Interesting Links Archives

April 20, 2018 The Saga of the Industrial Sander
March 1, 2018 "I feel a great disturbance in the force..."
October 14, 2017 On Sobey's Marvel Promotion
October 13, 2017 The Anti Cookie Monster
October 10, 2017 Hell Candy
July 10, 2017 Rope Trick
April 9, 2017 On Kitchener in Bloom
November 8, 2016 When Doves Cry
November 1, 2016 Toronto Timelapse
September 1, 2016 Car Driven by Captain Obvious...
July 31, 2016 The Last Signalmen
July 29, 2016 The Long Game
July 24, 2016 Latest Columns
July 16, 2016 A Thoroughly Optimistic License Plate
June 24, 2016 The Golden Age is Over
June 11, 2016 Octobass
May 31, 2016 Run, Boy, Run!
The Sun Runners Soundtrack
May 10, 2016 Wherein I Show You Another of My Etchings
April 17, 2016 The Search for Planet Nine
March 8, 2016 You Can't Start the Apocalypse in Nunavut
February 27, 2016 Which Way to the Lobby?
February 1, 2016 Yup. That's a Hungry Kitten, All Right
January 20, 2016 Dancer at Downsview
December 24, 2015 The Model Master Work
December 20, 2015 Winter Here, But Not Like Over There
December 13, 2015 Eyebrows Up!
December 9, 2015 My Head, My Shoulders, Knees and Toes
November 23, 2015 Don't Call Me Shirley!
November 13, 2015 4 Mommy
November 1, 2015 Time Lapse
October 19, 2015 We'll Be Singing... We'll Be Winning...
September 16, 2015 The Little Engine that Could
July 28, 2015 On Toplessness
April 2, 2015 Wherein I Show You My Etching...
March 31, 2015 Arkansas Passes Law to Put Humidifiers and Dehumidifiers in the Same Room to Let Them Duke it Out.
March 25, 2015 My Thoughts on the Plot of Frozen Fever
March 24, 2015 What's Happened to Soho?
January 25, 2015 Well! You Don't Say!
January 9, 2015 Fear and Delight
January 5, 2015 A Question...
November 12, 2014 Winter is Coming
October 24, 2014 Believe it or not, these do come in red
August 27, 2014 To the Boys Who May One Day Date My Daughters...
July 21, 2014 On the Nature of Luck
June 18, 2014 OK GO: The Writing's on the Wall
June 5, 2014 Bring Back the Hockey Rover (At least for a tryout)
May 25, 2014 Spot the Assumptions
May 21, 2014 Time
May 12, 2014 Random Thought for the Day
April 14, 2014 How Frozen Should Have Ended
April 2, 2014 You've Come a Long Way, Baby!
March 2, 2014 Hurt
February 1, 2014 Winter, by Tori Amos
December 23, 2013 "Giant Inflatable Santas Unite Neighbourhood's Christmas Spirit"...
November 15, 2013 The Night of the Doctor
November 12, 2013 An Extended Ending for Thor 2
November 10, 2013 Power
October 25, 2013 And Now... A Dose of Perspective
October 2, 2013 Letting Nature Take its Course?
September 5, 2013 100 km long Chinese Traffic Jam Enters Ninth Day
September 2, 2013 Looking Beyond First Impressions
September 1, 2013 Synergy, After Kids Get Through With It
August 22, 2013 Okay, Hands Up if You Think the Fire Hydrant is Sticking Out his Tongue, and Not Blowing his Whistle.
August 4, 2013 Tall, Tall Shadow
July 20, 2013 Clever Vandalism
July 4, 2013 An Educational Toy
June 30, 2013 Okay, I need a big jar and a 50 meter chain of beads, right now.
May 15, 2013 So, This Appeared Over the Skies of Australia...
May 11, 2013 Basia Bulat Covers Bruce Springsteen
May 7, 2013 The Best Thing. Ever. Full Stop.
April 11, 2013 A Poem
April 3, 2013 Promoting Some Interesting Projects
March 28, 2013 Drink Barq's -- root beer so good you might have to call a doctor...
March 3, 2013 Gone With the Wind in 96 Seconds
February 10, 2013 My Blackberry is not Working!
January 31, 2013 Paperman
January 3, 2013 Parental Terms and Conditions
December 27, 2012 Boycotting Boxing Week
October 19, 2012 Mr. Blobby!
October 6, 2012 Now Imagine this Picture Without the Message in the Bottle...
September 26, 2012 You're Flying Mitt Air
September 15, 2012 Oh, the Jobs People Work At...
September 3, 2012 Basia Bulat: It Can't Be You
August 9, 2012 Armpit Candy
August 6, 2012 Doing the Twist
July 22, 2012 The Man I Was - IV
July 14, 2012 Wait, What?
July 8, 2012 Toronto Transit After Hours
July 2, 2012 Happy Canada Day
June 29, 2012 Further Complications
June 7, 2012 Crazy, Crazy People...
May 26, 2012 The Man I Was - III
May 15, 2012 Get Your Motor Running...
May 6, 2012 Skyscrapers
April 18, 2012 Hush
March 28, 2012 A Question of Marketing
March 9, 2012 Holy Cow
March 1, 2012 The Rise and Fall of CN's Turbo
January 23, 2012 Burger King Tells a Whopper
January 21, 2012 Okaaaaay... Go!
January 10, 2012 Tim Hortons Tries to Kill Me
December 7, 2011 Not Entirely Sure How I Feel About This...
September 16, 2011 Dear 1970s: What The Hell Were You Thinking?
April 23, 2011 Don't Forget: Doctor Who Debuts in Canada at 8 p.m. EDT Today...
January 27, 2011 Catapults Brought Into War on Drugs
November 22, 2010 Yes, They Are That Good
November 9, 2010 The Seeds of Doom: Doctor Who's Best Thump
September 22, 2010 OK GO Goes to the Dogs
September 17, 2010 You Know What Idle Hands Are, Don't You?
September 7, 2010 Craftsmanship
July 16, 2010 Random Ideas of Varying Quality.
July 6, 2010 "It's Not Cheap, But I'm Sure the Government Will Buy It"
June 17, 2010 The Old Man Down the Road
May 20, 2010 Ladies and Gentlemen, I Present to You, the Official Mascots of the London 2012 Olympic Games
May 5, 2010 In the "Oh, My God, That's Brilliant!", Department...
April 23, 2010 Bits and Pieces - April 23
March 27, 2010 Hairy Sex for Life!
March 25, 2010 Bad Day at the Office
March 16, 2010 Your Morning Smile
March 11, 2010 Now This Movie Looks Like it Won't Suck...
March 4, 2010 Just a Month to New Doctor Who... in Canada!
March 1, 2010 Preparing for the Invasion
February 14, 2010 Escape Artist
(Icarus Down Passes 45,000 Words)
February 2, 2010 Quick Hits, Groundhog Day
November 24, 2009 In Honour of the Late, Great Freddy Mercury...
November 22, 2009 What if Earth had Rings Like Saturn?
October 16, 2009 And Now For Something Completely Different
October 16, 2009 We Still Have a Lot of Work To Do
October 11, 2009 Synergy
October 3, 2009 Paging Richard Dawkins...
September 1, 2009 Congratulations to Arthur Slade for Gaining a Hunchback
August 5, 2009 In a Handful of Sand
June 26, 2009 Thank You, Globe and Mail
June 15, 2009 Happy Birthday Italy!
June 4, 2009 Where I am Today (metaphorically speaking)
May 3, 2009 Stand By Me All Around the World
April 22, 2009 How Long Does it Take for Suburbs to Disappear?
April 15, 2009 No Limitations Indeed
March 11, 2009 This is Why Road Work Takes So Long to Finish
March 5, 2009 Daleks Discovered in Hampshire Bog
February 23, 2009 Quick Hits - February 23
February 11, 2009 Pride and Prejudice. With Zombies.
February 2, 2009 The Lost Generation Isn't
January 26, 2009 And Thank You Waterloo
January 13, 2009 Where are the Flying Cars? Why, Right Here, of Course!
January 8, 2009 Riding Ghost Buses and Parliamentary Trains
December 31, 2008 The Year of the Possum
December 18, 2008 The Illusion of Permanence in Babies
December 12, 2008 A Local Venture
December 9, 2008 Odds Bods - October 9
October 18, 2008 "From Financial Family Seven, we have the Adherents of the Repeated Meme."
October 8, 2008 Quick Hits -- October 8
October 4, 2008 The Moment I Realized I'd Left Reality and Was Now a Resident of Cloudcookooland IX
September 26, 2008 The People Behind the Politics in the Canadian Blogosphere - Week 3: Comfort Movies
August 30, 2008 Quick Hits -- August 30
August 29, 2008 Offered Without (Much) Comment
August 21, 2008 Charles McVety Embarrasses Christians Everywhere
August 1, 2008 On Irrational Violence
July 22, 2008 Quick Hits - July 22
July 12, 2008 Bouncing off Clouds (This is a fan video?!)
July 10, 2008 "This is not the way to get healthy!" (or secure)
July 1, 2008 Happy 141st Birthday, Canada
May 28, 2008 The Geek Starts Here
May 3, 2008 News From the Face of Boe... er... Bow
April 12, 2008 Your Problem Was that Your Doll was Set to 'Evil'.
April 8, 2008 The Dream King's Daughter Passes 40,000 Words
March 17, 2008 The Shape of Things to Come
March 11, 2008 Bohemian Renaissance
February 23, 2008 Democracy Walks
February 19, 2008 Idiots on Parade
February 10, 2008 Quick Hits -- February 11
February 8, 2008 Hmm...
January 31, 2008 Making PATHs
January 27, 2008 Tim Horton's Exceeds its Mandate
January 23, 2008 Well, That Didn't Go As Well As Planned
January 17, 2008 And the Winner for Best Advertising Prop of 2008 is... A Manilla Envelope?!
December 24, 2007 Calm For Christmas
December 20, 2007 Sex! In! Spaaaace!
November 6, 2007 Controlling Your Destiny
October 25, 2007 The Epic, Fifty Question, Are You a Big Geek, Test
October 22, 2007 The Moment I Realized I'd Left Reality and Was Now a Resident of Cloudcookooland VIII
September 29, 2007 You are *SO* Going to Purgatory!
September 13, 2007 What is Negative Advertising?
September 10, 2007 Quick Hits - September 10
August 17, 2007 I Get Letters...
July 28, 2007 Let Us Not Forget, China is Still a Dictatorship
July 11, 2007 A Long Life, Well Lived. Honest!
(Ed Mirvish, 1914-2007)
July 4, 2007 The Scottish Attack Squirrel of Death
June 29, 2007 The Only Time I Will Ever Use the Words 'Paris' and 'Hilton' in a Post
June 19, 2007 Rise of the Machines, Part II
June 17, 2007 Breech!
June 15, 2007 Perils of Child Rearing that Other Parents See Fit Not to Warn You About
June 10, 2007 Quick Hits - June 10
June 4, 2007 Quick Hits - June 4th
April 20, 2007 There is Writing, and then there is *Writing*
April 10, 2007 What's Black and Blue and Floats in the Gulf of St. Lawrence?
April 3, 2007 An Open Letter to Greg Sorbara and John Tory
March 31, 2007 I'm Just Talking About Washington, Man!
March 20, 2007 Quick Hits - March 20
March 15, 2007 What if Steve Jobs was President... or, What if the President was Steve Jobs
March 12, 2007 Portrait of a Lawsuit Waiting to Happen
March 8, 2007 Quick Hits - March 8
February 28, 2007 Quick Hits - February 28
February 14, 2007 Everything is About to Change?
January 15, 2007 Doctor Who is Back!
January 9, 2007 Poking the Resting Soul of Galileo
December 21, 2006 Talk About a Music Mix
December 7, 2006 A Few Short Words
November 23, 2006 The Greatest Canadian... Blog -- Part III
November 22, 2006 The Rise of the Machines
November 20, 2006 A Bit of Blog Criticism...
November 17, 2006 What the Founding Fathers Were Thinking
October 9, 2006 Jorane: The You and the Now
October 2, 2006 The State of Waterloo's Economy
September 22, 2006 The Long Walk of Ernie Kosanyi
September 11, 2006 Quick Hits - September 11
July 23, 2006 In Praise of Geekery
June 21, 2006 First Steps
June 1, 2006 Quick Hits - June 1
May 18, 2006 Die, Human!!
May 16, 2006 Just Wing It, Baby!
May 12, 2006 A Canadian Blogger in Virtual Texas II
April 23, 2006 The Black Market and Scar Reviewed
January 2, 2006 Quick Hits - January 2
December 12, 2005 I'd like to thank the academy...
December 2, 2005 The Greatest Canadian... Blog -- Part II
November 21, 2005 Letter from the CBC
November 17, 2005 God is a Comedy Writer
October 18, 2005 Google 2084
October 15, 2005 Thirty-Eight Weeks
September 16, 2005 Face Off! (Literally!)
August 25, 2005 Patriotism Really is the Last Refuge of the Scoundrel
August 22, 2005 Yes, We Have No Bananas
July 31, 2005 Interesting creature, the lemming...
June 7, 2005 Welcome Back!
May 23, 2005 Tim Horton Wins
April 18, 2005 When Vesuvius erupted, the people of Pompeii stayed in their homes. How do we know that, Ken?
April 16, 2005 The Stories of the City
April 3, 2005 Kutcher, Hilton star in Casablanca Remake
March 24, 2005 How Very Random
February 20, 2005 Linkages
January 8, 2005 The Perils of Making Champagne Vinegar
January 1, 2005 Voting Now On at 2004 Canadian Blogging Awards
December 21, 2004 The Greatest Canadian... Blog
October 20, 2004 Carnival of the Vanities CIX
October 11, 2004 Americans Need to Take a Deep Breath
August 20, 2004 We Have Met the Enemy And He Is...
August 5, 2004 I Rule the World
July 7, 2004 Creepy Fraud
May 22, 2004 Back to Iraq now Back in Iraq
May 21, 2004 Red Room! Red Room!
May 1, 2004 Spiritbookword
April 29, 2004 Here's Your Flag! Hope You Like It!
April 4, 2004 Creepy
March 26, 2004 Cool James Koole
March 21, 2004 Stephen Harper as Gabbo
March 7, 2004 Economics, the Comic Science
February 20, 2004 Photo of the Day
February 13, 2004 You Can Get Anything You Want...
February 2, 2004 Top Blogs!
January 23, 2004 Guaranteed 14% Less Evil than Rebecca!
January 20, 2004 A - Carnival of the Canucks VI - The Undiscovered Country
January 20, 2004 B - Carnival of the Canucks VI - The Weather
January 20, 2004 C - Carnival of the Canucks VI - Second Half
January 7, 2004 Carnival of the Scribes II
January 6, 2004 Carnival of the Scribes
December 16, 2003 Important Books
November 22, 2003 Blogs About Fiction? Meet Fictional Blogs II
November 1, 2003 We Were Promised Flying Cars
October 27, 2003 Night and Day
October 13, 2003 That's What It's All About...
October 11, 2003 Angel Two For Two
October 7, 2003 In the Year 2525
October 6, 2003 Winners of the IgNobel
October 1, 2003 Disco Isn't Dead...
September 25, 2003 Really Interesting Things
September 17, 2003 Why Proofreading Is Hard
September 15, 2003 Reptilian Kitten-Eaters are People Too!
September 9, 2003 Notes on my Desk
August 21, 2003 Environmental News
July 10, 2003 By Far, the Funniest Thing I've Ever Seen Anywhere in the Blogosphere...
June 5, 2003 Ghost For Sale!
May 2, 2003 Would You Like a Piece of Me?
March 30, 2003 Just Wait Till the Shareholder Meeting...
February 15, 2003 Writing News (Not Mine)
January 15, 2003 Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here
December 15, 2002 ***big dreamy smile***
December 9, 2002 Got AOL CDs?
November 30, 2002 More Weird Google Searches
November 22, 2002 Incoming!!!
November 21, 2002 Everybody Else is Googlizing, So Why Can't I?
November 19, 2002 Universal Disaster Predicted! Film at 11.
November 14, 2002 A Quick Hello!
November 9, 2002 There's No Way that Paper Can Beat Rock!
November 8, 2002 Another Microsoft "Switch" Ad?
November 7, 2002 A sign of the apocalypse?
October 4, 2002 Language is a Virus (--William S. Burroughs)
September 5, 2002 Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear
September 2, 2002 Is It Not Nifty?
August 24, 2002 Some Odds and Ends
July 24, 2002 Hail Caesar!
July 23, 2002 Blogs About Fiction? Meet Fictional Blogs
July 10, 2002 Not My Photos, But...
June 5, 2002 Google Search Results
June 1, 2002 *blink* ... *blink* ... *blink*
May 14, 2002 Hi, Chas!
May 8, 2002 Busy Stuffy Buffy
April 8, 2002 Worship the Comic
April 4, 2002 To My Dying Days
March 6, 2002 Dumb Quizzes