On This Day

July 2, 1937: Earhart Vanishes Over the Pacific:

"At 8:43 a.m. local time, the Coast Guard cutter Itasca, steaming off Howland Island, receives this faint transmission from Amelia Earhart: 'KHAQQ calling Itasca. We must be on you but cannot see you -- but gas is running low….'

She vanishes along with her navigator, Fred Noonan, into the Central Pacific, and they're never heard from again."

It's a good time to repost this:

Polygamist fashions

Polygamists offer prairie fashions for sale

These just might cover up some of those minor flaws I've been fretting about.
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Frankenmeat

Would you eat lab grown meat?
I'd probably try it. The anti-cruelty aspect appeals to me.



Via clusterflock

My stuff

I've added a set of some of the original art I've accumulated to Flickr. The photography is atrocious but you get the idea. None of it is worth much monetarily but I'm attached to it. I have a lot more but some are too large to take off the wall and in some cases the glare made it impossible to take photos.

Buddha Project

Lensculture's Buddha Project encourages people worldwide to participate by submitting photos of found Buddha, sacred Buddha, ancient Buddha, kitschy Buddha, handmade Buddha. What an impressive collection!

Etymologic

Etymologic
It can't be that tough, I got 9 out of 10.
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Amnesty International Olympic Ad Campaign

After the Olympic Games, the fight for human rights must go on.

Swimming

One of a series of Amnesty International ads designed by advertising agency TBWA\Paris, France.
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Canadians rule at nude gaming!

Poll finds number of Canadians playing video games naked. Having known many gamers, I've always harboured a suspicion that this might be the case. I'm just surprised the number isn't higher.


Totally appropriate cartoon Via EmoBoy.

Cake! Cake! Cake!

Giant Canada Day cake:

"It's the hours leading up to Canada Day which the staff at Willow Cakes and Pastry enjoy the most.

It's that time of the year where they help bake and assemble a four-foot by eight-foot birthday cake that will be consumed by several hundred people on Canada Day.

The cake is part of the 'giant cakewalk,' one of the highlights of the July 1 festivities. It's so integral that the cake is loaded on the back of a truck and paraded down Queen Street to Simcoe Park."

One Canada Day, when I worked for a local MPP, I helped cut and serve one of these giant cakes. It was a little like being in a Mexican nightclub fire where people are trampled to death in a race for the exit. Only this was a race for sugary goodness. You'd think these folks were the last survivors of some horrible famine. Every fibre of their being was focused on getting that little square of red and white cake into their bellies. I was terrified by the desperately demented look in their eyes as they swarmed me and I never participated in this event again.

Canada Day is bad for the Nag's fragile self esteem

I'm ready to crawl back into my igloo with a litre of maple syrup and a kilo of back bacon to soothe my battered ego, eh?

Take the Canada Day Quiz
I hope you beat me. I got 6 wrong! And on Canada Day, too.

I'm a glutton for punishment. I didn't do so well at this Canadan Movie Quiz either.

I bombed at this Mensa quiz too.

I didn't even bother doing this Canadian Sports Trivia quiz.

I was so depressed. Then I googled Canadian literature quizzes and aced em all!
(this one, this one, this and this)