An article detailing results of Canadian internet users' views on file sharing. Nearly 45% of respondents say those who use P2P and file sharing services to download music and movies are “just regular Internet users doing what people should be able to do on the Internet. An additional 27% admit these people are “doing something […]
A Newsweek story focusing on the different cultures of banks in the US and Canada and what that's meant for each country's respective economic situation.(via Reddit)
Thought about posting a photo since I just got back from hockey and barely have the energy to do up a single-link, one line post, let alone write something original (although I thought about typing something about the unofficial “rules” of rec hockey since I've had a pretty good run lately – had a goalie […]
Comedy Central in the US won't allow Canadians to watch their clips so if you want to be legal, you have to watch The Comedy Network version of this clip that is viewable by Canadians…or, like everything else, you can just watch it on YouTube. Great system there, guys. Way to go!
So I'm watching the Calgary Flames game earlier tonight and that inspires me to do something I haven't done in a long time – look at the MLS listings for our old neighbourhood in Calgary. I'll admit that when we first left Calgary in 2004, I did this search on a WAY too regular basis. […]
Not sure if you've seen this or not but Canada finally has a national do-not-call registry and it's dead easy to sign up. Half watching election results and not really sure why we're having this election – is anything going to be significantly different than what we had before? Doesn't really look like it at […]
Peak Oil is a theory that is increasingly relevant as the price of oil and gasoline continue to skyrocket. It was first proposed in the 1950's by an American geoscientist named M. King Hubbert who worked for Shell in Texas and correctly predicted that the supplies of oil were limited in the United States and […]
Shea's got a few photos from our Calgary trip up on Flickr if you're interested. If not, this MetaFilter thread about the new M. Night Shamaladingdong movie, “The Happening”, is pretty entertaining.
We happened to be downtown on the Sunday of the Gay Pride Parade in Calgary so spent some time at Olympic Plaza enjoying the music, the vendors and the atmosphere in general. In a completely unrelated story, Pace was later photographed wearing this hat…
I know I do a lot of “does this only happen in Saskatchewan?” posts and comments so I thought I'd pass along a recent AskMetaFilter question about “stag & does”, namely “are they only an Ontario thing or do they exist elsewhere?”And the answer is…Ontario-only and specifically SW Ontario and even more specifically rural SW […]
