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I haven’t been able to get a picture of this visitor that’s shown up the past 2 days, as it’s a bit too far away, so you’ll have to do with a stock photo from a bird site (for now; hopefully it comes with camera range): It’s a pleasure as a bird watching [...] On a much lighter Olympic note, the Norwegian Curling team’s pants are a hit. What pants, you say? If you haven’t been watching curling, it’s these ones: The Norwegian Olympic Curling Team's Pants Someone decided to create a fan page for their pants at Facebook, and they’re now over 313 thousand members. Not [...] Tags: curling, Norwegian Olympic Curling Team's Pants, Vancouver Olympics | Category: Misc |
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 | Trackback for this entryOn the Olympic Morning show on CTV, they always switch over at the top of the hour to their news announcer to do the “Top News Stories” of the day. When I was watching this morning, the “Top News Stories” today included: – Tiger Woods impending (at the time) pseudo -press conference – Canadians [...] Tags: CTV, John Babcock | Category: Canadian Politics, Misc |
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| Trackback for this entryThe Atlantic Coast gets hit by record snowfall, and immediately the climate change skeptics come out of the woodwork. “This proves climate change and global warming is a hoax!” they scream. Presently at the Olympics, Vancouver’s interior inland is expected to hit 16 Celsius today – temperatures they don’t normally get to June. Snow [...] Tags: climate change, global extreme weather, global warming | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics, Misc |
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| Trackback for this entryI hope everyone who celebrates it had a Merry Christmas. Of course, many families who hold multiple Christmas get-togethers with different sides of the family hold them on Boxing Day as well, so my hope to those folks is that you’re having a good Christmas get-together, and Happy Boxing Day to you! If you haven’t bought your Christmas tree by now, you might be out of luck this year. However, this might come in handy for you next year. There’s often a debate about whether to buy a real one or an artificial one for inside the house. I have a different suggestion for you; next [...] Tags: Christmas, Christmas Trees, environment | Category: Misc |
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| Trackback for this entryI decided I’d try out whether the new release of WordPress 2.9 & its embedding movies/video is indeed easier to do then prior versions, while at the same time giving you folks a holiday treat: a version of “A Christmas Carol” not often seen these days on the television. This is the 1935 British [...] - BigCityLib fact checks & reads Mark Steyn’s columns at Macleans so you don’t have to. I wonder if he’ll be doing that with recently arrived Colby Cosh as well. He may not be blogging about much else if he takes that on too. - An odd way for the Canadian government to show [...] Category: Blog Culture, Canadian Politics, Misc |
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| Trackback for this entryIf you were wondering why on this Monday I didn’t bother with any comments on the House back in session, and specifically whether the NDP is going to try claiming all those times the Liberals didn’t vote to bring the government down is somehow different from the support the NDP may or may not [...] Category: Canadian Politics, Misc |
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| Trackback for this entryPolitically off-topic.. but I couldn’t resist posting about this: ‘Facebook makes you sharper but Twitter makes you thicker’ Facebook makes you sharper but Twitter makes you thicker, a psychologist has said…The social networking site boosts a part of intelligence that is vital to success in life, while tweeting away may have the opposite effect. [...] |
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