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This is the Banff Springs Hotel:

It’s Scottish Baronial Style, and it has giant Scottish thistles in the carpet in the lobby. I like going here, so I imagine I’ll be here at some point during the week. This is down the road in the town of Banff:

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This is what it’ll look like if it snows:

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Now we’ll be in Canmore, looking at the Three Sisters from the house:

The Calgary Olympics had most of the interesting stuff here:

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Today we’ll be going for a swim in Radium Hot Springs:

And then crossing into Alberta:

Update:

Hi! Well, if you’re following the Twitter, you’ll have seen I was Twittering the whole trip across Washington and Idaho, until we crossed the border and had to turn the iPhone off. Today we found a cafe, called Mountain [...]

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Hi! If all goes as planned, this will post tomorrow night. I’ll have internet until I cross the border, and even if wireless interweb does exist in Canada, the iPhone can’t upload pictures, so I’ve arranged for a few pictures of what we may or may not be doing at any given time to illustrate [...]

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ABC (Oz) - Studio to shield Kite Runner child stars

The studio behind The Kite Runner, a film about Afghanistan’s turmoil, has arranged to get its three young stars out of their homeland before the movie debuts to protect them from a possible violent backlash. The US release of the film, [...]

Categories: Entertainment

The video itself isn’t why it’s funny. That the video is being aired is what’s funny.

I guess Mr Rather had already tirelessly tracked down every lead and scraped together every fact for the best and the best-researched broadcast he could do.

Although, he does make a good point about the trenchcoat.

(And he’s in Seattle!)

Update:

Here’s an embedded [...]

Categories: Business & Media

(My previous post on this is here.)

Vanderleun brings up a good point:

Nobody, it seems to me, has yet to attack the problem of exactly what we do with one billion CFLs (if we ever get there) and the 5 billion mgs of mercury that return to the environment every time we flip those [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

The Times - Only one person can stop President Clinton II, by Gerard Baker

On Wednesday a couple of opinion polls suggest she now enjoys a lead of as much as 33 percentage points over Barack Obama, the nearest of her Democratic rivals for the nomination (“rivals” is a bit of a stretch – [...]

Categories: Politics

The tweaking continues. I think I’ve figured out how to ban a spammer (because lawdy it hasn’t worked so far): you have to trust the spammer, making him a user. Then you can ban him. Or that’s what the idiotic Movable Type instructions say. However, I can’t test this theory because the a-hole that’s been [...]

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So, I just checked my spammed comments, because a-hole Movable Type emailed me that it banned two IP addresses because they went over the allowed number of comments in 200 seconds. Now, how I’m supposed to look at an IP address and decide if it’s a mistake, I have no idea. The actual text of [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

I really can’t do much more than shudder in horror at how stupid, petty, short-sighted, podiatristically bullet-ridden the Republican “base” (especially one large, vocal, embarassing segment in particular) always is, but RC2’s gone ahead and done a lovely big write-up on the subject, so now I don’t have to find the words.

Wheat & Weeds - [...]

Categories: Politics

Okay, I’m confused:

Spiegel Online - ‘We Are Making Fools of Ourselves in the Eyes of the World’

Fear of fanatical Islamists prompted Ayaan Hirsi Ali to leave the Netherlands, her adopted home, and now she has been forced to return. Paying for her bodyguards in the United States is too expensive for the Dutch [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

BBC - Monks ‘trying to escape Rangoon’

Scores of monks are trying to leave Burma’s main city, Rangoon, following the military’s bloody crackdown on anti-government protests, reports say. … Curfews and night-time police raids are continuing in Rangoon. Correspondents describe a climate of fear there. A UN envoy [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

From The Ryskind Sketchbook:

Finally someone, Scott at Power Line, does some compiling:

Harry Reid (on “the surge”): Now I believe, myself, that the secretary of state, the secretary of defense and you have to make your own decision as to what the president knows: that this war [...]

Categories: Politics