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October 14th, 2008
dinosaurcomics
| 12:53 am - guest week 2008: john campbell of pictures for sad children!
http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001325.html 
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October 13th, 2008:
This week is GUEST WEEK which means that I cornered five way-talented cartoonist friends at one of the big secret parties we have and I said "Can you make me a dinosaur comic on the internet please?" and they said "Sure thing Ryan I GUESS" and I said "Awesome! Thank you so much" and I shook their hands a little too earnestly. Here is the lineup of Sexy Exciting Cartoonist Pals Who Are Slumming It This Week:
Monday: David Malki ! of Wondermark!
Tuesday: John Campbell of Pictures For Sad Children!
Wednesday: Kate Beaton of Kate Beaton's Comics!
Thursday: Anthony Clark of Nedroid!
Friday: Randall Munroe of XKCD!
I am super excited to see what these people come up with, and I already know what they came up with, and they're that good that I'm Still Excited. I hope you enjoy! And please consider this a personal recommendation to check out these strips if you haven't already: they're each and all fantastic.
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bikepirates
[coathangrrr]
 | 09:50 pm - Human Powered Vehicles
I just rediscovered this awesome site hidden away in my bookmarks. I probably first got it off bike pirates but I haven't seen it in a long time, so I reposted it.
Hours of shit to looks at.
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dominion_news
| 10:46 pm - PHOTO: Solidarity Blockade Slows Spirit Train
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/weblogs/lia_tarachansky/2184 Vaughan, ON- On Thanksgiving Sunday, October 12th, 2008 roughly two dozen protesters blockaded the Canadian Pacific Rail just north of Toronto.
The blockade began at 5:30 p.m. and ended just after 8:00 p.m. Winnie Small, 20, attached herself to the rails in order to delay removal by police.
Alex Hundert, police liaison for the varied group of protesters, negotiated with the local police service, which was taken by surprise by the bridge blockade.
The group, consisting of Anti-War @ Laurier organizers, native organizers from the Six Nations reservation by Caledonia, and various individuals, was allowed to leave the blockade without arrests or conflict.
According to the police, who were in communications with CP rail on site, the blockade caused millions of dollars of economic damage and delayed trains all along the rail line.
Blockaders Set up lock down
Winnie Small, 20, locked down to the tracks with a "v" shaped metal bar
"No Olympics on Stolen Native Land" banner laid out by protesters
"Resist the 2010 Corporate Circus" banner laid out by protesters
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bikepirates
[dair]
 | 09:53 pm - Columbus Tubing Day
How did you celebrate?
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/smile.gif) amused
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canpolitik
[allhatnocattle]
 | 05:24 pm - Police clash with Barriere Lake
Oct 6th 2008, Barrier Lake First Nation...
http://vimeo.com/1916165?pg=embed&sec=1916165
The formal name is Algonquins of Barriere Lake (074)(ABL). This is a small Rez. Only 40acres and approx.ly 200 people.
This is the Indian side of the story with a list of their demands and a bit of background.
The gov't side of the story has not yet been updated by The department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), and probably won't until a week after the election, or until mainstream media reports on the issue, whatever comes first. A bit of the INAC's background can be found at here and furthermore better yet here.
Now, if you read all that you'll get the gist of the situation, but there's a lot not being said. It's much more complicated then just all that. You see they were awarded 10,000sq.km.s and all rights to the resources (lumber, mineral, etc). By rights they ought to get it. But then you ought to read about the mineral potential on Indian land, not that there is much proven on the ABL. But this just scratches the surface.
What complicates everything native is the government. First you have the Feds, secondly you have the province (in this case Quebec). But don't forget the 2 levels of Indian gov't. Tribal Council (Algonquins), the Band Councils (Barriere Lake/Rapid lake) which are in fact two separate Reserves sharing one council right now.
For those of you who support Kelowna Accord this is a prime example of why Kelowna is such a disasterous idea. The Kelowna Accord will not and cannot resolve problems on reserves where the help is most urgently needed. In the case of ABL, who do you give the money to?
See it always comes across as if the gov't (of Canada, the INAC, the province, etc.) doesn't want to honour their commitments. It sounds as if the gov't is just plain mean. It sounds as if the gov't wants the natural resource money or at least the taxes WhiteMan would pay. But the truth is probably deeper. Hanlon's razor applies; Never assume malice by that which can otherwise be explained.
The government has refused to recognize the community leadership, because they suspect it is not legitimate or has a high probability of being corrupt. Such assumptions are not arrived at lightly. But they are regularly. For 12yr.s the gov't has appointed third party mgmt of ABL's affairs. Reserves that have been granted self-government have at least some accountability either to Indians under their care and/or have made some effort to be accountable to the INAC.
ABL has conceded to allow outside observers (assume the INAC) to witness the reselection process of ABL's leadership. But meanwhile, the ABL wants the treaty honoured. Essentially they force the INAC between a rock and a hard place where neither party is honouring their side of the agreement.
So then you have confrontation where a ABL protest shuts down the Trans-Canada Hwy. Well, how did they expect that to end? I suppose the Minister of INAC, Chuck Stahl, could have flew in and calmed everyone down in the middle of this election campaign. I suppose he should have. And I suppose he might have been warned to stay away as over-cautious RCMP considered his safety. And because the ABL has no recognized leadership, the mere fact of negotiating an end to this protest would have conceded recognition of leadership.
But from Strahl's point of view, the political risk of doing nothing was rather minimal. I mean who was going to report on this? The media? As if.
My attempts to edit in the video have all failed. There's excellent video of the police at the Barriere Lake roadblock.
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October 13th, 2008
canpolitik
[samram]
 | 03:46 pm - Canadian Election 2008
Wow! On the eve of this election I cannot see why we should even be voting. If we listen to the polls (and they're hard to avoid if you're keeping up with this election) tomorrow will deliver the same situation we had just over a month ago. So in essence this election was a huge waste of time and money. Way to go Harper, you should be punished for that alone. You didn't even take advantage of an election you called.
Now before you get all medieval on me and chastise me for saying we shouldn't even vote, hear me out. Regardless of the polls...if we listen to all the leaders and their messages, the end result may well indeed be a Harper Minority yet again.
Dion...sorry dude, I would hate to send you out on the world stage to represent Canada. After all, image is everything and Dion, as intelligent and good of a man as he is, just isn't the type of guy I would want representing me and my country around the world. I'm afraid what sealed his fate was the interview with CTV. Regardless if you think the interviewer's (Steve Murphy) question was lofty, Dion had the question repeated to him several times. Even an ESL student after having the question repeated a couple of time is able to answer. Blame it on hearing disabilities, and better yet fatigue, this proves that Dion just isn't fit to be Prime Minister...on the world stage he will have to answer questions from leaders with far worse English speaking abilities than Steve Murphy. So I just don't see Dion as a leader, he's more of a behind the scenes guy with an impeccable ability to change things.
Nothing at all extraordinary came out of this campaign. About the only thing I expect to be different will be the number of NDP seats we will find on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. Layton did indeed run a very good campaign for the NDP, one that may very well reward him and his party with more seats, and they do deserve it. Does he deserve to be given the job of Prime Minister...not yet...perhaps in the future Canadians will come to view him as Prime Ministerial material. For now I think Canadians should reward him and his party with more seats. So take a look at your NDP candidates and judge if they're worthy of being sent to Ottawa. I predict the next election a fight between Harper, Layton, and Ignatieff.
As stated before, when it comes to major change...this election was a dud. The house will look pretty much the same with a few changes in seats. The only true winners in this election are the NDP, and The Greens...with each vote costing $1.75, the parties will indeed come out with a lot more money to fund their fight the next time around.
One thing that would be surprising would be a coalition government between the grits, NDP and greens, I guess we'll have to wait and see. The only ones that will truly shape this election are we the voters. The debates revolved around nothing at all...there was no single issue that one party came out in front and made electors decide. Neither party made a stand, neither party or leader came out in front and made a viable pitch to Canadians in why they should be given the reigns of power. This election was about nothing at all...and that's sad. I am not by any means saying do not vote, we should vote, we must exercise this basic and fundamental right...but the fact is that in the end, the parties never really gave any one a true choice or reason to go out and vote. This was a useless election driven by pure poltical motivations targeted at the Liberals and taking advantage of their weakness.
So see you at the polls tomorrow folks, don't forgot to give your $1.75 to the most deserving party, at the very least that's one of the only differences this election will result in.
Current Mood: Canadian
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bikepirates
[dentman]
 | 04:03 pm - Safe Axle Threading Amount
With thicker aluminum track end plus MKS tugs there seems to be a considerable amount of the axle nut that is not being used on my track frame. In this case would it be more safe to remove the chain tugs and allow as much of the axle bolt to be threaded through the nut?
It appears these older Campagnolo hubs have axles meant for thinner steel track ends...
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homebrewing
[faux_pseudo]
 | 04:11 pm - Beer?
Episode 0
Every time I brew beer on the porch I get one of the locals asking me what I am doing. After they find out I am making beer they ask me if one can make malt liquor. Yes, yes you can. But I have never done it.
Episode 1
I got an urge to brew today but my local brew shop was closed. So I decided to make good on a threat I have made in the past and brew some malt liquor. To tweak it a little more I decided to use bread yeast.
I am doing two batches. Both the same except the "malt". One is dark Karo and the other is a lite corn sugar 'malt' I picked up from an Asian store.
Recipe: 1 gallon
1.5 pounds of 'malt' @ 60
.10 oz galena hops, 13% AA @ 60
.05 oz brewers gold, 7.7% AA @ 15
Fleischmann's Active Dry Yeast (one pouch sprinkled)
OG 1.068
FG 1.017
IBU 30
ABV 6.6
Now if you will pardon me I have a hop edition got get to.
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homebrewing
[angel_of_daath]
 | 10:20 am
Started a couple of new batches this weekend. First, I picked up 5 gallons of cider and some Montrachet yeast and got that fermenting. I picked up a pound of lactose to sweeten it up after fermentation. I plan to prime and bottle to get a little fizz to it. This is my first cider, so I wanted to keep it simple. I'll play around with some spices etc. next time.
And speaking of spices...I brewed a batch (my second brew) of Spiced Holiday Ale...except I forgot to add the spices to the boil! It called for 1/4 oz of mulling spices in the boil and 1/4 oz in secondary. I guess I'm just going to add the full 1/2 oz in secondary and hope for the best. Not sure how much spice will come through that way, but it's too late now!!
Both batches are happily bubbling away!!
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canpolitik
[mijopo]
 | 10:15 am - yeah, in retrospect, Harper's timing was a little unfortunate
Oh No, A Global Crisis just ate Canada's Election
Mostly this just made me laugh, but this part sounded like something right out of Karl Rove's playbook:The atmosphere started to turn nasty. Harper held his news conferences in front of supporters, who booed questions questioning how he was handling the crisis. "Go back to Russia!" shouted an irate man at one point. That's odd, I thought -- in my five years as a Moscow reporter, I was never booed or screamed at during a news conference.
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homebrewing
[brewhexe]
 | 11:44 am - Cyser
I was given a large amount of cooking apples last week that really need to be used up, so was wondering if anyone had a simple recipe for cyser (googling just brings up complicated ones or ones using cider).
I will only be making 1 gallon so recipes for small amounts are fine.
TIA.
x-posted to wine_making
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dinosaurcomics
| 07:56 pm - guest week 2008: david malki ! of wondermark!
http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001324.html
about - archive - cast - comments - sexy exciting merchandise - messageboard - search - reader art - links
October 13th, 2008:
This week is GUEST WEEK which means that I cornered five way-talented cartoonist friends at one of the big secret parties we have and I said "Can you make me a dinosaur comic on the internet please?" and they said "Sure thing Ryan I GUESS" and I said "Awesome! Thank you so much" and I shook their hands a little too earnestly. Here is the lineup of Sexy Exciting Cartoonist Pals Who Are Slumming It This Week:
Monday: David Malki ! of Wondermark!
Tuesday: John Campbell of Pictures For Sad Children!
Wednesday: Kate Beaton of Kate Beaton's Comics!
Thursday: Anthony Clark of Nedroid!
Friday: Randall Munroe of XKCD!
I am super excited to see what these people come up with, and I already know what they came up with, and they're that good that I'm Still Excited. I hope you enjoy! And please consider this a personal recommendation to check out these strips if you haven't already: they're each and all fantastic.
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dominion_news
| 11:55 pm - The Anti-Terrorist Battle Inside Canada's Borders
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/weblogs/david_parker/2180 The anti-terrorist battle inside Canada's borders
by David Parker
July 17th, 2008.
HALIFAX - In Canada since 9/11, the domestic climate of rising national security fears, fanned by a sensationalist media trumpeting the “War on Terror”, has led the government to justify practices which undermine long-standing principles of human rights.
In December 2001, Canada passed the Anti-Terrorist Act (ATA) to deal with threats to national security. The ATA makes changes to the criminal code that “aim to disable and dismantle the activities of terrorist groups and those who support them”. It destroys civil liberties and gives police vast new powers, eroding due process and privacy. [1]
According to Gary Kinsman, professor at Laurentian University, the concept of ‘national security’ is doubly problematic. Nation refers here to groups who fit the image of the Canadian state - white heterosexual males, construed as ‘safe’, while racialized communities are excluded as ‘outsiders’ and enemies of the state. [2] Despite purported concern with security, state initiatives have only endangered non-citizens and criminalized legitimate social protest.
The arrest of 21 South Asian Muslim men for allegedly plotting to blow up a nuclear reactor in 2003 (known as Project Thread) garnered wide media attention. All were eventually deported on minor immigration charges, not one was charged with a terrorist offence [3]. They were detained up to 5 months, interrogated about their faith and threatened with deportation to Guantanamo Bay, infamous torture camp of the United States, where Omar Khadr, youngest detainee and Canadian citizen, remains after 6 years, subjected to torture methods detailed in leaked FBI files [4].
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dominion_news
| 11:47 pm - Criminalizing Indigenous Rights in Canada
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/weblogs/david_parker/2179 Criminalizing Indigenous Rights in Canada
David Parker
September 8th, 2008.
HALIFAX - In September of 2007, the United Nations adopted the non-binding Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Four high profile countries notably voted against the declaration - namely Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.[1] All four countries are states that were established by white settlers on indigenous lands, and all four are currently in disputes with indigenous peoples over land and sovereignty.
The Canadian state, built on the theft and occupation of indigenous lands, continues to benefit from its unjustly acquired assets. Equipped with an ultra-security state apparatus, Canada's repressive and suppressive anti-terrorist and security measures have historically struck hardest against those that have the most to gain, namely aboriginal nations and their legitimate claims for their rights to land and dignity.
Recent cases of indigenous protest in Ontario have been in opposition to government authorized resource extraction on native lands. Despite legitimate demands for sovereignty and decision-making power over their traditional lands, native protesters have been incarcerated: Robert Lovelace and the KI-6 (6 council members of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation) have received harsh fines and 6 months in jail for peacefully protesting against mineral exploration on the lands of KI and Ardoch Algonquin First Nation (AAFN).
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bikepirates
[ianrox]
 | 12:18 am
Strange request, but does anyone have a geometry chart of the original Gary Fisher Genesis geometry? I've tried finding it online, but I can't seem to get anything. I scored an old polished Mt. Tam that I'm going to build up as a race bike for next year, and I'm trying to figure out if the stem I have will be the right length.
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