This is what I wanted to see today The transit of Venus across the sun. Instead all I saw were some ugly overcast clouds. The next transit of venus wont be until 2117, so barring some rather large advancements in medical science today’s ugly grey overcast clouds robbed me of
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Mind of Dan: Black Out, Speak Out
See my post on Planet3.0 Related posts (randomly generated) Lost in Deep Time with Richard Alley Steroids, baseball, and climate change
Continue readingMind of Dan: Don’t panic and carry a towel
Today is Towel day. But today is no ordinary Towel day. 25+5+12=42 A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value—you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you
Continue readingMind of Dan: Who are the real job creators?
This is the TED talk that cause all the commotion: While TED might not have wanted to publish this talk to go public, the basic thesis of the talk is hardly controversial. Consumer demand is what creates jobs, and thus the widening economic inequality is a key reason why the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Blog Navel Gazing
Here’s some stuff that will probably not interest you, but I make available anyway for some laughs and potential humility/humour. I saw some very interesting search terms recently finding my blog. The most funny was “biggest cock in america” Which someone found because I wrote about the Biggest Cock-up Ever,
Continue readingMind of Dan: Too Much Copyright
Too much copyright is this generation’s prohibition Also check out copyright math (not boring actually very funny) for more. Related posts (randomly generated) US Copyright Office wants to hear from you about the DMCA Copyright protected physical space New US copyright proposal makes everyone a criminal Copyright Office: Everyone Uses
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Parade of Disgraceful Conservatives
The Conservative Party of Canada could use better people to back it, and its ideology. The current support crowd online has some pretty obvious, and significant flaws: threatening lawsuits (both Gator69 and Red Jeff have offered to report me to the appropriate non-authorities on climate change, so they can send
Continue readingMind of Dan: Copyright Math
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Continue readingMind of Dan: Conflicted by the Kony 2012 campaign
I am conflicted by this video. On the one hand few people know of the atrocities committed by the Joseph Kony and LRA. On the other hand, the LRA has been mostly defeated. They haven’t been operated in Uganda since 2006, and Northern Uganda is now quite safe, though the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon: National Post Catches Up to Saskboy RE: CIMS
Five days later. It’s good that the professional journalists have got around to asking the question I did days ago: Why doesn’t Elections Canada just check the Conservative’s voter information database (CIMS) for who queried the phone numbers used for illegal robocalls? Do you think they will, now that the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon: Rough Week For Democracy
I know it’s going to be a rough week for the Conservatives, when there are election-levels of traffic coming to my blog for political information. I don’t know when I’ve had so many hundreds come through liblogs.ca, of all places, to my site. And that’s on the weekend! Canadians don’t
Continue readingMind of Dan: What a wonderful world
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Continue readingMind of Dan: The state has no business in the hard drives of the nation
Michael Geist has details Related posts (randomly generated) Business coalition speaks out against Canadian copyright reform Blame Canada for Piracy Apple to give levy back to Canadian iPod owners Putting Canadian “Piracy” in Perspective Anti-camcorder legislation will save the world: MPAA
Continue readingMind of Dan: Steroids, baseball, and climate change
(h/t Michael Tobis on Planet3.0) Related posts (randomly generated) An illustration of the climate change debate Lost in Deep Time with Richard Alley Quote of the Day Quote of the day Quote of the day
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Raging entirely by voice recognition
I wrote a article the other day for my blood using voice rec mission on my android phone and it is very impressive how so much is it was very accurate although it did make a few mistakes. Today I may not be speaking clearly enough because it is making
Continue readingMind of Dan: About those radical foreign interests opposed to the latest tar-sand pipeline
Rick Mercer injects a whack of sanity and hilarity to the absurd notion that opposition to the Northern Enbridge is driven by “foreign interests” If you are not sure what all of this is about watch this video filled with unintentional hilarity from the slimy ethical oil spokeswomen Kathryn Marshall.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Showing off WordPress
I’m showing the President of the South Zone Community Gardens a quick demonstration of the power of WordPress Content Management System.
Continue readingMind of Dan: Hunting on New Year’s Eve
This lion (along with 4 others) were hunting 200 metres from our tent on New Year’s eve on the bank of the Nile at Murchison Falls, Uganda Related posts (randomly generated) Duck! Bush Jokes About Cheney’s Bad Aim Sea will rise ‘to levels of last Ice Age’? Koh Adang 750,000
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: 2011 Blog in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 54,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 20
Continue readingMind of Dan: More pics from Uganda
Back In Kampala after spending several nights in a tent in Queen Elizabeth National Park surrounded by lions, hyenas and Hippos. Here are a few pictures of the amazing wildlife we have seen. Related posts (randomly generated) Koh Adang Critics Dismiss Plan to Bring Lions, Elephants to U.S. Plains Plan
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