Day four of Idle-fest 2008. What better time to consider the sugar beet? In PEI, a company setting up to produce biofuels may move elsewhere due to further review of their plans:  •  “The provincial environmental and renewable industries committee on Tuesday released a report recommending a new …

Nothing like reading that does not tax the brain on one's sick day. So it was with some joy that I read the news that men like meat:  •  “It may not come as a bolt out of the blue, but one of the largest studies yet has proven that men and women really do eat differently. Researchers who …

Another Friday. They flow by like the days of the week. A week or so from spring and still there's feet of snow. That's not exactly helping. Morton's teetering and the Orange are gone. At least things are going better for me than they are for Eliot Spitzer. WFAN had an interview with his …

I don't buy seal pelts or eat flipper pie. Nor do I eat veal. But I gobble lamb and trade craft beer for venison, both chucks and ground up. I have represented a slaughterhouse. I do not rank age as a particularly important aggravating factor whatever experience of pain or disappointment that an …

I suppose the 45 rpm manufacturers associations of American scrambled to find other ways to market the seven inch disk with a hole in the middle, too:  •  “But Texas Instruments, the chip maker that developed the digital light processor most commonly found in most rear-projection TVs, is holding …

Ok, they are nerds but this is sort of a weird look into what happens when you don't put away the telescope when you are thirteen and swap it for a healthy dose of teenage angst:  •  “They have grudgingly become accustomed to being seen as "propeller-headed geeks" who "poke their finger in the …

Drag. I just got the new shingles up this year - like 40 year shingles, you know. And now there's space junk a fallin'. Space junk can look cool when it's falling except when it's falling on you.  •  I must have told you this but last summer, we were sitting out back in the early evening when …

Janufeb. The grey blur before the melt, made more grey those three out of four years without Olympic curling. It is the time when the Morton teeters, when show turns that other colour. We've seen the dark edge of the storm and even had double lake effect this week. I heard an ad for large screen …

The British have proposed a new module for the International Space Station:  •  “Their idea is for Britain to build and launch two modules that greatly enhance living conditions on the platform. The Habitation Extension Modules would increase meeting and bunk space; and allow the UK to fly some …