Bryan Adams sings about a deranged leader’s pattern of executive actions to rename major geographic features and bodies of water.
Monday, November 02, 2026
Uranium Prospecting Fashions for the Family
The good old days days when looking stylish was more important than fretting about pesky radiation exposure.
Don’t Eat It
How Wildwood Was Made
This behind the scenes featurette of the making of the film Wildwood provides an understanding of the time-consuming attention to detail that is required to put a stop-motion animation film together.
Sunday, November 01, 2026
Sunday Links
Sorry for the late Halloween links here. All week I thought today was October 31 and when I checked in this morning I got a surprise. Yikes!
Creepy Doll “It’s got a ruined eye that’s always open.” Thanks for the link Marco.
Trump denies writing 2036-volume comic titled Don And Jeff : Time Pedophiles
This Prostitute Set tells a story of glamour, temptation, deception, and self-preservation. Via Messy Nessy
100 Objects #22 In 1998, the recording industry was thriving. But the company pressing more compact discs than anyone else in America wasn’t a record label…
Before the polio vaccine lots of people got the disease Here are some poliomyelitis survivors whose names you may recognize
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Halloween Horror Poems
How far from shore can a kangaroo swim? Probably further than you thought.
Sure, vote (an oldie but still à propos)
The Unread turns your unread emails into zombies to kill
This is a good one from Jeb’s Jukebox: ‘Every Now And Then I Have To Cry’. (A repost from 2018)
This guy found a solution to high rents in Vancouver.
A gondola system to get rid of mice
Canada’s Eurovision 2027 finalists have been revealed. They hail from across the country, British Columbia to New Brunswick.
Kudos to the post office for delivering this letter in a timely fashion
Artificial Intelligence Still Needs Human Supervision
Saturday, October 31, 2026
Time Change
Feed your pet an hour early 🐈 #pet #cat #dog #catlife #doglife #fish #wintertime #timeshift #timechange
— Stuff I found (@stuffifound.politicalmemes.org) October 25, 2026 at 6:27 AM
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The Thing on the Fourble Board
This radio horror story is perfect for Halloween. A worker on a deep-drilling oil rig finds that something has found its way up the well - something that can't be seen.
Via Memo Of The Air
Friday, October 30, 2026
Bad Week
Donna, my new Facebook friend, shared this hilarious post. She found my wallet outside the Big Red Market in Thorold where I’d dropped it, and turned it in. She also asked friends on a St. Catharines Community Group if anyone knew me. My friend Sean notified me that it had been found and I picked it up. I was very grateful to Donna because I’d had to change all my credit cards when I moved. Shortly after that I lost my wallet and had to change everything again. It was such a relief to have someone go the extra mile to reach out to me and an example of how FB can still perform a valuable community function, despite Zuckerberg. (After hearing this my sister bought me a wallet on a chain to attach to my purse.) Anyhow read this story about someone else’s bad week, it’s brilliant.
The Nag According to AI - I Got a Kick Out Of This
I’ve been doing this for a very long time and sometimes I feel like I’m blogging into a void but apparently someone’s been keeping tabs on my feeble efforts. Mark, a follower and occasional commenter on NOTL, decided on a whim to have AI check me out. The question he asked was “Who writes Nag On The Lake?” and this is what came up (I cut out some redundancies):
- Origin & Name (2005)
Marilyn Bellamy started the blog in while living in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario (hence the wordplay "Nag on the Lake"). Initially, the blog mixed regional happenings from her "Old Town" neighborhood with interesting tidbits she found online. Over time, the hyper-local updates faded, and the blog fully transitioned into a pure daily link-sharing site.
- The Early Years: Bellamy started blogging as a way to compile personal internet discoveries. The site quickly grew a dedicated following among people who loved quirky, thoughtful, and aesthetic media long before algorithmic social feeds took over.
- The "Nag" Persona: The blog features lighthearted running jokes about the "Nag" persona (Bellamy) and her husband, affectionately dubbed "Mr. Nag". This gave the site a cozy, personal, and highly human touch that set it apart from corporate content aggregators.
- Longevity and Community: Over more than two decades online, the blog has built a collaborative community, frequently exchanging links and shout-outs with classic curation mainstays like Neatorama and Everlasting Blort. Today, it remains one of the few surviving independent "link blogs" from the mid-2000s era that still updates daily.
- The history of Nag on the Lake is closely tied to the golden age of independent internet curation. Launched on Blogspot, it grew from a hyper-local diary into a widely respected hub for global internet oddities.
The Golden Age Of Link Blogging
During the late 2000s and early 2010s, "link blogging" was a thriving ecosystem. Blogs like Nag on the Lake, Neatorama, The Presurfer, and Everlasting Blort served as human-curated filters for the web before algorithms and social media timelines took over. Bellamy built a reputation for finding deeply fascinating, non-viral content, focusing on: Vintage photography and forgotten historical archives, short independent films and animation, quirky art installations and architecture.
Longevity
While the vast majority of mid-2000s blogs have gone dark or transitioned to social media channels, Nag on the Lake remains entirely active. It stands as one of the longest-running, continuously updated independent link directories on the internet, maintaining its classic Blogspot layout and daily posting schedule for two decades.
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