I’m sure everybody’s wondered where they’d end up if they could dig a hole directly through to the other side of the earth. In fact, I think the official playground ruling on this immortal question, at least for anyone contemplating this question in Canada, is “China”. Now, technology allows you to answer that exact question […]
CNN conducted an unscientific worldwide poll and after getting 35 000 responses, created a list of the 50 best tasting foods in the world. Canada hits the list at 46 with maple syrup but that’s our only contribution. Surprisingly (?) the two top ranked dishes are both Indonesian (did Indonesians scam the poll?), neither of […]
A Redditor asks if a modern battalion of a couple thousand Marines could beat the hundreds of thousands of men in the Roman Legion to take over the entire Roman Empire? That leads to one Redditor writing it up the idea as a very engaging novella, a dedicated sub-Reddit for further discussion of the idea and even […]
Quinn Dupont was one my classmates in library school who was a constant source of what was the latest and greatest in the technology world. That continues to this day. He recently posted Minus.com on his Facebook feed – a new site to simplify sharing of files that allows a huge amount of storage and […]
Redditors chime in with their favourite “blow your mind” facts – some serious, some silly. That one about there being no physical (or metaphysical) difference between the atoms in a living creature and non-living inanimate object makes sense on one level but is also sort of stunning when you think about it.
Unfortunately, I’m out of town this weekend but I really wish I could take in a couple events happening this Saturday where my local provincial NDP candidate is hosting one of the dynamic new NDP MP’s, Rathika Sitsabaiesan. This video of Ms. Sitsabaiesan’s inaugural speech in the House of Commons sends a tingle down my […]
This is a pretty cool data visualization tool which shows who is moving to and from various countries in the world, top destinations and more. This types into a recent article (which I can’t find now but there are many web sites making the same claim) that Canada needs to push its population to 100 […]
I always think these reality show stars – Susan Boyle, Paul Potts, etc. – who are dumpy looking and/or have a sob story are probably exaggerated (along with the editing and dramatic music introducing them) for maximum effect. But if there’s even a grain of truth to stories like this one, it’s still pretty amazing…
In 2002, Shea and I joined my parents for two weeks in Kailua, Oahu. We’ve just confirmed that we’ll be going again in January 2012 which will be the tenth anniversary of our first trip! This time, Shea and I decided we’d like to see something different so we’re going to spend one week in […]
If you don’t yet have enough social network news feeds in your life and/or if you think a picture’s worth a thousand words, you might be interested in MlkShk, a site that is like many other social networks except that it focuses on the sharing of pictures and graphics instead of words and links.
