Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego comes from one of Pat’s Twitter followers, @AlbertaActor. He submitted this picture of the alias his girlfriend Heather received recently. As far as pet names go, this is a new one.

Apparently I need to play Scrabble more often. Some researchers in my hometown at the University of Calgary have determined it makes you smarter.

Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego comes from Catherine. She’s used to people misspelling her name with a ‘k’—but this was a first.

Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego comes from Wen. He’s not sure how to interpret his moniker—we aren’t either….

Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego comes courtesy of Lindsay. She observes, “phonetic spelling at its best.” We couldn’t agree more.

Move over, Julia Roberts. Three guys decided the Eat, Pray, Love formula could use an update. So they grabbed two cameras and spent 44 days traveling 38,000 miles through 11 countries. The result? Three videos that describe what it’s like to Move, Learn, and Eat around the world in one minute.

The winners of Pat’s annual Canada Day contest with Gothamist gathered Tuesday night for beer and poutine at Windfall, the midtown bar known for its Saturday “Hockey Night” gatherings.

This is what our society has come to. We are distrustful of friends who aren’t online with us. Very funny fake movie trailer inspired by the 1993 Mel Gibson movie.

It’s a bird…it’s a plane…it’s a mechanical sea gull. A German firm debut it’s latest invention—a robotic seagull—at the TEDGlobal conference in Scotland this year. The company said it’s goal was to “mimic nature” and by that metric, they succeeded. During a test run the robot bird appeared so lifelike a group of flesh-and-blood sea gulls swooped in and joined it in flight. VIDEO