So yesterday, while driving in the car I was listening to talk radio, AM640 in Toronto. At the time, they where reviewing the events of the week, one of which happened to be this story:

Man Sets Himself on Fire During Toronto Protest
Wed March 9, 2005 5:20 PM GMT-05:00
TORONTO (Reuters) - A man doused himself with gasoline and set himself alight during a stand-off with police on Wednesday during a protest by several hundred farmers in front of the Ontario provincial Legislature in Toronto. The man drove a white rental van into the demonstration area and then held off police by telling them he had doused himself with gasoline. The incident was carried live by Canadian television crews monitoring the farmers’ protest.

A sad story no doubt. The even more sad and disgusting part is what AM640 did while trying to wrap up the story and ’segway’ into the advertisements. The guy they were interviewing (I forget who) was going on too long I guess so they started to play some music in anticipation of the commercial break. The song was “Burning down the house”. How callous to play this while also commenting about the ’sadness’ of the fire event.

Similar to this event in the states I guess.

Beershots features, “digital images and photomicrographs (photographs taken through an optical microscope) of the World’s most famous beers.” Various beers of the world are organized by country. After reviewing Canadian beers, I can confirm that indeed Moosehead still beats blue hands down.

Source: Molecular Expressions: The Beershots Photo Gallery

If max power can cook this recipe, then so can you! This Garlic chicken dish was very tasty indeed! Garlicy and cheesy, Max choose to serve it over some linguine with an alfredo sauce. Here is the recipe (originally found at allrecipes.com):

What you need:
- 2 teaspoons crushed garlic
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup dry bread crumbs
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves

What you do with it:

• 1. Preheat oven at 425 degrees F.
• 2. Warm the garlic and olive oil to blend the flavours. In a separate dish, combine the bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese. Dip the chicken breasts in the olive oil and garlic mixture, then into the bread crumb mixture. Alternatively, cut the chicken up into bite size chunks before dipping. Regardless, place in a shallow baking dish/ cookie sheet, the important thing is that it is shallow.
• 3. Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, until no longer pink.

It is very tasty.

An open letter to bad robots/ spiders:

Dear bad robots,

I’m on to your game. You want my email address so you can send me fascinating product offers. Lately, you’ve somehow found my latest address that I had so carefully hidden. You must now be punished. I have enlisted Admiral Ackbar to help me get even with you. You may have heard about him, if not read his bio. Together, we will be setting a trap for you to enjoy. Consider yourselves warned.

Whats it like to be an ant at the top of the CN tower? Its like this.

How to use the trackback feature in blogs. Althought the page uses MT examples, it is still a good primer on how and why to use trackbacks. File under, interesting!
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