Sometimes it’s the little things that mean a lot.  I’ve noticed that the Wall Street Journal has made a subtle change in the way it sends out e-mail news bulletins.  When the newsworthy event is a competition, the Journal is consistently careful to avoid revealing the result in the first line of the e-mail.

Sick of waiting for your How to Drink Chocolate Milk video to load? Now, you can buy the entire YouTube collection on DVD. It will arrive in a set of nesting boxes, delivered by a fleet of 170 trucks or pack mule, if you live on a steep grade. Actually, the offer ended yesterday but the very funny April Fools’ video remains.

Wouldn’t it be nice to travel without your kids? That’s the premise of a very funny April Fools joke, released by Canadian airline WestJet yesterday.

Starting this fall, the penny will vanish from Canada. The US government should do the same.

A friend of mine sent me this Alter Ego via Twitter. Doug is a money manager. He writes: “I know we manage people’s dough, but I’m not sure the barista knew that. It’s Doug, silly.”

I give Mariya Dmitriyenko full marks for keeping up a look of pride in a moment of silliness. At the Arab Shooting Championship, the winner stood on the podium for the medal ceremony and instead of hearing Kazakhstan’s real national anthem she heard the obscene anthem that had been made up for the “Borat” movie.

How would you react if you knew the world was about to end?  That’s the central question in Abel Ferrara’s movie “4:44 Last Day on Earth.”  It arrives in theaters on Friday, and I have a small role in it.

Danielle Smith wants to be premier of my home province of Alberta. To kick off her campaign she had a tour bus wrapped with a photo of herself. Unfortunately, her head and torso ended up directly over the back wheels.

I guess I can give away my not-so-secret secret now that Disney says it’s about to crack down on “abuse” of the Fastpass. The truth is, I am one of those abusers.