How to Make your own annotated multimedia Google map : Engadget

HOW-TO: Make your own annotated multimedia Google map - Engadget - www.engadget.com /
This would be a cool way to do the literary map of Toronto (or the odd animal memorials)

Harper's Magazine: The radioactive boy scout

A flashback! Great article from the archives.

Big Things, Community Monuments in Canada

OK, the list below is the ones I've actually seen:

http://www.bigthings.ca/ontario/colborne.html
http://www.bigthings.ca/ontario/echobay.html
http://www.bigthings.ca/ontario/ganan.html
http://www.bigthings.ca/ontario/kapusk.html
http://www.bigthings.ca/ontario/kenora.html
http://www.bigthings.ca/ontario/niagara.html
http://www.bigthings.ca/ontario/st_thomas.html
http://www.bigthings.ca/ontario/portstan.html
http://www.bigthings.ca/ontario/wawa.html
http://www.bigthings.ca/manitoba/gimli.html
http://www.bigthings.ca/ontario/whiter.html
http://www.bigthings.ca/newbruns/shediac.html
http://www.bigthings.ca/alberta/canmore.html
http://www.bigthings.ca/alberta/vegreville.html
http://www.bigthings.ca/alberta/drumhell.html

Fire from a can of Coke and a chocolate bar

Brilliant!

Essay: We'll Map Manhattan (North)

A great idea - it'd be fascinating to see if such a map could be created for Toronto. Hyperlinked between the text under discussion and the physical environment. For instance, the "unfloored high windows" overlooking "filter pools four feet deep, languid, reflective as medieval water gardens."

bah

So I'm watching the Heat / Nets game on and off, hoping against hope that there's some way they can both lose. Everytime Zo comes on and pretends to be a tough, 'character' player, I flash back to his failure to report or play for two teams that clearly needed him this winter - ironically NJ and of course, our (C)raptors. Then again, I see VC and think, well, perhaps there's some way they both lose. It's unlikely, but that would be my ideal vision for this match-up.

Anyway, Zo tripped and fell on Dwayne Wade and looked for a moment like he was injured, so my hopes went up. Alas, no. He was just pulling a Carter - which is a way of plagiarizing Italian soccer players - writhing in pain after contact.

Global Warming :: The New Yorker

"In the same way that global warming has gradually ceased to be merely a theory, so, too, its impacts are no longer just hypothetical. Nearly every major glacier in the world is shrinking; those in Glacier National Park are retreating so quickly it has been estimated that they will vanish entirely by 2030. The oceans are becoming not just warmer but more acidic; the difference between day and nighttime temperatures is diminishing; animals are shifting their ranges poleward; and plants are blooming days, and in some cases weeks, earlier than they used to. These are the warning signs that the Charney panel cautioned against waiting for, and while in many parts of the globe they are still subtle enough to be overlooked, in others they can no longer be ignored. As it happens, the most dramatic changes are occurring in those places, like Shishmaref, where the fewest people tend to live. This disproportionate effect of global warming in the far north was also predicted by early climate models, which forecast, in column after column of fortran-generated figures, what today can be measured and observed directly: the Arctic is melting."

I'll find some pictures that I have of cdn glaciers to illustrate this point. Granted, my geologist dad thinks lots of it is hokum, and points to the palliser triangle as evidence that these things regularly go haywire - because our timeframes aren't geological - they're much shorter. That said, I'd still like to climb Kilimanjaro while there are still glaciers on it.

Don Mills Bus RT Proposal :: Andrew Spicer

So much for urban mountain biking...

One for PJ, SI and DP

How to make glassy buttons easier/faster/cheaper.

Free Music Downloads :: Amazon

Well this is cool.

How to Start a Vegetable Garden :: eHow.com

For Wallis Minor, who asked me this exact question two weeks ago.

RaptorBlog.com offers up a painful metaphor on the season

"I breathe a sigh of relief at the end of another torturous season for Raptors fans. This is the third season I've run this blog, and none of those Raptors teams have have even sniffed the panties of a sexy playoff berth. No, we're sitting in a tree across the street, watching the playoffs through binoculars as we break open a fresh bottle of hand lotion. It's a lonely existence, but at least we're moisturized."

The Official Shotgun Rules

Really, it speaks for itself. But where was this when I needed it - 20 years ago?

It's the end of the world...

How to destroy the world (and not just the people on it) !?!

Bah!

First flat of the season. On the fourth ride of the season (but on the second day of biking to work in a row!)

Wards Island Disc Golf Map :: Delta Tango Bravo

Hey,
Now this is a useful map, esp. given the meanderings of the course across the trees, trail and itself. Thanks to Delta Tango Bravo for drawing and posting!

What PJ was up to on Sunday instead of canoeing. 

Looks like the water levels peaked this weekend 

Submerged signs always amuse me... 

No parking! 

...and you will know us by the trail of dead (maples)

Some basic guidance - to be augmented by SI's GPS/topo map combo.

None shall pass!

We tried to get to the Nottawasaga from the blue heron colony. Alas, getting there with dry feet would be tricky as the river bank was higher than the swamp.

More than just stick figures

The blue heron colony - (shots from my SLR to follow).

Zoicks!!!

This is far funnier without a caption...






(...SI solidifying chocolates bars the hard way :)

Walking on water

The water levels were at least 8-12 inches higher than we've seen in the past two trips in other years. (This photo from today is basically the same place as the previous one below - but with a grackle instead).

Then and now

The water levels from 2002 (well, and a muskrat)

Willow Creek

Near the beginning of Willow Creek

Multitasking is important... 

Early April, but on the water!

Saturday after playing ultimate at Hart House - thanks Noah for organizing!

Cherry Beach, April 10th

It's Minesing time!

Wertheim on Tennis

"I thought I'd pass on this great tennis-related Mitch Hedberg line: 'The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how much I play, I'll never be as good as a wall. I played a wall once. They're relentless.'"