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The Yes Men: P2P edition

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:00:34 GMT

The Yes Men are making their newest movie available for bittorrent download and also provide links to donate money if you feel like it (I did). If you like their antics/activism please consider...

Hilhurst/Sunnyside Farmer's Market

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:00:34 GMT

Esther and I have been down to the newly revamped Hilhurst/Sunnyside Farmer's Market (Wednesdays from 3:30 to 7pm) a couple times and it really is quite improved: a good mix of actual...

Bees in my Back Yard

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This year I took a plunge I wanted to do since last year and got a backyard bee-hive. Very exciting!

Sour Gas wells, pipeline coming to Kananaskis

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:00:34 GMT

``Alberta regulators have approved 11 sour gas wells on the eastern slopes of the Rockies despite strong opposition from landowners, ranchers, and environmentalists.'' ...also a pipeline....

Beez!

Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

(5 total photos, 2 videos, May 21, 2010) — Installing my "nuc" (nuclear colony) into their permanent home. Exciting stuff! A few mistakes no doubt, but all seems to be well for now. Neat watching them all come and go.

Better food means better marks

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Jamie Oliver is on a recent TED-prize-sponsored quest to better educate kids about what food is and give them better access to it. His talk at TED about it is both very depressing and...

Coast Ski Trip 2010

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

(8 total photos, April 13, 2010) — Brad, Jeff and I drove out to the coast to meet Florian for some snow, turns and fun. Florian has some photos also.

Dietary Fat

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Saturated animal fat is terrible for you, right? Not true.

Recipe: Pastry

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Pastry recipe I use most often. Uses warmed butter and no "cutting", very fast.

Recipe: Lard

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

To make a good PIE, you first need a good crust. The best way to make one of these is with lard, which seems hard to acquire. So we make some.

Food

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Recipes and food links and articles.

Doctor's Strikes equal Lower Death Rates

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Some time ago my friend Michael told me about a case of an Israeli doctors' strike in the 80's actually resulting in reduced mortality rates, and I finally got around to searching about...

Do better at math: teach it less

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Interesting: a long article about an experiment from 1929 in which kids were taught no math at all (they spoke English instead, e.g. telling stories etcetera) up until grade 6. Before the...

Elizabeth Parker Hut

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

(10 total photos, March 15, 2010) — Family trip into Elizabeth Parker Hut. Great weather, lots of stuff to carry. I don't know how much stuff weighed, but we took a lot of fresh food, canned baby stuff, yoghurt, frozen burritos and pies...needless to say quite a heavy food bag. I remember the trail being fairly flat from before, but it sure seemed hilly this time :)

Sea Lions killed for being sea lions

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Here's a ridiculous one: ``A task force is expected to recommend that pesky sea lions that gobble up threatened salmon at Bonneville Dam be killed in order to help conserve fish runs'' ...

Internet Full

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:00:00 GMT

ARIN, the regional registrar for North America estimates that IP address exhaustion will happen this year. Although predicted since the 1990s (and planned for, with the IPv6 standard since...

Government Poisoning Citizens

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Via Craig, we get this heartwarming story of the US government adding poison to then-illegal alcohol during Prohibition. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured...

Genetically-engineered pigs

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:00:00 GMT

This is such fucking horseshit. Problem: hosing out factory pig farms put too much pig shit in rivers, ground water, etc. Solution: genetically engineer the pigs to have less phosphorous...

Sad state of affairs

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:00:34 GMT

``Alberta elementary students can now visit provincial parks - without leaving their classroom.'' ...and without fear of lawsuits. Oh joy! What a fucking crock of shit. ...