The New York Times, 31 01 04, page D8. The over 24" zone could have another for over 60"  •  This is another view of the snow situation from today's Times WWTI's news web page has the following item on how much has fallen down there - it is nutty:  •  “  •  Lake Effect Snow Piles Up On Oswego …

The states of these United States with which my corporeal state has been united  •  Via Mike, is this interesting if fairly useless web tool to make a map if which states you have visited. Much of my claim is based on the big 1966 trek from Mississauga to San Diego, California. A bit of a guess as …

It is quite funny to find that the combination of this post and this post  •  has attracted 12 visitors looking for the "my dome virus". MyDOOM, folks.

It's hammer time  •  So was was telling you a few weeks ago about lake effect snow - here is a good display of it. Apparently the lower edge of eastern Lake Ontario down in Oswego Co. New York State has had over 100 inches of snow since New Years. We seem to have had about 8. It is about 80 km …

Have a look at this. Someone is taking my RSS feed and those of others I know and aggregating them on another site and sticking up advertising. How odd. I don't know if I feel good about this or bad. I certainly have not been asked permission or offered a share of the likely tiny revenue stream …

Hot off the presses - The Supreme Court upholds reasonable use of force in discipling children in Canada. Yet to read the ruling - read Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth and the Law v. Canada (Attorney General), 2004 SCC 4 along with me and discuss later today.  •  Later: This is the …

As I wrote last fall, there is a scholarship fund being gathered at the University of Kings College for an old friend departed, George Earles. With the last days of January here, the anniversary of his passing in March is coming up. Please consider sending more funds. They take VISA and it is a …

Apparently if you kill someone in Germany and then eat them it is less serious than just killing them:  •  “KASSEL, GERMANY - A 42-year-old German man who confessed to killing, dismembering and eating another man who he said agreed to the grisly act was sentenced to eight and a half years in …

Pub, Art, Hair, Curry, Texmex  •  I like this block - kitty corner to S&R - which incorporates a 1870's firehall, some limestones a few decades older as well as a new brick build with a hair place that fits in the scheme. Next to it, tucked behind down the alley to the right is Curry Village, one …

These are three great candidates for the best have-one-bottle beer. Nothing for the faint hearted, though: Young's Double Chocolate Stout ($3.10 for 500 ml at 5.2%) from London, UK; Victory Storm King Imperial Stout ($2.40 for 355 ml at 9.1%) from Pennsylvania; and Anchor Liberty Ale ($3.55 for …

I just realized we are 29 days into the mid-decade and I have no idea still what the decade is called.

Big neato factor. Apparently scientists have created a sixth state of matter. We all know about solid, liquid and gas. I undertand the northern lights are a fourth - plasma. A fifth was created in 1995 and now we have a sixth. Nutty.

Just watched Bill Maher on Larry King and heard the extraordinary statement from Maher - unchallenged by King - that on 9/11 President Bush's father was having breakfast with Osama's Dad. Is that right? The connections between the Bush's and the Saudi rich are well documented and the spiriting of …

One of the things about not having a "livin' in the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches" lifestyle anymore is the lack of planning you have to do. I do not have to plan when I brew the ale, plant the garden, buy seeds, saw off dead branches, mow 4 acres or clear out the barn or schedule …

Best  •  news of the day - our new and unelected Prime Minister Paul Martin does the  •  right thing and call a full public inquiry on the Arar matter, my feelings on  •  which can be read here, here and a bit here.  •  I seem to recall as a youth back in the 70's and 80's public inquiries and …

In addition to my best picks post for this my week as editor of Carnival of Canucks, I am awarding a prize, a sort of lifetime achievement medallion. It is not going to a person. It is not for a blog. The winner of the first weekly award of merit [and perhaps the last unless the next editors pick …

I used to live a walk from the sand bar - or barachois in Acadian French -  •  near North Rustico, PEI which is now being claimed  •  by someone as ownable land. Funny until you remember the bit that is not  •  covered by the tides twice a day is a nesting site for rare plovers. Thank God  •  we …

Ian has an intersting post  •  about images of men in 1970's media that we later learned - or really just  •  had confirmed - were gay. The word flamboyant comes to mind as how we were able  •  to accept their personalities. I am glad those days are over. If you were not  •  bid, brassy and, most …

This is it.  Up a little early but still my kick at the can. I knew it  •  was big time when I saw the  •  notice earlier today, Monday, at BlogsCanada. So in this my edition - 007- of the  •  Carvinal of Canucks, I would like to share some links to great blogs by and  •  about people not where …

I have a strange relationship with movies. Until I was about nineteen I went  •  once or twice a week with my buddies in Truro as an entertainment. Then I worked  •  for a few years as an usher at a playhouse in Halifax where I would watch the  •  same play ten to twenty times in a few weeks and …

Heavy lies the crown when you are #7 on the Carnival of Canucks, scant weeks behind the Accordian Guy who has been nominated for Blogger of the Universe for All Time or some thing like that anyway. Keeping in mind that most things done by humans pretty much suck pretty much most of the time, do …

That is apparently what Belinda Stronach said.    Far be it from me to criticize a person misspeaking but if we wanted a Prime Minister who cannot speak a national language why didn't we just keep Chretien who, after all, knew something about government before he got the position. Bels Strons, it …

The worst thing ever on the internet. Not sex...not violence...but it will put you off the first and make you contemplate the second. Why? Good Lord Why?

Built largely in 1820 as some kind of markethouse, the S&R Department is a landmark in Kingston, being something of a Margolians of Truro but at the same time selling a broader range of stuff than just clothes and shoes including some groceries, drugs and, up on the top floor, hardware, toys and …

Just had my first experience with voice over IP as part of an experiment run  •  by Craig.  •  One in the group had a ping of over 6000 from time to time so it was a bit like  •  Mission Control to the Lunar Module but, given the right topic, it would be  •  interesting to try a round table …

Five hundred posts in around nine months. I received my congratulatory prizes from Portland the other day: a T-shirt from a deep sea fishing outfit from California and a wind-up radio that includes a warning not to wind up until the batteries have had 5 hours charge from a 12 volt adapter (not …

I don't know why I am making a small gallery of astronaut on the moon photos with captions.

This is  •  really cool. Bendy screen technology allowing us to roll up and put away our  •  computers. And cheap:  •  “The FOLED technology potentially offers the ability  •  to use roll-to-roll processing, much the same as newspapers are currently  •  printed. This has tremendous implication for …

Hokey Kaboke! It's five days until I have to have something for Carnival of the Canucks. Yumpin' Yimminy. I even got an email today from an utter stranger lost in the lands of the Carnival looking for the next hit:  •  “Hi,  •  Do you know who's hosting the Carnival of the Canucks next, and what …

Just listened to Terry Gross's interview of Robert Plant on NPR's Fresh Air:  •  “Robert Plant. The former lead singer of Led Zeppelin has a new CD that includes tracks he recorded before 'Zeppelin. On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks to Plant about his life and listens to recordings that …

Here is a link to the  •  text of yesterday's ruling in National Post v. Ontario in  •  which the Court confirms the special role of journalists and their privilege in  •  relation to information. I have not really read it so will comment later.  •  Later. God Love good judges:  •  “ If the …

Here is what I mean. Via Dave3, The New York Times reports that someone has been funded masses to study how links and bookmarks die:  •  “The project, which is being paid for by a three-year $378,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, is intended to shed light on the best tools for the …

Mandy likes 80's music. Ee-ee writes about 80's music.   I can't recall exactly how my tastes played out in undergrad other than they were pretty broad.  Liked the Eurymics, the Clash, Bowie, King Crimson, U2 and later Bragg, the Pogues.   Even the ubiquitous Phil Collins hit had its purpose …

[Ed.: this title was only "Evidence Withheld?" until I turned discussion more to the Ottawa Citizen Arar warrants.]  •  I sure would have wanted to have these tapes if I was representing people in the same group charged with assaulting the police making these recordings. You will recall what the …

Glass reads: Last Gas Lamp 1847 - 1947  •  This is the lamp I referred to the other day. I passed it heading to Queens walking down King Street to do the seminar on section 7 Charter "liberty" and biometric surveillance. It is odd doing public talking when I am not being marked, looking for a …

Via train for Montreal waiting at Kingston last night.

Gogo Burn, Largs Scotland, April 1986  •  Mom's from Largs. Haven't been for 17 years. When I did go as a backpacker, it was largely in the pubs. When I got the job here I had a trip planned there and had to eat the four tickets. I am more ticked that I didn't get to have coffee at Nardini's.

While I am not clear in myself as to what Canada should have done in relation to Iraq, I can't recall ever being so clear as when I understood what was happening in Rwanda and how democracies, the world community, whoever was at the wheel failed. Canadian General Romeo Dallaire is testifying this …

It reads "GAS THE MODERN FUEL"  •  I noticed this near the foot of Queen Street by Ontario, seen from behind S&R. It is pretty faded but a really nice font. The municipality has run natural gas distribution since the 1800s. This is near the old gas works site. Here is some info on city gas works …

Came back from a meeting and the referral logs have gone nutty over  •  "Belinda Stronach" searches. [Ed.: You should hear the roar of the Telex  •  machines here at GX40 HQ.]  •  I guess she wants  •  to be the leader of the third party in Canada's Federal Parliament after the  •  next election …

The sixth Carnival of the Canucks is up this morning, a guide to some blogs worth reading across Canada and Canucks abroad. Go read. I am putting together next week's version. Things to do:  •  don't forget I am hosting next week's one  •  figure out neat theme  •  forget to follow through with …

Not my country but what the hell. Ian's comments as a Iowa leftie lad in NYC are interesting as are Michael's, the Newf of Atlanta. Michael has pointed out the angry-man thing about Dean while Ian speaks of electability. I cannot for the life of me ever imagine an NDPer as US president - that is …

My order came from murderecords today:  •  Closed by jale (1995, ep cd)Smart Bomb by Thrush Hermit (1994, ep cd)Peppermint by Sloan (1992, ep cd)Mock Up, Scale Down by The Super Friendz (1995, cd)Peter by Eric's Trip (1993, cd)  •  Three months but who cares. Five disks of Halifax scene. I used a …

The Wolfe Island Ferry making its way around R.M.C.  •  I saw this coming out of work this afternoon. I play with the idea of living over on Wolfe Island, a 25 minute ferry trip each way two blocks from work. Before doing that I have promised I would go over and back walk-on passenger at 6:30 am …

I noticed at The Star this morning that there was an art theft thisweekend in Toronto - a heist. Is there any other crime which so warms the heart what with unending bad 70's police TV episodes guest starring the likes of <a href="http://www.geocities.com/lovpeppard/v3_document.htm"George Peppard …

Another Black day? What other wacky puns can be drawn from the slide Connie finds himself on? Nicest new touch?  •  “Hollinger International also launched a lawsuit claiming $200 million US against Black, his right-hand man David Radler and companies controlled by the two men. ”  •  I'd be all …

Back from a Saturday over night with old pals with kids. Eighteen years ago he and me looked like this with the car shown left. It was the first night over at someone's place where there were more kiddlies (5) than adults (4). Still, got a few Upper Canada Darks in, watched the Leafs lose to the …

Watching the development of aggregation and syndication very much from the sideline is interesting, including for reasons which have nothing directly about with the prospects for the output. Be clear ~ it may be a wonder on the level of HTML or it may be impractical and seize up the internet if …

Truthfully, Truthfully is a great album. Good instrumentation gets more important as  •  I get older. Why? Did I see Thrush Hermit? Back then? No idea  •  but not likely. Maybe he was in Steps Around the House. I just noticed Twice  •  Removed is 10 years old - I'm not sure 'cause the print's so …

More civic art. I noticed this week these two frames on the walls of the third floor. They are not side by side but they relate to the same man, Michael Flanagan, Esq. who was City clerk from 1846 to 1893 and after - and a junior clerk before that position was his. The painting is from 1846, the …

Unless I am being fooled by a pal who is not into this kind of joke, someone  •  just received an email I sent in October 2002.    More later.

The Toronto Star is by the terms of the trust that governs it a  •  liberal leaning paper. That being said, the  •  warning it gives to Belinda Stronach not to run for the Conservative party is  •  more than partisan - it makes good sense. Why she - or Peter MacKay or Mike  •  Harris who have …

This link should start a short movie (1.7 megabyte) showing frost on the inside of a restaurant window today at noon. It was something like 24 below Celsius at noon. Wind chill in Watertown, NY tonight is -50 F. Ontario hydro is transmitting more electricity today than on any other day in history.

Brent played the greatest rock drive home record this afternoon, 1973's "5:15" from Quadrophenia, which it about the thoughts of a stoned kid heading home from a crappy job on a London train. Amazing how the boring old CBC is pushed by this show.  •  As the greatest teens ever, The Who deserve a …

The Guardian Unlimited has a great article on the legacy of Arab culture on the western world - little things like writing and science. It was written in response to a UK scandal involving a TV presenter who stated that we owe Arabs nothing.

For some time, Rob1 and I have been yapping about developing wind power on PEI. PEI is both fortunate and unfortunate in God's selection of blessings, lacking for example the natural resources such as a forested hinterland and mining resources that other parts of Canada take for granted. As the …

It is good to hear that the US is heading back into space, aiming for Man on Mars just in time for me to retire so I can follow the whole thing from my jelly sofa listening in on my wireless brain implant.  Whatever it is, however, it is not quite "news" as this was the plan in '89  and even back …

This stuff really embarrasses me:  •  “Prime Minister Paul Martin walked away from his first meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush yesterday brandishing two deals that are being touted as proof of Canada's new, "unique" relationship with the United States. "As far as I'm concerned, I thought …

There are things you need and things you think you need and things you know you don't need and then once in a while there is something hanging right there on the cusp like a CD of incidental music to the 1960's UK marionette sci-fi show Thunderbirds. Dandy tribute site here. I am more of a Captain …

I don't know why I feel like a logo is required but I messed around with a design last night and came up with this, which I have placed temporarily permanently to the right, scroll down.  •  I think I have visions of shelves of coffee mugs or a trucker's cap on Justin Timberlake. I have heard it …

I have been chasened. Via e-mail. Chastised by a pro at chastisement - as  •  anyone who has been given a telling off by Ms. Gregory of Winnipeg, a person of AG's aquaint. You see, I lumped Alison Gzowski (as illustrated)  •  with Frum and Leahette the other day. I have been told it was a schmoly …

Michael in Atlanta has this week's Carnival of Canucks up and Radio Steve leads the issue with the party tonight at Rob1's barn making the top news from PEI. Rob has a keg, by the way, and is giving away beer.   This guy is doing being the ex-banking-exec-country-drop-out thing in a big way …

South End, Market Row, Kingston  •  Another detailed pictograph from MasterGraphics. This is the south end of Market Street, which contains three pubs and a hotel starting at the far end with the Prince George Hotel build originally as a private home in 1809 continuing up the street to the west …

The best way to ensure nothing new happens is to make that a principle, as Dave Winer has advocated:  •  “Productive open work will only result in standards as long as the parties involved strive to follow prior art in every way possible. Gratuitous innovation is when the standardization process …

As discussed last summer, there is a problem with certain phrases associated with personal web pages. It appears that "web" just wants to be a syllable - a prefix perhaps - but never a word on its own. David and Michael are at it over this over "web site" or "website". [Ed.: why can't we all be …

Crazy Carpets matting down the rough  •  When Rupert the Bear or Oor Wullie slid down hills in the hardcover cartoon annuals sent from Scotland when I was a kid it was "sledging" not "sledding". Whatever it is called, for those of you worried that we sold the farm when we...sold the farm and moved …

Ranting and Roaring, The home of David Janes, chef de mission of the Carvival of the Canucks has picked me to present the 3 Feburary issue. Amongst us PWPers, a "carnival" is a regular listing of blogs of note but the list moves from person to person for each issue. (I just woke up from a nap so I …

Rex Murphy makes a very clear statement on the utter uselessness of the Federal Liberal gun registry. The fact that this program also got caught up in some amazing software contract shuffling to end up costing over a billion dollars is a separate and also mind boggling bit of non-thinkness. There …

Tijuana Bibles in another battle at the Horseshoe last December  •  Attentive readers may have noticed I (like Portland) have a thing for the Tijuana Bibles and their posters. Well, I am not the only one as Stacey Case - the Bible's Super Destroyer...or Destructor to you and me - got a full page …

This is interesting news, coming from a formerly high-placed White House insider who would have to be an utter liar and nincompop if this is not true:  •  “Jan. 10 — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill charges in a new book that President Bush entered office in January 2001 …

What is it with dictators and clothes? Does the need to be embraced by expensive textiles always coincide with the call to crush your neighbours' freedom? Anyway, now that DJ Snazzy MG is rejoining the family of nations, I can proclaim my appointment of him as official clothes horse to GX40 HQ …

More from inside the dome. Click on images for larger scale. Just don't tell the super.

Kingston Harbour 8:30 am  •  I snuck up to the top of the dome this morning and got this shot of the harbour. To the right is one of a set of Martello towers built to guard the opening of the Rideau Canal from the US navy. The headland across the water to the left is Royal Military College, a …

It's been very cold the last few days. When it gets too cold, things happen. People freeze.  •  Can't snow. The big lake looks like it is coming to the boil. The snow makes a funny noise  •  when you walk. If you click here you should trigger a 5  •  megabyte mpeg movie of the sound of snow. It …

Everytime I read David Frum I get an itchy feeling. It is not because of his rightist bent. I can listen to the most anarchical libertarian if they are lucid and enjoy the perspective even if I don't buy the results. But yesterday's interview on Fresh Air got me scratching again. I think it is …

Somebody really, really does not want to go back to stamp collecting.

Across the road, they laid white tarps over the greens. Last summer they watered in the blackout.

I am greatly flattered by the above letter which arrived today from Keith of Electron with two CDs and three mini-CDs enclosed, two of his work under the name The Stereo Effect Project and three from his pal in Germany going by Heptane Sun Quad.  •  I am enjoying this electronica as it reminds me …

A while ago I was wondering about adding sound to this site. Not necessarily music but some audio. I received some interesting support and advice.  •  It is hard to find a cheap digital sound recorder but I think I have landed on an inexpensive alternative, the Sony TCM-150 portable cassette …

Yesterday was very biometric:  •  The date for my seminar with the Surveillance Project at Queens was reset for later this month. I am going to talk about my thesis on the constitutionality of automated biometric surveillance and the recent cases on the liberty right in section 7 of The Charter of …

A few weeks ago, I bought a CD by I am Robot and Proud (aka Shaw-Han Liem of Toronto) called "You Make Me this Happy" from Electron, discussed here, run by helpful Keith. I appears I am Robot and Proud has other newish CDs out called The Catch and Grace Days. I just listened to "Saturday Afternoon …

I am not the first to embrace new technologies. I read how people think these web sites will revolutionize politics, society, education, the economy and I think of lonely people isolated from each other who would be better off joiing an industrial softball league. I read about new car gadgets and …

Children's TV is a wasteland. Smarmy Barney is banned from our house. Caillou is nothing but an example of the whinging bad child. Clifford is a big red moralizing freak surrounded by little pink moralizing freaks banished to the Island of the impossible economy. Hidden within the chaff is a gem …

When I was submerged about a month ago I heard the guitar from Martha and the Muffins "Swimming". We have a pool in this place no one uses but us. With goggles, it's all flailing kiddie ankles up there, me holding at the bottom thinking of out by the church at North River where you could dive down …

I had an interesting set of exchanges today on the topic of the ISSN. I noted a few days ago that Steve's site had an ISSN or international standard serial number - scroll down lower left to see it. Wanting all that Steve has, I applied for my own. This morning I received a nice email which stated …

While at Watertown, I was looking for a good book to explain the neighbouring zone of New York State, the North Country. Lucky man that I am, I hit upon the right book first go. Twenty-five or so essays called Living North Country: Essays on Life and Landscapes in Northern New York edited by …

Another view from the Thousand Islands Bridge  •  The upper part of a perpetual motion thingie  •  The view that disappeared last August

Steve gave me a heads up by instant message and I spent two hours at the end of yesterday listening to the landing on Mars live from NASA. I tagged Mel, too. Here is the site for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Get some Tang and food in tubes and follow along.  •  The photo right is the rear …

New Year. New varieties. Bought this afternoon in Northern New York - Pink  •  Lady. From an apple  •  flogging site:  •  “Yet another import from the land "down under" this  •  variety was originally named Cripp's Pink. Developed and bred by the agriculture  •  department of Western Australia in …

Foggy view from the Thousand Islands Bridge, late afternoon  •  With freezing rain impeding our trip north to Hull, Quebec and the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit, we decided to go south instead and explore Jefferson County, New York. We checked out Sackets Harbor which was lovely but largely closed, saw …

Call Super D.

Doc approved this quotation today and the trailing commentary:  •  “Whitman's ideal of America," writes the poet Carl Dennis, "is a country held together not by law or custom but by a network of imaginative filaments thrown out by autonomous individuals who want to include as many people as they …

I noticed this over at Will's: Bill C-460, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Unsolicited Electronic Mail). Sure we all hate spam but this is too much:  •  It is too late. Email is lost. Why criminalize activity in a medium which constitutes more than 50% of activity on the medium. You may as well …

Courtesy of one of those late to the party repliers out there, the greatest thread I have ever participated in was revived over at Acts of Volition, if only for its framing of my feelings about Pete Townsend at the Concert for NYC after 9/11. In the thread, a criticism of branding and commentary …

Friday the 2nd of January always is a day and date which is a bit queer. [Being Nova Scotian, this does not imply anything other than the phrase "queerer than me arse". I trust that has clarified matters.]   The different years play out the Yuletide holidays differently, especially distruptive …

In an effort both to move the disconcerting bagel below the fold and to speak back to you the visitor, here are top 30 nationalities of December's visitors stats by order of hits:  •  1. US Commercial - 16788  •  2. Canada - 16163  •  3. Unresolved/Unknown - 10717  •  4. Network - 8292  •  5 …