The other day I posted an album of images from a trek a friend and I took into an old abandoned barn [014; The Old Barn]. The barn is on a pretty busy stretch of backroad and can even be seen from the highway. Very seldomly does anyone stop to take a look around or even inside the barn thought. It's pretty much just a distance silhouette to most.
The barn isn't even a mystery to most passerbys. No one even takes the time to wonder little alone to stop and take a closer look. The point I'm trying to make of course is that we often forget how to be curious and it makes our lives very stale and pretty boring at time.

By now I hope you're at least a little curious as to why you're reading this in the gaze of Matthew Broderick. He's just sitting there on the left of the text hangin' out. Well I promise you this makes sens:

Matthew Broderick played a famous role about teenage curiosity and adventure. The film itself was a masterpiece of comedy, but the messages that could be learned from it were simply inspiring. Ferris Bueller was an instant hit and is easily one of my favourite movies of all-time. Today is Matthew Broderick's birthday. That's right, Ferris Bueller turns 49 years old today!
So try to remember how you might have felt while watching that movie all those years ago. Let your wonder cause you to wander and go explore something new. Who knows the adventures that are waiting for you out there. 

Cheers, and Happy BDay, to Matthew Broderick, he's inspired at least a few and I hope he continues to for years to come!
-D-

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By now we must all be familiar with the latest Pepsi Max commercial. A remake of the 1995 classic, Pepsi introduces the pop-cultural element of YouTube and cellphone cameras. So what makes this commercial the subject of today's "There's a word for that"? Simple, defenestration!
Some of the more clever among us just chuckled at the very word (probably the francophones who recognized the work "fenêtre" meaning "window" and "de" the prefix of "from") For those who still need a little help with this one, the world "Defenestration" is to be thrown through or from a window.
So next time you're sitting back to enjoy a cheesy 90's action flick, impress your friends at the moment of defenestration by noting that "There's a word for that!"

Cheers to English and all of it's wonderfully esoteric functions.
-D-
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If the G20 summit wasn't enough to show the world that Canadians aren't just an apathetic group of frozen Americans, this next protest will surely change some minds. No, it's not another violent outburst towards political tyrants, this protest has deeper routes and much more interesting participants. 

On their website, the organizers of the Toronto "Slut walk" state: "On January 24th, 2011, a representative of the Toronto Police gave shocking insight into the Force’s view of sexual assault by stating: “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized”." That's right. One of our badge wearing finest has put his polished shoe in his mouth and has caused for outrage. The organizers of the protest strongly believe that women should have the right to look as they like. There is no threshold of "slutiness" that should warrant a sexual assault. 
Now I'm not going to say that women should advocate dressing as they please everywhere and anywhere... but there's never a justification for physical attacks. (Don't get all high and mighty if a guy's checking our your cleavage if you wish to provide him a screening...but guys, hands off the merchandise!)

I for one think this is a great form of non-violent protest and hope that all goes well for all participants. If you want to read more about the "Slut walk" click here. The basic info is as follows:

SlutWalk is scheduled for Sunday, April 3rd, 2011.
Speeches at 1:30. 2:00 Walk.Starting location is central Queen’s Park,
heading to Toronto Police Headquarters at 40 College Street.Facebook event invite here.

Cheers to crafty Canadians and to the good-life of journalists. Even our protests sound like great beer-fueled parties :)
-D-
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                                       Cheers to Charlie, and whoever made this incredible piece of awesome!
-D-

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For years there has been a clear dominance of religion in the polls. As a percentage there was no nation on Earth which could declare, by any vast majority, its secularism. Lately it would seem that data shows a movement unlike any other in the history of humanism. The data was simply wrong.
In countries such as Libya, Egypt, and much of the Middle East, the people's religion was dictated by rulers and representatives. There was no actual census conducted and so we deemed the countries to simply be of that religion and bunched the population into respective categories. This made much of the world's data on religion corrupt and skewed, but what about the West?
In the democratic West it's been the norm for over a century to conduct censuses which clearly asked people their religions. This forms would offer at first a simple set of choices of major religious groups, and below that it usually had an "Other:________" section. This was great for collecting data for the most part, but there is a flaw. The non-practicing associative "religious" members. These might be those who call themselves religious and don't practice, or even those who simply filled in the section based on their childhood (usually parent's) religion.
This has been a flaw in the collection of data for years and there is a growing movement to put an end to it. The atheist movement, or more formally the secular movement, is gaining ground at an incredible rate. Some compare the atheists and agnostics of the 2010's to the gays and lesbians of the 1980's. Well it's time to come out of the ideological closet for some and collect the real data. 
In the UK this year there is a widespread campaign to get the real data. The British Humanist Association is focused on getting the people to speak out. Unfortunately in Canada, the Harper Govt. has decided to kill off the long-form census and some argue that these movements may just be the cause.

Cheers to getting the real story. Let's stop just making things up!
-D- 

Happy Sundog everyone! Just a reminder, though it is indeed the first Sundog of spring, the water is still a bit chilly!

Cheers to Spring and the eventual warming of our lakes, rivers and ponds... can't come soon enough!
-D-

What your looking at is the worlds first webcam with a vacuum attached! Or is it the first vacuum with a webcam attached? Either way it's one of those and it's the first!

So we've all see the Roombas by now; little tiny robotic vacuums that are on constant dirt-patrol while you're away. Well Samsung saw this technology and thought how nifty it would be to turn your robot vacuum into a guard dog.
The TangoView vacuum system will be a live streaming webcam that will allow you to keep an eye on your place while you're away. It will also be programmed to detect human figures and to take photos of them as they enter the area.

To read more about the TangoView click here. 

Cheers to vacuum cleaners that will one day watch our houses. Now if we could just teach them to bite people and hump our legs, dogs will be obsolete!

-D-
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So it's officially spring and I thought: what better time to show you this... It's the oldest known photo of a man, in Hawaii, surfing (c.1800's) So just remember, winter is officially gone and it's time to start shaping up for the beach! 

Cheers to spring! It's been too long...
-D-

So once again I've received an email from a conservative (and likely a Conservative) reader who criticizes me of having a liberal bias (Well I assume he meant a liberal bias though he actually wrote "Liberal".) Oh yeh, it's a small difference, but that " L " makes a big difference. You see, liberals are people with progressive and open thoughts and who express ideas about liberalism; whereas Liberals are people who are part of the Liberal Party.

Now I won't deny that I'm liberal, because it is the case. I do have a very liberal view on the world. I will however deny that this blog is "Liberal" as it does not vote, and it's writer is not a registered member of the Liberals. Now since this was brought up, I can only assume the Conservative-conservative who wrote to me was offended by something...

I looked over the recent material and didn't find much that was terrible liberal biased...so I figured I'd make things easy. I would just post a super liberal-Liberal post that would undoubtedly set off the right-wingers in the audience. Here that is: 

Yup, that's 38 Harper-Meme comics... just look at that rock solid hair! It's like it was made from LEGO. It makes you wonder whether Harper deserves this. I mean, he's only standing in front of the largest debt in the history of Canada, all the while sending money abroad and funding wars we needn't be in... I just wonder how on Earth we are going toupée... Wow, I guess I'm still not over the hair. 

Cheers to poking fun at the right-wingers...the only ones we're sure can't take it :)
-D-

It's okay Hitler-Cat, just because this day in 1945  Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed... doesn't mean we blame you for anything. You just look like him... we still love you!

Cheers to unfortunate animals...go adopt one, we'll wait here...
-D-