Category: Miscellaneous

Can’t get on their website, but you can find their mailblog at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boingboing-mailblog/

I’ve wondered about this myself. When people like Maher Arar are seized, jailed, interrogated without charges, on unspecified allegations of unspecified connections to unspecified terrorist groups, and tortured – why doesn’t anyone seem to want to do anything about it?

ASCII and the Matrix – together at last.

Scientists have synthesized a virus from scratch and it has “become bioactive” (started reproducing).

Read more here.

In case anyone reading this was wondering, yes I do have another blog. It’s a student rep blog for the Faculty of New Media. You can find it here.

The Faculty is accepting nominations for New Media Reps til Wednesday. I’m going to run again — we’ll see if anyone else does.

Anna has gone to Edmonton and leaves for Saskatchewan on Monday. She won’t be home until the end of November. I am babysitting the dog. We hate each other. She pretends to like me and I pretend to like her, but deep down we both know that neither of us will be happy until Anna is back.

A blogger’s worst fear: Your mother finding your blog. In case you are wondering, no I haven’t told my parents about this blog, but at the same time it’s not a secret either.

Based on the conversation I had with Gary last weekend in Calgary, he must have been studying this page. Check out the helpful hints under Steps 3, 5(b), and 7. Remind you of anyone?

Anyway, I was in Calgary last weekend and it was pretty much the first time we’ve spoken since I stopped posting at milner.blogspot.com. We were still debating the virtues of our arguments on the blog about “same-sex marriage” issues in Canada and about Blacks being withheld the priesthood in the Mormon church (pre 1978). I told him about Brigham Young’s statement that the reason for Black’s having dark skin was because of the curse of Cain and therefore THAT is why the church refused to allow them to hold the priesthood. He told me straight out that he didn’t believe Brigham Young actually ever said that.

I did some research and found the following:

President Young stated privately in 1849 that, “the Lord had cursed Cain’s seed with blackness and prohibited them from the Priesthood,” and in 1852 the prohibition was published in the Deseret News. In that same year, in an address to the Territorial legislature, he declared, “…any man having one drop of the seed of [Cain]…in him cannot hold the Priesthood, and if no other Prophet ever spake it before I will say it now… .”

Today I discovered what I think will be my new favorite band – Abandoned Pools. While checking out Tommy Walter’s artist blog I read his recomendation to investigate another band – The Stills. It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for, reminds me a lot of the grunge alternative music I used to listen to in the mid to late 90’s.

In case you were wondering how exactly Lego is made? Now you can find out.