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Satire | The PenOpticon
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Skewed Views from Richmond Hill and Southern Ontario. Birds & Nature. George W. Buddha. What is the (Next) Message? Laquo; Older Entries. February 28, 2007. Apparently Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting electrodes into the brains of pigeons in order to remotely control their flight. Does this mean we should now be wary of pigeons carrying cameras or tiny pieces of plutonium? Is that white splotch on your shoulder pigeon shit or anthrax? Clearly, American science has been quite creative in pu...
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Consumer Culture | The PenOpticon
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Skewed Views from Richmond Hill and Southern Ontario. Birds & Nature. George W. Buddha. What is the (Next) Message? MovieBeams and Groovy Dreams. June 2, 2006. YOU know the trouble with movies in America these days? There just aren’t enough ways to see them. That’s what David Pogue said. About the debut of MovieBeam. 8212; this company piggybacks over regular FM radio signals to deliver movies. You simply tune 5 household FM radios to 5 different local stations and pipe them all into a RadTV digital ...
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Environment | The PenOpticon
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Skewed Views from Richmond Hill and Southern Ontario. Birds & Nature. George W. Buddha. What is the (Next) Message? Laquo; Older Entries. April 6, 2011. TransCanada: American Veterans Endorse Keystone XL Pipeline. March 6, 2011. TransCanada Pipelines has co-opted a few American veterans to shill for the Keystone XL project as part of a lobbying effort to get Hillary Clinton to approve it. As they say in a March 4, 2011 letter to Clinton:. But how compliant are we? Sean McMaster, TransCanada’s execu...
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David Dunlap Observatory | The PenOpticon
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Skewed Views from Richmond Hill and Southern Ontario. Birds & Nature. George W. Buddha. What is the (Next) Message? Laquo; Older Entries. New David Dunlap Observatory “Mini Doc”. February 23, 2009. Posted in David Dunlap Observatory. A few new photos from David Dunlap Observatory. February 9, 2009. Posted in David Dunlap Observatory. Tags: Dunlap Observatory Photos. Heritage Trust letter to Minister of Culture recommends preservation of Dunlap Observatory. January 22, 2009. Ontario Ministry of Culture.
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Birds & Nature | The PenOpticon
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Skewed Views from Richmond Hill and Southern Ontario. Birds & Nature. George W. Buddha. What is the (Next) Message? Laquo; Older Entries. 500 ducks suffer a crude death in Alberta. May 2, 2008. Get to the bottom of Syncrude Canada’s toxic lake and see if the sludge will stick to. Read the rest of this entry ». Posted in Birds and Nature. May 26, 2007. Have observed a significant decline in the numbers of North American songbirds. Posted in Birds and Nature. Tags: Birds and Nature. Bird of the Week: Merlin.
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Uncategorized | The PenOpticon
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Skewed Views from Richmond Hill and Southern Ontario. Birds & Nature. George W. Buddha. What is the (Next) Message? July 1, 2006. I’m posting this because I kept WordPress’s default “Uncategorized” category and have noticed Google has indexed a number of non-existent “Uncategorized” posts. So, instead of returning a 404 “page not found” message, let those searches return this Uncategorized Post. O, I could rant and rave, I could. But not today. What would be the point? After all — this is just an.
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Culture | The PenOpticon
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Skewed Views from Richmond Hill and Southern Ontario. Birds & Nature. George W. Buddha. What is the (Next) Message? Laquo; Older Entries. An open letter to the Governing Council of the University of Toronto. July 18, 2008. Read the rest of this entry ». The YouTube Army of Guitar Virtuosi. March 1, 2007. Mr Dawkins, Mr Deity and Evil…. January 17, 2007. I haven’t read Dawkin’s. Yet, but it’s definitely on the list. Now that you are thinking about the Supreme Being, have a gander at Mr. Deit...Deserves to...
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Book Reviews | The PenOpticon
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Skewed Views from Richmond Hill and Southern Ontario. Birds & Nature. George W. Buddha. What is the (Next) Message? Book Review: The Discomfort Zone – A Personal History. August 8, 2006. HarperCollins, 197 pages, $29.95. Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel/memoir,. Covers some of the same territory as his widely acclaimed. But does so in a very different fashion. While. Is more self-consciously literary and academically hip in its execution,. For her coveted Book of the Month honour. As such, it is tempt...
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Travel | The PenOpticon
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Skewed Views from Richmond Hill and Southern Ontario. Birds & Nature. George W. Buddha. What is the (Next) Message? Eco-Tourism in Algonquin Park. August 6, 2006. We just got back from a three-day stay at the Algonquin Eco-Lodge. This dearth of news afforded us all a kind of grace and clarity, as well as the gift of time. Cynical curmudgeon that I am, I started thinking about what we were. Out there and whether the whole concept of. Is really an oxymoron. While the Algonquin Eco-Lodge is a work-in-progre...
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Diversions | The PenOpticon
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Skewed Views from Richmond Hill and Southern Ontario. Birds & Nature. George W. Buddha. What is the (Next) Message? March 7, 2006. And then there was Weboggle. It’s a great web adaptation of Boggle. It’s simple and elegantly done. It’s fun and it’s free. But the competition is fierce. You can take everyone on or you can play in teams. If you love words, you should PLAY THIS GAME. Pick a handle and attach it to a sharp pointy idea.
