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Category Archives: environment

Shatner Serenades Cetaceans

December 17, 2008 – 12:21 pm

William Shatner sings to whales.
Don’t ask me. I just blog this stuff.

So, is that what you call a podcast?

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Self-Hatred FTW!

September 15, 2008 – 3:15 am

Fran Lebowitz is right: the products of repression and self-hatred are artistically superior to the products of freedom and self-actualization. I mean: Vincent Van Gogh vs LeRoy Neiman. Case closed.
So this is what architects do in their spare time, when they’re not being paid to create soul-killing, fast-buck developments of appalling vulgarity that stain the [...]

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Hurricane Ike is Yikes!

September 13, 2008 – 10:04 pm

Sorry, I’ve been writing gossip blogging headlines and am stuck in cheap pun mode. Still, LOOK at this thing:

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The Last Days of the Tambo Mudflats

September 3, 2008 – 9:48 am

This is re-posted from the Multiply site. I know that this is a tragedy not only on ecological, but on sociological grounds as well; for every dollar a casino brings into a community it costs $1.60 in social services.
The Last Days of the Tambo Mudflats
By Tina Alejandro, WBCP founding member
I still remember creeping up [...]

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Augustine (Brr) Blows!

August 23, 2008 – 5:28 am

Oh god. I’m so, so sorry for that one. But I had to: it was there. I’ve been hanging around FFE and Archie too much, obviously.
Here is a pretty and unaltered photo of Alaskan volcano Mount Augustine erupting on March 27, 2006.
By Cyrus Read on behalf of the AVO/USGS the via Paul LeBlanc on Twitter.
Didn’t [...]

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For Vindictive Vegans

August 21, 2008 – 7:40 am

Because even environmentalists have enemies.

Stolen from the inspired Dr Boli and posted here under the inspiration of this forum thread about how to keep ants out of hardware. Strange bedfellows, my friend, is the only kind I have lately.

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Canadian Beaver goes Brazilian and comes out on top!

July 21, 2008 – 9:40 am

Beaver. Who doesn’t love beaver, eh?
Okay, so I stole that headline, or most of it, from Vancouver Theatresports when they competed for the world comedy improv championships in Australia. And I had to tweak it from “We’re going Down Under to come out on top!” but hey, it still works.
And who doesn’t love beaver? And [...]

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Recycle Used Extensions

July 16, 2008 – 3:17 pm

Finally, a use for all that un-biodegradable Ken Paves crap::

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My kinda carpet!

June 29, 2008 – 10:15 am

How do I order wall-to-wall this?

Pretty sweet, eh? I bet you want that pattern for yourselves! Yes, this would be a big step up from my current carpeting pattern, a graphically similar arrangement of old Vanity Fair magazines.
That shot is part of an awesome series of shots of migrating cow-nosed rays (not the Steve Irwin-killing [...]

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How to: spend your carbon tax rebate

June 20, 2008 – 4:37 am

My cousin emailed me this. No idea where she stole it from, because for once it didn’t have a hundred thousand email addresses in the forwarding history:
The provincial government is sending each of us a $100 Carbon Tax rebate.
If we spend it at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China.
If we spend it on gasoline, [...]

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