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The Pretenders – Talk of the Town
Now that September is finishing up today, this means the last of the summer (local) fruit is almost here. We had a big salad for dinner last night with some lovely figs and red pepper, ... -
Cool video of a lightning storm in Toronto
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Is there a second Mona Lisa?
And why do we care? Why is the Mona Lisa so famous in the first place? Apparently because it was once stolen.
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A cool surfer video for a Friday evening
A really neat video of some guys riding some incredible curls.
Why do these 32 metronomes suddenly get into synch?
All the metronomes start at different times but after a while they all synch up, permanently. How?
Artist posts life-sized shots of people caught in Google Street View
This is just incredibly cool. His name is Paolo Cirio. Â And he’s gone through Google Street View and found photos of people inadvertently captured in the frame, blown the picture ...
273m people can’t be wrong about this video (but is it racist?)
It’s the video everyone’s talking about. But do we like it because it’s racist? Some think so.
Video: Montreal public swing set makes music when you swing together
It makes different kinds of music if you get lots of people cooperating and swinging together. (Swings like socialism to me.)
Phyllis Diller has died
I always loved her. We even saw her once on a tour at Universal Studios. Here she is with Liberace in 1969 (this one is a real hoot): And here she is being interviewed on The ...
Billy Stewart – Summertime
Though I still prefer the Zombies version a year earlier Billy Stewart’s version is lots of fun. Our plans to escape the heat yesterday never materialized, as the trains were ...
Video: Stunning dolphin footage
Some guys were fishing, then realized they were being followed by some dolphins, so they lowered a camera into the sea to see if they could catch the dolphins on film. Here’s ...
Video: Eva Cassidy’s ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’
An amazing version if you’ve never heard it before. Eva Cassidy was little known until after her death at 33 of skin cancer. By random chance her version of this was ...
Your mental health break
You have to chat online to appreciate this one. Basically, it’s referring to when you’re in a conversation online with someone and they respond to something you just wrote ...
