I scan through the Torontoist blog occasionally, and this time I found one of the worst examples of a movie filmed in Toronto and pretending to be New York. If you are familiar with Toronto at all, the stills from the Short Circuit 2 are worth a look. Reel Toronto: Short Circuit 2

It seems like it was a long time ago, far away, when I loaded up my wood paneled space wagon with Amway goods and literature to go on a star-hopping sales trip. Woe was me when I didn’t have a friggin map of the galaxy. I’m all set now. Check it out: Large Version of […]

Scientists have been doing some experiments involving sewer gas and mice. Mice are generally a given, but the sewer gas is interesting. A useful application of this is to protect workers who are exposed to the gas. I am wondering now if there are a lot of instances of sewer cleaners passing out? Seems probable. […]

A friend recently told me about a documentary called Heavy Metal Parking Lot. He had a VHS copy back in the day, and was going to order the newly available DVD. I’ll wait to check it out once he gets the DVD, but for now I would take a browse through the review below. Its […]

I got a big smile from this. via Boing Boing.

I recall a G.I. Joe vs. Transformers comic book from when I was much younger. While trying out Google Spreadsheets, the Technorati API, and the new Google Visualization API, I needed something to work on. So here we have it: the election results as they stand today for G.I. Joe vs. Transformers. Surveying all blogs […]

A British ex-stunt man and current entrepreneur designed and built a Roman style catapult to fling chicken crap at hoodlums who have been vandalizing his businesses. Book of Joe: Beyond Thunderdome — The Rise of ‘Smart Poo via: Boing Boing: Man builds giant chicken manure catapult to battle vandals

Inhabitat has an ineresting article on methane power as a renewable energy source. Apparently, a California utilities company is trying this out. Some of the comments are worth reading as theyu highligh some other places where this has been tried out. I can’t imagine the what the smell would be like… well, I can kind […]

In the wake of the Elliot Spitzer scandal and ultimate resignation, I came across this quote from New York Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson: from NY Times: Reaching Out, Paterson Offers Different Tone And when asked whether he, like Mr. Spitzer, had ever patronized a prostitute, Mr. Paterson could not suppress his trademark dagger wit. […]

Michael Jackson’s Thriller has reached its 25th anniversary, and Sony BMG has prepared a commemorative album to celebrate the milestone. To promote this release, Sony initiated a campaign involving large performances of the zombie dance from the Thriller video. Groups of paid dancers have broken into seemingly impromptu zombie shuffles in undergrounds from London to […]