"Giant Robot! Spare only the readers of Gen X at 40!"  •  News of things like this always concerns me:  •  “The Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft has approached within 20km (12 miles) of the asteroid it has been travelling to for more than two years. The probe will collect a sample from the surface of …

We went to the southernmost set of Rideau Canal locks, a triple set at Kingston Mills, this afternoon and...err... I went a bit overboard with the camera. But who knows? Maybe there are canal fans amongst you. If you click on the "continue reading..." link below you will see about 40 more …

Who knew we each have a second brain? So sayeth The New York Times this morning. What else is big oil and the music industry keeping from us in these troubled times? Anyway, it appears that that at the bottom of the spine things are going on not unlike at the top:  •  “Dr. Gershon, who coined the …

If you are interested in nerds deciding to take on a dream, check out the blog at Route 2, a small group creating wireless interent on PEI on hill at a time.

This is the real reason we visited Ithaca last weekend - not the ice cream, not the fine beer store and certainly not the hotel which shall go nameless with the blinking light on the smoke detector. The Sciencenter is hard to beat for an afternoon with the kids. Basically, it is only about 150 …

Any thoughts? Taken from The Globe so I trust your comments will reflect review of the artistic merit of the work as much as my mere posting implicitly does.

Folks fret about the denatured urban landscape but we are pretty lucky around these parts. In our little corner of where Lake Ontario pours into the St. Lawrence I've seen a stone's throw (not that I tried) from the shore, other than the crows, mallards and ring-bill gulls, kingfishers, mergansers …

Tony Blair, fresh from victory at the polls is taking on a new enemy - the hoodie:  •  “Britain has a new public enemy: the teenager in a hooded sweatshirt. Hoods, no longer just an adolescent fashion statement, lie at the centre of a debate over what many people, including Prime Minister Tony …