Edit: See my additional comments about the context of this video and response to some of the comments below.

It's that magical time of the year again. As a healthy layer of snow settles gently on the city and temperatures drop this evening, why not cuddle up by the fire with your loved ones and watch as a London-bound Air Canada passenger totally loses his shit, screaming obscenities and yelling "shoot me!" and "fucking white people!" while being restrained by those around him.

It looks as though the crew and/or passengers had already restrained the man at the hands by the time the video begins, and is also being physically restrained by passengers next to him. It's not too clear what actually spurred the raging outburst, and not even the video's author is too certain, "I don't know what happened here. But this happened on my Air Canada plane ride to London, England in December 6th, 2007 from Toronto."

Through all the nonsense surrounding the fake ROM bomb threat that went down a couple weeks ago, and local artist ass-hat Thorarinn Ingi Jonsson getting way more fame than he ever deserved, somewhere along the way many lost sight of the fact of how much this act of stupidity really cost.

You'll recall that not only did the city and all of its taxpayers get totally screwed in having to divert costly resources to respond to this situation, but also an AIDS charity benefit running at the ROM that night was canceled as well. Now, it seems that there's a silver lining to all this.

CANFAR, the national charitable foundation who setup the event, have now moved the charity online to make up for the lost donations. That means that until tomorrow (December 12) at 8pm, you can support the cause by bidding on a wide variety of items valued over $130,000 with all proceeds going to AIDS and HIV research. They're also accepting general tributes/donations even after the auction closes, so that should give OCAD more than enough time to save a bit of face and do the right thing.

Photo by blogTO Flickr pooler, Henry Roxas

Watch out creeps, scumbags, and all assortment of miscellaneous villainy, Peel Police are sporting some new wheels at Toronto's Pearson International Airport, from the future. Starting today, police at Pearson International are rolling out new Segway-like three-wheeled electric vehicles to help them get around Terminal One quicker.

This makes Pearson the first in Canada, and only other airport in North America other than LAX to get equipped with the buggies . Beyond looking like distant cousins of RoboCop, they'll help police track down missing people in the airport easier, and presumably make life safer for us all.

Cops have already commented that the T3s are making rather quick work of traversing the enormous terminal, and reducing the number of officers that need to be deployed in any given situation.

As an added bonus, the vehicles run completely off an electric power source, and can make a top speed of 10 kilometers per hour. Police hope to order more next year if they continue to prove useful.

Are you a fan of Icelandic experimental and classical music? Sure you are. In that case, you're in luck. Sigur Rós, Iceland's post-rock darlings, are screening their first film, Heima at The Royal next Friday, making this the film's only Canadian screening before it's released on DVD.

The film takes viewers along for a ride with the band who tour their homeland, making impromptu, unannounced stops in small towns to do their thing. You've probably heard a lot about the beauty of the land of Ice, and Heima promises to give an inspiring take on the people and landscape that have inspired the band to create their truly mesmerizing pieces.

Keep on reading to check out the trailer and more details on the screening.

There's no doubt that Daniel Libeskind's architectural renovation of the ROM earlier this year drew a lot of publicity, good and bad. It was dubbed the Michael-Lee Chin Crystal in honour of generous monetary contribution of its namesake, and immediately had a polarizing reaction among those in Toronto. One Joe Clark went so far as to say the Crystal "sodomized" and "parasitized" the existing ROM architecture. So is the new ROM dramatic? Yes. Ambitious? Of course. Unique to Toronto? Well, turns out, not so much.

Apparently Mr. Libeskind has a penchant for erecting massive crystals containing priceless historical artifacts. His bio includes similar projects at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Imperial War Museum in England, and more close to home, the Denver Art Museum in Colorado.

So how do they stack up? In the first of a two-part series, I'll take a look at the exterior design of The Mile High City's crystal and see how our own humble children-hungry crystalline stacks up.

Don't you just love it when profit-grubbing companies keep inching their hand further into your pocket to make sure they grabbed every last dime? That seems to be exactly what went down this week on Commissioners Street near the Cirque du Soleil show, as Accordion Guy wrote about on his blog yesterday.

The scam supposedly involved an Impark employee laying down orange pylons along the road before the Cirque showswhere free parking was available, no doubt to entice drivers to opt for the nearby parking lots instead.

What's worse? The Toronto Star initially wrote two stories about this on October 20th and 22nd, but later made a very cryptic retraction about the whole thing. So what happened here?

Did The Star get bullied into submission? Or was this a genuine error on the writer's part?