In addition to being the kick-ass lead singer for a kick-ass band, Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is also a certified airline pilot. He flies Boeing 757s for charter company Astraeus, and also flies his bandmates around in a custom-painted jet. And last week, when airline XL went bust stranding thousands of passengers, Dickinson flew [...]
As the rational world gears up to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth (February 12, 2009…mark your calendars now!), the Church of England is apologizing to the storied naturalist for gettin’ all up in his grill about evolution. The apology, to be published on a C of E website that actually promotes Darwin’s [...]
You know things have gotten bad when the United States, king of all political dysfunction, starts pointing out the flaws in your political system. An article published today in Slate Magazine wonders what happened to the “nice” Canada of yore. It lists a slough of factors- most notably, our unstable, CPC-led minority governments- for undermining [...]
You’ve probably seen this already, but it’s just too good to leave alone: “I need to know if she believes dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago, because she’ll have the nuclear codes.” Well put, Damon.
Thanks to a very dedicated UFO buff with an ear for catchy tunes, here’s a video of just about every (alleged) UFO photo taken between 1870 and 2008: Now, this is either evidence of a vast alien conspiracy, or the finest collection of flying pie plates and mens’ haberdashery in Internet history. Although I will [...]
Good Magazine has put together a nifty graphic that charts the amount of time an average citizen spends in traffic every year. It then expresses that time as the number of times you could get through War and Peace, Wagner’s Ring Cycle or the Lord of the Rings trilogy in the same period. Click here for the [...]
This entry is cross-posted with blogTO. Up until this Tuesday, I knew exactly three things about Norway. 1) Vikings come from there. 2) My friend Magnus lives there. Sadly, he is not a Viking. 3) It has fjords. And presumably Fords, although that’s far less interesting from a tourism perspective. But thanks to Theatre Smash‘s [...]