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Canada Needs to Torture People to Stay Safe

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:00:00 GMT

More from BoingBoing as well. CSIS needs torture or the world will end. Canada's spy agency was so reliant on information obtained through torture that it suggested the whole...

Government No Longer Testing Nutrition Claims on Food

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:00:00 GMT

The Canada Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) apparently stopped doing "surveys" of pre-packaged "food" items to test that their labels are accurate. The Herald says "abruptly" implying this was...

Indefinite Military Detention: Now For Americans, Too!

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:00:00 GMT

A bill right now before the US Senate would give the US military the power to lock up anyone (including US Citizens) for ever with no charge -- they want to redefine use soil as an ongoing...

Bloomberg Forces Disclosure of Moneypit Extent

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:00:00 GMT

After a legal battle with the Fed and a group of US banks, Bloomberg forced disclosure of details of the US bailout to banks under FOIP. In all, nearly $8 trillion (considerably more...

WiFi vs. Human Sperm

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:00:00 GMT

A WiFi-connected laptop near your balls may not be such a great idea; research looking at sperm (not in balls) exposed to 4 hours of WiFi from ta laptop conclude much reduced votility ("ability...

Top Toronto Police Ordered Illegal Arrest Campaign

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:00:00 GMT

As the result of a civil suit brought by one of the many people arrested but never charged during the G20 in Toronoto, it has been revealed that officers had orders to illegally arrest people...

For Sale: Tools to Spy on You

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:00:00 GMT

The Wall Street Journal offers a glipse into the product offerings of shady companies selling surveillance gear -- like covertly installed keyloggers, cell-phone malware which grabs all text...

Hunting 2011

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

(2 total photos, one video, November 26, 2011) — Some photos from butchering from this year's hunting trips with Kyle. Adrian was pretty keen to help with the butchering, spending nearly 3 hours watching, using the grinder and helping Esther wrap.

Stephen Harper Wants to Watch You Online

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:00:00 GMT

Probably-upcoming bills from our friendly freedom-loving Prime Minister will force ISPs to give police subscriber information without a warrant. Consider just one of the new...

Auditor General: Health Canada Sucks at Issuing Drug Safety Warnings

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:00:00 GMT

Health Canada is terrible at alerting consumers to safety issues it identifies with drugs, according to the Auditor General. The time lag, outlined in an audit tabled Tuesday in the...

Police Try to Kill Protester in Oakland

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:00:34 GMT

After "somehow" hitting a protester in the face from point-blank range with 40mm teargas canisters intended to be used from long-range as a last-ditch crowd-dispersal effort, Oakland police...

Routing VM Traffic Through TOR

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

How to set up a virtual machine connected through a VDE switch to route all traffic through Tor running on the host.

Awesome!

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:00:34 GMT

Do you have an awesome idea? There is an Awesome Foundation chapter in Calgary that will give you a no-strings-attached $1000 towards Awesomeness. Sounds pretty awesome...

Huny!

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

(9 total photos, July 25, 2011) — Last week, we extracted a couple frames of honey from my hive. I tried making most of them foundationless this year and the bees decided to make some of them a little wiggly -- this turned into "really wiggly" by the end of the box where I pulled two frames from. It was somewhat stressful trying to pull a falling-apart chunk of comb out of a hive with something like 60,000 bees in it, but the honey is pretty tasty. Theoretically, you can use an extractor on foundationless frames, but mine were too damaged and wavy (in my non-expert opinion) to try. The alternative is to do like you would with a top-bar hive and chop all the comb into a recepticle (bowl), smash it up (potato masher) and filter it (cheesecloth over seive). The filtering took a few hours (we left it overnight) and worked very well, getting all the wax and bee-bits (I killed a few) out. The first attempt we used three or four layers of cheesecloth which was far too much.

Sandbox

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

(4 total photos, June 15, 2011) — Filling up the sandbox I built for Adrian.

Feedback 21

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

comment on article ``Ranting at MEC'': I noticed that they did'n answer your consern about: " What happened to all the good employees? " You wrote: It used to be that nearly every employee...

Officer Friendly?

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:01:23 GMT

Overview of some of the abuses perpetrarted by the police at the G20 summit in Toronto. After a year, Byron Sonne has just been released on bail, with all charges (including a "possession...

Random Adrian

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

(5 total photos, May 25, 2011) — A few recent shots of Adrian doing various two-year-old sorts of things.

From Pig to Pie

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

(12 total photos, May 25, 2011) — Rendering lard and turning it into pastry and then a delicious pie. See also my Lard Recipe and Pastry Recipe for the yummy details.

Photo of the Entire Night Sky. By Two Guys.

Sat, 14 May 2011 18:00:00 GMT

This is incredibly awesome! Nick Risinger and his retired father traipse around the US and South Africa with expensive cameras taking an entire visible-spectrum image of the night sky. ...