flickering pictures

If you’re a regular reader around these parts, you may know that I can sometimes be a little harsh when it comes to the fine city of Toronto. So to restore a bit of balance here at flickeringpictures, and as evidence of my journalistic integrity, here’s a positive post for a change — one […]

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While watching the two-hour Mythbusters “Supersize Special” yesterday, I saw the Discovery Channel’s “The World is Just Awesome” commercial for the very first time. It’s the most adorable thing I’ve seen on TV in a while, featuring the all the regular Discovery Channel personalities and all the quirkiness, silliness and little-boy wonder that a […]

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A comment on America’s financial woes, as reported in the latest edition of Harper’s Weekly:

“The private market has screwed itself up,” said Representative Barney Frank (D., Mass.), “and they need the government to come help them unscrew it.”

A close second, also from Harper’s Weekly:

“My first instinct,” said President George W. Bush, “was to let the […]

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This isn’t the first time Russian president Vladimir Putin has flaunted his manliness for the cameras, and it seems likely that it was staged. Still, I don’t think George W. Bush would have had the guts to take down a tiger. From the Guardian:

While on a visit to a national park to observe […]

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If you’re sick of all those tired old “greatest Olympic moments” round-ups, check out Neatorama’s collection of five truly bizarre moments in Olympic history, including a British ski jumper with Coke-bottle glasses who had never seen a ski jump, two Kenyan cross-county-skiiers who had never seen skis, and a German track star who was […]

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One of the many the many wonderful things about living in Montreal is that stuff like this makes news here.

Following a poll of 5.6 million board gamers around the world, the latest version of Hasbro’s time-honoured Monopoly game will feature Montreal in place of Boardwalk, the most fancypants property in the game. Montreal narrowly […]

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From Harper’s Weekly, because I couldn’t write it better myself:

Penguin Nils Olav, the Norwegian King’s Guard mascot since 1972, was knighted in front of a crowd of several hundred people and 130 guardsmen. Nils, who shat himself during the ceremony, was, read the proclamation from King Harald the Fifth, “in every way qualified to receive […]

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While the RIAA conjures up images of sinister high-tech pirates slaving day and night to crack the latest DRM copy protections, some guy walking by Bono’s house managed to record four tracks off U2’s upcoming album.
From the Telegraph:

The first studio album by Irish rock band U2 in four years has been leaked onto the Internet […]

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From a Flickr gallery devoted to the “most interesting” photos taken by Cory Doctorow, the Canadian sci-fi novelist, Guardian columnist, public speaker, copyfighter, civil liberties campaigner and co-editor of the most linked-to blog on the Net.
And I haven’t met him or anything, but he appears to be an all-around awesome guy.

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I’ve never posted an XKCD comic here before, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Let it be a lesson to us all.

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