Our Canadian Health Care used to be acceptable to Sarah Palin. I'm guessing she didn't pay for the services she received in this country, either. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin - who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health
Humble and Fred recorded a podcast that would have been perfectly timed had it been released during the Olympics. Unfortunately, Dan just got me the MP3 today and the Olympics are looking pretty distant now in the rearview mirror. Nevertheless, Humble and Fred have recorded this for you, and they're
Last month I openly declared I had switched default browsers from Firefox to Chrome. The new Chrome extensions were pretty sweet, and Chrome seemed to be faster. That was then.... ...this is now. I'm back with Firefox. Google Chrome seemed hesitant after a short while, unresponsive. There was even buggy
I ran a little Oscar pool. I actually opened it up to anyone, by tweeting the link, and 16 people played along. I got 13, which wasn't too shabby. My wife, however, won the pool with 15. She was smart enough to go with The Hurt Locker for both best
Mark Linkous was 47. He was the lead singer and multi-instrumentalist for the alternative rock band Sparklehorse. Here's Sparklehorse's appropriately titled "Sick of Goodbyes".
Vintage Leafs is a blog that posts pictures from the Toronto Maple Leafs' past. Today Vintage Leafs posted this cover from the Toronto Star's Star Week in 1975. If you're my age or younger, you don't remember the Toronto Toros. The Toronto Toros were a WHA team that played in
Now that the deadline has passed for the little Oscar pool I run, I can safely unveil my predictions. If you want to win your pool, don't copy me. Of the ten movies nominated for best picture, I only saw three of them. Here's what I'm going with. I'll let
YouTube user Retrontario frequently uploads fantastic retro-Toronto-centric gems. These clips never fail to bring back a ton of memories for me, so I feature them from time to time. My mom lights up when she talks about 1050 CHUM. Her "Top 40" 1050 CHUM ended on June 6, 1986, and
A year and a half ago, I posted Michelle's Fields of dolls. She's changed things up, and now has a row of her girls she tucks in each night. Here she is, taking care of her girls. And here they are, all tucked in and ready for bed.
After my hockey game last night, I tuned in The Fan 590 for the drive home. They opened up the phone lines to play a little game of "would you rather". The question was "would you give up Canada's gold medal in men's hockey for a Toronto Maple Leaf Stanley
Last night, I sat down to watch my first hockey game since Sunday afternoon. This one felt a little different. On Sunday, I capped off a couple of weeks of Olympic hockey by watching quality play from the world's best with the highest of stakes on the line. It simply
Damian Kulash Jr. of the band Ok Go went off last month on EMI for cutting off its nose to spite its face. Now they've gone viral again thanks to their amazing new video for This Too Shall Pass and the fact it's embeddable. It's embeddable, not thanks to EMI,
I've already helped you justify DVD thievery, now I'm here to help you justify audio book thievery. This is from The Brads and it's entitled Why DRM Doesn't Work. It's a compelling argument.
Something pretty cool just popped up at http://www.popsci.com/archives. We've partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. It's an amazing resource that beautifully encapsulates our
I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday, but I forgot to do it yesterday so you get this on a Thursday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it
The Toronto Maple Leafs have traded goaltender Joey MacDonald to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for a 7th round draft pick in 2011. It was a weird day for the Ducks and Leafs and their goaltenders. Joey Mac came to town last summer to replace Justin Pogge who was traded
The Toronto Maple Leafs have traded forward Lee Stempniak to the Phoenix Coyotes in exchange for a fourth and seventh round draft picks and defenseman Matt Jones. I didn't mind Stempniak, but he was a UFA and had to go. The trade that really bugs me happened in 2008 when
The Toronto Maple Leafs have traded defenceman Martin Skoula to New Jersey for a 5th round draft pick in 2010. Say what you will about Martin Skoula, but he never faltered in a Leafs uniform. No Maple Leaf in history, outside of Olaf Kolzig, committed as few errors. Farewell, Martin
The Toronto Maple Leafs have traded Alexei Ponikarovsky to the Pittsburgh Penguins for forward Luca Caputi and defenceman Martin Skoula. Poni was one of the longest serving Leafs, this being his ninth year with the blue and white. He recorded 114 goals and 257 points in 477 NHL games since
You know that hockey game that took place Sunday afternoon? 80 per cent of Canada's population watched some part of it. 80%! That's 26.5 million Canadians. That easily makes it the most-watched broadcast in Canadian history. 26.5 million people in a country of 33,311,389. That's astounding.
Fans of Rick Hodge will be happy to learn he's now blogging at http://www.thehodgeblog.com/. I let the cat out of the bag a little prematurely, but we're now live. Those who follow blogs via RSS will want to subscribe to http://www.thehodgeblog.com/atom.xml. In
Now that a couple of days have passed since Sidney Crosby's golden goal, it's time to invest in a celebratory tee shirt. I'm buying Puckman (Gold Edition). Here's the design. The Pucking Hilarious guys are going to use shiny gold ink so it should look killer. It's definitely a limited
My wife wanted family portraits done while the kids were still young and cute. If you want stale, uninspired, soul-less family portraits done, you can go to Wal*Mart or Sears. If you want cool, fun, amazing family portraits done by a couple of Toronto professionals who get it and
It's hard to believe it was less than a week ago that I wrote Own The Podium Should Have Under Promised and Over Delivered. It had become apparent that our total medal count was going to be much lower than the United States' and we were going to fall short
