I like football. And while the CFL isn’t bad, it lacks the glamour and glitz of its big cousin to the south. So I was excited when I heard the Buffalo Bills would be playing a few exhbition and regular season games in Toronto. Until I saw the price tag. Tickets are averaging $200 a [...]
Growing up as a radical mountain-biking dude (read: an awkward teen who desperately wanted to be a radical, mountian-biking dude), I always though road biking was just a bunch of weird guys with shaved legs, wearing bright colours and grimacing with exertion. And yes, road biking is all of those things. But when it comes [...]
Eternal vigilance is the price of preventing a zombie apocalypse. Nunc Scio takes this mission very seriously, and endeavours to bring you the most timely and informative zombie news around the world. Today’s tidbit: seafloor microbes that expend so little energy, they are really, to quote Wired, “more undead than alive“. The ocean floor gets [...]
When journalism and a poor grasp of libertarian theory combine: Anarchists’ gathering surprisingly organized Genius. The reporter went for the big gag there, and I commend him. But as we all know, or at least should know, anarchism isn’t the absense of order. It’s a political system where everyone takes responsibility for decision making and [...]
You’d think with the crumbling economy, disastrous foreign wars and impending climate calamity, Americans would have more important things to worry about than their local Starbucks franchise. And you would be wrong. The chattering classes are up in arms over Starbucks’ plans to close 600 stores. Turns out, the recent economic downturn has not been [...]
It is as close to an inviolable universal law as you can get: if you want to make something better, just add Star Wars. Holiday specials. George Lucas. My 14th birthday party. And now, so called ‘great’ art. Yes, over at Worth1000, there is an epic photoshop contest to take famour paintings and sculptures and [...]