news

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/the-o-dot_1280500611319.jpg) My new favourite Ottawa blog is the-o-dot , a fake news site that’s kind of like a local version of The Onion. Some sample headlines: * [ Out Of Control Hogweed Robs Bank ](http://the-o-dot.blogspot.com/2010/07/out-of-control-hogweed-robs-bank.html) * [ Random Hole Digging Begins ](http://the-o-dot. ...

Last week, David Reevely posted this on his Greater Ottawa blog: I can't help but wonder what we'd have been like if somebody tried to introduce curbside garbage pickup for the first time in 2010. “You want me to what? ...

Here are nine useful and interesting Ottawa Twitter feeds that not too many people follow. I guess after this post they may not be so obscure any longer. Add your suggestions in the comments below. 1. [ InfosOutaouais ](http://twitter. ...

A quick pointer today to a recent post on the Knitnut.net blog titled " Gorgeous George “. It’s about George Guirguis, who’s running for a council seat in Bay Ward. Zoom writes: Well, now he has fifty campaign videos on Youtube. ...

My new favourite Ottawa web site is OttawaTrash.ca . It’s ** ** a very simple but incredibly useful web site, created using data from the City of Ottawa’s website. The creators describe it as “born out of a need for a garbage scheduling app for Ottawa that doesn’t inspire acts of rage … using carefully hand-made iCal files for the city’s trash schedules”. ...

The other day on OttawaStart’s Twitter feed , I linked to BINAces Inc. , a new business in Ottawa that specializes in cleaning green bins. It’s been interesting to see the ecosystem (pardon the pun) of businesses that have popped up to support the green bin. ...

David Reevely has a good rant today titled " A council that trusts nobody, including itself “. (I’d post an excerpt but there’s a hockey game to watch.) ** Related: ** Ottawa Politics Guide

Ottawa Citizen blogger David Reevely translates a very wordy memo/letter by Deputy city manager Nancy Schepers re: the new bus garage.

Andrea has a good rant on composting, over on her Peek Inside The Fishbowl blog . She’s claimed the title of “compost queen of Westboro”, and takes on some of the negative comments so far about Ottawa’s new green bin program. ...

XUP says: ** ** You know those automatic door openers next to mall doors and the doors of some shops? Sometimes they’re just red buttons, sometimes they’re big metal buttons with a stick figure in a wheelchair in the middle of them. ...