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Clearly, any non-HD TV would be too small to play this game. So would most dens.

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According to the Most Read tab on TheStar.com, the fifth [correction] most read article is entitled All is not what it seems, Gemini.

That’s right. The horoscope.

The next Your Interview podcast:

Chats: Author Andrea Mandel-Campbell: Why Mexicans Don’t Drink Molson

CBC.ca welcomes journalist and author Andrea Mandel-Campbell on Thursday, May 24 to answer your questions about Canadian business and her new book Why Mexicans Don’t Drink Molson.

Another Google Docs/Google Maps test, using data from the Large Fire Database

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A proof-of-concept, displaying geographical information stored in a Google Docs spreadsheet on a Google Map, as described here:

Official Google Maps API Blog: Creating Dynamic Client-side Maps Mashups with Google Spreadsheets

The current version, with a lot more information but without a database or spreadsheet back-end, is on the CBC site.

(Grrr… I gotta change my layout. Curse these narrow fixed-width columns.)

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I’ve been producing a podcast for CBC News Online for a few weeks now and it’s going pretty well. Here’s the next episode:

Chats: Criminal defence lawyer Greg DelBigio on the government’s anti-crime bills

CBC.ca welcomes Greg DelBigio of the Canadian Bar Association on Friday, May 11, to answer your questions about two anti-crime bills the government is currently debating.

Now Magazine printed my letter to the editor this week, but their edits robbed the original text of its unique sentence structure, grammatical freedom and “clever” use of scare quotes.

Here’s what appeared in the paper:

Chancing the TTC

The TTC portion of your bike issue’s commuter challenge is absolute nonsense.

I simply don’t believe that your writer had to wait 33 minutes just to get on a train at Dundas station in rush hour. It doesn’t ring true.

The route he chose to get to St. Clair and Lansdowne isn’t even the fastest available. Why take the St. Clair streetcar all the way from Yonge to Lansdowne? Take the subway from Yonge and Bloor to Lansdowne station and then take the 47 bus north. That certainly wouldn’t take 75 minutes.

The TTC didn’t stand a chance in your challenge.

John Bowman
Toronto

Here’s what I sent them:

The TTC portion of your “NOW commuter challenge” is absolute nonsense.

I simply don’t believe that your writer had to wait 33 minutes just to get on a train, even at Dundas station, even in rush hour. It doesn’t ring true.

And the route you chose to get to St. Clair and Lansdowne isn’t even the fastest route available. Why take the St. Clair streetcar all the way from Yonge to Lansdowne? Take the subway from Yonge/Bloor to Lansdowne station and then take the 47 bus north. That certainly wouldn’t take 75 minutes.

The TTC didn’t stand a chance in your “challenge.”

John Bowman
Toronto

The New York Times has a great piece today about retirees’ love of video games.

In the first photo, a nun is playing Bookworm. I bought that game for my mom a couple Christmases ago, and few months after us kids gave my parents their first computer. I don’t think she’s stopped playing since.

The second photo shows 63-year-old man competing in a “Nintendo Wii bowling league.” My parents bowl. I could imagine them getting into this.

But here’s the problem with Wii Bowling: With a few hundred Lego bricks and what appears to be nine lines of code, you can make a robot that can bowl a perfect game. Every time.

If all it takes to be the best in Wii bowling is to imitate a robot swinging the controller every 15 seconds, it’s not much of a game, is it?

I guess that makes me a geek and a spaz.