Dear governments of the world. We are watching you.

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I only have one thing to say about the current document release by wikileaks and that’s this:
Dear governments of the world. We are watching you. Get fucking used to it.

Exactly.

Google Bike directions for Toronto

Google Maps are up for cyclists
From BikingToronto.com:

BlogTO is breaking the news that Google Maps Bike Directions is now kinda-sorta working (it’s a “beta” launch – which is used for working out glitches) for Toronto Bike routes:

Google bike maps for Toronto launched in beta sometime earlier this afternoon, and I’ve been toying around with the route planner for the last half hour or so in an effort to evaluate its effectiveness. Unfortunately, based on this short little test, I can only give this initial version mixed reviews.

From the standpoint of route suggestions, it seems most things are in order — not only did I agree with almost all of Google’s recommendations, I was surprised by the sophistication of some of the alternatives to riding along busy streets it came up with.

To use the Bike Directions – make sure you go to http://maps.google.com (.ca does not seem to have the feature yet) and hit the “get directions” link. You should then see little icons of a car, a subway train, a pedestrian, and a bike.

Fox News North - It ain't about making $$$

Canadian Soapbox: Fox News North - It ain't about making $$
It won't be about making money, but about making lies the mainstream.

Multi-country poll finds most people think religion is NOT a force for good

CBC News: Poll underlines sharp divide on religion
Ipsos-Reid conducted a survey with over 18,000 people in 23 countries and found that 52% of respondents agreed that "religious beliefs promote intolerance, exacerbate ethnic divisions and impede social progress."

There was wide regional variation in the results. Respondents in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, where there are large Moslem populations, overwhelmingly said they believed religion was a force for good, while respondents in European countries tended to disagree with that.

About two-thirds of Americans polled thought religion was a force for good, but only 36 per cent of Canadians thought the same.
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Uwe Boll, King of Trash, to make a 3rd Bloodrayne movie

First look at Uwe Boll's third Bloodrayne movie — featuring Nazis who want to make Hitler a vampire!

Eye Implants restore sight to the blind

Revolutionary eye implants have restored sight to the blind

100 Websites To See Before You Die (Part 1)

100 Websites To See Before You Die (Part 1) | Maximum PC
Someone at Maximum PC has too much time on their hands.
And with these sites, you won't have any extra time. So, what are you waiting for!

Punks On Film

Destroy All Movies!! A Complete Guide to Punks on Film

Steampunk Stuff

12 Coolest Steampunk Gadgets - Oddee.com

Sucker Punch movie - This Looks Fun

New Sucker Punch trailer delivers robots, dragons and sexy lady fights
Watch the trailer.

Coming in March 2011

And here's another trailer:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3707110937/

"The Fourth Kind" - a Cloverfield on the Moon

The Fourth Kind screenwriter's new film: Cloverfield on the Moon

"28 Months Later" movie in the works

28 Months Later: The Bottom Line - ShockTillYouDrop.com
Over the past few weeks, director Danny Boyle has been cornered and
queried at various promo screening Q&A's about the status of the 28 Days Later sequel, that's become known as 28 Months Later.
Each time, he's reiterated what he said two years ago, which is that
he’d like to direct it. Many of these queries may have come about from a
recent interview with original writer Alex Garland in which he said
there wasn't a script and any possibilities of it being made were tied
up in some issues revolving around the rights to make another film. ...

Toronto - TTC and Google team up for a trip planner

TTC and Google show the way - thestar.com

The trip planner ( www.google.com/transit) includes TTC schedules for all bus, streetcar and subway routes and all this is available on your mobile devices.

With Google Transit, transit users can now plan their trips around the GTA by TTC, GO Transit and York Region Transit.

"The world actually still likes Canada; they don't like Stephen Harper"

The Galloping Beaver: The day the world rejected Stephen Harper
The global community made a decision. They decided that Stephen Harper
was someone they would rather not have at the table. It was not about
Canada - it was about him and his reckless foreign policy.

Trailer for the new Narnia movie: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Eustace Shows Up And Faints In The International Narnia: Dawn Treader Trailer
It looks like they added things to the story, but I think it will still be fun.

Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) is being considered for Ridley Scott's Alien prequel

Next Hot Female Role: Noomi Rapace In Hunt For Ridley Scott’s 3D ‘Alien’ Prequel – Deadline.com

Also, at the above link, is a trailer for the 3rd and final film in the Dragon Tattoo trilogy: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.

Conservative candidate in the making - all the Right stuff

Dawg's Blawg: The Right stuff
Julian Fantino is being pressured to run for the Conservative party in the next election in Vaughan. Let's look at his recent accomplishments that make him an outstanding Conservative party candidate - read the link.

Trailer for the new Tempest movie

The gender-swapping, hyper-stylized trailer for Shakespeare's The Tempest

Jeffrey Combs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why Jeffrey Combs is our ultimate avatar of sexy weirdness
io9 takes an in depth look at the characters Jeffrey Combs has played over the years. Numerous video clips included.

Israeli author, Gideon Levy, says Israel demonizes Palestinians to justify occupation

Straight Goods - Israeli author and journalist speaks out - Gideon Levy says Israel demonizes Palestinians to justify occupation.
Excerpt:

Gideon Levy was once an army recruit and an aide to former Prime Minister Shimon Peres. He is now a veteran journalist who writes for Haaretz, Israeli's oldest daily newspaper. He said that he feels compelled to tell his fellow Israelis a story they don't like to hear about their country's brutal occupation in the occupied territories of the West Bank and in Gaza.

"I was brought up as a typical Israeli," he says, "but in the late 1980s I started to travel to a place a half hour from my home, a trip that most Israelis never make. I started to go into the occupied territories, our own dark backyard."        

"The rest of the world must raise its voice against the occupation."
   
Levy spoke recently in an Ottawa university auditorium while on a seven-city Canadian tour to promote his most recent book, The Punishment of Gaza. A group called Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East sponsored the event. Levy said he was surprised that about 300 people attended his talk. "In Tel Aviv not this many people would show up to hear me," he said.

What follows here are quotes from Levy's half hour address, which he delivered entirely without notes:

"I have never seen an occupation in which the occupier feels so good about himself and in which he also poses as the victim.

"Israel is occupation-addicted. It wants more real estate. Israel holds 3.5 million Palestinians against their will in conditions that you cannot imagine and there is no way Israel will move without pressure or a push from the outside.

"The Israelis are deeply convinced that seven billion people in the world are wrong, and that five million Israelis are right. It is a society that is losing its connection with reality. How can they feel so good about themselves? The explanation is simple. Israelis care about human rights, laws, values and morality but they have come to a simple conclusion. Palestinians are not human beings. Palestinians are not human, therefore there is no problem and that allows Israel to continue the occupation. And the Israeli media also tries to convince their readers that Palestinians are not humans.

Click the link to read the rest.

Marine census finds stunning diversity

CBC News - Technology & Science - Marine census finds stunning diversity
Excerpt:

Ten
years after the project took root, researchers wrapped up the first
Census of Marine Life on Monday, with findings that include the
discovery of thousands of new species and an understanding of how
climate change is altering the ecosystem.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/10/04/science-marine-census.html#ixzz11OmJHkNs

American human experimentation atrocities through the years

we move to canada: u.s. admits infecting guatemala mental patients with gonorrhea and syphilis in secret medical experiments
Excerpt:
I have heard people claim that the US would never do anything (or allow
anything to happen) to its own citizens. As though those in charge of
the US would bother to make some distinction based on where people
happened to be born. History says the truth is the exact opposite. Here
is a super-small sample from this webpage (emphasis mine; I have also edited some entries for brevity):

Read the full post at the top link.

A reminder of what the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are really about

LeDaro: Blackwater=Blackoil
Read the post, watch the video.
Excerpt:
When will the World understand that all these so-called wars for freedom
and democracy are for resources and, in the case of the
Iraq/Afghanistan war, for fossil fuel resources? It’s blatantly obvious
for Iraq. For Afghanistan apparently there is going to be a natural
gas pipeline from the former USSR, through Afghanistan, into an Indian
Ocean port.

Hunter S. Thompson's letter to the editor of the Vancouver Sun, 1958

Hunter S. Thompson's brutally honest Canadian job request

Exploding Sea Snot!

Boing Boing
read more at the link

Viking links

thevikingworld / The Viking World Links Page

BIXI - public bike sharing system coming to Toronto?

BIXI TORONTO - Home page
They need 1,000 subscribers to bring the program to Toronto. Check it out.


UPDATE
600 sign up for BIXI bike share
400 more subscribers needed in the next couple of months to reach the goal of 1,000 and then they can set up and start in Toronto.

The Fly by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

The secret origin of the Fly
Check out these Simon/Kirby pages from Simon Kirby Superheroes

7.5% of Canadians have serious food allergies

One in 13 Canadians has serious food allergy - The Globe and Mail
...
She noted that the only practical protection available to those with
food allergies is avoidance of allergens so they are very dependent on
food labels.
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LSD in Hollywood in the 1950s

Vanity Fair - Cary in the Sky with Diamonds
This is a long and very interesting article detailing the history of LSD in Hollywood in the late 1950s and early 1960s.