Up in Ontario

Conrad Black's parting gesture

How great is it that this image has won the National Pictures of the Year awards?

Great for me because otherwise I never would have known about it.

Stairway to Winnipeg music video

I cannot resist posting this.

This is why the Internet was invented.

Thanks to Darren for the pointer.

Figure skaters get rocked too

Over at Julie's figure skating blog a great post appeared late last week that shows figure skaters can be tough and pretty.

8 of the worst falls in figure skating shows exactly what its title promises, in video.

My favourite? #5: the serious hip check Laetitia Hubert lays on Midori Ito a few feet from the boards. Rob Blake has no ass advantage on Laetitia.

And if you take glee in the pain of others, perhaps you'd also like to Digg the article.

Pedal car legally patrols Toronto

Thanks to the excellent car-enthusiast site The Truth About Cars I now know about a pedal-powered, street-legal Buick that can be found legally rolling the roads of Toronto at a top speed of 15 km/h.

Yes, a Flintstones car patrols Hogtown.

The inventor of the "shared propulsion car," a vehicle that allows several passengers to power it by pedaling, has won a court battle over the safety of the transportation device.

A charge of operating an unsafe motor vehicle laid against Montreal artist Michel de Broin was dismissed on Thursday afternoon.

Justice of the peace Patrick Marum ruled the Crown didn't prove the car was unsafe.

De Broin transformed his 1986 Buck by taking out the car's engine, suspension, transmission, electrical system and floorboards.

The Fred Flintstone-type vehicle had no windows and no licence plates when four passengers took it on its maiden voyage through downtown Toronto last October.

The four drivers brought the vehicle to its top speed of about 15 km/h before police pulled the car over, which had only been on the road for a few minutes.