I’d be perfectly happy to never see it again, and apparently I’m not the only one. There’s a whole movement advocating its abolition. I did not know that it originated with Microsoft Bob, but that explains a lot, doesn’t it?
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Government funny business
Two headlines from my feeds just now: Ten Arrested During Multi-Agency Tobacco Smuggling Operation Mountain Pine Beetle: Canada’s New Government Delivers Hmm. I suppose it’s good that they caught the tobacco-smuggling agencies, but do we really need mountain pine beetles delivered?
Please, Sir, May I Have Another?
This ticks me off. Two years for taping a bit of a movie for your own personal use? WTFF? Could the government bend over any farther to the industry lobbyists?
Whoah.
Richard Bradshaw died.
Multitasking?
An AOL survey showed that 53% of those polled admit to checking their email in the bathroom. As if keyboards needed exra germs…
A bit of infrastructure cleverness
Clever public garbage can with shelf for returnable bottles Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. Vancouver’s garbage cans now have a little shelf on the front, in which you can leave return-for-deposit bottles (the vast majority of drink containers in BC are deposit-return). People used to just leave return-for-deposit bottles on the ground next to the garbagecontinue reading
“Rifle-toting senior 2, cabin-sniffing bears 0”
Remember the 87-year-old woman who shot the bear the other week? She got another one, which gave CBC an excuse to re-run the spectacular photo from the first time: Rifle-toting senior 2, cabin-sniffing bears 0 “I looked out through and I said, ‘Oh my God, I got a bear in my snare,’ ” said Smith,continue reading
Estonians triumph yet again!
Another win for the Estonian wife-carrying team (Why the Times of India is covering this news, I have no idea.) (I am half-Estonian, for those who don’t know, but I do not wish to be carried unless the carrying involves bearers and fine wine.) The prize is very sensible: The winners received a beer keg,continue reading
This is from the CBC, so it’s probably not made up…
Marauding bear meets its match in woman, 87 Concerned about the safety of herself and her property, she set a bear snare. When she returned last week she found a 200-kilogram black bear waiting for her in the trap. Smith, a longtime hunter of everything from beaver and coyote to moose and caribou, immediately shotcontinue reading
ROM Crystal opening
Fireworks! Foomp!