There’s a new entrant on the blogging scene. Brimming with fresh ideas to add to the ever-growing population of Internet users (currently estimated at 1.4 billion), it will be well worth checking out regularly. Not a rival, but a compatriot in generating astute observations (with the subtlest hint of sarcasm), be sure to visit him when you can to get [...]
I rarely buy the Toronto Sun newspaper, but I just had to get it last week, after seeing what was displayed on the front page. I actually did a double-take, walked back to the vending machine, and got myself a copy. It was really more out of morbid fascination that they would actually depict such a story on the front [...]
I wrote previously about the idea of the electric car, citing such documentaries as ‘Who Killed the Electric Car’ (here), and discussing the work of manufacturer Tesla Motors (here). Here is some additional info on this interesting field that I learned recently. After all, it would be nice to get away – at a reasonable price - from the [...]
I finished a novel last year by well-known thriller author, Michael Crichton (famous for ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘The Andromeda Strain’), called State of Fear. While the 1200+ reader reviews at the Amazon.com site I linked to are quite varied, the main intent of the book was certainly to make you think, amidst the whirlwind story which surrounds the ideas presented within. [...]
As they say, history repeats itself. Looking south upon U.S. presidential nomination politics - particularly with Barack Obama’s fresh win in the Mississippi primary - perhaps this truism is about to showcase itself once again in the coming years.
Let us return to the twentieth century. In 1968, Richard Nixon, the Republican Party’s nominee, was elected as the president of the United States. He later obtained his second term when [...]
Just like most people on our planet, I have previously heard the song ‘Wind of Change‘ by German rock band The Scorpions. However, until I happened to follow a link to its music video just recently - and then saw it for the very first time with its backdrop of actual world events footage - I did not realize that it had [...]
In younger days, I enjoyed regularly poring over the tales found in the amusing, innocent Archie Comics, and delighting in the various antics of the Riverdale gang. Out of nostalgia, I looked this series up on the Internet recently, and from what I saw, the series is still going quite strong, with a still-dizzying array of spin-off and crossover editions, as shown by most grocery store [...]
Nearly all editions of the Holy Bible will order its individual books in the standard way: starting at the Old Testament, it will include the five books of the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, etc.), the twelve historical books (Joshua, 1 Samuel, etc.), the five books of writings (Psalms, Ecclesiastes, etc.), and the seventeen books of the prophets (Isaiah, [...]
I think I’ve unintentionally ruffled a few feathers with regards to my recent observations about graffiti found in the Sudbury area. In the last little while, I have received three comments – each fairly lengthy - on my October 2007 post, ‘Graffiti Repeaty‘. Click on that article and scroll down to the bottom to see the comments – they are worth reading.
Apparently, [...]
Is it any surprise that the CNN website would have a main news article promoting a sale at mega-retailer Wal-Mart?
Wal Mart Chops Prices in Bid to Boost Shopping
Although presented as matter-of-fact, it’s obvious that this scoop’s last paragraph of sample prices came straight out of an advertisement, which is exactly what this “newsworthy” article amounts to (besides the fact that [...]