miscellany

In no particular order, here’s a list of some of our favourite blog posts from 2013. Big thanks to all of the writers and photographers who’ve been a part of our blog over the past year, including our Weekly Round-Up contributors, and guest bloggers Rose Simpson , Christopher Ryan , Christophe Ledent and Andrew King . ...

One of our favourite new local blogs is Ottawa Ephemera , posting the “flotsam and jetsam of this city, washed up on telephone poles, wastebaskets, iPhones and mailboxes”. Earlier this week they featured the cover of a 1992 Archie comic book where Archie & friends visit … Ottawa! ...

CBC had an interesting story today about Capt. Rudy Lindia, an Ottawa firefighter whose photo was used to accompany a fake news story on “The Onion”. Lindia agreed to have his photo taken a few years ago, believing it would be used by the City of Ottawa (his employer) for publicity purposes. ...

“Behind the scenes” at OttawaStart: Like most websites, we track how many people visit each of the pages on our web site. (We use Google Analytics for all our tracking.) Here are three of our pages that are getting lots of visitors this week: ...

Time to clean out our bookmark file … here are some interesting web sites found over the past couple of weeks: * [ The Hornet's Sting ](http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/features/hornet/index.html) The Ottawa Citizen is running a series this week on parking tickets in Ottawa. ...

What would you nominate as one of the Seven Wonders of Ottawa? Here are some ideas from members of Ottawa’s Livejournal page: * Cats at Parliament Hill * Rideau Canal skating rink * The Spider @ National Gallery * Experimental Farm * Westbound traffic on game night * Remic Rapids stone sculptures * Beavertails * The Greenbelt Click here to read more nominations… ...

Today we launched the newest page on OttawaStart: the Used Stuff Guide . Click on the link and you’ll find a big listing of online classifieds, garage sales, local thrift shops, second hand stores, and more. “One person’s trash is another person’s treasure” … our Used Stuff Guide will help you make that old saying come true! ...

Check out this blog post from Buzz Canuck that compares usage of Facebook in different cities around the globe. Canadian cities have a remarkably high Facebook usage. Here are the “number of Facebook users per K capita” for select Canadian cities: ** ...

We’ve had a few requests & searches for information about to send birthday cards to Shane Bernier, the 7-year-old CHEO patient who is trying to set a world record by collecting the most birthday cards in a single year. Here’s the info: ...

As seen on Laura’s blog : You talk to people from other cities about shawarma and are mystified when they have no clue what the hell you're talking about There was a point in time (or it is that point in time right now) when you wished you were 18 so you could drive, cab or bus to hull to get alcohol ...