Tumbling home of Andrew Yates Dateline Toronto, by way of a Vancouver state-of-mind Twitter: yatesey _uacct = "UA-4246218-1"; urchinTracker(); Tumblr (3.0; @newshole)http://www.newshole.ca/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m422llHFIO1qearaqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://awesomepeoplehangingouttogether.tumblr.com/post/23168495181/tom-waits-david-bowie-and-bette-midler" class="tumblr_blog">awesomepeoplehangingouttogether</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Tom Waits, David Bowie and Bette Midler</p></blockquote>http://www.newshole.ca/post/23206643775http://www.newshole.ca/post/23206643775Wed, 16 May 2012 22:30:39 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1i5ef5S4y1qkkjmgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://cbcnews.tumblr.com/post/19958783616/director-james-camerons-dive-to-the-floor-of-the">cbcnews</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>Director James Cameron’s dive to the floor of the Pacific Ocean is the latest feat in a history full of adventure</span></p> </blockquote>http://www.newshole.ca/post/19980284812http://www.newshole.ca/post/19980284812Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:04:08 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0rwc4RdDs1qkkjmgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I’m loving the new CBC News Tumblr!</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://cbcnews.tumblr.com/post/19177668069/japan-one-year-later-12-months-after-a-9-0">cbcnews</a>:</p> <blockquote> <h4>Japan: One year later</h4> <p>12 months after a 9.0 earthquake triggered a tsunami that devastated the country</p> </blockquote>http://www.newshole.ca/post/19182306914http://www.newshole.ca/post/19182306914Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:10:29 -0400<object width="400" height="268"><param name="movie" value="http://www.cbc.ca/video/swf/UberPlayer.swf?state=sharevideo&clipId=2204582266&width=480&height=322" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.cbc.ca/video/swf/UberPlayer.swf?state=sharevideo&clipId=2204582266&width=480&height=322" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="268"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Did you know you can now embed and share videos posted on CBCnews.ca?  It’s pretty great!</p>http://www.newshole.ca/post/18608070935http://www.newshole.ca/post/18608070935Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:48:05 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lws3nqpVy61qz838ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.newshole.ca/post/14778899350http://www.newshole.ca/post/14778899350Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:28:37 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvun57kZ4y1qz838ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigette_DePape">Brigette DePape</a> made another <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/12/07/un-climate-kent.html">public performance today in Durban at the Climate Change talks</a>.  I think we have a next generation <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaggi_Singh">Jaggi Singh</a> in the making.</p>http://www.newshole.ca/post/13882615578http://www.newshole.ca/post/13882615578Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:51:07 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/13181821100/tumblr_lv39gxsWMt1qz838a&color=FFFFFF&logo=soundcloud" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p>Loving the new Leonard Cohen.  The old man’s still got the goods.</p>http://www.newshole.ca/post/13181821100http://www.newshole.ca/post/13181821100Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:00:33 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu1s7pc7Ki1qz838ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Drs. Naji Touma and Gregory Roberts were scrolling through images of a testicular tumour on a computer when they did a double take… they saw what appeared to be the outline of <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1079655--man-s-face-appears-in-tumour-in-ultrasound-oddity?bn=1">a man’s face staring back at them in an ultrasound image of a tumour</a>.”</p> <p>I got nothing.</p>http://www.newshole.ca/post/12249363859http://www.newshole.ca/post/12249363859Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:16:00 -0400<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LaCTUN-Vdno?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>I just out my old buddy and bandmate, David J Taylor wrote the news Sakatchewan Roughriders theme song, Ride On.  It feature my new favourite lyric, “Ride on. Get ‘er done.”</p>http://www.newshole.ca/post/12200323708http://www.newshole.ca/post/12200323708Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:49:16 -0400<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iLpbMqQMelk?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Zombie Boy gets a cover up.</p>http://www.newshole.ca/post/12032273012http://www.newshole.ca/post/12032273012Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:22:56 -0400<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OI6lciWzs3k?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>I’m dating myself here, but the U2 doc that debuted at TIFF is online.  It tells the story of the making of Achtung Baby, the album they made after embarrassing themselves with Rattle and Hum and almost broke up.</p>http://www.newshole.ca/post/11873067475http://www.newshole.ca/post/11873067475Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:34:42 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltfjwby23y1qz838ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/fact-check-new-york-posts-qaddafi-headline-almost-certainly-wrong/247141/">Classic NY Post</a>.</p>http://www.newshole.ca/post/11740062439http://www.newshole.ca/post/11740062439Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:09:46 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt9jlhC53b1qz838ao1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2011/10/15/look-up-in-the-sky-its-an-airship-its-an-airplane-no-its-solar-ship/">This is super cool</a>: “A Toronto company called <a target="_blank" href="http://solarship.com/">Solar Ship</a> has designed an aircraft that it says will be able to travel 1,000 kilometres carrying up to 1,000 kilograms of cargo, powered only by the sunlight that shines on its back. It will also be able to take off from — and land on — a spot no larger than a high-school soccer field.” via <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Go2CleanBreak">@Go2CleanBreak</a></p>http://www.newshole.ca/post/11611226320http://www.newshole.ca/post/11611226320Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:17:41 -0400<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/24530080?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>After reading this story, <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1067822--seattle-superhero-out-of-jail-and-back-in-costume?bn=1">Seattle ‘superhero’ out of jail and back in costume</a>, I did some Googling and found the video above. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Jones">Phoenix Jones</a> rules!</p>http://www.newshole.ca/post/11327206072http://www.newshole.ca/post/11327206072Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:32:55 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lscby82F1E1qz838ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/ontario-photograph-collector-puts-up-an-1860-photogprah-on-ebay-pho/story-e6frewyr-1226154490366">John Travolta - Time Traveler</a></p>http://www.newshole.ca/post/10848137782http://www.newshole.ca/post/10848137782Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:51:44 -0400<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SEwZ4e0IWB0?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>A great new book about the clean energy revolution: Mad like Tesla - madliketesla.com - check it out!</p>http://www.newshole.ca/post/10359739912http://www.newshole.ca/post/10359739912Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:09:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr5pe7Wasy1qz838ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Beautiful - <a href="http://www.blogto.com/city/2011/09/early_september_sunset_sets_toronto_skies_ablaze/">more at Blogto</a></p>http://www.newshole.ca/post/9917851596http://www.newshole.ca/post/9917851596Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:25:19 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqv36vqjOU1qz838ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Would like to have seen Glen Campbell at the CNE last night.  <span class="screen-name screen-name-spaikin pill"><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/spaikin">@spaikin</a> was live tweeting commentary on the set, if you want to go back and check his feed. Or <a href="http://www.blogto.com/music/2011/09/glen_campbell_says_goodbye_at_the_cne/">BlogTO has a nice review</a>.<br/></span></p>http://www.newshole.ca/post/9677354927http://www.newshole.ca/post/9677354927Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:49:43 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqujdkBFEF1qz838ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My oldest daughter is named Penelope, so I find <a href="http://www.penelope4ontario.ca/">this</a> particularly cute!</p>http://www.newshole.ca/post/9665485929http://www.newshole.ca/post/9665485929Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:41:44 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqht4gNnvu1qz838ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Better days…</p>http://www.newshole.ca/post/9378377591http://www.newshole.ca/post/9378377591Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:43:28 -0400