Being a feminist
I was browsing on babble.ca yesterday and was served up a Google ad for Being Jane’s catalog of feminist T-shirts. Usually I just ignore the ads, but this one caught my eye, and since I use Adsense on some of my other sites, I figured that I should be drinking the Kool-Aid too, so I [...]
Toronto geography
This is a bit weird: does anyone else notice that they seem to have relocated the Ontario Place Cinesphere east of where it should be, somewhere around York Street?
Lazaridis ponies up another few million
The founder of RIM has given another $17.2M to the University of Waterloo, my alma mater as well as his. I feel like such an underachieving alumnus! Seriously, though, it’s great to see someone with scads of money roll it back into the institution that he credits, in part, for his success.
Fressen: vegetarian for non-vegetarians
Went to a fabulous restaurant for brunch today: Fressen, on Queen West in Toronto. Vegetarian, in fact I think that everything on the menu was vegan, but nothing that your non-vegetarian friends would stick up their noses at. I mostly try to stick to macrobiotic fare since an overindulgent month vacationing in Europe last year [...]
Comments on blogs
My pet peeve du jour? Commenting systems on blogs that require you to fill out both an email address and a website (rather than one or the other, or even neither), but don’t tell you that both are required until you try to post. First of all, I usually put my blog site on my [...]
