I have a human. She feeds me, gives me a place to sleep at night, if I so choose, says nice things about me and sometimes sings with me. She is a good human. I am lucky to have met her because you know, often the humans will eat the pigeons or worse, poison a whole colony.

While my human and I lived in an old house, recently, some mice came in to take shelter from the rain. Now, one of the things I find odd about humans is that they really don't like mice. In the case of my human, she woke up every time the mice started running around and began poking around in the cupboards with her flashlight, trying to find them.

Bund, the German version of Friends of the Earth, created balloons that look like our planet printed with the text "The world can't take anymore C02." They attached the uninflated balloons to vehicle tailpipes around the city of Berlin. When the drivers got into their vehicles and started them, the balloons inflated until they burst, causing a loud bang, embarrassment for the drivers and attention to the problem of CO2 emissions into our environment.

Pigeon hopes that they targeted unnecessarily gas guzzling status symbols, like Hummers.

In an attempt to thwart stifling copyright laws, infamous internet bit torrent tracker site the Pirate Bay has hatched plans to take over a wee island just off of Sweden, name of Sealand.

You may be interested in seeing what C|Net has to say about it .... but possibly more interested in what Swedish paper The Local has to say about it.

MySpace has some agressive competition in the social networking realm. A new website called Multiply challenges the user to consider the purpose of their webspace.

The homepage of their site submits "Want to show your profile to millions of strangers? Use MySpace. Share your photos, video, music, blogs and more with the people you already know and love: Join Multiply." and includes a hyperlink to the MySpace page - an interesting approach, and an excellent point.

The opportunity for true p2p networking, either of the personal or technological kind, seems a little lost in the pages of promotion and dating that make up most FoaF based sites.

Robert Anton Wilson, the founder of the Church of the Subgenius and a well known irreverant and quirky anarcho-futurist, has passed away at the age of 74.

Of special note is the power of one media source - boingboing.net. boingboing is a serious force of internet nature these days, and rightfully so ... there's almost no better barometer of tech cool and techno-liberty around. In the last months of Wilson's illness, they sent his prayers for some financial support out to their substantial readership, and the response far exceeded the author's needs - and dreams.

Once upon a time you were a guy all alone. You were like a single hand. Then you met a guy that was just like you - only opposite. Oh! You were happy!

Together you and your opposite hand commenced to beat the shit out any hands that interfered with your happiness. If you were het hands, you had little hands, and continued to fight and plunder and grab all the resources you could so your little hands would grow up with all the advantages. If you were homo hands, you made music and art and other stuff, instead of hands, though sometimes you got hands from het couples who couldn't take care of them, or used tools developed by groups of hands, to make the little hands without the squishy-squishy, bump-bump.

Hello!

Well, there is this Company that makes the Fine Chocolate. So Fine that it is Many Times More Expensive than the the Second Finest Chocolate. So say Noka, anyway.

Well, this Dallas Guy, who does Love the Chocolate, did some Research. Guess what? Those Noka Chocolates are just Bonnat Couverture repackaged and sold, AT A MUCH HIGHER PRICE!

Here, you can read all about it.

Pigeon think it is Good Scam what Hurt No One. The people buying the Chocolate are the Kind that will try to buy the Respect and maybe even the Self-Worth anyway - not to mention Chocolate Industry is One of Worst, for Child Labours and other Abuses of Human's Rights.

In random medical news:

On a test group of 9 subjects, Psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic Mushrooms, was found to temporarily relieve all symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)(1). OCD is "an illness that causes people to have unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and to repeat certain behaviors (compulsions) over and over again."(2)

Another, entirely unrelated with the exception of random internet adjacency, study found that holding hands with each other while being electrically shocked reduced the stress of happily married couples, while holding hands with strangers was not as effective.(3)

In the past weeks, the debate on whether or not life exists on Mars has resurfaced in the media

Scientists believe that nestled deep within caves on the planet's surface are pools of water, or something similar, which have the potential to shift to liquid form, thus alowwing the possibility of viable organisms.

But just what are we looking for? It is unendlessly amazing to me the millions of dollars worth of research that goes into determining the existence of life on another planet. So desperate are we to not be alone in the universe that we look for tiny particle Martian friends ...

Having been reasonably blessed with limited encounters with the glass ceiling, every once in a while it occurs to me that computer/technology oriented women are in an extreme minority. And we live in Canada.

So this is a little post-mortem kudos to a woman who really thought about this one, and the foundation she started in the hopes that we'd all continue thinking about it, emerging from our lefty bubbles every once in a while, and realizing we've got a long way left to go ...