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I just wanted to pop in and let you all know that all is generally good. In July, I was back in Banff and Canmore for some exciting video [...]
Here’s one of the earliest color icons for the graphics application Photoshop:
This image was pulled from The Abyss: Special Edition, which was one of the first major uses of the application developed by Thomas Knoll, and his brother John Knoll, a visual wizard at George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic. Photoshop 1.0 was released for [...]
Snow. Plenty of it.
We didn’t receive as much as they have lately in some parts of the U.S.A. (April’s relatives in Colorado have been stuck inside for quite a while) or across the Canadian prairie provinces, but we’ve received enough to make one really start thinking twice about living here.
Of course, it makes the outdoors [...]
A new type of dragon-like dinosaur has been named Dracorex hogwartsia in honor of the celebrated Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling.
Photo of Dracorex hogwartsia © The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.
The nearly complete skull was discovered by three friends from Sioux City, Iowa during a fossil collecting trip to South Dakota. More information can be [...]
Supposedly, the original Hollywood sign is up for sale. Not to be confused with the current one most people see in California, but the original itself, built in 1923 for a real estate development company.
Due to termites, arson, and other damage, the sign needed to be either repaired or replaced. In 1978, ‘Playboy‘ publisher Hugh [...]
I’ve been receiving lots of kind feedback regarding the story, writing, and photography of the Franklin the Tortoise post. A big thanks for your support! Along with the comments, photos of other shelled pets have found their way into my e-mail box, so I thought I’d share them with all you tortoise fans.
3-year-olds Sam (Sulcata) [...]
Because I’m a bit of a science geek, and because they have that ‘cool’ mythic element to them, news regarding Giant Squids excite me. Well, on September 27th, word spread that a live one had been photographed underwater!
Photograph courtesy T. Kubodera and K. Mori.
Photograph courtesy T. Kubodera and K. Mori.
The Japanese scientists estimated the animal [...]
As I was out running errands on Saturday, I saw what I thought to be man playing with his radio-controlled toy. Sure enough he was out there again on Sunday, only this time I got a better look and it definitely wasn’t a toy on the sidewalk…
A nice long sidewalk is the perfect place to [...]
I’ve always been fascinated by the colorful graphics on the side of the U-Haul vehicles. From the vibrant Giant Squid of Newfoundland, to the little green alien of New Mexico, to the Happy Face Spider of Hawai’i, the graphics are an excellent way to keep the U-Haul brand name ‘out there’. In my opinion, a [...]
Some science news for you today:
In the marine archaeology field, researchers recently raised a cannon from an underwater site near North Carolina, hoping the artifact will prove the sunken wreckage it came from was once the flagship of the notorious pirate Blackbeard.
CNN.com features this report on a new planet found in the Milky Way.
Australian palaeontologists [...]
Not quite Minority Report, The Time Machine, or Back to the Future but certainly intriguing. Check out this link.
More on the project can be found here.
For the skeptics, this article, with one of the project members dismisses the prediction notions.
As suggested by some, if the ‘device’ can’t provide any usable information before the events, is [...]
You know how Lemmings supposedly commit mass suicide by jumping off cliffs? That myth really gained momentum from none other than a Disney movie that was filmed right here in Alberta. It’s amazing to think that one smaller Disney film had the effect of creating not only a false representation of an animal and its [...]
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the first broadcast of Rankin/Bass’s stop-motion animated classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Originally aired by NBC in December, 1964, it’s a Christmas favorite that according to Rankin/Bass fan and historian Rick Goldschmidt, has become “the longest running, highest rated television special in the history of the medium.” From [...]
Thanks to my friend Rick Cortes over at The Drawing Board for letting me know about AnySoldier.com. It’s a great website dedicated to providing information on sending care packages to US Soldiers based on their needs or requests. It’s updated as often as the military contacts can get information sent in, and there are requests [...]
