Canadians aren’t known for complaining so it’s always kind of fun for the rest of us when they do. The classic Mountie Song set to scenes from Due South is a perfect pairing – particularly when you note that Benton Fraser the ultimate Mountie from the series who does love his job does all of [...]

I’m unexpectedly away from my computer that has all the favorites marked so I’m not setup to do the usual miscellaneous links post.  However, I’ve learned many odd and quirky things this week although they could be classified as a bit macabre: Cremated remains can arrive by regular mail (registered) and in an unmarked box [...]

Most people have encountered a short or long list of other people born on their birthday at some point in their life.  They’re so common they’ve gotten a bit boring and they never seem to get updated. Since I’ve recently been dealing with a death in the family and as a family we don’t tend [...]

Living in America, UFOs seem like an American preoccupation.  It was interesting to see (non-serious) news regarding British UFOs although strangely the American military still seems to be the primary source regarding experimental flights and air-born equipment. Without taking it too seriously I have heard people dismiss UFO sightings because they have never heard of [...]

There’s a research call for subjects willing to eat chocolate every day for a year – the fine print is you have to be diabetic, post-menopausal and probably live in England but hey, it’s got to start somewhere. Maybe they’ll open it up to everyone in a few years Women know that runway models aren’t [...]

Now you can see how you might look as another race, gender, or generation at Face of the Future.  Take a look at the results from Geeks are Sexy because mine were too weird to share – unfortunately the program doesn’t adjust for color other than applying skin tone and well, I didn’t see Asian [...]

We’re only a couple months away from prime fund raising season when the naive freshman are lured into call centers with the promise of fee pizza. I’m not sure how they do it but American colleges and Universities are better at keeping up to date on unpublished alumni phone numbers than the government.  I’m guessing [...]

Mima mounds are just one of those landscape features that make most people go ‘hunh’ and move on in the guidebook.  But not everyone.  An article in the Seattle Times regarding the relatively local Mima mounds about new laser studies pointing the cause as glaciers and sun melt also revealed the impassioned opposition – who [...]

There is finally a customer-focused website for space travel, Virgin Galactic, where you can almost do online bookings – it’s a contact form right now. Guessing they don’t think most people have the 20K deposit handy. Do you know which side your glass is frosted on? – it just might be important There’s a free [...]

The World Games are the quirkier sports olympics – and are “under the official patronage of the International Olympic Committee” although I’m not entirely sure what that means.  But for every popular sport that is not allowed into the Olympics, there’s a little more leeway in the World Games, like surfing, and ballroom dancing and [...]