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The first ever video of a Giant Squid in its deep-ocean habitat.
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1984 is blacked out in a graphic tribute to George Orwell
Penguin Books is releasing new editions of George Orwell’s best known books on January 21 to commemorate the inaugural “Orwell Day” — an annual event to celebrate the author and…
Shunpo into the new year
I’ve been looking for nice ways to start the new year. Typically, I am diligent about making reviews of past years, goals for upcoming years, a handful of resolutions –…
A New Age act of vandalism at Tikal
I made my first trip to Peru in 1986. During this trip, must of the Peruanos that I came in contact with who were capable of speaking English had some…
Bah Humbug!
Physicists who want to protect traditional Christmas realize that the only way to keep from changing Christmas is not to observe it. (via xkcd) That is all.
Happy holidays from Soviet Russia (and us!)
In the spirit of the holidays, we’d like to share with you this lovely collection of Soviet greeting cards. Enjoy! (There’s more where that come from if you check out…
The relativity of wrong
A recent comment on Planet3.0 gave me an excuse to post a link to Isaac Asimov’s excellent essay on the Relativity of wrong, and I realized that I had never…
A major additional benefit of banning gun sales at gun shows
In the aftermath of mass murders in Newtown, CT, Aurora, CO, and Clackamas County, OR, several sensible ideas have become topics of public discussion: banning the sale of assualt weapons,…
The web we lost: XKCD edition
XKCD sums up the problem perfectly: I’m gonna call the cops and get Chad arrested for theft, then move all my stuff to the house across the street. Hopefully the…
Ready for the end
Frankly I don’t understand what all the fuss is about
#AblegCares
So, myself, Joey Oberhoffner, Derrick Jacobson (@AlbertaAltruist), Marc Doll (@DollHouseYYC), and Stephen Anderson (@StephenDAnderso) got together to eat tacos. For charity. For every taco eaten we’d get our pledges to…
The web we lost
I might sound old when I start rambling about the way things used to be, but Anil Dash’s post about how the web used to be before the rise of…
Canada’s Human Rights Reputation is Fast Becoming a Myth
by Ontario Federation of Labour: This year, as the global community recognizes December 10 as International Human Rights Day, many Canadians struggle with a vanishing sense of pride in Canada’s…
A Tragedy Should Make Us Want To Be Better
The world suffered a tragedy when a gun man went and killed 20 students and 6 adults. The world was made worse when out of this horror people called others…
Amnesty International goes Gangnam Style for Chinese dissidents
I’m tired of Gangnam Style. Especially so since Psy denounced his past anti-war performances in South Korea — presumably because criticizing the US military doesn’t jive with his newfound pop…
Canadian Tar Sands Pipeline Protesters Dance to the Reggae Beat
Jim Cooperman describes the video: This is a music video for Sylvain Vallee’s protest song. It includes clips and stills from the Oct. 22 and 24th Defend Our Coast rallies…
Nurse duped by Kate Middleton hoax found dead
The King Edward VII Hospital nurse who took hoax call about the Duchess of Cambridge, is dead. Jacintha Saldanha fell for a serious prank by presenters from 2Day FM, an…
Everything that is wrong with Instagram in one horrible video
… and this doesn’t even include the Twitter cards issue. CollegeHumor’s Favorite Funny Videos
Conservative Senator Mike Duffy’s $33,000 allowance is daylight robbery
Senator Mike Duffy has reportedly claimed more than $33,000 in “living allowances intended to defray senators’ costs of maintaining a second home in the National Capital Region”. The trouble is:…
Canada’s First Nations leaders confront Harper Gvt on Parliament Hill
Once again, the dictatorship-style tactics of the Harper Conservatives were on display on Parliament Hill yesterday as the government refused to listen to the leaders of Canada’s First Nations. Then,…