Category Archives: Life

NORAD Santa Tracker 2008

So where is the big guy right now?  Why not check with the folks at NORAD, they’ve got all kinds of fancy radar equipment for monitoring North American airspace; he’ll be taking off from Northern Canada soon since the feds have reaffirmed his Canadian citizenship the other day.
NORAD TRACKS SANTA 2008.

Ottawa library offers e-books to armchair borrowers

Ottawa library offers e-books to armchair borrowers.

Peak-hour speed 31kmh

Peak-hour speed 31kmh – National – smh.com.au.
Sydney traffic is this bad.
M5 (the Motorway from my house to the CBD) – peak hour average speed: 34km/h

Liverpool mill workers hit with 5-week shutdown

Liverpool mill workers hit with 5-week shutdown.
In case you don’t know, this mill put food on my table for the first 20 or more years of my life (well, actually it wasn’t so much the mill as my father working at the mill…but you got my point I hope)
My thoughts are with the employees, and [...]

Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede

Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede.

Tibetan glaciers rapidly melting

Tibetan glaciers rapidly melting (ABC News in Science).
Distressing news.  Unbelievable people can still deny the climate change.

Indian space agency Isro to roll out a rival to Google Earth

Indian space agency Isro to roll out a rival to Google Earth – Times Online.
And yet another pointless failure is planned.  What’s the point of this?  I don’t get it.  Why start from 4 years behind working on a Google Earth clone “with an Indian focus”.  Is Google Earth really that Ameri-centric?  It’s a map.  [...]

Barge with 70,000 litres of fuel in tank sinks off N.S.

globeandmail.com: Barge with 70,000 litres of fuel in tank sinks off N.S.
Update: Aircraft monitors site of barge sinking

McDonald’s sued over nude photos

McDonald’s sued over nude photos

Put granny in the pool to solve housing shortage

Put granny in the pool to solve housing shortage – National – smh.com.au.
April 1st came early this year.  Obviously this is a joke.