Weekly round up: July 25 - 31
31 July 2011Articles
An inconvenient truth about Toyota from The Globe and Mail
“Majestically Scientific” Federal Study On BPA Has Stunning Findings: So Why Is The Media Ignoring It? from blogs.forbes.com
Doppelgänger Dinners from Edible Geography
Stop calling the deportees war criminals from National Post
Conservative "war criminal" roundup is made for TV spectacle from National Post
You have nothing to fear from Wi-Fi from Ottawa Citizen
So crazy it just might work: The trillion-dollar coin solution from The Economist
Airplane beverage options from The Oatmeal [via Heather. I don't completely agree because I drink ginger ale other times, but close enough.]
New audits find Niagara Parks Commission abused expenses from The Globe and Mail
Block that metaphor: A nation is not a family from The Globe and Mail
Seven Double Standards from monbiot.com
Mystery surrounds loss of artifacts, records 10 years after 9/11 from The Toronto Star [via Heather]
Alomar 'blessed to play for a great city' from mlb.com
Tweets
https://twitter.com/#!/kevinmilligan/status/95463946995236864
My concern is wifi outside. Should I wrap my head in tinfoil or a biodegradable helmet? MT@ElizabethMay: So glad I don't have Wifi at home.
— Rob Silver (@RobSilver) July 27, 2011
I was cool before it was cool to be cool before it was cool. #hipsterparadox
— Matthew Might (@mattmight) July 28, 2011
I wish that all stories about raw restaurants used the headline "Local crackpot refuses to cook food."
— Corey Mintz (@coreymintz) July 29, 2011
Videos
^ My office mate's OCEPP presentation discussing her paper, "Bridging the Gap: The Potential Role of the Engineer in Addressing Ontario's Water Infrastructure Deficit" (available here [as a PDF, but you need to add .pdf for it to work] from PEO).