2015-03-16: Stop Bill C-51
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/science-matters/2015/03/lets-not-sacrifice-freedom-out-of-fear/
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Every Monday ("lundi" en francais) from 2011-03-21 until 2015-03-16, I posted links to external content that I recommended viewing for entertainment and/or general interest purposes. I called these "Lundi Links", and I posted these as News articles.
Originally, I had a finite list of links that I wanted to share, and I planned to share about one link per week until the list was depleted. Due to the number of subjects that interest me, I kept discovering links that I wanted to share, and I eventually realized that I'd be adding to this list forever.
During the four years that I posted these, my workload and other responsibilities grew increasingly overwhelming. To make time for everything else, Lundi Links became one of many things that I had to sacrifice.
This website is now used primarily as a tool for supporting customers of Nanoman's Company, so it wasn't appropriate to keep my Lundi Links on what is now my company's News page. I don't want to delete these because I know that some people enjoyed my Lundi Links, and I reference these occasionally. I didn't want to move these into my blog, so I created this page, and moved them here.
Please note that some of these links aren't appropriate for all audiences, so please go elsewhere if you're a younger or sensitive viewer. Note also that some of these links are now dead, and facts may be outdated.
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/science-matters/2015/03/lets-not-sacrifice-freedom-out-of-fear/
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/02/quiz-north-korean-slogan-ted-talk
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/01/squeezing-a-playable-chess-program-into-487-bytes/
https://sixrevisions.com/infographics/web-designers-vs-web-developers-infographic/
http://www.thebeaverton.com/national/item/1695-gingerbread-housing-market-expected-to-crumble
All Canadians need to join:
http://www.alternet.org/environment/zero-waste-supermarket-got-rid-all-food-packaging
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGWiTvYZR_w
How Americans Live Today (fake): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJoQOQHQ8oA
Enter Pyongyang ("real"): https://vimeo.com/102051605
https://www.instructables.com/id/LeGummies-brick-shaped-gummy-candies/
https://www.quirky.com/products/612-sliderider-the-inside-slide/timeline
http://www.davidhunt.ie/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-smartphone/
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/ride-londons-abandoned-underground-mail-rail/
https://thisbigcity.net/saving-the-los-angeles-river-with-beer/
https://www.ragestache.com/Comics/NOT-USING-THE-SCROLL-WHEEL/134
#1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCdBZHBs0y0
#2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7rXSrYswtU
#3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr2mjjSyvA4
#4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZW4L5u77OA
https://static.teamcoco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Minty-louder.mp3
http://www.fuse.tv/videos/2013/10/weird-al-yankovic-funny-interview-questions
I hope this is based on a true story.
http://jonathan.fuerth.ca/2012/10/daddy-is-robot-on-ada-lovelace-day.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/27/nuclear-dumb-and-dumber/
http://thisbigcity.net/wikilane-how-citizens-built-their-own-bicycle-network/
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/graphics/world-nuclear-graphic
Introduction: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/nothing-but-the-soylent-were-trying-1-full-week-of-the-meal-substitute/
Day 1: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/ars-does-soylent-day-1-embrace-the-chalky-weird-sweetness/
Day 2: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/ars-does-soylent-day-2-my-god-what-have-i-gotten-myself-into/
Day 4: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/ars-does-soylent-day-4-the-soylent-powered-man/
Day 5: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/ars-does-soylent-the-finale-soylent-dreams-for-people/
Introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph33XorGdb8
Italian Restaurant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EtQREokY2c
Dinner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnbpsCcFMDQ
Apartment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM2YRm-E95c
Health Insurance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qsnzrwExmQ
Coffee Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A8W77m-ZTw
Late Arrival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auh74d_OG8Y
Sculptures in the eyes of needles, and on the heads of pins:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A1Q8RI7E9A68SU/ref=cm_pdp_rev_all
The nuclear industry thinks you're stupid.
Director's Commentary:
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfrFAJ10IV0
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Wi9k8Eqzc
3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmSkAxn2w4w
4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KvSH4DLKqY
SHD.ca version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umlsgkG9vAo
Breakdown from The Beaverton:
http://www.thebeaverton.com/stats-2/item/528-canadas-economic-action-plan-a-breakdown
More pointless Canadian expenses:
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/02/15/senate_finance_data.html
http://news.nationalpost.com/toronto/to0504-kb-sewer
http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/04/g-cans-underground-temple-saitama/
Loudness Equals Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiZeOgxpCmI
Ducks Go Quack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tom6_ceTu9s
Biggest Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO0TUI9r-So
Social Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK62I-4cuSY
Selling Out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8c_m6U1f9o
Glass Ceiling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZFGz7sxxBo
In these videos, when they reference the United States Republican Party, imagine that they're actually referencing the Conservative Party of Canada, and you'll get an accurate idea of how Canada is being run:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/04/glimpses-of-humanity-in-choreographed-north-korea/100280/
https://www.wimp.com/a-typical-day-of-air-traffic-each-dot-represents-an-airplane/
Television has suddenly become so magical!
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking
Just East of Toronto, there exists a large building that's responsible for hundreds of thousands of tonnes of highly toxic waste. This waste will remain a threat to the public for thousands of years, and some of it leaks into Lake Ontario, which is the source of drinking water for millions of people. Rather than spend an estimated thirty-six billion of our tax dollars on a few more decades of continuing this contamination of our water supply and habitat, it's my opinion that our money should be invested elsewhere.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-Darlington/154293134613131
Tommy Wiseau is the American who created The Room. For anyone who has seen this film, it may interest you to watch this interview with him about his movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMTZFpaq9bk
He also created the YouTube series Tommy Explains It All, where he gives his analyses of various subjects. One such subject is Citizen Kane:
In the 1980s, Canada's creepy character in television advertisements was Astar the robot. Meanwhile, in Australia, children got to be traumatized by the Gobbledok:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY_wdytNqhI
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/zombie-apocalypse-warning-in-st-john-s-1.998035
We need a Canadian version of this, and ideally a chain with one location in each Conservative riding.
It's pronounced "albin".
Airline introduces child-free cabins:
This is easily the best bus commercial that I have ever seen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acq5CGbUgfs&cc_load_policy=1
Five things they don't want you to know about the Olympics:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19733_5-things-they-dont-want-you-to-know-about-olympics.html
This essay is remarkably similar to what I've been saying about school since I was a child. It's comforting to know that I'm not alone in my beliefs. This should be required reading for all students, teachers, school officials, and politicians.
Questions on Celebrity Jeopardy! are notably easier than the questions on the standard edition:
https://www.funnyordie.com/videos/65c4f84547/celebrity-jeopardy-12-07-1996
"A Program of the Central Intelligence Agency":
This is like an egg drop challenge, but portrayed much more dramatically:
Angry review of the Nintendo Entertainment System version of the Ghostbusters video game:
The interviewer is one of the nicest people on the planet:
I'm guessing you'd need an extremely powerful video game system to handle these graphics:
This should be the standard template for all lost item notices:
I wonder if this actually works.
It's been a while since I last posted a recipe:
Another fishing video:
Ice fishing inverted!
This is not on my to-do list:
Easily one of the most impressive homes in Toronto:
https://www.thestar.com/news/2008/03/01/toronto_man_builds_environmental_dream_house.html
Behold, bouncing rubber balls!
In a perfect world, all mundane chores would be accompanied by this kind of enthusiasm:
Today is the fifty-third B-day of one of the worst Prime Ministers in Canadian history. Let's celebrate by reviewing some rubbish Harper did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQm0t1v2wOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONPki_Qhlz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccgUbezuFHY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmthTKSWFWw
As much as I detest nuclear power and its failures like Chernobyl, I have to admit that this story is pretty amazing:
https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/boy-who-played-fusion?page=all
Bonus Lundi Link! Are you familiar with Canada's Nuclear Liability Act? It declares in its "Insurance and Financial Responsibility" section that, in the event of a nuclear "incident" (failure), the nuclear operator will be liable for an "amount not exceeding seventy-five million dollars":
If this video doesn't make you want to become a drummer, I don't know what will.
Popular Science takes a look twenty-five years into the future to show how you may live and travel in the city of 1950:
https://pneumaticpost.blogspot.ca/2012/03/freight-tubes-of-future.html
The Internet Engineering Task Force has published thousands of RFCs (Request For Comments) that have been used to build the Internet into what we use today. Here are some of the most important:
RFC 1149: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
RFC 2324: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt
RFC 2549: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2549.txt
RFC 2550: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2550.txt
RFC 2795: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2795.txt
RFC 5513: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5513.txt
RFC 5841: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5841.txt
RFC 5984: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5984.txt
RFC 6593: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6593.txt
Don't be an April fool.
It turns out that books can be used for more than just reading:
http://www.krasimirtsonev.com/blog/article/Insane-art-formed-by-carving-books-with-surgical-tools
Personally, I think this is spiffy:
Manoeuvring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM
More manoeuvring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geqip_0Vjec
Even more manoeuvring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-dkonAXOlQ
Construction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W18Z3UnnS_0
Swarm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQIMGV5vtd4
I really hope that this is how people learn English in Japan:
It's best not to panic.
I'm amazed by this bunny's audacity:
Now available in Canada:
Excellent example of security theatre:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/rhalbheer/2011/01/14/real-physical-security/
Here's a review of rock-paper-scissors that criticizes its logic:
I've never played golf, and I despise car culture, but I'm fascinated by human eccentricities.
Rube Goldberg machines are funny:
Community fibre in Sweden:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100911044642/http://www.bjornerback.com/tomas/mattgrand/old.shtml
I consider car culture to be the most repulsive aspect of suburbia, so I was amazed when I first learned about the community of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany. The suburbs of the world should aspire to be like Vauban.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/earth/12suburb.html
https://thisbigcity.net/sustainability-innovation-from-germanys-foremost-renewable-energy-city/
I thought this was hilarious when I first read it back in 1994, but I still don't know its origin. Asking Google, I get conflicting answers.
Futurama taught us that, in the thirty-first century, "Christmas" is called "Xmas". In the twenty-first century, Kenny Irwin Jr. taught us about Xmas decorations:
More apartments should be built like this:
Cardboard video game:
Short film by Kevin Smith, starring "Dante" and "Randal" from his first movie:
On 2010-06-22, at age thirty-seven, Byron Sonne was arrested for the first time in his life. He was held in a medium/maximum security prison for eleven months without bail or a trial, and it wasn't until this month that his trial finally began. Here's what he did:
Basically, he was engaging in several nerdy activities that interested him, and he did so in a safe and responsible manner. He never hurt anyone, he didn't damage any property that wasn't his own, and he had no intention of ever doing so, nor did he ever knowingly indicate such intent.
This story is of great interest to me because what happened to Byron could have happened to me or any of the hundreds of nerds I've met in my life. I've never played with a potato cannon, but I've done everything else listed above, and there are many thousands of people who have done the same. I'm not on Flickr, but looking at the photographs I've taken over the past year, I see all kinds of documentary and hobbyist images like those in Byron's account.
I've been stopped by the police dozens of times while going about my daily life, but as far as I know, none of them have ever investigated my personal life or my hobbies. If they discovered that I was taking photographs of historic buildings, reading about aviation security, downloading technical specifications of mechanical components, or using poisonous chemical cleansers, would they arrest me too?
Normally, I encourage imagination and creativity, but the ideas expressed by people like the police detective in this video are absolute insanity. I guess this detective's ability to fabricate such wild hypotheses is how he was able to make $120516.01 CAD plus $336.70 CAD in benefits in 2010, which is significantly more than most crime fiction writers make in a year. The Crown prosecutor made even more in 2010 ($131176.86 CAD plus $218.94 in benefits), so with crime declining in Canada, I guess some people are trying to justify their salaries. I could speculate further by suggesting that these officials were conspiring to destroy a life for financial gain, but this theory seems less incredible than theirs.
2010-06-23: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/g20/2010/06/23/middleaged_white_guy_doesnt_fit_terrorist_profile.html
2011-05-03: http://torontolife.com/city/how-byron-sonnes-obsessions-with-the-g20-security-apparatus-cost-him-everything/
2011-05-18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0y5MW7XZI
Opinions of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations are notably mixed, but there's one occupation that I believe we can all warm up to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/fashion/creating-graffiti-with-yarn.html
Last week, Conan O'Brien performed a real same-sex wedding on his television show. Here's how the media reacted:
Thailand has a rich history spanning tens of thousands of years, and it's also home to an unusual bakery:
Tea is not my beverage of choice, but I like this advocacy video.
Squirrels may be the most distracting creatures on the planet.
"Save a pretzel for the gas jets."
When going to and from school, travel with style!
http://old.noob.us/miscellaneous/kids-ride-a-zip-line-to-go-to-school/
Effective immediately, this is the kind of greeting I expect to receive every time I get off an airplane in Toronto:
Any squares looking to hang with the hip cats at the malt shoppe should read this book!
You can find Nemo and Jaws in some unexpected places nowadays.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to attach a camera to a cat for a day? I certainly have.
I saw this on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day a while ago, and thought it was worth sharing.
Coal power advocacy:
"Wind turbines can kill up to 70000 birds per year, or 4.27 birds per turbine per year. Coal particulate pollution, on the other hand, kills fewer than 13000 people per year."
I like horror movies!
Helping a lost Tweenbot can be your good deed for the day.
Finally, something to record the finish line at a Bradypus race!
Here's a helpful guide that may help you to survive if you're ever stranded in a quarry:
This commercial really makes me want a Nutri-Grain bar, so I'm surprised it was rejected by Kellogg's. The original link that was sent to me over seven years ago no longer works, but I found a copy on YouTube:
Human-powered transportation is fun!
iOS 5 has some amazing features!
There are hazards to be wary of when riding in bicycle lanes.
I'd imagine that the woeful incompetence of the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) makes it easy to write comedy sketches about their blunders.
Twenty-five remarkable monuments in Yugoslavia:
http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/04/25-abandoned-soviet-monuments-that-look.html
Powers of Ten was a mesmerizing short film, and now it has been spoofed:
http://www.cracked.com/video_18186_if-videos-you-watched-in-science-class-were-rated-r.html
Cats like boxes.
Learn how to make popcorn shrimp! Your teacher will be the Swedish Chef:
Android is the best popular smartphone operating system today, but can it power the xPhone?
I hope this will become the next fashion craze:
Today, Canadians will vote for their local Green Party candidates in the 2011 federal election. Albanians, meanwhile, will be contemplating a vote for Jim Belushi:
Watch Conan O'Brien drive an explosives-packed car off a cliff:
If you have twenty-two minutes to spare, you should listen to "The Most Unwanted Song":
This week on Lundi Links, the website is down!
Get the facts on the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide:
For this week's Lundi Link, a video of New York City that was recorded from a radio controlled airplane:
Every Monday ("lundi" en francais), I'm going to post links to external content that I recommend viewing for entertainment or general interest purposes. I'm calling these "Lundi Links", and I'll continue posting these until I deplete the collection that I've gathered over the years.
Some weeks, I'll post multiple links, but this week, I'll post only one. Behold a video titled "Markets of Britain":