http://www.abandonedstuff.com News, Insights, and Humour Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:38:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My head (Twitter icon) was on The National! Thank you Stephen Taylor's #canadarally Rally For Canada Twitter feed. It's so funny that on Ban TV Day, I appeared on TV and saw it too. P.S. enjoy opposition again Conservatives. == On the weekend I saw "13 Going on 30" [8/10], and "Home ... http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2008/12/01/i-was-on-the-national/ A couple nights ago I watched the International Space Station and the Shuttle Endeavour zoom overhead just a hand's width apart in the twilight. In the distance, Venus and Jupiter were inching closer together. Tonight they get dangerously close, and there's a 32% chance they will collide, and one or both ... http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2008/12/01/shuttle-and-iss-over-saskatchewan/ Today (December 1) is Ban TV Day, celebrated by members of the Teleban. As your Teleban leader, I'm happy to announce that Americans are observing Ban TV day on February 17, 2009 when they banish analog TV broadcast signals from their air. Unfortunately, they plan to implement digital TV broadcasts ... http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2008/12/01/ban-television/ It's a fantastic night to be a Canadian. Two to three political parties are setting aside their differences to save us $300,000,000 on a new election that would change little. Democracy in action is frightening to people who are used to seeing it broken... look for a lot of scared ... http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2008/11/30/my-heart-could-burst/ I was happy to hear that they found parts of the Saskatchewan/Alberta Fireball. Surfing YouTube, I found this amazing video from 1972: http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2008/11/30/meteorite-found/ The CBAs have a call out to bloggers, asking for creative videographers to put together award introduction videos to go on YouTube when we announce the 27 winners in December. www.canadianblogawards.ca Also I didn't do this last year, but I'm going to ask for votes (if you still haven't voted yet this ... http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2008/11/28/canadian-blog-award-videos/ A Journalism student points out that the problem with water in Saskatchewan (in most cases I know of) isn't that it's unsafe, it's just that the Provincial government has really high or rigid standards that some places cannot afford to live up to. A boil-water advisory is a public notice put ... http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2008/11/27/why-our-standards-are-too-high/ As other bloggers have noted, the Conservatives are looking to finish off several opposition parties including the Greens and Liberals, by cutting off funding promised to them prior to the last election. Below is the Green Party email explaining the situation as they (and I see it). Voices and ideas should ... http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2008/11/27/conservatives-go-for-the-kill/