You might remember when Astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper lost her toolkit while fixing the International Space Station. Well, the wayward tools are now in orbit, and visible through a telescope: The space shuttle goes about 17,500 miles per hour in orbit, so that’s a good ballpark estimate for the current speed of the toolkit. To wit: [...]
As the old saying goes, Wednesday’s child is full of woe. But is it? Is it really? Let’s find out. Canada Caledon, ON may take a pony away from a kid with Cerebral Palsy. Man, everyone’s hatin’ on sick kids these days. World Flying in to, or out of, Bangkok? Good luck. Japanese zookeepers finally [...]
This is too disgusting for words. Almost. The Carleton University Students Association (CUSA) has cancelled Shinerama, an annual fundraiser for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Why? …the motion read that orientation week strives to be inclusive and volunteers should feel like their fundraising efforts are serving a diverse community. However, the motion went on to [...]
If any of you are looking for a last minute birthday gift for your favourite recalcitrant blogger, may I suggest the following: Awesome. I could stay warm and fight crime. My two favourite things!
The shrieking death harpie of the far-right, aka Ann Coulter, broke her jaw recently. It is now wired shut, and she can’t talk. Saints be praised! How I’ve prayed for this day. I declare an international holiday. Her crazy views and obnoxious man-voice will trouble us no more. Or at least for the length of [...]
It’s my birthday. How will the world celebrate? Canada Last week’s Prairie meteor was a ten-tonne asteroid fragment. That’s like four Hummers, except way faster and more exploding. World The Kuwaiti government just resigned. That’s right, the whole thing. Remember when the Indian Navy said they sunk that “Pirate Mothership”? Not so much. Russia and [...]
And they made an ad about it, complete with bad production values and embarassingly rigid acting: Yes, thank you Sarah Palin. Thanks for speaking to the lowest common denominator and making dumb people feel better about themselves.