Apparently, a lot of interesting events happen around Toronto in which I weren’t aware of before. In addition to the previously posted Toronto Zombie March that happens around Halloween every year, a city wide Capture the Flag Tournament was also held in September earlier this year.
Organized by the people at NewMindSpace, Capture the Flag 2006 had over a whopping 1000 participants joining the event, making it one of the largest real life CTF games ever (imagine 1000 players playing CTF on Quake… chaos!). Happening in the heart of downtown Toronto, there are more than enough empty space for you to run about and hide your flags.
See more of the event in the video below.

I guess this song more or less summarizes the story of all computer science students. The ‘Windows must be terminated’ part was especially hilarious. As an additional note, this song was actually parodied from a hit by the cutest Taiwanese idol ever - Rainie Yang! You can check out the music video of the original song here.

The International Space Station up there is currently widely used as a laboratory to perform experiments under weightless environments without gravity. This video on Youtube shows a few of these (probably not so top secret) experiments done at the station, investigating the effects of waves in a sphere of water, bubbles in a sphere of water, as well as an antacid tablet reaction with a sphere of water.

The experiments themselves are only high-school leveled labs when performed on Earth, but when performed in space, it just gets that much more fascinating.

I’ve been braggin for quite a while to go somewhere north to have a glimpse of an Aurora, since it’s truly an amazing wonder of nature. This video here shows a whole time lapse of an evening sky with an Aurora, and it’s taken in taken right here in Canada (British Columbia though). It would be awesome if we could see something like that here in Toronto.

Check out the video below and be in awe. Again another impressive computer technology developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, they have managed to develop algorithms to process a simple 2D photograph into 3D. Now you can re-live or share with your friends all the sights and sounds of your caribbean cruise or Europe backpacking trip as if you were there!