Easily cool enough to pay $1 a key for these. But not even if I were bitten by a hundred rabid racoons would I ever be mad enough to pay THIRTY DOLLARS SHIPPING for it! We're talking Canada here, not Fiji or Antarctica. Are these people completely out of their corporate minds?

"ICONS"? That they're called hallmarks is something that any reasonably educated person ought to know. And Mr. Lee is a Museum Specialist (whatever that might be). Or could it be the Smithsonian that calls them "icons"? That would be even sadder.

The absolute best thing about this is that it wassn't some clandestine, hit-n-run statue-ing, but a formally authorized official installation! Isn't bureaucracy wonderful?

I wonder why he hasn't done anything with the seat. It now seems kinda out of place.

This is remarkably like a prop built for a production of the opera "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 1993. One of those universal ideas, I guess.
http://www.banffcentre.ca/theatre/images/op93_mistook_set1.jpg

This reminds me of another tube station sign seen on a visit to London in the 80's: "There will be no last train today." Are surreal statements delivered via sandwich-board signs a particularly British form of expression?

I used to work in a shop that had one of the "adult" Unimat multi-function lathe-and-everything-else tools (circa 1985). It was fun to try out, but in four years I can only remember once when it was used for any real purpose. The reason -- unless you're building miniatures, it's too small to make anything worth the trouble.

Gotcha! Now that they've been caught out, Stockwell Day's office claims they're going to make the consultation documents public tomorrow, and that the hitherto secret deadline for submissions will be extended. Thanks a lot.

What else are they up to in areas that don't have someone like Michael Geist keeping an eye on them?