*Not Just Another Pretty Face Don't limit your thoughts of Daryl Hannah to her "Steel Magnolias" and "Kill Bill...

Darth, himself. GETTING AWAY WITH TORTURE , the title of Dahlia Lithwick's article in Slate , commenting on the publication of Dick Ch...

On the way to Mo's place. SEEMS MOAMMAR'S DAYS ARE NUMBERED and all sorts of armed people with different agendas are lurching aroun...

PERFECT COLOR and a century old. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was a photographer to the Tsar, who used a separation technique that h...

CONTAINER SHIPS BEWARE. According to INHABITAT , "Russia Green Lights $65 Billion Siberia-Alaska Rail and Tunnel to Bridge the Bering S...

ERIC SCHMIDT IS CHAIRMAN OF GOOGLE, and he's really pissed about the quality of education in the UK. In the aftermath of the recent riot...

Your guess is as good as mine. From today's Toronto Star : TRIPOLI, LIBYA—Libyan rebels who took control of Moammar Gadhafi’s spra...

James Burke's The Day The Universe Changed: "The Way We Are". A series worthy of your consideration, as is "Connections...

Toronto city councillor George "Giorgio" Mammoliti (he changed his name in 2002 from English to Italian to better reflect his desi...

TED TALKS cover the whole panoply of human endeavours. Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingl...

Felonious Munk is pissed about the US debt. He's got a point, too.

Please join with people of conscience around the world at noon on Saturday, August 20 to support the people of Syria. I'll be joining my...

HOW IRISH DANCING appeared. Makes sense.

SANDEEP DIKSHIT AT THE HINDU reports that Bashar Assaad is aware that " some mistakes were made by his security forces in the initial...

CENTRE BLOCK reports that Stevie had a hissy-fit: "Less amusing translation of Brazilian article on Harper bathroom tiff". I can...

Some thoughts and links on the riots across England: Not everyone in London is either a rioting, firebomb-throwing yob looter or an authori...

THE MEDIA IS A GREAT BEAST, for sure. Perhaps a monster, that casts forth false images? Or is that just some of the time? We had the Vietna...