Nifty bookmarklet that changes a webpage on the fly to look like a book with nice, large type, proper margins, and no distractions. Very cool. (via David Pogue)
Roy MacGregor reveals the lie behind a myth: Canadian media often cite that Canada is the most urbanized country on earth, with 80% of the population living in a city. Statistics Canada, however, considers any settlement of more than 1,000 people “urban”, so this is entirely false given any, more reasonable definition of the word. With a cut-off of 100,000, McGregor claims that only half the population lives in urban areas, although in my opinion, this is very cloudy given the absurd dimensions of some Canadian cities like Halifax and Ottawa.
Not a lot of data yet, but it’s a good start. I’d love to see the TTC open their data so someone can improve on their lousy online presence.
Update: Well that was fast. TTC data is now online.
Has the strong odour of retrospect on it: “A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory.”
