Building on yesterday's magnus opus, the theoretical basis for all that will come, I was very pleased to read this morning about how recipe wikis are taking off enough to justify a story in the New York Times... and how they are a little disfunctional:  •  One of her contributions — a “porn burger …

Wasting the day away. That's all that Twitter does according to the Old and Male this weekend. Unwisely, one columnist was paid to pay attention to what she was doing with Twitter over the course of a day. She came up with this astounding observation:  •  In the end, I followed up on 44 links …

This is gold. Toronto probably doesn't even see it an an insult:  •  "This is a town where you have to produce and you have to play well in order for the fans to keep showing up," Halladay said. "We all know that. There's a correlation between what we do on the field and the fans in the seats. We …

Friday Friday Friday. Why did I start this bullets thing? It's a demand on me when I least need it. Friday is the new Saturday half-day, you know. Along with there being no jet pack in the yard, where did the four day week go? That was a promise, wasn't it? Computers and robots were supposed to be …

A hoard of gold. Gold hoard. Someone hoards 1300 years ago and then someone finds the hoard.  •  “The quantity of gold is amazing but, more importantly, the craftsmanship is consummate,” said archaeologist Kevin Leahy, who catalogued the find. “This was the very best that the Anglo-Saxon …

I should have made this a group project. Yesterday's topic was such a dud. Or you all agreed. Or it was a nice day at the end of summer. But the proprietor of Canada's best looking blog, one Mr. Taylor, through twooting powers pointed me to this column about someone saying bad things about … read more »

If the internet is all that hot, why are the FCC's press releases only available in word or .pdf? Sure there is an argument that it's an example of choice but what a pain. All I am looking for are the new three principles and I have to launch an app. I don't have time to launch an app. And anyway …

I thought we covered "salt as wicked" when I was a kid. So wicked in fact I thought I should spell it whicked to get the full force of a "wh" opening.  •  There is merit in getting a couple of decades on. In the 70s and 80s we all learned though persistent media and news campaigns that salt … read more »

Actually an hour and eleven minutes. My newest obsession has moved into a new medium with release of the first CD of Hornet's Nest entitled "The Stuff of Nightmares". The BBC has found a way to get Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor, to record audio plays 28 years after his last appearance on the TV …

I wore a sweater to work yesterday. I should have stung like it was rinsed in acid but I settled into place. I used to not like summer so much. But that was when it meant summer job labour camps and the days before controlling my own air conditioning unit. Say what you like about the miseries of …

It's Igg-tastic. Why? Because there will be no election this fall. Yet he has broken from the pack. He has broken the spell. He is no longer, literally, under Mr. Harper's thrall. And now the distasteful Grit-NDP--Bloc coalition of November 2008 is a similar a Tory-NDP-Bloc one:  •  Stephen Harper …

Just in case you wondered, one of the reasons we go to the "cottage" we do in Maine is that Scratch Baking sits on one of the few blocks walk between the place we rent and our pals' house. If I could, I'd get in the car now to drive there for nine hours, gab all evening, crash, wake up and grab a …

Pop culture. What is the pop culture of the 46 year old. Drinking rye in the rec room and playing your old '45s with SportsNet on with the volume off as you alienate yourself from family that little bit more? No, it's looking forward to the return of Jay Leno which was on last night. And it was …

I am toying with the idea of the previously impossible - voting Grit or Tory this year. I am sick of the Federal roadblock. At least today. Because it is Monday I suppose. But Jack may have other ideas. He may yet keep me from the ballot box:  •  "We haven't seen any details, but there is no …

Mr. Taylor and his gorgeously and newly redesigned blog reminds us of the era of excellence in government issued postering, the fact of common purpose and the legacy of those who went before.

No glib snark today. No bullet points. Where are you eight years later? I wrote this in 2003. Five years ago, I posted my comments from three years earlier made at my pal Steve's blog, Acts of Volition. Here they are again:  •  Alan McLeod  •  [7:48 AM September 17, 2001]  •  elal@pei.sympatico.ca …

... and it's not a blizzard.  •  I never get to hit the road for work. I get a day conference or two a year maybe but that is about the edjification, right? I really miss the days of getting in the pickup truck or van full of grounds keeping gear and actually having to go somewhere to do something …

I am up too early with children's shows on in the background to think too heavily about things so I ask you to consider whether:  •  03 03 03 is the square root of today. I can't recall what I was doing exactly on 3 March 2003 except that I was packing up the house on PEI to move here to Kingston …

Having lived in Holland and Poland for extended periods of time, I realize I may have chomped on Black Beauty's cousin more than once. These things happen and, if I am honest, why salivate over a field of gamboling lambs and repulse at the thought of Bud Clydesdales in a nice cream sauce. But then …

We waved at this building every time we drove by.

Ah, Labour Day. We reap the rewards of our industrial organizational heritage every day but only bear it passing reference one day a year. So sad. Once the suits bought machine guns and hired thugs. More on that from five years ago where you can thrill to the spectacle of link rot. You know, as we …

It is a curious thing. Jay was on it in the morning and the Flea felt badly that it did not come to his attention until mid-afternoon. But it appears that the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal did away with those pesky hate speech prohibitions in the governing legislation of the Canadian Human Rights …

I really have no idea why the Grits chose this time - this one square on the calendar - to withdraw their support of the Harper government. But that is probably more about me than Iggy. Chantal Hebert, far far cleverer person that me who actually pays attention, wrote about the decision in the …

... Did the stimulus work? Here's what you need to think... because that's my job. Telling you what to think:  •  Why not say so? Why can't we take a little pride in the fact that a little government intervention did the trick? Tax dollars in action.What was the alternative? Did you really fall in …