Just so you won't think it is all about the ales, here are some short  •  short movies taken from and around the Strasburg Rail Road steam trains:  •  rocking carriages [1.3 MB]  •  coming into the station [2.8 MB]  •  taking tickets [1.3 MB]  •  steam passing steam [3.0 MB]  •  our steam engine …

It's happened twice now. CBC plays a movie starting after the CFL game and I get sucked into watching a 1970s or '80s or 90s epic thinking it will be over at, say 12:30 pm, because no one in his right mind would play a movie that lasts three and a half or four hours. I don't even really like …

Yesterday a storm tore through here in about 25 minutes from clear sun to whipping winds, hail, rain and back to sun. Living in a high-rise makes this experience fairly dramatic what with the big sky and all. Here are four short movies from the precipitation nerds among you:  •  cloud [7.3 …

From the most excellent Flea, comes the tale of the capture of meteor light on surveillance cameras. Here are three, all under a MB so a fairly speedy download:  •  movie onemovie twomovie three  •  Lovely. Reminds me that I forgot to see the transit of Venus this morning. Must remember for 2012.

Here are some entries in the Gen X at 40 really short short film festival:  •  tiny squacky parrots [1.7 MB] at the Toronto Zoo [1.2 MB]  •  the oddly placed fiddler [1.7 MB]  •  wave jumping at the sea [2.5 MB]  •  rattlin' windows in storm [4.0 MB]  •  elevator [4.0 MB]

Nothing saddens more than a good idea gone bad due to a glaring lack of attention to standard contracting. Apparently a couple of guys have made an amazing documentary on The Ramones but never go permission to use the music, never got sign-off from the band members at any time during three years …

The CBC showed Don McKellar's film Last Night last night as there was no late hockey game to be shown. For my money, his TV and film are the best expression of the not quite right in the head perspective that somehow plays a part in the Canadian character. [Twitch City is the best Canadian TV show …

The BBC News website has an article on a nuclear aftermath / civil defence exhibit at the UK National Archives. Often at the end of these articles, there is an opportunity to post comment and one reminded me of being a nuclear fear kid:  •  “I lived most of my childhood in genuine fear of a …

I wrote the following over at Dean's World and thought so well of myself I suggested that I post it here...and you know what? I agreed to do it!  •  “I agree that the most interesting thing about the movie is that is it one person's witnessing of the passion, much in the same way that 1988's "The …