Willllllmmaaaaa!

This makes me happy: ‘Flintstones’ car case thrown out of court … Trevor Baldwin was pulled over on a Toronto street last October for operating an unsafe vehicle on Queen Street West. The Buick he was driving looked more like a car from The Flintstones animated television show, in which the driver and passengers usecontinue reading

The escalators are getting restless. And hungry.

And they like their meat well-aged — Rate Of Escalator Injuries To Older Adults Has Doubled “What really surprised us was the reckless behavior exhibited by some older adults on escalators,” said Dr. Steele, associate professor of epidemiology in the IU School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health. “One emergency department reported a fall bycontinue reading

The Battle of Other Milk Solids

Did you know that there is a pitched battle being waged over the composition of cheese? Since technological advances have made possible the creation of a whole new generation of milk products (for example, isolates or milk protein concentrates), which are not necessarily subject to tariff quotas and can therefore be imported freely into Canada,(2)continue reading

“The Problem”

…is not so much with music downloading, it’s with the math. Let’s look at this piece from yesterday’s Star, shall we? THE PROBLEM Sales of CDs are down 20 per cent worldwide and 35 per cent in Canada, compared to 2006. An estimated 1.6 billion music files are downloaded in Canada each year on “grey-market”continue reading

Bears!

If you have any colleagues who are recent immigrants to Canada, and if you’ve ever mentioned to them that you like to go camping, you’ll undoubtedly be aware that Canada has a bizarre international reputation as a giant frozen wasteland covered with ravening bears which will tear you limb from limb at the least opportunity.continue reading

Now’s your chance —

I know that sometimes one’s deep thoughts about world politics, the failings of the educational system and global warming are overwhelmed by a need to consider the plight of Ontario’s wild turkeys. Now, you can have your say: ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES Transmitted by CNW Group on : January 18, 2008 15:20 Public Askedcontinue reading

Boring administrivia re: users

I’ve turned off self-registration for Mock Turtle. Spammers keep signing up in the hope that it’ll let them post their crap. They can’t anyway, but it’s boring to keep deleting them. If anyone wants to register as a subscriber or writer or whatever, presumably they’ll know one or more of the existing writers and cancontinue reading