idea time

here's an idea that i'm giving away for free to a good home... all anyone has to do is promise to do something about it...



you see that little white spool that the dental floss is usually wrapped around (when the case hasn't been taken apart)? that spool should be any colour other than white... black, blue, red, green, purple, i don't care, so long as there's some contrast between it and the floss wrapped around it... why? so that i can easily look at my dental floss and see that yes i'm running low and need to get some more... i hate going to pull out a length of floss for my normal oral hygiene ritual only to find that what's left isn't long enough to hold on to with both hands...

honey, why is there a mushroom cloud in the back yard?

i've said it before and i'll say it again: i like me some demolition...

i remember reading about match stick bombs when i was a kid - i never saw one in real life though - but here's a video of the effect minus the shrapnel (since the match heads weren't confined in a sealed vessel that would have formed the outer shell of an actual bomb)... i believe the proper term for this is deflagration...

today's demolition was brought to me (so i could share with you) by the fine folks at boing boing ('cause apparently they like demolition too)..

advertising cars on buses

yeah, yeah, it's been a while - shoot me already...

so i'm on the bus going to work this morning and trying to figure out what the god-aweful perforated stickers they put on the outside of mississauga transit buses (perforated so that the windows aren't completely opaque, just sort of not really transparent enough to read street signs anymore) is supposed to look like from the wrong side (the inside) and i realize they're graphics of cars...

lets follow this logic for a moment, folks... you have public transportation, it reduces pollution, it reduces traffic congestion, and it reduces it's own ridership by serving as a vehicle for encouraging people to keep their money out of the public transportation system and in the higher polluting/congesting world of cars?

this, more than anything else i can think of in recent (or even distant) memory is the moment that mississauga transit has jumped the shark...