PRISM: Stone vs. NSA and Checkpoints
Many people, even my peers, don’t all understand the extreme danger we all face when people casually accept overbearing government search without even probable cause for them to suspect you…
John Klein
Don’t Commit Sociology When It Makes Sense
Don’t talk about the dark if it’s still night. Don’t talk about the oil while it’s spilling. Don’t mention a war that’s still being fought. Don’t talk about a drought…
Corporate Responsibility
Do corporations kill? Unfortunately, yes, they can. A corporation is a person in our crazy legal system. How do we best punish a corporate person, for killing people? Burkhardt had…
Social Media Intelligence
I’m so sick of the government reading all of my Facebook status updates, and never liking any of them. (Seen on a graphic going around Facebook) SOCMINT “It had been…
Freegan and Garden combined
Freegan and Garden combined Originally uploaded by computer_saskboy #Freegan & #Garden combined into supper (+ bonus dandelion eating) Bye social norms. 3D = Dumpster Dirt Dandelion
PRISM: Prepared for Exposure
More details are out on PRISM, Tempora, and other illegal spying schemes by the NSA and friendly intelligence agencies, apparently even in Germany. The NSA even has a special department…
The Harper Government Must Be Right On Track #cdnpoli
This morning, I dealt with indignant HarperCons on Twitter, while they didn’t take my advice about the validity of claims by a certain tweeter not shy of bending the truth…
Harper’s “Public Event” “photo opportunity” (Cameras and photographers only) #cdnpoli
Where is this event you ask? Lac-Mégantic, Québec 3:15 p.m. – Prime Minister Stephen Harper will participate in a photo opportunity. Why is Harper there? You could say that Harper’s…
PRISM: Obama Didn’t End Illegal Spying, He Extended It
“There are no checks and balances here, and we’ve got to restore them.” Sensenbrenner, Republican who drafted the Patriot Act II. Go read 2001/2002 debate over the Patriot Act –…
Runaway Train
Lac-Mégantic, Quebec was partially levelled by a massive oil explosion from a train that became detached from its locomotive and rolled into the downtown. The locomotive experienced a fire before…
Wealth in the USA Graphed Nicely
You can see what Americans desire as wealth distribution, vs. what they think the unfair situation is vs. reality. It’s off the charts, literally, how much money the 1% makes…
Senate Is a Cartoon
I’ve been cartoon-ified by Jim Sadlemyer! Larry and I unintentionally wrote a joke used in ParlimANT Hill. Duffy’s PMO scandal with Nigel Wright just gets more filled in, and bigger…
One State Can Make a (Sweet) Difference
Coke and Pepsi are still both deadly if you consume them regularly and in sufficient amounts. Yet Coke has got a leg up on Pepsi recently by reducing its product’s…
Sliverization: Glaciers Melting Quickly
Civilization has a sliver of a chance to survive this century. Earth’s ice sheets are doomed. That’s it for us. Watch the trolls roll through saying, “The. earth. has. natural.…
Northern Lights Animation
I have a few more of these aurora animations to create and upload to YouTube. Here’s a fun one to start with tonight though.
4 Atom Bombs of Heat Per Second
Need to visualize the amount of heat trapped due to the greenhouse effect enhanced by excessive carbon dioxide levels. By raising carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s air, the land, ice,…
WikiLeaks: Suspected Snowden Plane Grounded & Embassy Bugged
Assange blasted Obama today for lying about his government’s interest in capturing Edward Snowden, the celebrated whistle-blower who exposed Obama’s administration as spying on all Americans (and the rest of…
Lafleche Centennial, 100 Years of Awesome
June 29, 2013 I’ve been at the Lafleche 100 celebration on Canada Day long weekend. There were few people my age who I knew, and many of the oldest generation…
Aurora in Wood Mountain
One of the advantages to small-town Saskatchewan, is that it’s easier to escape light pollution than it is in a city like Regina. I was fortunate to be out of…
Biking Saving Money
470km this year on a (new) bike. If I was paying for a car for myself, that’s about $8000/year, CAA estimates. That includes ownership, depreciation, gas, insurance, repairs, parking, (fines?),…