Exit, Pursued by a Bear

GoogleMaps, again

not yet infallible, it seems.

Canoe trip pix!

We defied the blackflies last weekend (or they defied us: I still itch) and went for a quick one-night trip in Massasauga with the new canoe. Click on image to enter gallery:

Cool Web stuff, from various places

How to abuse Amazon images, using Amazon's own code (as at left).

A GoogleMaps tweak, less ambitious than some of those elsewhere. This one gives directions from anywhere in North America to any given fixed point in North America, and has about eleventy zillion possible uses:

<p>

<form action="http://maps.google.com/maps" method="get">
<p><label for="saddr"><b>Starting address</b> (format: 500 Clinton Street, Toronto, ON)</label>
<input type="text" name="saddr" id="saddr" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
<input type="hidden" name="daddr" value="500 Yonge street, Toronto, ON" />
<input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en" /></p>
</form>
<p>

Try it:

Starting address (format: 500 Clinton St., Toronto, ON)

Posted by Patrick at 04:42 PM

Like the man says

Free Stanley update -

I'm looking forward to this case seeing the inside of a courtroom. New information in today's Globe:

Since filing his initial material, Gilbert has added significantly to the court documents, much of the material supplied by historians and legal experts attracted to the case. The latest includes a sworn affidavit by Ottawa's Paul Kitchen, perhaps hockey's best historian, that lays out in specific detail the origins of the cup and the intentions of Lord Stanley.
Kitchen argues that the cup belonged originally to the office of the governor-general and was handed over to the people of Canada in trust, the trustees then further passing it on in a 1947 agreement with the NHL that Kitchen and various legal experts question may not have been done properly.
And even if it were, there could be problems, for the 1947 agreement specifies that the league deal with "the apportionment and distribution of gate receipts."
Given that the Stanley Cup playoffs evolved into a three-month, 16-team financial windfall for NHL owners, the "apportionment" could raise serious questions.
... If anyone should worry, it is perhaps the National Hockey League itself.
It's just possible, says Gilbert, that "they've been fooling around with someone else's property all these years."

Full text here. I suspect the NHL may regret ever having put itself in a position where these questions could be raised.

On the army.ca discussion board

... which is cranky and incestuous, but also often worth a look: a very funny, alarming thread on what it was actually like to work with ISAF in Kabul. There are multiple pages to click through. (The thread's unofficial alternative title is 'Dumb S**t I've Seen European Armies Do'.)