by Sean Orr | Why we as Canadians, nay, a species, deserve total and widespread doom: Web surfing more valuable than riches for some Canadians. “One-fifth of Canadians polled in a new survey said they would turn down a million dollars in order to keep their Internet access”. OK, that’s dumb for so many reasons. As if the chance to escape the constant barrage of Google+ invites, Facebook events, Twitter updates, Flickr favourites, and Tumblr reblogs wasn’t worth it alone, you could probably just pay someone to do all that for you. What a Brave New World indeed.

#Lotusland! The best city in the world has the 7th best economy in Canada. It’s surprising that people even work here at all. I mean, what does everyone here do for a living? Video games? Tourism? Blogging?

Guest column: U.S. debt spat pushes world toward calamity. “The deadline is just two weeks away and serious people all over the world are beginning to sweat”. As for the rest of us non-serious, non-sweating people, we are content in the absurdity of hyperbole.

And only slightly related to the above, Mayor Robertson’s wild ‘green’ plan will cripple Vancouver. “Ambitious but myopic. It’s elitist to the core”. Unfortunately, I agree with “Staff Writer” on this one. Only the rich can really afford to be environmentalists. Yet this is not our humble mayor’s fault. Rather it’s the fault of a neo-classical, autistic economy completely alienated from the actual costs of things.

Just in case there was any doubt why they chose Cambie for the Canada Line, Council approves three towers to begin development around south Cambie intersection.

First World problems: Fraser River flooding stops white-water rafting.

Historic rock garden in Stanley Park gets recognition. And if you think that is cool check out this weird image I found while searching for Stanley Park Rock Garden.

This Day in History: “We have again proven conclusively and incontrovertibly that B.C. leads the world in bathtub technology”. We’re number one!