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Ghostwriters Paid by Wyeth Aided Its Drugs – NYTimes.com As far as scandals go, I’d say in academic publishing… this is up there. The cynic in me thinks this is a logical next step after paying for drug studies. Why not pay for the articles too? “pharmaceutical companies routinely hired medical writing companies to assist [...]

Just a quick note to celebrate my last exam for the year. Last class of the summer was tonight. Really liked the Record Management course. Really hated the marking. oh well, when your style is hated by the TA, you’re screwed. Never mind. My summer officially starts now. It’s 4 weeks before classes start up [...]

I was browsing books at Chapters maybe two months ago looking at new craft books. There were many new to me books but one really caught my eye because it was so fun! Baby Stuff. A translation from the Japanese which I’m very happy is a new crafting publishing trend. Of course, I went online [...]

About Project 95 | Fabric Shoppers Unite Great idea to bring a listing of independent fabric shops together. Unfortunately, according to this site (still in beta) I have no stores within 100 miles of me. I wish they had a browse function since a search by postal code could be problematic. Either there are no [...]

For the last two weeks, I’ve been stalking the baking section at Chapters looking for cupcake recipes. Been thinking about getting the Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes: 175 Inspired Ideas for Everyone’s Favorite Treat. Then I thought it might be better to make something, and try it and get a feel if I really want to make [...]

Picked up a copy of Amy Butler softwares at MacFab. I wasn’t planning on it, but her other patterns were pricey at MacFab and the second I realized that softwares didn’t need EQ to run, I had to have it. And am I glad I got it. The first chance I got it installed it [...]

Pet Airways is a pet airline[via] New Pet airline carrier launches in select cities. Am definitely going to keep an eye on this. I think they are missing a market for not being in Canada. We’ve got essentially a monopoly on flights here and until July 1st Air Canada still didn’t allow pets to fly [...]

Recently took a trip to Boston area for a friend’s wedding. It was a short 4 days including the two days on the road. We borrowed a GPS from a friend which really came in handy and suffered mostly time in the pouring rain. However the day of the wedding was great so that’s really [...]

Meet my little friend! Since High School, I have been borrowing my mom’s Singer Genie for my sewing projects. I don’t sew much, but it’s been living with me for the lat 5 years at least. I love it. But I’ve been looking for a new machine but couldn’t afford to get a really fancy [...]

Kindling absolutely love this project posted by oskay on flickr. via

You can tell I’m procrastinating. I should be reading research for my paper, but now, I’m fixing up my blog a little. It’s still not right, but it’s good enough for now. I want to post some blog entries and have to at least get as far as not being so ugly before I can [...]

… as taken by one of the Saturday photographers. Please click on the photo and look at the flickr page by the photographer: jackctk on flickr.

This is sometimes what happens when we go out with Flour. On Saturday, we went to High Park to see some Cherry Blossoms. Everyone and their brother had a camera and well, one “Can I take a picture of your dog?” later and she’s got a mini mob surrounding her. Everyone joins in. G didn’t [...]

Have never been to Ottawa, so when G had a business trip, I tagged along with Flour. It was a long ride there and back, but Flour and I got to enjoy a few hours on a sunny Sunday walking around Parliament Hill. Here’s the link to the photoset on flickr: (click on the photo) [...]

Oh, forgot to mention that I was actually photographed at the frolic by Craftlover! I’m in peach in the middle of the third photo on her page!

so I got one. Am so pleased about how light my super colourist was able to get my hair in one treatment.

Once again, xkcd.com gets it. I used to have this dream all the time, mostly about some calculus class. But luckily not since starting school. I’ll have a new knitting project to blog show and tell once it’s arrived at destination Don’t want to ruin the surprise!

I made this map for a presentation for school and thought I might as well share it with everyone. (inspired by the Seattle Area Yarn Stores Map) View Larger Map

As promised, something fun. Flour loves to play in the snow. Sometimes it’s a lot of work for her when the snow is just as high as she is! So, it’s like watching her swim in it. This was taken this past weekend, snowing, -30 wind chill, and she didn’t mind it one bit. Half [...]

I LEGO N.Y. – Abstract City Blog – NYTimes.com [via] I’ve been missing many aspects of NY the last few weeks. Glad to see that I’m not the only one. I’ve really been missing the various food, and while one can easily see how one might miss some high art cuisine. I’ve been really craving [...]