An interesting fact about how keeping Pigeons on the pill in California dramatically decreased the number of them in the city.

I wonder if this would work for rats, squirrels and racoons?

Bell (Canada) is doing a number of good things lately. One I particularly approve of this: Bell Internet customers now get free Wi-Fi Internet access with no time limits at over 650 Starbucks locations.

It’s a very appealing offer. Better still, the page describing it:

Bell Sympatico Internet at Starbucks- bell.ca

..is clear and easy to understand.

So, full marks for Bell on this.

Catherine Feeny has some lovely music, including one of my recent favourites, “Mr. Blue”. She also has a well made site on MySpace.com. For people who hate the look of MySpace, consider hers here:

MySpace.com – Catherine Feeny – Pop / Folk / Rock – www.myspace.com/catherinefeeny

Go see. And listen, too. Your eyes and ears deserve it.

I honestly don’t know what to say. See for yourself at Gizmodo:

Olympic Fail: Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird’s Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting

James Fallows is a blogger over at theAtlantic.com who is great source for anyone interested in the Beijing Olympics. However, he also wrote this article on how he bypass the restrictions placed on him by the Great Firewall of China:

James Fallows (November 16, 2007) – The best $39.99 I have spent in China (China)

I often wondered how restrictive the firewall is: I have a better idea now.

It’s a very interesting post, as are most of his other posts on China. I’d be curious to know what people who know China much better than I think of his writing.

This is good advice at any time, but if it is something you are interested in doing, it might be easier to do in the summer when just being outside and enjoying the weather is a fun (and cost free) activity. Regardless of when you do it, the article 100 Things to Do During a Money Free Weekend from The Simple Dollar blog is packed with interesting and creative ideas. It’s a good blog generally.

(Nicely done Flickr.com photo from the Vaguely Artistic’s photostream)

Hamlet is timeless. Sometimes in serious ways. And sometimes…well…if you’ve seen the trailers for “Hamlet 2”, you have a sense of the not so serious way.

Speaking of not serious interpretations of Hamlet, Sarah Schmelling has put together a very clever facebook version of Hamlet, here: Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition).

I think Ophelia gets the best part in this version. But judge and laugh for yourself.

(Photo credit: FlySi’s photostream on flickr.com)

MSNBC has put together some more material on the amazing Dara Torres.

You can see the video here

Besides this, they have also provided links to her bio here

As someone interested in Torres, I think this is great. I am also impressed by MSNBC for providing this material to bloggers.