24Mar 2009 by R&O No Comments

Backyard pest

Of Interest
Here's a picture of a giant orb web spider eating a bird in a Queensland, Australia backyard. The photos, believed to have been taken earlier this week, show the golden orb spider clenching its legs around a lifeless Chestnut-breasted Mannikin trapped in a web, reports The Cairns Post. You can see all of the pictures HERE. And we thought raccoons were a problem.
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20Mar 2009 by R&O No Comments

Shining the light

Life in Port Moody
So Dennis Karbovanec has packed his bags and left Port Moody and rumour has it that Jonathan Bacon may be close behind. This tells me that public scrutiny is considerably more effective than our justice system and we should shine the light on more of our questionable members of society. The police do their best to arrest and/or control their movements but it's having their rocks lifted and society peering at them with bright lights is what obviously does the trick. The ability to do 'business' while being observed by the police and residents affects their income and ability to buy the flashy cars, club life and clothing that's such a staple of their existence. This is obviously how we, as a community, can drive these undesirables out and let…
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19Mar 2009 by R&O No Comments

Who’s to blame

Economy
The March 18 front page of The Province had a story regarding B.C. home owners losing their houses due to the subprime mortgage fiasco in the U.S. It appears that the couple, Tamara and Matt Pirillo, who's photo appeared in The Province cover story bought their five-bedroom home five years ago for $114,000 but now owe the U.S. based subprime lender, Accredited Home Lenders, a total of $140,000. Why? Because they have a questionable mortgage, borrowed against the equity in their home and now owe more than it's probably worth. They decided to sell and listed the house on the market for $215,000 but it, oh so surprisingly, didn't sell in the weak real estate market. Good timing folks. It's now listed at $169,000. Are we supposed to feel sorry…
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17Mar 2009 by R&O No Comments

The second most popular page on Facebook

Internet
What's the most popular page on Facebook? The Barack Obama page of course. What else. Now, what's the second most popular page on Facebook? Give up? Coca-Cola! I'm not a huge fan of social networking sites (although I have Facebook and Twitter accounts) and don't feel good about letting complete strangers know what I'm doing from day to day, but this one is completely perplexing. The fascinating thing about the Coca-Cola page is that it isn't run by the Coca-Cola company but by two fans of the sugary drink. One of them was looking for a Facebook page for Coca-Cola and couldn't find one so he found a nice picture, uploaded it to the site and it grew to more than 3.3 million fans. The marketing gurus at Coca-Cola were…
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