Mike DeWolfe : The Daily Edition

What's happened to the Canadian dollar since way back? Wonder no longer: the Bank of Canada skimmed some cash and wrote this long history of the Canadian Dollar. For me, all I that's gotten me interested is that Curious Comics and Legends are selling all of their comics at US Prices (until people bitch that the Canadian Dollar now buys $1.07 US) Introduction The First Nations (ca. 1600-1850) New France (ca. 1600-1770) British Colonies in North America: The Early Years (pre-1841) Currency Reforms (1841-71) The Canadian Dollar under the Gold Standard (1854-1914) Canada off the Gold Standard (1914-26) Back on the Gold Standard—Temporarily (1926-31) The Depression Years and the Creation of the Bank of Canada (1930-39) Canada under Fixed Exchange Rates and Exchange Controls (1939-50) A Floating Canadian Dollar (1950-62) Acknowledgements Return to a Fixed Exchange Rate (1962-70) Return to a Floating Rate (June 1970-present) Concluding Remarks Appendix A...

I made the dubious choice of going to Digg One page this piece: http://www.howtodothings.com/automotive/how-to-cook-food-on-your-car-engine You might wonder why you would ever want to cook food on your car engine. I say, why wouldn't you? It can be a practical solution on long road trips: Now you won't have to eat that crappy fast food. Or it can be something to try just for fun. It's really easy to do. All you need is aluminum foil, a car and some food. .... Then another link on the same page has this: http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUST5871220071023 TOKYO (Reuters) - If you're stuck in traffic when Mother Nature calls, Japan's Kaneko Sangyo Co. has developed the loo for you. The manufacturer of plastic car accessories drew back the curtain on Tuesday on its new portable toilet for cars. The toilet comes with a curtain large enough to conceal users and a plastic bag to collect waste. "The commode will come in handy duri...

Take a geek, some questionable engineering and rockets. Add hype. Launch.

Sunday night, I was lucky enough to see the Blue Man Group live. They were awesome. Wanna sample? Look no further than YouTube...

. Today's pet peeve: bad taxi drivers. The idiot pictured just randomly stopped and took forever for the his 120 year old passenger to disembark. Park? Use the passenger zone? This monkey driven cab doesn't fly that way. So eventually the old guy gets out and disappears into the medical building. I was stuck parked there behind the chimp, so I took photos of the area. Monkey boy hopped out of the car "Why are you taking my photo. What are you taking photos for?" (as you'll note-- I have no photos of Washo, just his immobile cab.) Is this why cabbies seem to earn $10,000/year? Are they always brachiating around their cab instead of driving people for money? Maybe...