Dinosaurs farting caused global warming
Past dinosaurs Modern day dinosaurs “In a major new climate finding, researchers have calculated that dinosaur flatulence could have put enough methane into the atmosphere to warm the planet during…
2012
140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, May 14, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, May 14, 2012: The laws of employee leaves – Canadian HR Reporter (blog) Lights, Camera… Judgment! —…
Corrupt Practices
By the way, I recognize the headline is super misleading. Just wanted to highlight this article in which we find out that stimulus cash (which, let's remember, we had to…
Corrupt Practices
By the way, I recognize the headline is super misleading. Just wanted to highlight this article in which we find out that stimulus cash (which, let’s remember, we had to…
Corrupt Practices
By the way, I recognize the headline is super misleading.Just wanted to highlight this article in which we find out that stimulus cash (which, let's remember, we had to have…
Corrupt Practices
By the way, I recognize the headline is super misleading. Just wanted to highlight this article in which we find out that stimulus cash (which, let’s remember, we had to…
4636…Happy Bunny Not So Happy Anymore
The Guardian Online reports that 11,000 pounds of sex toys have been stolen from the Happy Bunny in Merry Ole England. BTW that is 11,000 pounds sterling not pounds pounds.…
Paul Reiter Asks To Be Removed From Heartland Experts List
This morning I received the following email from Paul Reiter, a well-known medical entomologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He, like Chris Landsea, has some disagreements with very specific…
The Defining Battle
At some point in the future, historians will note that Bill C-38 — the Harper government’s four hundred and twenty page page Budget Implementation Bill — marked the beginning of…
A New Inuktitut Bible
Nunavut is a deeply religious — on Sundays the Territory is completely at rest, especially in the hamlets. This is a big event for Nunavut and Inuit everywhere: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/13/inuit-language-bible-finished-after-34-year-project/ After…
Those Crazy Liberals, They Just Won’t Quit
Another day, another media moron writes an article like this. When I think about the future of Canadian Liberalism, I don’t look to the current upheaval in Greece or the…
healthy eating costs more. fact or fiction?
Conventional wisdom has it that healthy foods cost more than junk food, that buying and preparing nutritious food is more expensive than eating processed food. How many people bemoan the…
Pakenham, 137km, five hours, six minutes
Dear Garmin BaseCamp, when I say ‘avoid dirt roads’ I mean it. Also: no illegal left turns, please. BaseCamp, Garmin’s mapping software, send me down about 7km of dirt roads…
Ask General Kang: Do you have infographics on your home world?
Do we? I have entire legion of hipster über-baboons devoted to cranking out these things on an hourly basis, clogging Neecknaw’s Datasphere with pretty misinformation. Before I recruited them for…
Energy McCarthyism
The high-and-mighty virtiol which greeted Tom Mulcair’s comments last week about the downside of oil-powered currency appreciation is lamentable (repeating the over-the-top reaction to Dalton McGuinty’s similar comments a few…
Gruending On the War of 1812 And The Rebranding Of Canada
The big project this year is an attempt to rebrand the War of 1812 between Britain (along with its Canadian colony) and the United States. That part of the war…
Watching them watching us – Monday Music Pick: Our Protection by LAL
The deeply political, community-committed, and talented LAL from Toronto, sing about surveillance with images from the Toronto G20 manifestations from two summers ago. LAL was formed in 1998 and is…
Toronto’s Queen Streetcar – Movie Monday
So, this week our illustrious movie maker William Matthews, over at www.digitialfootprint.ca, and I wanted to do something a little different for Movie Monday. Thus, we set out on our…
Rafferty Trial: Justice Heeney did a fine job in an extraordinarily difficult case
It certainly is true that Michael Rafferty’s internet searches show him to be a monstrous individual – indeed, they suggest a host of other offences beyond those of the brutal…