While most in the ‘blogosphere’ will probably concentrate on Google’s latest bombshell (Calendar), a couple of remarks about not so related stuff:
Congrats to the Deuville Ice Hockey rink (Salmon River) for making it to the next round in CBC’s Kraft Hockeyville 2006.
Frequently, the Daily Truro News features big ads about copyrights and that you as a reader are not allowed to take anything from their paper without proper permissions or payments (‘You can go to jail for that!’). The other day, I was a kind of surprised to see a piece of Wikipedia in your paper, properly sourced and quoted. You didn’t pay for that, nor did you actually get a written permission for publishing that particular Gouda cheese quote, did you?
Two shows I noticed today on TV: Canada’s Worst Handyman and American Inventor. How low can it go. I actually thought that Canada’s Worst Handyman was a great spoof on ‘reality shows’: one of the starring ladies reminded of a typical Cathy Jones act. Only minutes later I became aware that this was an actual reality show. I won’t waste words on ‘American Inventor’.