Rosemary Brown, the first black woman elected to a Canadian legislature, has died at 72.

An Ontario publisher is under fire for a children's textbook describing Inuit as a bunch of unemployed, alcoholic, violent, suicidal welfare bums and criminals. The book, Let's Visit Nunavut, is designed for students in Grades 2 to 4 and has been widely distributed across Canada for years, apparently with no complaints until now. Here are a few choice true or false questions:
•The Inuit do not have full-time Jobs. Answer: True
•Many Inuit people are well-trained and educated. Answer: False

Not surprisingly, the book has been banned by the Nunavut Ministry of Education.

And here we have robot dogs playing soccer.

Elephants can run. Who knew? I suppose its not entirely surprising - they're probably just late for work. Over the past few years elephants have been branching out from their traditional occupations of performing in the circus and hauling timber to become musicians, painters and doctors. They've even been letting off steam after a hard day of work by going on drunken rampages.

Ever wonder what the goofy furniture names at IKEA mean? Last week the company issued an apology for inadvertently naming a kids' bunk bed "Good fuck" in German. The Gutvik bed was named after a tiny village in Sweden. IKEA spokesperson Sabine Nold said that the company did not realise the name had an obsence meaning in a different language. Advertisements for the bed have been withdrawn in Europe.

I wish I had a treehouse like this when I was a kid. "One neighborhood dad (not willing to build one) told his kids that they were very lucky to have a dad like him – one who was smart enough to move to a neighborhood where another dad would build a BattleMech that they could play on."

And speaking of poor corporate judgement, General Motors Canada's PR director issued an apology for GM ads characterizing public transit users as freaks and weirdos. The ads weren't all that surprising coming from GM, who have a long history of undermining public transit. In the '30s and '40s, GM used front companies to buy privately owned transit systems and dismantle them. This page describes how they got rid of streetcars throughout California, except for San Francisco where the transit system was owned by the city.

The video game unit of Sony Corp. withdrew its application to trademark the term "shock and awe", describing the application as "an exercise of regrettable bad judgment." Really? You think?

My cat hates you.

I'm not sure what's sappier - the idea of combatting road rage though happy face license plates, or the fact that the organisation promoting it is called the World Smile Foundation.

Behold the Oracle of Starbucks.

You know the human race is screwed when animals start ganging up on us.

Yes, I know my archives are fucked up. No, I don't know how to fix it.

Not sure how to respond when a girl asks you if she can go below 14th street for a facial? Does a sandwich, pop and creampie sounds to you like lunch? Then you need Sex Lingo, an illustrated dictionary of sex slang. Its dirty and educational!

Now here's a shocking finding: Canadians waste time on the internet at work. A better headline would have been "Ipsos-Reid wastes time investigating the obvious". What they did not ask was how employees used to waste those 4.5 hours per week before the internet.

Nuclear accidents make worms sexier.

Happy birthday Astroboy!

Mmmm, tobacco desserts.

There's something sadly ironic about this.

The makers of Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball are pissed off about gamers making patches to remove the characters' bikinis. Umm, isn't gratuitous T&A the whole point of the game? Topless Beach Volleyball is just so much more "Xtreme." Note to geeks looking for this patch: There's this thing called porn. Its widely available on the internet, and some of it even features actual women.