Some of the more interesting tidbits from the blogosphere and beyond for some Sunday reading:

- Legendary Canadian weatherman Percy Saltzman died recently. His relatives were surprised to discover he had been writing a blog that provided some, well, interesting insight into his personal life. According to the Globe and Mail, this included his sexual difficulties with his wife and interest in naked women. His sons have culled the salacious material from the blog but you can probably find the deleted material cached somewhere on the Web if you really curious. The G&M suggests Saltzman’s behaviour is part of a trend called “silver surfers” in which elderly people who are perhaps do not have full cognitive skills have a loss of inhibitions online.
- Did the National Hockey League rig the recent online All-Star voting to make sure journeyman defenseman Rory Fitzpatrick was voted onto the team? Slate has a story suggesting the NHL may have been fooling around behind the scenes to counter a grassroots movement that saw Fitzpatrick gather hundreds of thousands of votes for the all-star team, despite the fact he’s been injured this year and has never been seen as an elite player. The story also talks about how Fitzpatrick supporters were able to hack NHL.com‘s Web site and exploit dozens of security flaws.
- My Name is Earl is the only TV show – other than sports – that I religiously watch. The last episode is about a guy who dies (his Murphy’s Bed suddenly closes and kills him) without apparently any friends. Earl discovers this guy had a rich social life with my friends around the world online. For anyone into the Web, it’s well worth watching.
- I don’t get many offers to do product reviews these days but the folks at Roomba were nice enough to offer one of their robot vacuums. Can’t wait to play around with it today.