- 1st
- 05:16 pm
[PHOTO] Happy New Year!
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09:36 pm[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] On the mechanics of the stellified Jupiter in Clarke's 2010
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11:56 pm[H&F] On the singularity, the real one (1)
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- 2nd
- 04:44 pm
[PHOTO] New Year's Day, 2011
06:22 pm[H&F] On the new singularity, the real one (2)
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07:54 pm[FORUM] Are we heading for an era of ubiquitous minor miracles?
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- 3rd
- 01:48 am
[PHOTO] Store, Hallam and Concord
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11:12 am[META] Blogroll update
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03:36 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- africa,
- blogs,
- brazil,
- canada,
- catalonia,
- china,
- communism,
- cyprus,
- democracy,
- demographics,
- economics,
- environment,
- european union,
- former soviet union,
- geopolitics,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- india,
- japan,
- links,
- mass transit,
- migration,
- new zealand,
- politics,
- russia,
- science,
- spain,
- ttc,
- turkey,
- ukraine,
- united kingdom,
- united states,
- war
04:50 pm[H&F] "In Defense of Vacation"
06:20 pm[LINK] "Everything's Better and Nobody's Happy"
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07:52 pm[URBAN NOTE] Two Toronto Public Library notes
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11:50 pm[URBAN NOTE] Why light rail, even without the romance of subways, is the way to go for Toronto
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- 4th
- 02:08 am
[PHOTO] The former Zelda's
09:19 am[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
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01:23 pm[LINK] Canada's own space toys
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04:52 pm[LINK] "Tunisia's protest wave: where it comes from and what it means"
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06:03 pm[LINK] "Give Us This Day Our Weekly Drone"
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06:50 pm[LINK] "Information doesn't want to be free, people do"
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07:38 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Eglinton Transit City Line may survive"
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11:06 pm[DM] "On the migration-as-invasion motif"
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- 5th
- 05:16 am
[PHOTO] CN Tower from Queen and McCaul
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06:55 am[CAT] Shakespeare in front of the webcam
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09:44 am[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
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12:22 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the early search for extrasolar planets
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04:10 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the decline of queer churches
05:29 pm[LINK] "The Land Beneath the Waves"
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06:33 pm[LINK] "Hits, Misses, and Delusions"
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07:49 pm[LINK] "Clever Crows Use Tools in New Way"
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10:12 pm[DM] "Some maps and some transitions"
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- 6th
- 02:27 am
[PHOTO] Massey Hall, 178 Victoria Street
07:47 am[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- anthropology,
- blogs,
- bloor street west,
- cities,
- cuba,
- democracy,
- diasporas,
- economics,
- ethnic cleansing,
- european union,
- france,
- greece,
- health,
- history,
- india,
- language conflict,
- links,
- mass transit,
- medicine,
- migration,
- politics,
- popular culture,
- social sciences,
- space travel,
- television,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- turkey,
- united states
09:04 am[LINK] "Is the phrase the "war on the car" a Toronto thing?"
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01:13 pm[URBAN NOTE] "An Empress Hotel Mystery"
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04:00 pm[LINK] "The Lost Canadians"
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05:09 pm[LINK] On the Dawn probe and its Vesta visit
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06:50 pm[H&F] "200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes"
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10:43 pm[MUSIC] Scissor Sisters, "Invisible Light"
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- 7th
- 01:47 pm
[PHOTO] Graffiti-ish, 559 Bloor Street West
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05:21 pm[DM] "Go to the Naked Anthropologist"
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08:03 pm[LINK] "NYE in gay Taipei"
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11:59 pm[H&F] Hockey: Canada's national game?
- 8th
- 06:04 pm
[FORUM] What is it about sports and you?
- 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
Tags:- animal intelligence,
- canada,
- crime,
- cyclists,
- democracy,
- environment,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- immigration,
- imperialism,
- indonesia,
- japan,
- links,
- maps,
- mass transit,
- neighbourhoods,
- politics,
- public art,
- russia,
- ruthenes,
- second world war,
- southeast asia,
- taiwan,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- war,
- west africa
10:59 am[URBAN NOTE] The city budget: not as bad as feared
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12:39 pm[LINK] "Queen West as a video game"
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03:26 pm[URBAN NOTE] On how the TTC's safe from fare increases, so far
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03:47 pm[LINK] "Dutch cabinet considering training mission in Afghanistan"
Tags:- afghanistan,
- canada,
- links,
- nato,
- netherlands,
- war
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?
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- 12th
- 06:27 am
[PHOTO] Looking east, Bay and Bloor
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02:04 pm[LINK] "Lemur See, Lemur Do: Lower Primates Show Glimmer of Culture"
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03:56 pm[LINK] "Scattered thoughts about the Dubai project"
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04:23 pm[LINK] "Couple says toxic gas leaks caused by project under land"
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08:04 pm[LINK] "The Real-Life District 9—Class and Sci-Fi in South Africa"
09:32 pm[LINK] "Orcus and Vanth"
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- 13th
- 03:03 am
[PHOTO] Undone wall
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01:00 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- baltic states,
- belgium,
- canada,
- clash of ideologies,
- disasters,
- economics,
- estonia,
- europe,
- eurozone,
- evolution,
- former soviet union,
- france,
- germany,
- glbt issues,
- haiti,
- ireland,
- language conflict,
- links,
- lithuania,
- marriage rights,
- mexico,
- national identity,
- neanderthals,
- politics,
- russia,
- uzbekistan
03:57 pm[MUSIC] Casey Spooner, "Faye Dunaway"
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05:43 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On Zellers
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08:23 pm[LINK] "China versus world"
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09:39 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the latest "embarrassment" involving the RCMP in British Columbia
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11:59 pm[LINK] "Once upon a time ... the technologies of the past"
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- 14th
- 01:14 am
[LINK] "So you found something cool on the Internet ..."
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09:10 am[PHOTO] Pigeons by the school fence
11:45 am[BLOG] Some Friday links
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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"
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06:20 pm[LINK] "Is Canadian Sovereignty at Risk by a Lack of an Indigenous Satellite Launch Capability?"
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09:13 pm[LINK] "To the roots of geek culture"
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10:46 pm[H&F] "One note on the decline of homophobia"
11:56 pm[DM] "Why did Tunisia revolt? Too-deferred dreams"
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- 15th
- 11:45 am
[PHOTO] Railway bridge, Dupont and Dovercourt
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11:53 pm[FORUM] How does your language vary from the standard?
- 16th
- 01:42 pm
[PHOTO] Hello Kitty, Dupont and Dovercourt
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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?
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- 17th
- 12:57 am
[PHOTO] "Boring", Dupont and Dovercourt
12:00 pm[LINK] "A Renewed Concern: Flares and Astrobiology"
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03:23 pm[LINK] "The Ghost Rockets'
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03:46 pm[LINK] "The Phasing out of Chinese 'Dialects'"
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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"
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- 18th
- 01:42 am
[PHOTO] Acores and Minho, Toronto
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10:59 am[URBAN NOTE] Judy Tak Fong Lam Chiu:Toronto::Kitty Genovese:New York City?
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11:54 am[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
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01:30 pm[CAT] "Sal the Cat summoned for jury service... and court rules he 'must attend'"
04:25 pm[LINK] "Misery in Haiti"
04:43 pm[LINK] "Should Microstates Have Standing?"
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08:01 pm[LINK] "Does Gliese 581g exist?"
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10:57 pm[LINK] "Downbelow Station: Here's how you write a novel"
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- 19th
- 12:22 pm
[PHOTO] Looking east, southbound platform, Dufferin subway station
04:33 pm[LINK] "McCains donate $1 million to gay-friendly church"
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04:53 pm[LINK] "Dark-Matter Galaxy Detected: Hidden Dwarf Lurks Nearby?"
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07:03 pm[LINK] "People Turning Against Taliban"
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08:45 pm[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] More on different Arabics and sociolinguistics and China
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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"
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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"
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02:32 pm[LINK] "Football Folly"
02:40 pm[LINK] "Why Russian Jews are not Russian"
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02:43 pm[LINK] "We're Developing a Problem Here"
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- 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
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12:40 pm[LINK] "Keanu Reeves says the Wachowskis have plans for The Matrix 4 and 5
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02:56 pm[LINK] "Siberia Is More Russian than European Russia"
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06:08 pm[LINK] "Voyager and the Will to Explore"
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07:40 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the latest Arctic sovereignty issues in Canada
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- 25th
- 04:25 am
[PHOTO] 657 Dupont Street, Abandoned
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01:29 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On gutting library systems
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04:45 pm[LINK] "So, I'm on LinkedIn. Now what?"
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08:01 pm[LINK] "Japanese Attitudes toward Urakami Christians, 1868-1871"
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10:53 pm[BRIEF NOTE] Notes on a hypothetical takeover of the TTC by Ontario
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10:56 pm[LINK] "Province denies interest in TTC takeover"
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- 26th
- 06:41 am
[PHOTO] Flowers in fall at twilight
08:28 am[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
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12:33 pm[LINK] "Confessions of a Sexaholic"
04:00 pm[LINK] Six Tunisia links
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07:04 pm[URBAN NOTE] "A different perspective on TTC bus route changes"
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08:45 pm[DM] "What the cats of Houtong say about the population of Taiwan"
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10:29 pm[LINK] Two primate links
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- 27th
- 09:04 am
[H&F] Pets, mind
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12:53 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto cyclists get sidewalk warning"
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04:08 pm[LINK] "The Assassination of the Canadian Kid"
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07:00 pm[MUSIC] Tori Amos, "Professional Widow"
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09:13 pm[LINK] "Ancient Tools May Mark Earlier Path Out of Africa"
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10:43 pm[LINK] "The alarm bells of Nagasaki"
11:59 pm[DM] "Some thoughts on Dutch-Afrikaner connections"
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- 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
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01:38 pm[LINK] "Paging Davos, I never got my invite ..."
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07:00 pm[LINK] "The Dark Side of Twittering a Revolution"
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- 29th
- 12:00 am
[LINK] The Egyptian Internet outages
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03:54 pm[H&F] "Baseball Teams as Early-Modern States"
06:01 pm[PHOTO] Spadina Compass
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- 30th
- 10:43 pm
[PHOTO] Henry Moore on the street
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- 31st
- 11:18 am
[OBSCURA] "1342 - [old] news"
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03:21 pm[LINK] "At Flickr, fending off rumours and Facebook"
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06:00 pm[LINK] "South Sudan's tricky name game"
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