Ok this video was taken in Toronto during the storm today (Sunday) by topquark22 on flickr:

He ejects just in time. The pictures are shocking:

Ever heard of Woot!? The American site offers one limited quantity deal every day. Prices are usually pretty unbelievable – like discounts of 95%. Well RedFlagDeals just announce their own daily deal site and are bringing this action to Canada. I always thought RFD was the perfect fit to create a site like this. I guess the extra backing by the Yellow Pages has given them the opportunity.

No details yet expect for this placeholder page on their .ca domain.

These pictures are from a Russian astronaut (cosmonaut?) show with a Nikon D3X.

I don’t know what happened, but in the past year, the number of mistakes in the Toronto Star has jumped dramatically. Today’s iPhone article had the wrong image (not the iPhone 4) and some bad mistakes in the text.

This image is of the iPhone 2G, not the iPhone 4

A line of text was duplicated in the article

You can text the TTC (898882 or TXTTTC) with a streetcar stop number and it will text you back with the arrival time of the next streetcar.

I’m a big fan of the “Big Picture” a series done by the Boston Globe. This week they featured photos from the G20 protests in Toronto. One of the photos (#22) even captures Roger Reis, the good samaritan who stopped a looter in this video. In the shot he is holding back black-clad members of the protesters trying to get into a mall.

Well, it was more Ottawa’s earthquake than Toronto’s, but I was in TO when I felt it. Here’s the information on the 5.5 magnitude quake from the US Geological Survey.

Magnitude 5.5

Date-Time  * Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 17:41:41 UTC

Location 45.866°N, 75.457°WDepth 15.7 km (9.8 miles) set by location program

Region ONTARIO-QUEBEC BORDER REGION, CANADA

Distances

* 39 km (24 miles) N (356°) from Cumberland, Ontario, Canada

* 45 km (28 miles) NNE (21°) from Gatineau, Qu�bec, Canada

* 52 km (32 miles) NNE (26°) from Hull, Qu�bec, Canada

* 53 km (33 miles) NNE (21°) from OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada

* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID us2010xwa7

First earthquake I felt. The two others, one I was asleep for, the other I was in my car.

The oil spill needs no introduction. This post is just to highlight there’s some really good coverage of the spill at the New York Times:

• Oil Spill Timeline (press play)
• Oil Spill Landfall
• Efforts to Stop Leak
• The Blowout