the [...]

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