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. ...

Check out Justin Wonnacott’s " images of public art from the nation’s capital “. A great collection of photos of art that you may or may not have noticed around the city. I’ve always wondered about that deer in front of the Manulife building . ...

Anton sends along this note: ‘I just completed google maps mashup of all Ottawa - area Christmas Tree farms, where one can cut own christmas tree." Here’s the link. You should also check out our previous post: [ Ask OttawaStart: Christmas tree farms in Ottawa ...

Enjoyed reading David Reevely’s take on pedestrian signage gone wrong: “Here’s a tip for the traffic engineers. If you need signs like this, and especially if the signs need to inform pedestrians where their “refuge” is while they try to navigate a simple two-street crossing, you’ve blown it. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Welcome-to-OC-Transpo_1258339904022.png) OC Transpo launched a re-designed web site last week. (And it is indeed the same design that we blogged about way back in June.) ** ** One important update is a new section called " Live Transit Updates " that shows daily route changes including detours and cancellations. ...

So I’m driving our four-year-old to daycare this morning, and she asks “why do we wear a poppy dad?” Not wanting to get into a deep conversation about war and death at 8:30am, I said it was a symbol we wear to remind us of Remembrance Day. ...

It’s become a yearly tradition: every year around this time DaniGirl from Postcards from the Mothership posts her annual list of Eastern Ontario Christmas parades . The earliest is November 14 in Kanata and the latest is in Kilaloe on December 12. ...

Here are some links to information about H1N1 / Swine Flu, including vaccination clinics in Ottawa ** . ** We’ll update this blog post with more info and links over the next few weeks. ** Local links: ** * Press release (Oct 30, 2009: [ New wristband process introduced to minimize wait times at H1N1 clinics ](http://ottawastart. ...

My pal DT just sent this link to an interactive traffic map from the City of Ottawa. Built on Google Maps, you can view a variety of information overlays, such as construction zones, “incidents” (is that accidents or other significant traffic delays? ...

Here’s a rant that is destined to become a classic. Written by XUP , after spending over an hour to bus home when it would have taken ten minutes to drive the same distance. Sample just one paragraph of ten: “You do everything in your power to discourage transit users and yet some of us just won’t give up. ...