OK. Say you’re Friedrich Wilhelm I, and your super good buddy Tsar Peter the Great has a birthday coming up. So what do you get him? Maybe an impossibly ornate room made totally out of amber, which in 1716 is 10 times more expensive than gold? Sure! Why the hell not. Here’s another one. [...]
First off, let me apologize for the lack of blogging on Nunc Scio in the last couple days…I’ve been busily completing a few projects over at blogTO. The latest is a little history of some pretty monumental Toronto fires- The Battle of York (1813), University College (1890), The Great Fire of Toronto (1904) and [...]
I’ve got another theatre review up over on blogTO, this time about Royal Porcupine Production’s No Exit. Not the best show, but interesting enough to check out. Anyway, let me know what you think of the review of you get a chance.
If you’re a higher primate with a pulse, you probably saw Sarah Silverman’s hilarious “I’m F*cking Matt Damon” on Jimmy Kimmel Live, basically the funniest ‘and now you’re a cuckold’ video in the history of television (if you’re wondering, there are four others). Not to be outdone, Jimmy has produced a ribald riposte titled (and [...]
Good morning! And what better way to start your day than with a little censorship of the Interwebs? It’s better than coffee and easier to digest than a breakfast pattie. Pakistan, notable for its longstanding love-affair with military dictatorship and blowing up opposition leaders, has barred its citizens from accessing YouTube, aka the most efficient [...]
How’s that old saying go? Something about already being dead, but too stupid to lie down? Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, Al Gore spoiler and George Bush enabler has announced that yes, he will indeed be seeking the presidency in 2008. Somewhere in the distance, cue the sound of a single mournful trombone.
If you’re a US Air Force accountant, congratulations- your head just exploded. A B-2 Spirit bomber has reportedly crashed at a US airbase in Guam. The good news is that the pilots are both OK. The bad news is that a B-2 bomber is, at least from a taxpayer perspective, the last thing you want [...]