WIRED has an interesting article, " Nanotech Makes Wood Planes Fly Again ", on an apparently successful Canuck process that creat...

So, Michelle Obama decides to grow a vegetable garden . On almost any plane one views it from, it makes sense, not the least of which is tha...

Once upon a time the NAFTA Superhighway/Trade Corridor was just a conspiracy theory. Then it was a gleam in Manitoba Premier Gary Doer's...

Everyone retires... eventually. Some of us want to retire early, some don't want to retire at all. So, when someone retires without expl...

Jebuss fucking wept. Far and Wide and Impolitical tell you why.

GIZMODO has an article on a bicycle that is just what the doctor ordered for those of us who aren't Lance Armstrong. If you're not ...

With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Trooper Karine Blais, 12 e Régiment Blindé du Canada serving with the 2nd Batta...

CanWest today : RCMP officers may be charged in Dziekanski death "The four RCMP officers who Tasered a Polish immigrant at the Vancouv...

This poster, which dates back to 1937 , contains a slogan which most coastal British Columbians would remember well into the 1980s. Oddly, i...

The Pennsylvania Emergency Alert System used to look like this... During a Good Friday broadcast of the Vatican Easter service however, some...

DEFORESTATION FOR FIREWOOD is a major problem in the third world. Shannon Carr-Shand writes for Forum for the Future , a very interesting e...

Does the good pastor really expect us to believe that one? Per Huffington Post : Rick Warren Cancels ABC Appearance "Moments Before,...

Republicans - because we needed a name for people who are dumber than houseplants. I just hope someone remembers to water Betty Brown occasi...

How to get a guitar player off your porch?  Pay for the pizza. NAMM joke, Randy Bachman, Vinyl Tap, CBC. NAMM is the music merchants' as...

Is your washroom breeding...Bolsheviks? ScotTissue Towels- really dry! Employees lose respect for a company that fails to provide decent fac...

STEVIE IS AT IT AGAIN . Doesn't like science, and is really going after the Quebec vote. CBC reports "Famed star observatory in Que...

It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. One human hair can support 3 kg (6.6 lb). The average man's pen...

ENGLISH RUSSIA , again, with a thoughtful article on Moscow's commuting mutts, entitled "Smartest Dogs: Moscow Stray Dogs". Th...

I appreciate that the police in Vancouver have a difficult job to do right now what with the wave of gang violence engulfing the city, but t...