What next? "Family of man killed in hiking fall blow up hill"?  •  “Dead stingrays with their tails cut off have been found in Australia, sparking concern that fans of naturalist Steve Irwin may be avenging his death.”

Where is Gen. John Cabot Trail of the CBLA when you need him?  •  What are the odds this will actually be a fantastic success and bring a boost of the expected economic development? What are the chances? Less that zero.  •  “The Toronto Star has learned that Nova Scotia has signed a "team …

This is the sort of thing that gives a contract drafter the yipps:  •  “Language buffs take note — Page 7 of the contract states: The agreement "shall continue in force for a period of five years from the date it is made, and thereafter for successive five year terms, unless and until terminated …

So nice to wake to an absence of irritation. I was so used to it.  •  So anyway, last week at portland's we did the Mentos trick. You take a 2 litre bootle of pop, drop in 5 Mentos and three second later the pop bottle / soda bottle erupts and shoots in its entirety out the bottle top. It is quite …

In an effort to advance the cause of supporting supporting, has anyone thought of Ribbon 2.0 where everyone makes up the content of their own magnetic cause ribbons making for a cacophony of causes and claims confusing the drivers of America? Maybe if there were more rounded edges the link to the …

This is either a huge political mistake by the PMO or an apology from the Globe and Mail just itching to be made:  •  “The perception of inaction was exacerbated by the lack of information flowing last week about Canadian efforts to organize a response. In fact, Foreign Affairs staff realized last …

I saw this bike on the BBC "In Pictures" site. I cannot conceive of how anyone but a child could handle this bike. Looks like riding on a bar stool...if the thing were made of popsicle sticks. And why design something I can't use? Being big, it would be nice to be included in these things. That is …

We visited the Museum of the Earth to the west side of Ithaca up route 96 the road to Trumansburg the other week and I forgot to post the pictures. This place was extremely kid friendly, well-resourced and interesting. I don't know why there are so many well set up places in the Ithaca area though …

I quite like Bill Thompson's columns on the experience of digital technology over at the BBC. He is not simply a booster. This one on the need to come up with classification structures or risk the equivalent of the void - cacophony - is useful:  •  “I set up a rich and complicated hierarchy of …