Peter Saint Amour

Precipitation

Ontario's Rain and Snow !!!!
This is a realtime display of the Nav Canada Radar system for rain and snow
Canada's entire Rain map a Mari usque ad Mare
A realtime display showing all of the Canadian rain and snow.

Key figure in eHealth debacle resigns
Ontario's deputy health minister, Ron Sapsford, a key figure in the eHealth fiasco and one of the most highly paid and powerful civil servants in the province, resigned suddenly on Friday. ...
Forced to wed: 'They think they're doing what's be ...
When no one was around, Jassi Kaur quietly slipped into her niece's room, where the 19-year-old woman sat huddled in a corner sobbing.
George Smitherman: A big bully the city needs?
Two personal attributes leap to mind upon meeting George Smitherman in his sky-high downtown condo: overwhelming confidence and the kind of energy that blasts you back on your heels. ...
RCMP plays cat-and-mouse with cigarette smugglers
From beyond where the moon sparkled on the river came the sound of a high-powered motorboat. The engine throttled back for an instant, as if waiting for a signal.
Female ski jumpers lose Olympics bid
In less than a minute, with three simple sentences, three B.C. Court of Appeal judges dismissed the dreams of 14 female ski jumpers who have been fighting for years for inclusion in the Ol ...

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Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Visualizing S ...
The Ruben's Tube: Proving that basic science concepts are more fun to learn when you add open flames since 1904. Want to build your own? There's an Instructables for that. Thumbnail image courtesy Flickr user tom_adams, via CC....
Homemade globe
Davesbit made his own globe using maps from the Generic Mapping Tools project; he used a beachball for a mold and cast the sphere with fiberglass and foam. here is the plastic beach ball covered in paint for the inside of the sphere-half mold... the stand was made from scraps of red oak from a compu ...
TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes.
The TSA says you can't carry a snow-globe onto a plane, even if it fits in your freedom baggie, because they can't measure how much liquid it contains, and therefore it must contain more than three oz of potential explosive, um, water. TSA, meet Archimedes. He lived over 2,000 years ago and figured ...
Remixing the default Twitter avatar
Ape Lad sez, "I've taken the shape of the default twitter avatar and adapted it to some non-bird characters. I still haven't figured out how to fit Galactus into that shape." Twitter Avatars (Thanks, Adam!) Previously:Catoonn avatar videoconferencing - Boing Boing Boing Boing: Interview with an avat ...
I am unicorn, destroyer of ponies
Image link. Devin McGrath. (via galadarling via Susannah Breslin)...