1st
05:16 pm

[PHOTO] Happy New Year!



09:36 pm

[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] On the mechanics of the stellified Jupiter in Clarke's 2010



11:56 pm

[H&F] On the singularity, the real one (1)



2nd
04:44 pm

[PHOTO] New Year's Day, 2011



06:22 pm

[H&F] On the new singularity, the real one (2)



07:54 pm

[FORUM] Are we heading for an era of ubiquitous minor miracles?



3rd
01:48 am

[PHOTO] Store, Hallam and Concord



11:12 am

[META] Blogroll update



03:36 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



04:50 pm

[H&F] "In Defense of Vacation"



06:20 pm

[LINK] "Everything's Better and Nobody's Happy"



07:52 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Two Toronto Public Library notes



11:50 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Why light rail, even without the romance of subways, is the way to go for Toronto



4th
02:08 am

[PHOTO] The former Zelda's



09:19 am

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



01:23 pm

[LINK] Canada's own space toys



04:52 pm

[LINK] "Tunisia's protest wave: where it comes from and what it means"



06:03 pm

[LINK] "Give Us This Day Our Weekly Drone"



06:50 pm

[LINK] "Information doesn't want to be free, people do"



07:38 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Eglinton Transit City Line may survive"



11:06 pm

[DM] "On the migration-as-invasion motif"



5th
05:16 am

[PHOTO] CN Tower from Queen and McCaul



06:55 am

[CAT] Shakespeare in front of the webcam



09:44 am

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



12:22 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On the early search for extrasolar planets



04:10 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On the decline of queer churches



05:29 pm

[LINK] "The Land Beneath the Waves"



06:33 pm

[LINK] "Hits, Misses, and Delusions"



07:49 pm

[LINK] "Clever Crows Use Tools in New Way"



10:12 pm

[DM] "Some maps and some transitions"



6th
02:27 am

[PHOTO] Massey Hall, 178 Victoria Street



07:47 am

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



09:04 am

[LINK] "Is the phrase the "war on the car" a Toronto thing?"



01:13 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "An Empress Hotel Mystery"



04:00 pm

[LINK] "The Lost Canadians"



05:09 pm

[LINK] On the Dawn probe and its Vesta visit



06:50 pm

[H&F] "200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes"



10:43 pm

[MUSIC] Scissor Sisters, "Invisible Light"



7th
01:47 pm

[PHOTO] Graffiti-ish, 559 Bloor Street West



05:21 pm

[DM] "Go to the Naked Anthropologist"



08:03 pm

[LINK] "NYE in gay Taipei"



11:59 pm

[H&F] Hockey: Canada's national game?



8th
06:04 pm

[FORUM] What is it about sports and you?


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10th
10:45 am

[PHOTO] Old in new, 1 Bedford Road



11th
02:03 am

[PHOTO] Between old and new, Royal Conservatory of Music



08:54 am

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



10:59 am

[URBAN NOTE] The city budget: not as bad as feared



12:39 pm

[LINK] "Queen West as a video game"



03:26 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On how the TTC's safe from fare increases, so far



03:47 pm

[LINK] "Dutch cabinet considering training mission in Afghanistan"



07:00 pm

[LINK] "Trees and Forests – Deranged Individuals and Seditious Movements"



10:51 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] Are we ready to meet with alien intelligences?



12th
06:27 am

[PHOTO] Looking east, Bay and Bloor



02:04 pm

[LINK] "Lemur See, Lemur Do: Lower Primates Show Glimmer of Culture"



03:56 pm

[LINK] "Scattered thoughts about the Dubai project"



04:23 pm

[LINK] "Couple says toxic gas leaks caused by project under land"



08:04 pm

[LINK] "The Real-Life District 9—Class and Sci-Fi in South Africa"



09:32 pm

[LINK] "Orcus and Vanth"



13th
03:03 am

[PHOTO] Undone wall



01:00 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



03:57 pm

[MUSIC] Casey Spooner, "Faye Dunaway"



05:43 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On Zellers



08:23 pm

[LINK] "China versus world"



09:39 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On the latest "embarrassment" involving the RCMP in British Columbia



11:59 pm

[LINK] "Once upon a time ... the technologies of the past"



14th
01:14 am

[LINK] "So you found something cool on the Internet ..."



09:10 am

[PHOTO] Pigeons by the school fence



11:45 am

[BLOG] Some Friday links



02:01 pm

[LINK] "The Anomalous Success of Luxembourg"



03:58 pm

[LINK] "The Pleasure Periphery - Rules Are for The Natives"



04:16 pm

[DM] "Astrology and birth rates in East Asia"



06:20 pm

[LINK] "Is Canadian Sovereignty at Risk by a Lack of an Indigenous Satellite Launch Capability?"



09:13 pm

[LINK] "To the roots of geek culture"



10:46 pm

[H&F] "One note on the decline of homophobia"



11:56 pm

[DM] "Why did Tunisia revolt? Too-deferred dreams"



15th
11:45 am

[PHOTO] Railway bridge, Dupont and Dovercourt



11:53 pm

[FORUM] How does your language vary from the standard?



16th
01:42 pm

[PHOTO] Hello Kitty, Dupont and Dovercourt



06:06 pm

[PHOTO] Me, webcammed 16 January 2011



06:15 pm

[FORUM] Do you think South Sudan will start a cascade reaction of separatism?



17th
12:57 am

[PHOTO] "Boring", Dupont and Dovercourt



12:00 pm

[LINK] "A Renewed Concern: Flares and Astrobiology"



03:23 pm

[LINK] "The Ghost Rockets'



03:46 pm

[LINK] "The Phasing out of Chinese 'Dialects'"



07:07 pm

[LINK] "An Act to Provide for the Prohibition of Certain Public Gatherings"



08:30 pm

[LINK] "Gay Sports Bars Tap a Growing Market"



18th
01:42 am

[PHOTO] Acores and Minho, Toronto



10:59 am

[URBAN NOTE] Judy Tak Fong Lam Chiu:Toronto::Kitty Genovese:New York City?



11:54 am

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



01:30 pm

[CAT] "Sal the Cat summoned for jury service... and court rules he 'must attend'"


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04:25 pm

[LINK] "Misery in Haiti"



04:43 pm

[LINK] "Should Microstates Have Standing?"



08:01 pm

[LINK] "Does Gliese 581g exist?"



10:57 pm

[LINK] "Downbelow Station: Here's how you write a novel"



19th
12:22 pm

[PHOTO] Looking east, southbound platform, Dufferin subway station


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04:33 pm

[LINK] "McCains donate $1 million to gay-friendly church"



04:53 pm



07:03 pm

[LINK] "People Turning Against Taliban"



08:45 pm

[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] More on different Arabics and sociolinguistics and China



11:56 pm

[CAT] "Man trains 60 cats to guard granary"



20th
10:01 am

[PHOTO] On a wintry day off Avenue Road north of Bloor (1)



02:40 pm

[LINK] "Nicolas Sarkozy slip puts French Alsace 'in Germany'"



04:20 pm

[LINK] "Multiple Asteroid Strikes May Have Killed Mars’s Magnetic Field"



04:46 pm

[LINK] "Protests in Grozny in 1950s Show What a Russian ‘Bunt’ Looks Like"



08:07 pm

[LINK] "Questioning the ritual"



21st
05:38 am

[PHOTO] On a wintry day off Avenue Road north of Bloor (2)



11:15 am

[LINK] "The kirpan and Canada’s French-English divide"



02:32 pm

[LINK] "Football Folly"



02:40 pm

[LINK] "Why Russian Jews are not Russian"



02:43 pm

[LINK] "We're Developing a Problem Here"



22nd
11:59 pm

[FORUM] What injustices have your local diasporas highlighted?



23rd
11:59 pm

[FORUM] What's your relationship with sports?



24th
09:57 am

[PHOTO] Apartment Tower, 20 Prince Arthur Avenue



12:40 pm

[LINK] "Keanu Reeves says the Wachowskis have plans for The Matrix 4 and 5



02:56 pm

[LINK] "Siberia Is More Russian than European Russia"



06:08 pm

[LINK] "Voyager and the Will to Explore"



07:40 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On the latest Arctic sovereignty issues in Canada



25th
04:25 am

[PHOTO] 657 Dupont Street, Abandoned



01:29 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On gutting library systems



04:45 pm

[LINK] "So, I'm on LinkedIn. Now what?"



08:01 pm

[LINK] "Japanese Attitudes toward Urakami Christians, 1868-1871"



10:53 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] Notes on a hypothetical takeover of the TTC by Ontario



10:56 pm

[LINK] "Province denies interest in TTC takeover"



26th
06:41 am

[PHOTO] Flowers in fall at twilight



08:28 am

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



12:33 pm

[LINK] "Confessions of a Sexaholic"



04:00 pm

[LINK] Six Tunisia links



07:04 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "A different perspective on TTC bus route changes"



08:45 pm

[DM] "What the cats of Houtong say about the population of Taiwan"



10:29 pm

[LINK] Two primate links



27th
09:04 am

[H&F] Pets, mind



12:53 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto cyclists get sidewalk warning"



04:08 pm

[LINK] "The Assassination of the Canadian Kid"



07:00 pm

[MUSIC] Tori Amos, "Professional Widow"



09:13 pm

[LINK] "Ancient Tools May Mark Earlier Path Out of Africa"



10:43 pm

[LINK] "The alarm bells of Nagasaki"



11:59 pm

[DM] "Some thoughts on Dutch-Afrikaner connections"



28th
08:30 am

[PHOTO] Observation tower, 315 Bloor Street West



10:02 am

[CAT] Catpack in New York City



12:18 pm

[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] On the Egyptian protests and social networking's role



01:38 pm

[LINK] "Paging Davos, I never got my invite ..."



07:00 pm

[LINK] "The Dark Side of Twittering a Revolution"



29th
12:00 am

[LINK] The Egyptian Internet outages



03:54 pm

[H&F] "Baseball Teams as Early-Modern States"



06:01 pm

[PHOTO] Spadina Compass



30th
10:43 pm

[PHOTO] Henry Moore on the street



31st
11:18 am

[OBSCURA] "1342 - [old] news"



03:21 pm

[LINK] "At Flickr, fending off rumours and Facebook"



06:00 pm

[LINK] "South Sudan's tricky name game"



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