Astronaut nearly drowned — in space!
Luca Parmitano, Italy’s first spacewalker, apparently nearly drowned — while he was in the middle […]
Christine Stevens’ Lego leg
Wow! Just wow! When clinical occupational therapist Christine Stevens was changing the brakes on her […]
Canadian forces — who says you can’t turn back the clock?
Canadian defence minister Peter ‘Top Gun’ MacKay says the army will henceforth use the Maple […]
The world according to ‘Blue Coat’ — mapping global censorship and surveillance: Redux
Recently, Canada’s Citizen Lab once again led the way in pinpointing countries it said are […]
Emergency! Bees need help!
It’s an apparently innocuous term: colony collapse. But what it means is ‘Death to Bees’ […]
Slowing down, dammit!
Hi all: From this point on, there’ll be fewer posts than hitherto. I launched Dammit […]
Canadiana — to be privately owned?
According to the Ottawa Ctizen, Library and Archives Canada has brokered a secret deal with […]
To ‘Tweet’ has entered the English Language : and that’s official!
“The act of tweeting — that is, posting to Twitter — is now formally recognized […]
Cheap plastic handgun made with cheap 3D printer shoots 9 bullets, doesn’t melt
The beginning of the end? or the beginning of the beginning? “This handgun was printed […]
McDonald’s and plastic payments
My first post of the day centered on the tale of single Pennsylvania mom Natalie […]
