Where's Walso?

A "blog" of some sorts featuring links, videos, photos and the occasional musings of JSW in rural Saskatchewan.

“The EU Titanic Has Now Hit The Iceberg”

Farage: We face the prospect of mass civil unrest, even revolution (by europarl)


Hundreds of 5-year-old municipal vehicles found in Miami that were never used »

Have you ever bought a brand new cars only to forget where you put it? How about 300 of them? Probably not – unless you’re Miami-Dade County, which was recently reunited with 298 vehicles it bought brand new between 2006 and 2007.

The county “discovered” this fleet of no-mileage vehicles after reading about them in a Spanish-language newspaper there (see the source for more images). Most of the misplaced motorcade is made up of Toyota Prius hybrids whose warranties either expired with very few miles on the odo or will very soon.


$100 for a pack of cigarettes? »

In an attempt to discourage smokers from lighting up, New Zealand is considering raising the price of a pack of cigarettes to as much as $100 by 2020, Sky News reported.

The suggested measure is one of many ideas from New Zealand’s Ministry of Health to make the country smoke-free by 2025, according to a document released to 3 News in New Zealand.


RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms - Sir Ken Robinson (by theRSAorg)


The Bark Side: 2012 Volkswagen Game Day Commercial Teaser (by Volkswagen)


Familiar Rhetoric, Failed Record (by rnc)



Toaster made from cinderblock - Boing Boing »

Adi Zaffran’s “Pita bread toaster” is a super-minimalist, possibly incendiary, rather heavy brutalist rethink of the design of a toaster: “The pita bread as a staple food led me to the use of simple and basic building materials. Here is a brick oven which is elementary while taking advantage of the cement block’s morphology”


An abusive young freeloader in Scotland gets thrown off the train.

Scotrail No Ticket (by ianhems)