Oceans

Picture this: It's Monday morning, and you wake up groggy to your alarm because the incessant traffic and blaring of truck horns from the local highway kept you from getting a good nights' sleep. You'd go back to sleep, but your spouse is already up watching TV and that annoying anchor for the 6 AM news is peppily rambling about how great his week abroad in Hawaii was - like an image of him in a speedo is what you need in your head first thing. You hop in the shower, if only to drown out the...Read Full Story

Everything that goes around comes around. This morning I got a message from António Fangueiro who'd been doodling around on the internet and found my blog entry about the Santa Maria Manuela, a Portuguese cod fishing schooner about which the National Film Board of Canada made a lovely short film The White Ship. The ship and its men were among the last to fish off the Grand Banks under sail. The very last went out in 1973, when factory ships had begun vacuuming up cod with the results we know...Read Full Story

How do you like to prepare your slimehead? That’s not a nonsense question - there really is a popular food known as slimehead, though you’ve probably heard it under a different name. It’s a fish that fine restaurants prefer to call orange roughy . The orange roughy is a long-lived deep sea fish that is being pulled out of the oceans at a rate that threatens it with extinction because, well, orange roughy does sound delicious, doesn’t it? As long as we’re playing around with food names here...Read Full Story

Back from Portugal to find the garden overgrown and mass of news to digest. While in Lisbon I wa5ched far more television than I do here, largely to work on my Portuguese comprehension. Canada made the news a couple of times—a second death due to AH1N1, the Stanley Cup finals (only on BBC sports,) Alice Munro winning the International Man Booker, J’ai tué ma mère running away at Cannes and the CAW making more concessions to GM. Other big stories here didn’t rate a mention there. It’s going to...Read Full Story

A live video has been placed on line depicting the magnitude of the Gulf of Mexico oil leak and here is one of the pictures. A foretaste of what is to come, perhaps? The second angel sounded, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea; and a third of the sea became blood, and a third of the creatures which were in the sea and had life, died; and a third of the ships were destroyed." Revelation 8:8-9 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and...Read Full Story

W orld's B est W hale W atching Baja/Sea of Cortez, Mexico (December-April) I n the breeding lagoons in Baja, you go out in a small 18-foot skiff and a 40-foot grey whale mother will rub against the boat for an hour, or a whale will lift its head out of the water for you to touch them. This close contact is a strictly regulated experience. The animals are not trained—it turns out they're just bored and curious. Grey whales are intelligent creatures. It's something for them to do to pass the...Read Full Story

As I explained over the weekend, Social bookmarking and wikimedia have turned me sour. I’m remain open, however, to other sorts of collaborative media experiments online. One such experiment is Zimbio, a place where authors, graphic designers and videographers can contribute their efforts to the construction of online magazines that focus on particular topics. It’s kind of like Squidoo, only more cooperative in structure. A Squidoo lensmaster controls a lens fairly tightly, whereas the who...Read Full Story

Here's a photo taken near Naples, Florida. There were literally piles of shells washed up on the beach. I thought this photo made for a pretty decent free desktop wallpaper. Click on the image to get the full resolution and save it as your background. Enjoy :)OmniSwami.com - Tomorrow the truth will be revealed...Read Full Story

Amateur Video Of Gulf Oil Slick - Worse Than BP Admits  In this Live Leak Video of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Slick, we are told it is far worse than BP or anyone wants to admit. I doubt anyone in this administration would admit the lasting environmental and economic damages caused by this catastrophe because of their own greed, but instead Washington will hold an oil slick summit, start the finger pointing and play the blame game. Alabama resident John Wathen, as a volunteer pilot, flew him...Read Full Story

Offer price is 62% higher than share price This page was sent to you by:  ir@globalcrossroadscapital.com BUSINESS DAY   | August 15, 2011 DealBook: Transocean Bids $1.43 Billion for Norwegian Driller By JULIA WERDIGIER By acquiring Aker Drilling of Norway, Transocean would gain two ultra-deepwater rigs and two drillships that are under construction. Copyright 2011   The New York Times Company | Privacy Policy...Read Full Story