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March 14 is Pi Day (3.14), so Happy Pi Day, everyone! If you have nothing better to do, you might want to celebrate it by trying to memorise the Pi (North American record is 10,980 digits). If it sounds too…

Why is it that when something exciting was actually happening in this area, I wasn’t there to witness it? Really, things can’t get any more exciting here than a UFO sighting. Not only that, I just missed a photo op…

JungleCrazy.com shows you all the best Amazon.com deals in one place. Kind of makes me wish it had a Canadian version with deals from Amazon.ca. But then again, there probably aren’t too many deals at Amazon.ca since they don’t really…

Um, this looks familiar, don’t you think? I already sent them an email, asking them nicely to take it down. Let’s see how it works. Hopefully they understand English!…

I always wanted to learn to crochet and wished that someone would show me how. Unfortunately, I don’t know anyone who crochet. For the longest time, I was trying to figure out how to do it by reading and following…

OMFGWTFLOLBBQ, Troy just got us a Wii!!! And an extra controller and nunchucks!!! Can’t wait to knock him out at Boxing (again)!!!…

This video shows British skydiver Michael Holmes falling to earth after his parachute failed to open, saying goodbye to the camera once he realised his fate was sealed, and hitting the ground. Amazingly, he survived! Even conscious enough to have…

Happy Day Of The Ninja, everyone! Take out your ninja mask and wear it to work or something. Don’t have a ninja mask? Make one out of a t-shirt. Worst thing that could happen, people would think you’re either crazy…

So Troy has bought himself TWO Christmas presents, supposedly from me. ME: I’ll pay you back. TROY: No, don’t pay me back. ME: But then they wouldn’t really be from me. TROY: But you’ll be able to buy me MORE…

Fodor’s Travel Wire recently posted 8 unusual budget accommodations in Europe. When in Rome, stay in a nunnery for $90 a night. Or better still, when in Scotland, stay in a castle for $28 a night. If cheap accommodations aren’t…

I want to practise doing the surgeon’s knot on my hiking boots, but alas, they’re still in the car. If it really works as advertised, I’m definitely going use it all the time in winter since my boot laces are…

This collection of Bad Signs made me laugh so hard. But then again, I’m very easily amused. I’m sure I’ve seen the first one somewhere in another collection….

DC Comic Books Archive has a bunch of comic books available online for download. I’m not a comic book fan at all, but Troy is. I’m just posting this for him, though he might have known of this site already….

BookMooch is a free book trade and exchange community. “Every time you give someone a book, you earn a point and can get any book you want from anyone else at BookMooch.” Sounds interesting….

“These suicide notes were gathered at the coroners’ offices by a suicidologist/psychiatrist who asked to be anonymous.” Not really the kind of stuff you’d want to read when you’re feeling depressed….

How To Survive A Heat Wave Without Air Conditioning by MedicineNet.com. I’m going to need this today because they’re expecting today to be even warmer than yesterday and yesterday was bad enough temperaturewise. Stupid heatwave. If we lived in igloos,…

Now that I’ve read Science Facts that People Get Wrong, I’m worried that everything I know is actually wrong….

The Big Religion Comparison Chart “is an attempt to summarize all the complexities of religions and belief systems into tiny little boxes on a single, quick-reference comparison chart.” What I didn’t know: Deepak Chopra founded a religion called Chopra Center…

Which side of the road do they drive on? I moved from a country where people drive on the left to a country where people drive on the right side of the road. To this day, I still make the…