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Environment Canada reports a funnel cloud sighting at London (YXU) International Airport at 16:10 local time. (20:10 GMT) No further news, particularly in whether the funnel touched down or not, but there's a lot of thunder here. Folks in the area, keep an eye out ( Read more... )

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I just saw an ad for the Waterloo Airshow this weekend. Alas I won't be attending... I'm working the weekend. However it does look to be an interesting show with the B-17 from the movie Memphis Belle, and a MiG-15 aerobatic display. (I think this is the same guy I saw do a mock dogfight with an F-86 here in London a loooong time ago. If so, it' ( Read more... )

About two minutes ago I saw something out my sliding door. It was a light in the sky, travelling roughly south-to-north, and it seemed to be trailing sparks. I think the light was yellow-ish, but it was only there for a second (less than two after I noticed it, anyway) before it went out... no sound at all, no visible smoke trail or smell of ( Read more... )

*sigh* People alarmed by the H1N1 outbreak are cutting back on buying pork; pork futures are down; pork-producers are now looking at some serious hurt to their bottom lines in an already bad economic climate. And it's all for no real reason ( Read more... )

Discovery is at T-00:09:00 and holding on its scheduled hold, looks to be launching ten or eleven minutes after I post this. If your local cable company doesn't cover the launch, NASA is streaming a live feed ( Read more... )

james_nicoll has more neatly encapsulated the current state of the Canadian political crisis than I have to date, so instead of my further blithering allow him to elucidate.

-- Steve thinks folks from outside our wintry abode may need a primer, but right now his brain resembles over-boiled cauliflower in computing capacity. fizzzt

Stephen Harper is either grossly ignorant of how our Parliament works and is therefor unfit to govern, or is grossly lying to Canadians about how it works in an attempt to retain power (thereby circumventing our constitution) and is therefor unfit to govern ( Read more... )

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