This is a fantastically useful tool for the true nerd which displays coverage for AM and FM radio stations in the USA. It shows Canadian stations as well but there is no map underlay for north of the border stations.

“  •  “PORT ELGIN, N.B. - Port Elgin Community Council approved plans for the anticipated new Tantrama City at a meeting held outside Cole's Store last night at 10:37 pm. Dropping all references to Greater Port Elgin (the "GPE") after allegations of the whipping up of nationalistic sentiments at …

Doc Searle's takes a power point stab at explaining blogging and fails miserably but, at the same time, elegantly. Too much aimed at the need to find that blogs are authoriative in some way, that we are journalists of a kind, that there are great men in the field, Searle misses the real fact that …

I haven't reminded you for a while - so do not forget to read my upstate NY neighbour Brian's posts from Iraq where he is working as a paralegal with the 10th Mountain Division. He has been involved with some of the biggest non-combat news stories coming out of the war and, while he maintains his …

The sports pool is suffering from a gap and I realize I should have had some first round NBA questions to fill in at this point - like "how many techical fouls will Iverson pick up?" for 30 points. That being said, I am astounded how I do not miss the NHL in any way. My gawking at athletes life is …

Perhaps "Martin happy to discover one media format - FisherPrice - not tainted by sponsorship money."

Nosing around again at the dig at Market Square today, as the Tonka trucks roared, I was interested to see the coin of the archaeologists had uncovered, a 1812 half penny token. My shot of the side with the king's head is not that sharp but it does confirm there are no words on that side …

Fridays are relatively slow around here and as far as I can tell that is the same for most blogs. Its like you have sometihng other than work on your mind that you do not need taking off your mind. If Fridays were between Monday and Wednesday, there would not be this lull. Me? I fill my hours …

Ornithologically speaking this is very neato - though it is also admittedly perhaps an invitation to junior high locker room humour. No mention in the scientific journals as to the white to dark meat ratio.

With all the name calling and finger pointing going on here in the Federal election yet to be called, it is easy to forget that the UK is in the middle of a national campaign for their Parliament. The coverage from the BBC is quite good, espcially useful guides like this policy comparison chart …

...not to farm.

Nice to see we have important experience coming with the new US ambassador to Canada appointment:  •  “U.S. President George W. Bush has officially nominated David Wilkins, a longtime family friend and top Republican fundraiser, to be the new American ambassador to Canada....If approved, he will …

I knew I was and so did the university that gave me the LLM but I never knew this blog would be Masters thesis material. I made #89 in Appendix B!  •  Woooo! Let's go bowling!  •  Update: check the comments. Looks like it was just a grade 11 geography Friday pop-quiz.

Maybe the designers had the photocopier at the wrong setting?

It took some coaxing from certain parties but here is a link to the March 2005 Policy Declaration of the Conservative Party of Canada. I do not seem to be able to actually save the document and even my operatives deep within the Big Blue Blob had difficulty locating the document on the rather …

“Gagliano accuses Martin of destroying Canada  •  Last Updated Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:13:45 EDT  •  CBC News  •  MONTREAL - Former public works minister Alfonso Gagliano has accused Prime Minister Paul Martin of wrecking the country and the Liberal party. "He's going to destroy the party and break up …

All day, I could not think of anything to write. Having had a awful sleep for no particular reason and a busy and useful day, I had in the back of my mind the idea that I should have something to write about. I have a few ace in the hole topics that I figure I will write about in a pinch, like the …

While Shilling is finding his way, Boomer Wells has taken up the challenge: tomorrow Baltimore at Fenway fading in and out on 1080 am WTIC.  •  Update: he only lasted four but he sure is pretty...

Noonish tomorrow I will have been doing this blog for two years. I was blogging for years before that at other places but for two years, I have had this pulpit. I can't for the life of me think of anything of value that has come of it other than the daily pleasure at seeing the stats and the …

Watching the ever excellent Studio 2 on TVO Friday night I was interested to hear from the political panel that there was much talk around Queen's Park that the Federal Liberals were doing themselves no favours not picking up the hints from the Provincial Liberal Premier that the 23 billion annual …

We played the lanes at the Big 20 in South Portland the other week and I am still getting over the embarrassment. Candlepin is by far the most difficult form of bowling I have tried and slumming it in five-pin and big ball have ruined me. Wooden gutters. Here is a short short movie from the …

As the public's perception of Federal politicians lowers yet again now to a point where the Tories are actually being considered a viable alternative, it is interesting to note that in The Globe and Mail this morning a number of "prominent Ontarians" are lining up to run for them in the next …

I noticed this on Google News today:  •  For everything. Good for Japan and for Martin but there are some others I would like to see jump in this Friday's wave of apologies:  •  Stephen Harper for being the preacher boy he is.Baltic and North Sea countries for hiding pickled raw fish …

Paul Martin did very well. But he'll lose the election.  •  Harper did not do well. There is nothing stopping Paul Martin from the TV spot and Harper was wrong to imply here was any type of convention relating to the Prime Minister presenting on the TV. Harper wrongly said that Martin asked to be …

I marched around Ottawa this noon hour as my hearing was adjourned to 2:00 pm from 9:30 am. All was well in the end judicially speaking - but on my march I took a photo of the biplane at the top of the Department of Justice in its weather vane with my snazzy new zoom lens. Little did I realize I …

First I get the Du-rang-o. Then the Prime Minister annouces he will address the nation tomorrow:  •  “Prime Minister Paul Martin will appeal directly to Canadian voters Thursday evening, in an attempt to quell their fears about the sponsorship scandal and Liberal corruption. He will appear in a …

I have to zip to Ottawa and back for work tomorrow and got a rental car. At least I ordered a car but was given a mini-Hummer aka a Dodge Durango as an upgrade at no extra. Good Lord. A Durango is about 2743% larger than the Ford Focus we drive and all I can think of is how I am going to get it …

I wonder if they are updating CBC TV's episode of Life and Times on Conrad Black?  •  “Conrad Black's storied private holding company, Ravelston, has filed for bankruptcy protection from its creditors, a move that signals the jet-setting press baron is running out of financial resources …

Last night I had to deal with a Romanian manual comment spammer but it was somewhat human and sad.  •  I noticed on comment spam around 9:30 pm and deleted it. I was on-line about 45 minutes later when another one popped up and I deleted it. Same message and same IP. The poor guy then proceeded to …

One hotel had this as your internet access. It felt a little weird then I forgot that I looked like I was in some fifth-rate 1979 Canadian sci-fi movie.

I've been posting over at the beer blog and really think you should check out the photos. I am quite pleased with them. Plus no spelling mistakes when you post a photo.

Yesterday was forty-two. Forty-two is a number inordinately drilled into my brain because somewhere in the middle elementary school years, I just could not remember six times seven. Mom would sit and rhyme it out to me over cheerios.  •  For the sake of posterity, the things needling at the back …

So my camera died sort of. It flashes "turn off and on again" over and over on the little screeen. Something wrong with the lens which I suspect is a little beach sand. If I can take it apart, do some highly technical blowing, flapping and flicking, I might get it to work. But I had a wedding to …

One of my favoriter cities, I was quite pleased to find I could get to the Mall and back in a pinch without discovering new streets. I am pretty sure most of these photos are not of South Portland but Portland proper...except maybe that one of the ship going under the bridge.  •  The bowl is full …

Who knew that the beaches of New England were 7 hours away from Lake Ontario? Who knew that once you have 512 MB on your camera you get 342 photos to look through when you get home? Who knew that I would have first-and-first-cousins-once-removed-in-law-to-my-second-cousin with whom I might go to …

My Armenian Bostonian family knows how to through a party.   'Nuff said on that but for one observation. "Hey Ya!" is the new "Bird Dance".

Big rehearsal dinner with the Boston cousins and the 2d-cousin-in-laws-to-be. Big family is fun and being the immigrants' kid you do not get it too often. My namesake uncle hosted my namesake cousin's do  •  at the Rustic Kitchen and it was great. A big room with almost 50 family and family to be …

The lesserly treed areas of New England are so close together.  1 hour 45 minutes got us from Portland Maine and the home of "portland by ClubMed" - the most exclusive resport in New England to the DoubleTree in Waltham.   Now I need to find a place from directions which include "at the 12th light …

It  •  was one of those "I could not believe it" moments. I have seen fans reach out  •  and grab a ball before it fell into a players glove, I have seen fans brawl with  •  players in an NHL penalty box. But last night as I watched the Sox beat the  •  Yankees 8-5 this guy reached  •  out into …

I think the poll released by the CBC this morning captures the mood of the nation well. The pollster summarizes:  •  “...the numbers indicate no party could form a majority government. "We would see a very fractious Parliament and a great difficulty, I would think, in forming any government that …

Care of Best Buy and 65 bucks US, we can now take 831 1.2 MB photos with our digital camera.  That is 1/2 of the memory on the hard drive of my last computer - sure I bought it in 1996 but it cost 3,000 bucks so I thought I would squeeze it for everything it was worth.   Memory is like air now …

I think I may have achieved it somewhere during the candle pin bowling at the Big 20 Lanes in Scarborough as another ball entered the all wooden 55 year old gutters - kind of like the feeling you had when you were 16, no summer job and nothing planned for the next 12 days.  A particular vacuity of …

This is great news:  •  “A group demanding that the Stanley Cup be awarded this year filed a claim against the NHL and the trophy's trustees in Ontario Superior Court on Wednesday...Toronto lawyer Tim Gilbert is leading the application, which is scheduled to be heard July 18 although he hopes to …

...or at least have seen where he works out back in the kitchen: the Beale Street BBQ. The best BBQ I have had to date and sixty three bucks stuffed three adults and three kids - a third of which was for me. The BBQ sampler for $17.99 gets you a half of ribs, smoked chicken quarter, pulled pork …

Earth to PEI Tories. That thing on your leg that has toes which wiggle when you think "wiggle"? Don't shoot it.  •  “Provincial fisheries minister Kevin MacAdam has no plans to be excluded from meetings on the fishery next month. P.E.I. MP Shawn Murphy said MacAdam will be asked to excuse himself …

One of the best things about visiting is snooping around other people's houses.   Things I have learned include:  •  In America, you can buy Canadian-style white bread.  •  Fruit-scented children's shampoo is more fun to walk around smelling like that the boring stuff you brought.  •  I can make …

I recalled this morning, reading about the sponsorship inquiry from a certain distance...because I am down here...that twice in my young and fawn-like life I have actually heard about the same sort of thing happening from the horses mouths except it was money arriving from provincial governments …

Freeport, Brunswick, Bath, down to the sea and back. And all snowy. I packed shorts for heaven's sake. Meanwhile back in Kingston:  •  Good Lord.

When travelling there is always a thing I wish I had brought along - however unreasonable.  •  This is the sort of thing I am thinking of. When tasting not only would it be nice to have the right temperatures for the different sips, but the same good glass helps as well. Guinness ought not be at …

Has anyone noticed that CBS has unleashed Scots humour on The Late Late Show?  I never watch the thing being usually in the land of nod come 8:45 pm with a warm milk and a tea biscuit but I saw it last night.  It is like listening to a pub chatter in my mother's home village - corny with smiling …

So I am sitting in Gritty McDuffs with a friend and a friend of a friend who is involved in music trade and it turns out the friend and the friend of a friend all know a friend of mine through different points on our lives and we all know of a friend of that friend of mine and know he is a bit of …

Made it in time to hear the band play "Sweet Caroline" and "The Theme to Star Wars" as the Red Soxs rings were handed out. No one does cheesey sentimental as well as New Englanders. 20 degrees F colder than Amsterdam NY yesterday. Dreams of tank engines upstairs as the lad naps.

When you travel with little kids it means early bedtimes which in turn means you wake up at 2:30 am fairly well rested thinking of stuff.   Why I started to review the elements of my bad spelling is beyond my daytime brain but if I do not get it out now it will haunt me again tonight.  •  The …

Isn't there a movie where Maurice Chevalier sings about Maine's industrial seaport?  •  Anyway, hitting the road for a week to eat marine life and boo the Yankees. So the mantraps have been set and the pride of lions released from their cages at our house. I have never taken more than a long …

Mike has put it neatly:  •  “Deal offered:  •  I'll make a deal with Gary Bettman -- make the nets larger and I never watch another NHL game again. Deal?”  •  I heard some talking head saying it was not just necessarily larger nets but putting a big wow into the posts bending them outward. Moving …

The Ipsos-Reid firm has released the first polling since it has been revealed that the Federal Liberals are, well, not quite recalling what is "theirs" and and what is "ours" in terms of money. [Maybe they just listened to Raffi's children's song "It's Mine But You Can Have Some" one too many …

Linda has the details over the treats of law suits over these two meals. Can you tell which is the authentic garbage plate and which is the tony phoney?  •  Lew Bryson has a great description of the garbage plate in his seminal text New York Breweries at page 156:  •  “Hot dogs are one of the …

A right dreary old day for Chuck and...is there a nice-ish nickname for her? "Fourth cousin" is the one that keeps popping in to my head. I am glad I led the life of a saint before the day of my happy vows and did not have to undergo this sort of thing:  •  “Prince Charles and Camilla Parker …

I never knew that cheese was that difficult.  •  Just to be clear, when last across the border I bought this...for someone else...someone who has begged me (then threatened me ever so subtly) not to reveal his name. He later admitted on a recent trip he had bought four cans for his own needs. So …

The truth? You can't handle the truth.  •  Pants can show up Augusta and the Masters. I could not wear these pants. Could you? These are the pants that the Lord made.

I was a fad. The stats prove it. Yet I care not that I am the pet rock of the world of political punditry as...  •  I am on holiday  •  ..and have been so for 38 minutes. For some reason a bad song by Madonna is in my head as well as a good one by Franz Ferdinand.  •  Woo.

Up early, not blogging the papal funeral (would anyone?), reading Kottke quote Lessig and I read this:  •  “Lessig: Fair use doesn't apply to music or movies like it does for text. I can excerpt a book and critique it, but if I wanted to play a clip of a new Fischerspooner song on a podcast and …

New Englanders in Iraq bowling candlepin  •  I am taking a week off this spring. There is a Boston wedding to attend which will be fun but that is at the end of the week. First, we are off to the Gulf of Maine coast in search of friends and family and a good amount of candlepin bowling. Ontario …

I believe the legal and political phrase from this little tid bit from the Gomery inquiry is called YIKEE-DOODLES!  •  “Brault also spoke of a meeting he had when Joe Morselli, a close friend of Gagliano, took over fundraising duties for the party in Quebec. Brault says he was asked to meet …

It has taken a few creeky starts but Boston beat the Yankees last night. Apparently the great Mariano Riviera had an off night (again) against the Sox as is explained from this example of the wonder that is the baseball writing in The New York Times:  •  “It was the first time Rivera walked three …

Apparently, as says Jay, the opposition PCs have decided again to not bring down the Liberal Federal government despite all signs being that there is a smelly bad tale being told about corruption in the party which has led the nation for 12 years. Has this same nation ever seen two bigger softies …

Evergreens get no respect. They have no burst of autumn red. Each spring they do not provide a new face of green each day. They do not make that summer sound in the wind. These two pines, however, make a subtle show each April for a few hours in the first sunny still and warming day as their …

I think it is time to start the speculation. We need a May or June election like ze whole in ze head but the powers that barely be are doing their best to stumble towards that sad day for all. So sayeth The Star:  •  “But if a Quebec judge today grants a major delay in the case, Gomery could lift …

Who knew? I am hooked.

I was thinking as the torrent of anguish flying around the Canadian bit of the internet began to subside this afternoon about scandels as we have them here. They have tended not to be in the British style about sex or in the US style about power. They tend to be about cash:  •  There were all …

Dum-dee-dum-dum-dum...what to do...  •  “#1 - For purposes of short but thoughtful comparative legal memo to self, come up with list of US legal proceedings subject to secrecy or publication bans or other forms of government restriction to freedom of speech. [Ed.: Can't think of any right …

In a remarkable move consciously mirroring this week's plot of The West Wing, differences are appearing amongst the cardinals heading to Rome:  •  “With Pope John Paul II lying in state, the battle over his legacy is being brought into the open by some cardinals preparing to choose his successor …

What are all you people doing here right now? There are tons of you. Was this just on TV or something? Are you aware the NCAA finals are on CBS right now? Politics will still be there tomorrow but it is a hell of a game so just make sure you won't have that old "I think I watched the wrong blue …

Ian may be just about the squirrelliest guy on the internet. But I really hope North Carolina wins for him tonight. I am backing his "too up" meds over his "too down" ones.

[Special Notice from Editor: it ain't me.]  •  It has been a rare day of political scaredy-cat-ism thoughout the realm that could be called the poli-blogs of Canada. Within 24 hours of a few posts like mine on Sunday morning there were some amazingly dimwitted calls for the defence of democracy …

Dispairing at the alternatives, the Flea has rattled the chains as Ghost of Political Parties Past and proposed a resurrection of the Rhino Party. I am all in. I remember their free time political broadcasts with guys drinking beer in lawn chairs. It was SCTV meets reality TV. We want moderate …

“[Ed.: I got this in the mail today from the purveyor of fine chutney (and ales) and thought a cross-post from the beer blog was warranted.]”  •  "For as long as I can remember there has been debate about the smallest pub in the UK. For long periods, the Nutshell, in my home town of Bury St …

Why does taking one hour away in the middle of Saturday night make it feel like it was a one-day weekend? My body knows I got up at 5:56 am this morning. I can lie but it won't.

By the way, thanks. 166,706 visits from 15,566 uniques in March 2005 and I hear a couple of you are actually humans in pajamas as opposed to idle pant-making drive-grinders looking for a byte. Up 1161% in a year. At that rate by 2008, our activities here will account for 121% of the entire …

I have received a hat from Russia from John and electronica CDs from Electron and now I have received the gift of chutney, savory jam for those not in the know. From the Ale-Fan under his own shop's private label, beer2go. Just dandy with cheddar, an English pale ale and some of Fred's Bread's …

Much fur is flying this morning on the publication on a US blog of what is stated to be one single source's take on the secret testimony heard last week before the Gomery Commission. I will not [Ed.: ...could not, would not in a boat; could not would not with a goat...] link to it but the canny …

It doesn't come any stupider than this as two Newcastle United players are sent off for fighting each other during a game.

Read the Flea on Zahra Kazemi. He is entirely right and his craft in writing and his perception of this issue should embarrass every editorial writer in the land.

I suppose my recollections are not as profound as others, me not being Catholic, but it was quite the thing when the Pope came to my town in September 1984 at the beginning of my fourth year of undergrad. I don't have any photos but neither does Google Images so I don't feel so bad. Here's the CBC …

With the events in Rome, I find my self rummaging - amazed when I think of it that I was in eastern Europe so soon after the fall of Communism. I have nothing on Bruce "Hubely", of course, who was on his second stint in Bratislava, later under the Brandenburg Gates on unification, when I flew into …

The situation in Haiti's Port-au-Prince slum of Cité Soleil does not sound good:  •  “Jordanian peacekeepers backed by Haitian police set up 21 checkpoints at entrances to the slum and searched cars and pedestrians entering and leaving the area for illegal guns, said Lieutenant-Colonel Elouafi …

Regardless of the context, this is an extraordinary statement for a legislator to say:  •  “"We will look at an arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary that thumbed their nose at Congress and the president."”  •  It is, in fact, out of control as it is not to be controlled as was stated …

Not being a Roman Catholic, having laughed at SNL and Father Guido Sarducci's "Find the Pope in the Pizza" contest, etc., but having had the poster of the Pope in my high schoool locker as a joke to throw off the neighbouring Rick Springfield and John Travolta posterers, I have always had a soft …

For April Fools Day, a parody of Boing Boing.