Nunc Scio

Yar, it be time for some links, matey. And rum. Don’t forget the rum.

Toronto

• The economic crisis may put recycling plants out of business. Goodbye green bins.

Canada

• No more flavoured cigarillos for us. I guess that’s bad in the abstract.

World

• A Wal-Mart employee was trampled and killed by a crazed mob of Black Friday shoppers. Way to go, America.
• “An eye-for-an-eye” justice is alive and well in Iran. Literally.
• Fighting continues in Mumbai, the Bangkok airport is still closed, and Somali pirates just seized a chemical tanker. Terrific.
• Greenland is now independent from Denmark. The Danes seem oddly non-plussed to lose a giant, frozen hunk of…oh, right.
• The world’s first credit crunch. It’s 88BC, and someone’s foreclosing on your romanesque villa.
• The Australian army accidentally tear-gassed two schools.

Pop Culture

• New York’s Thanksgiving Parade gets rickrolled. He’s a good sport, isn’t he?

• Are you  fierce individualist? You might just like beer.
• The world’s oldest person has relinquished her title.
• Studies reveal women will be sympathetic to a sick man for about five minutes. That long?
• Scientists have calculated the fastest possible time for a human to run the 100m: 9.48 seconds.