The stuff in the labs at search engine giant Google is always fun to play with. Right now, Google is working on something called Google Trends. You type in small list of items and Google shoots back a graph of a ‘trendline’ which, I guess, shows you what’s trendy ...   more »

In the last election campaign, Stephen Harper held his first rally of the New Year in the basement of an Ottawa hotel where he unveiled the top five priorities of his government. They were — you probably know them by heart by now :

1. Clean up government by passing the ...   more »

This was news to me when I ran across it today (tip of the toque to Civitatensis ) and it may be news to so here it is: The whiz kids at the The Prime Minister’s Office are proving once again that – gulp — they don’t need us mainstream media types! The PMO has its ...   more »

Ross Rader’s blog is one of my favourites — often for neat little nuggets like those one.:

If Google Trends had been around when John made his infamous comment about The Beatles being more popular than Jesus, we could have fact-checked his ass.

Because we can't look up 1966 ...   more »