1st
06:11 pm

[PHOTO] Three photos from Let's Your Fandom Flag Fly, CNE



09:23 pm

[PHOTO] A lobster roll and more at Bakin' Donuts, Summerside



10:39 pm

[BLOG] Five blog links about the Canadian National Exhibition



11:47 pm

[FORUM] What do you do when the world is getting you down?



2nd
09:37 am

[PHOTO] Riding the Skyride at the CNE


Tags:

12:48 pm

[PHOTO] Island mud by the shoulder of the road, Summerside



03:17 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Iranian-connected house in Toronto at centre of international showdown"



03:20 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Strip club owner spawns rivals as Bloordale tidies up on his watch"



03:21 pm

[LINK] "Who'll Win the Fight Between Russia and Ukraine? Maybe China"



03:28 pm

[LINK] "Inside the Brazilian all-woman village desperate for men"



03:33 pm

[LINK] "Why Edmonton’s growth is outpacing Calgary's"



10:09 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



11:58 pm

[NEWS] Some Tuesday links



3rd
09:59 am

[PHOTO] Toronto skyline looking east from Dufferin Bridge



12:39 pm

[PHOTO] Loyalist Country Inn, Summerside



03:25 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Ignore Ford at your own peril"



03:28 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "This Man Is on a Mission to Turn NYC Into a Tech Magnet"



03:30 pm

[LINK] "LinkedIn Reviewing China Censorship Policy"



03:36 pm

[LINK] "Hunger makes Quebec Inuit shorter than average: study"



03:39 pm

[LINK] "Earth's new address: 'Solar System, Milky Way, Laniakea'"



07:05 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



09:37 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the Rob Ford plan for subways everywhere



11:59 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On how Taboo is taboo in Charlottetown



4th
09:50 am

[PHOTO] The fruits and flowers of the CNE



11:00 am

[PHOTO] Lighthouse behind orange construction mesh, Spinnaker's Landing, Summerside



12:40 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



03:48 pm

[LINK] "NASA to reformat Mars rover's memory from 125 million miles away"



03:51 pm

[LINK] "Canadian beekeepers sue Bayer, Syngenta over neonicotinoid pesticides"



03:56 pm

[LINK] "Campaigner calls for Scottish border to reach the south bank of the Tyne"



04:01 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "It's the End of Berlin's 'Sexy' Era"



04:05 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How gentrified is your neighborhood (circa 1985)?"



09:32 pm

[LINK] Two links on Neanderthal abstractions and intelligence



09:39 pm

[ISL] An interesting Prince Edward Island television commercial ...



11:46 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On how the past American-Canadian relationship may reflect on Russia and Ukraine



5th
09:28 am

[PHOTO] Three entries from the International Sand Sculpting Competition, CNE



01:00 pm

[PHOTO] Spinnaker's Landing, Summerside



03:11 pm

[LINK] On using stellar spectra to find planets



03:15 pm

[LINK] "The Rains Of Titan Change When They Hit Underground Reservoirs: Study"



03:19 pm

[ISL] "Japan’s Medieval Islands of Exile Lure Young Workers"



03:24 pm

[LINK] "Europa Universalis IV is The Best Genocide Simulator of The Year"



03:28 pm

[LINK] "The Story on Urban Newsrooms Is Still Looking for Its Hero"



07:03 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



6th
06:51 pm

[PHOTO] Final day at N.D.J. Books, 504 Yonge Street



06:55 pm

[PHOTO] A corner of the lagoon at Spinnaker's Landing, Summerside



07:10 pm

[FORUM] What nearby places have you unaccountably never visited?



7th
04:01 pm

[PHOTO] Photos of the Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto



08:20 pm

[PHOTO] Backyard orange lilies



8th
12:48 pm

[PHOTO] Looking up and down the railway tracks, Dundas west of Lansdowne



12:53 pm

[PHOTO] Wild roses by the docks, Confederation Landing Park, Charlottetown



03:29 pm

[LINK] "Plate tectonics found on Europa"



03:36 pm

[LINK] "Chile, land of immigrants"



03:37 pm

[LINK] "Most university undergrads now taught by poorly paid part-timers"



03:39 pm

[LINK] "Premier Couillard wants Quebec to sign Constitution by 2017"



03:43 pm

[LINK] "Mulroney blasts Harper over Supreme Court spat"



07:02 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



11:11 pm

[NEWS] Some Monday links


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9th
08:08 am

[PHOTO] Evening tints towers orange, St. Clair east of Bathurst



10:06 am

[PHOTO] Looking east, Victoria Row, Charlottetown



01:26 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the global trendiness of West Queen West



03:25 pm

[LINK] "Mother of dead Canadian jihadi launches de-radicalization effort"



03:33 pm

[LINK} "With US youth losing religion, evangelicals struggle to spread ‘good news’"



03:37 pm

[LINK] "Norway Losing Out to Sweden in $6 Billion Wind-Power Boom"



03:41 pm

[LINK] "Putin's Crimea Is a Big Anti-Gay Casino"



03:44 pm

[LINK] "Clever Trout Match Chimps in a Cognitive Challenge"



06:59 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



09:59 pm

[LINK] On the discovery of Groombridge 34 Ab



10th
10:59 am

[PHOTO] Front-yard sunflower on Dovercourt below Dupont



01:29 pm

[PHOTO] Confederation Centre lilies, Charlottetown



03:31 pm

[LINK] "Why Indie Bookstores Are on the Rise Again"



03:36 pm

[LINK] "Europe's Herky-Jerky Russia Sanctions"



03:40 pm

[LINK] "Atikamekw First Nation declares sovereignty over its territory"



03:45 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On the likely non-habitability of Gliese 667Cc



03:47 pm

[LINK] "China’s Yutu Rover Is Still Alive, Reports Say, As Lunar Panorama Released"



06:58 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



11th
12:33 pm

[PHOTO] The CN Tower as framed by trees, Toronto Islands



12:35 pm

[PHOTO] Amphitheatre, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown



03:35 pm

[LINK] "$24B left Canada in 2012. Here’s what happened to it"



03:38 pm

[LINK] "In shadow of oil boom, North Dakota farmers fight contamination"



03:40 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "What David Soknacki's exit means for Toronto mayor's race"



03:44 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Inside David Soknacki’s Last Day on the Campaign"



03:50 pm

[LINK] "A Cease-fire Takes Hold in Ukraine as Territorial Questions Linger"



08:01 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links


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12th
01:36 pm

[PHOTO] Hibiscus syriacus, Rose of Sharon, on Dovercourt below Dupont



01:47 pm

[PHOTO] Sand sculpture of Province House, Confederation Landing Park, Charlottetow



13th
01:28 pm

[PHOTO] Looking south at the University of Toronto, Bloor and Bedford



01:32 pm

[PHOTO] Looking south down University Avenue at Province House, Charlottetown



04:19 pm

[BLOG] Some Saturday links



08:25 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the foolishness of Rob Ford the day before, with Mike Tyson



10:08 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Five links on the Doug Ford candidacy for mayor of Toronto



11:54 pm

[FORUM] How much sympathy do you feel for Rob Ford et al?



14th
10:54 am

[PHOTO] Council Chamber, Toronto City Hall, May 2014



03:33 pm

[PHOTO] Game of Cones t-shirt, Cows, Peakes Quay, Charlottetown



06:40 pm

[BLOG] Some Sunday links



15th
06:06 am

[PHOTO] Front of St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church, Dundas and Grace



10:06 am

[PHOTO] Car parked by Queen Street liquor store behind St. Dunstan's Basilica, Charlottetown



12:38 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



03:34 pm

[NEWS] Some Monday links



03:42 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "What has Doug Ford done for his ward? Apparently very little"



07:04 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On Livejournal becoming many things, hopefully doing at least one of them well



09:21 pm

[PHOTO] On vintage photos of the last days of the World Trade Center



11:54 pm

[LINK] Charlie Stross on "The referendum question"



16th
09:56 am

[PHOTO] Looking north along Bartlett at Dupont, towards the rail crossing, at 8 pm



12:45 pm

[PHOTO] Looking out the door of the Confederation Centre art gallery, Charlottetown



03:23 pm

[LINK] "Louisiana Loses Its Boot"



03:29 pm

[LINK] "Faroe Island Whaling, a 1,000-Year Tradition, Comes Under Renewed Fire"



03:33 pm

[LINK] "‘Venus Zone': The Anti-Habitable Area Around A Star That Can Breed Hell"



03:36 pm

[LINK] "Dogged By Controversy, A Jewish Sect Is On The Move Again"



03:39 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Don’t count out Doug Ford just yet"



06:57 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



11:52 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] An update on Krasnoyarsk and Russian federalism



17th
12:34 pm

[PHOTO] Lens flare early in the night, Dupont west of Dufferin across from the Galleria



12:36 pm

[PHOTO] Boer War memorial commemorating Island losses at Paardeberg, Charlottetown



06:33 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Rob Ford diagnosed with ‘rare,’ ‘aggressive’ cancer"



07:50 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



09:56 pm

[LINK] "Radiation Blast Delays NASA Spacecraft’s Arrival At Dwarf Planet Ceres"



10:15 pm

[LINK] "Twitter Suggests Scotland Is Going Solo"



10:29 pm

[LINK] "Merkel Counting on Scots No Vote Shows Europe Unprepared"



10:43 pm

[LINK] "Scotland independence vote could be as close as Quebec referendum"



11:46 pm

[LINK] "The peculiar coin of English nationalism"



18th
08:42 am

[PHOTO] Tree leaning over street, Toronto



10:56 am

[PHOTO] Tom Benner, Moose, 1999, at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown



12:57 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



03:37 pm

[LINK] "Belarusians try out a new language: their own"



03:41 pm

[LINK] "Sanctions? What sanctions? Russians are shopping for food in Narva"



03:43 pm

[LINK] "In Korea, Adoptees Fight To Change Culture That Sent Them Overseas"



03:47 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The future of Honest Ed’s: Vancouver-style city building"



03:50 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "‘Toronto needs Doug Ford' ..."



08:42 pm

[LINK] "Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans"



10:45 pm

[LINK] "Canada’s great debt to Scotland"



19th
08:57 am

[PHOTO] Shawn Syms, Nothing Looks Familiar



01:03 pm

[PHOTO] Statue of Peter Pan, Confederation Centre Public Library, Charlottetown



03:40 pm

[LINK] "Japan to Resume Whaling Next Year, Defying International Whaling Commission"



03:45 pm

[LINK] "The Mathematics of Ebola Trigger Stark Warnings: Act Now or Regret It"



03:45 pm

[LINK] On the upcoming landing of the Rosetta lander on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko



03:52 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Glasgow gives full backing to Scottish independence"



04:06 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Strategists for Soknacki and Stintz throw support behind Tory"



07:02 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



09:56 pm

[LINK] On genetic studies revealing patterns of Bantu migration in Africa



20th
06:26 am

[CAT] Shakespeare, resting



11:48 am

[PHOTO] A display of some illuminated pages of the 1901 science fiction apocalypse The Purple Cloud



21st
10:51 am

[PHOTO] Condo construction, southeast corner of St. Clair and Bathurst



01:13 pm

[PHOTO] A Robert Harris painting of a road in what is now suburban Charlottetown



06:39 pm

[BLOG] Some Sunday links



07:34 pm

[NEWS] Some Sunday links



22nd
09:17 am

[PHOTO] Polkaroo!



01:08 pm

[PHOTO] Whale skull, North Rustico



04:01 pm

[LINK] Two articles on the government of Canada not evacuating family members from Syria



04:06 pm

[LINK] "How Scotland's Spiral of Silence Unwound"



04:09 pm

[LINK] "Banks to Distillers Weigh Cost of More Scottish Tax Powers"



04:15 pm

[LINK] "Scotland vote just the start of a rough ride for U.K."



04:18 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Book lovers shrug off storms at Word on the Street"



06:59 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



11:51 pm

[DM] Still here!



23rd
09:22 am

[PHOTO] Purchased at Word on the Street, Toronto



10:51 am

[PHOTO] Breakwater at low tide, North Rustico



12:53 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



03:31 pm

[LINK] "Razr Burn: My Month With 2004's Most Exciting Phone"



03:39 pm

[LINK] "Here's Everything We Know About The Chelyabinsk Meteor"



03:44 pm

[LINK] "Building a Gaming Con for an Ostracized LGBT Community"



03:49 pm

[LINK] "Underwater Victory Squeals Signal a Job Well Done"



06:59 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The Toronto Eighteen"



11:56 pm

[LINK] "From lake to lake and back again: rail trails of southwestern Ontario"



24th
09:12 am

[PHOTO] Lighthouse amid the buildings at harbour's end, North Rustico



10:59 am

[PHOTO] Polkaroo and friends



12:54 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



03:32 pm

[LINK] "India triumphs in maiden Mars mission, sets record in space race"



03:36 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Doug Ford and John Tory trade barbs at raucous Toronto mayoral debate"



03:39 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "A Brief History of the Legendary El Mocambo"



03:42 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Massive craft store moving into downtown Chapters"



03:52 pm

[LINK] "Justin Trudeau boycotts Sun Media over Ezra Levant rant"



06:59 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On the purpose of international law and institutions in protecting borders



10:20 pm

[LINK] "Hamilton family sought CSIS, RCMP help to block son’s entry to Syria"



25th
09:59 am

[PHOTO] Lighthouse by red dirt road and the ocean, North Rustico



10:59 am

[PHOTO] John A. MacDonald statue, Queen's Park



01:28 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links


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03:24 pm

[LINK] "Why this Ukraine ceasefire will stick"



03:31 pm

[LINK] "Moscow’s ‘Mr. Yuan’ Builds China Link as Putin Tilts East "



03:34 pm

[LINK] "EU, Canada to Hail Draft Trade Pact That May Take Effect in 2016 "



03:36 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The battle to preserve Bethlehem's cultural heritage"



03:39 pm

[LINK] "Who Needs a Deep Space Network? Two Martian Spacecraft Communicate Via Twitter"



07:04 pm

[PHOTO] "Instagram Goes Analog With Its First Photo Exhibit"



11:49 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Exile in Brooklyn, With an Eye on Georgia"



26th
10:58 am

[PHOTO] Abandoned house by the lighthouse, North Rustico



12:46 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



03:24 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Notes on the municipal election"



03:29 pm

[ISL] "The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Densely Populated Island"



03:33 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Hasidic Townhouse Foes Seek to Dissolve Catskills Village"



03:37 pm

[LINK] "Visa obstacle looms as Harper heralds end of Canada EU free-trade talks"



03:41 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Tina Fontaine last seen leaving with man in West End, says friend"



10:57 pm

[LINK] "Signs in B.C. point to earliest human habitation"



11:26 pm

[LINK] "B.C. First Nations vow to ‘work together’ with resource industries ..."



11:56 pm

[MUSIC] On Tanya Tagaq winning the 2014 Polaris Music Prize



27th
03:42 pm

[PHOTO] Photos from The Word on the Street, Toronto, 21 September 2014



06:54 pm

[PHOTO] Home on a seaside road, North Rustico



28th
05:00 pm

[PHOTO] Looking at Rustico harbour



09:54 pm

[PHOTO] Robot love



29th
10:14 am

[PHOTO] Looking out of the back door of the laundromat, Monday morning



11:46 am

[PHOTO] The bright shiny tunnel under Grafton Street, Charlottetown



02:16 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday linls



04:37 pm

[URBAN NOTE] blogTO on trendy west end Toronto neighbourhoods



07:16 pm

[LINK] "In Jungles of India, New Phone App Helps Indigenous Tribes Embroiled in Maoist Insurgency"



07:18 pm

[LINK] "Rejected by their families, gay teens in the South flock to Atlanta"



07:21 pm

[LINK] "California, Quebec Seek Partners to Grow Carbon Market"



07:25 pm

[LINK] "Mohamud Mohamed Mohamud: Hamilton youth reported killed as ISIS fighter 'not the son ..."



07:27 pm

[LINK] "Sun Media to apologize to Justin Trudeau for Ezra Levant rant"



10:23 pm

[NEWS] Some Monday links


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11:54 pm

[FORUM] Do you think women's representation in politics should be legally mandated?



30th
08:34 am

[PHOTO] Looking out at Charlottetown harbour



11:52 am

[PHOTO] Dovercourt Road alley



04:52 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On today's TTC maintenance issues at the Dundas West subway station



07:05 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "TTC says puncture from Metrolinx contractors led to subway stoppage"



07:17 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Gay Africans Seeking Asylum in New York"



07:21 pm

[LINK] "Science Has Great News for People Who Read Actual Books"



07:23 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Saving Paris's Oldest Bookstore"



07:27 pm

[LINK] "You Call This Thai Food? The Robotic Taster Will Be the Judge"



10:27 pm

[LINK] "What Putin Wrought Has World Asking What Russia Might Have Been"



11:56 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



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