The Canadian Thanksgiving (French: Birkat Hachama) is held earlier in the year so hordes of fat Americans can't come here and kidnap all our produce. The prized delicacies of the Thanksgiving table include jellied moose nose and fatty polar bear liver (too toxic to eat, but we sniff it and dip it in our Red Rose tea). Note: The chicken neck is not ( Read more... )

A fine specimen of the Giant Isopod. Do not click if you hate creepy crawlies. It's sort of like a metre-long wood louse. There's a very cool video at the bottom, which I will reproduce here, showing the isopods stripping a fish carcass in time-lapse. Now, given that the other two deep see scavengers which help them are both delicious (I am an ( Read more... )

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I've spent the day in bed, watching a soap marathon on BET and Cake Boss on TLC while reading and surfing and planning my next move. Damn I want some fresh, warm, pungent cake right now. I used to bake! Need to start again, which means a working oven and some forms. Grandma's walnut ćwibak, mmm. I wouldn't even have ( Read more... )

It's only Pi Day in those crazy middle-endian countries. Canada officially uses a mix of big- and little-endian standards -- Month/Day/Year formats are down-south Yankee-incubated imperialist encroachments! Resist the dark side even if it brings delicious mathematico-gustatory puns ( Read more... )

Saturday August 12, around 12:30 pm, an indeterminate number (n>2) of strange and creepy people (mostly users of the #kinky-toronto IRC channel) will congregate for a BRUNCH. ofDOOM.

This brunch will be held at INDOCHINE PAN-ASIAN, a reputable restaurant not at all known for serving patrons to a demonic GIANT SQUID located at 175 Dundas Street ( Read more... )

And now for something different; soothing electronica combined with innovative video -- good for relaxing after 5 solid hours of ganglia-frying meetings and probably other unnatural disasters as well:

1. Speaking of meetings... sexy pigs and corporate boardrooms!: http://www.pleix.net/ ( Read more... )