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CNN on Psylocybin and what,

mrG — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:50:00 -0400

CNN on Psylocybin and what, only two years since seeing the same story here? I must be getting old. I am losing my edge ....

Disclosure - this is

mrG — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:32:00 -0400

Disclosure - this is hilarious

5.. DISCLOSURE - you may of course disclose your paid participation in this program. You may also state that Canada Blog Friends has paid you to help promote awareness for harness racing, but please do not discuss me personally, or Canada Blog Friends at length in the post. Remember the CBF is a very private affair - only good bloggers are invited to join. The members list is Top Secret and never published and there are no tracking codes whatsoever.

OMG darn it all now I done gone and ruined it! Another Secret Order exposed. I figure, though, he should have done what Crowley did, leak it freely, but cover it all with demonic symbols to scare the sheep away.

But now the cat's out of the bag, that's just the way it goes sometimes. I'll take some sliver of the blame I suppose, but really, Robert Campbell (ol' roberrific) really should have known better than to put me on his rube mailing list. I mean, he said he'd read my blog, that we're an exclusive hand-picked elite, so really he should know better, right? Can't be that much surprise to him. OMG, did I just violate another clause of the Disclosure? Dang. I'm just having a clumsy day; the moon must be in Clutz.

Btw, if you notice any sudden blog-share attention extolling Ontario Harness Horse Association (OHHA) racing on www.getsulky.com or their new shill-spotlights on Flickr and Squidoo, it isn't because the dreary anachronism has suddenly become très chiq. Not at all, no, it's solely because those 'bloggers' are being paid $7.50 times their Google Rank to pretend to you that it's the Greatest Thing They Ever Did^tm.

addendum: Rob responds:

I heed your words; you have affected me.
Obviously I need to rethink the cbf disclosure policy and all moral implications of paid posts, and in general evolve a more organic method of helping my clients.

The program started as a method of marketing Canadian movies in Canada. Now I'm not sure it has much reach beyond that.

RobC

Dear Teledyne, The climate

a stranger — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:42:31 -0400

Dear Teledyne,

The climate change declaration below was issued in a news conference in Orlando, Florida on July 1, 2008.

The associated press release is available for download at the web site :www.spaceandscience.net.

Best Regards,

John L. Casey
Director
Space and Science Research Center
4700 Millenia Blvd. Ste.175
Orlando, FL 32839
Tel: 407-835-3635
Fax: 407-210-3901

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Summary Declaration of the Start of the Next Global Climate Change

After an exhaustive review of a substantial body of climate research, and in conjunction with the obvious and compelling new evidence that exists, it is time that the world community acknowledges that the Earth has begun its next climate change. In an opinion echoed by many
scientists around the world, the Space and Science Research Center (SSRC), today declares that the world’s climate warming of past decades has now come to an end. A new climate era has already started that is bringing predominantly colder global temperatures for many
years into the future. In some years this new climate will create dangerously cold weather with significant ill-effects world wide. Global warming is over – a new cold climate has begun.

Space and Science Research Center
Orlando, Florida, USA
July 1, 2008

Thanks Dave, much as I

mrG — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:46:59 -0400

Thanks Dave, much as I expected and as I've always said, have said before and say here now again ...

Can we do anything about it? You bet we can...

Learn to play the banjo. Take peppermint Rye-Kee Shee-At-Zoo relaxation therapy and oodles of Ag-nasial I&I-drop suppliments, eat no kind of frozen portion, and floss. Good planets are real hard to find, so enjoy the one you got while it's here. Call your ma. Do an anonymous kindness for your better half, another for a total stranger. Having all the best toys is useless when they all spontaneously combust from a global Wormwood shockwave. You should be diggin' it while it's happenin'
[ TeledyN: Stop worrying; love the rock ]

Ahau-ho, I see you have been

a stranger — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:30:00 -0400

This comment has been moved http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2502#comment-4185">here.

Ahau-ho, I see you have been

a stranger — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:30:00 -0400

Ahau-ho,

I see you have been studying the Native Calendars of America so called (2012). Well your somewhat right about the data. But I must commend you on your hard work. As I was taught from my Elders-Kawaiisu. I spent the majority of of youth learning the system which started 56,700 years ago. This is a very complex system if you use todays standards of logic. But you cannot. It is of its own making. The science is exact. It is data that has over two complete cycles of our cosmic system. The Calendars are a collection data of basic measurements between cycles of orbiting bodies in the Earth's sky that repeat themselves in a predictable cycle. Therefore, a predictable climate warning system. The Calendars are two fold. First, to predict an event and Secondly, to know what adaptations will be needed to survive. It really does not matter if it happens in 2010 or 2012. If your not ready then your life is in danger and o one can help you. This is all I can tell you for now. Pogmatog Magot (Creator Knows),
David Laughing Horse Robinson

The Minister of Industry

mrG — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:32:00 -0400

The Minister of Industry responds (personally):

The Government of Canada has introduced Bill C-61 (An Act to Amend the Copyright Act). The proposed legislation is a made-in-Canada approach that balances the needs of Canadian consumers and copyright owners, promoting culture, innovation and competition in the digital age.
What does Bill C-61 mean to Canadians? Specifically, it includes measures that would: * expressly allow you to record TV shows for later viewing; copy legally purchased music onto other devices, such as MP3 players or cell phones; make back-up copies of legally purchased books, newspapers, videocassettes and photographs onto devices you own; and limit the "statutory damages" a court could award for all private use copyright infringements; * implement new rights and protections for copyright holders, tailored to the Internet, to encourage participation in the online economy, as well as stronger legal remedies to address Internet piracy * clarify the roles and responsibilities of Internet Service Providers related to the copyright content flowing over their network facilities * provide photographers with the same rights as other creators What Bill C-61 does not do: * it would not empower border agents to seize your iPod or laptop at border crossings, contrary to recent public speculation What this Bill is not: * it is not a mirror image of U.S. copyright laws. Our Bill is made-in-Canada with different exceptions for educators, consumers and others and brings us into line with more than 60 countries including Japan, France, Germany and Australia Bill C-61 was introduced in the Commons on June 12, 2008 by Industry Minister Jim Prentice and Heritage Minister Josée Verner. For more information, please visit the Copyright Reform Process website at www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/crp-prda.nsf/en/home Thank you for sharing your views on this important matter. The Honourable Josée Verner Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages and Minister for La Francophonie
The Honourable Jim Prentice Minister of Industry

another shill ploy, this one

mrG — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:02:47 -0400

another shill ploy, this one with the offer of a free hip MP3 player (also featured out at the Walmart)

Matchstick, Canada’s Word of Mouth marketing company, is looking to hook up a limited number of qualified individuals with the latest portable entertainment device from our client. We are specifically looking for bloggers or individuals with a social networking page who are highly sociable and connected and currently own and frequently use an MP3 player.

Yes, of course I signed up. You crazy? That's a free MP3 player and exactly the model my 8 year old wants to own, so I owe it to him to at least put my name in. I won't get it, of course, because I'm not in their mindlessly impressionable youth category of 16-24 (ie, all those now going "what on earth does he mean, 'shill'?" and, well, to qualify I had to give them this URL where the very first thing they are going to see is, well, this story. Rats, eh? Bad planning what? Yeah, I know. My bad.

But there's still hope for you and now you know about their age rule you can click in and answer accordingly.

Some recent science on this

mrG — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:59:20 -0400

Some recent science on this neuro-cognitive 'trust' premise ...

"(...) subjects in the oxytocin group show no change in their trusting behavior after they learned that their trust had been breached several times while subjects receiving placebo decrease their trust."

That is extremely interesting. This suggests that oxytocin, a mammalian hormone neurotransmitter that is known to be related to maternal behaviour and bonding, also is modulating social trust.
[ Oxytocin: the direct route to altruism? ]

In other words, your 'acceptance' of the 'face-value' and observed reputation of this salesperson could be seriously tainted by something as simple as some judicious applied aromatherapy, and that pretty much changes the facetime trust game completely.

Then again, on a positive note, if the live in-person experience could be manipulated so easily through an incense, then conversely the online experience would be completely immune to such tinkering! ... unless, of course, oxytocin could be triggered by sound, or images, or both ... which it probably can ...

Alas, the web is a slippery

mrG — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:20:02 -0400

Alas, the web is a slippery thing. I went to KB and from their own search box found a new set of 404's, but happily Google was more helpful: You can replay the whole thread at KB from John Moore - The Value of Trust (July 2002)

See also Ton Zijlstra - On the role of trust in knowledge management, which was only Ton's second-ever blog post.

Hi Gary, The link from your

a stranger — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:34:49 -0400

Hi Gary,

The link from your "Roll of Trust" article to your knowledgeboard.com post is now a 404 error: would it be possible to host that content somewhere / find the new URL so that folks such as myself can get to grips with the background to this post?

Best

Charles
http://www.advogato.org/person/chalst

interesting! Back in the

a stranger — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:54:56 -0400

interesting! Back in the hippy-60s the only place I knew of to experience the scent of real frankincense was in Catholic churches, which used it in those little metal thingies --censers-- during special ceremonies. I always found this
kind of incense a lot more sensual than those yucky-scented sticks they sell on the street...anyway, I had my altar boy
brother "borrow" a few lumps for me. Glad to hear you can get it on Ebay now.

thank you thank you for

a stranger — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:16:19 -0400

thank you thank you for alerting me to the hidden screw. i was just about to break mine too when i read your post.

why the hell would they hide that screw anyway? dumbasses.

fred

The image shows

mrG — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:59:11 -0400

The image shows kevlar-packed flac-jacket camoflaged officers (plural) combing the woods with a German Sheppard, their quarry? A frightened 14 year old boy 'armed' with only a knife and explicitly "not believed to be a danger to the public" but hey, what a GREAT opportunity to drive home the 'importance' of the lunacy of the Lockdown Drill. Welcome to the future.

"They know who he is, there's no issue there," Const. Steve Starr, media relations officer with the Grey County OPP, said in an interview. "It's just a matter of making an arrest in due course of their investigation."
[ Grey Bruce - Ontario, CA ]

Just to recap: Multiple armed officers and their dog, grade-school boy who is not a threat, a school full of needlessly frightened children. Let that sink in, and then I'll tell you about the little 8 year old girl who was fine with general police/army imagery until the first fake terrorism-attack exercise in her school; now she reacts to such images with a full-on panic attack.

I expect the authorities will recommend we drug her.

Five years later, y'know, no

mrG — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:34:45 -0400

Five years later, y'know, no one has ever contacted me on the basis of this resume. No one. Not a single email, not even an idle inquiry or a curious onlooker, not a peep, nada, nothing. Stone dead brutal silence.

I think that's one of the biggest reasons I stopped looking for any tangible occupational engagement from this industry.