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What does a fat woman and a scooter have in common? They are both fun to ride till a friend sees you.
Now BMW has changed it for the better:
Called the the Urban Mobility Vehicle, it beats the Smart Car concept by providing something cool, fun and fast.
“Being on Twitter is like being badgered by a drunk on a 24-hour bus ride,” Angus wrote in his manifesto on the Huffington Post.
“Twitter seems to be morphing into a bully pulpit for trolls. It is a technology that favours the flash mob. In England, the racist takeover of some Twitter feeds has resulted in people going to jail. The digital mob is no different from a street mob. It can be excitable, goodnatured or vicious, but don’t ever mistake the mob for a democracy.”
He joins a growing number of public figures who’ve decided they’ve had enough. Among them is Manchester City soccer player Micah Richards, who is black, and who abandoned Twitter because as a friend of his told a British newspaper: “In recent months, there’s been an increase in racist abuse from a small and depressing minority, and he decided enough was enough.”
The more we can get politicians off of Twitter, the better. Great work trolls.
One of my great frustrations when I moved from the US to Vancouver was not getting access to US websites as a US resident.
In some cases, like iTunes, I want to be seen as Canadian. (It costs less with the dollar plummeting.)
Being seen as a Canadian resident means losing access sites like to Hulu. Hulu can’t be watched in Canada as it’s network sensitive. The TV powers don’t want us watching it, so they’ve blacked it out.
Hulu has a lot of the top shows and HD programming – all for free. With a HDMI link from my Mac to my flatscreen, I can now watch all the shows I like, when I want. It’s almost like TIVO on demand.
I found a work-around called Hide My Ass. Hulu hasn’t blocked this proxy yet.
Happy Hulu’ing. Get it and then check out my favourite show (Not available in Canada):
If Jesus was born today.
At the same time, I’d like one of these.
Great inventions and a way to beat the taxman:
In a US ruling, a judge ruled the Food and Drug Administration may not block the importation of “electronic cigarettes,” battery-powered versions of conventional smokes.
If yu are a smoker and haven’t heard of this yet, check out this site…
After your initial investment, it costs about $5-10 per equivalent carton of smokes.. leaving the taxman with nothing.
As the e-cigarette is essentially a nicotine patch, with the joyous mechanics of smoking, this is the way it should be.
Watch for Ottawa to make a move once this catches on. Canadians paying $10-a-pack will love this. Plus you can smoke in bars and planes again without annoying anyone.
Electronic Cigarettes (a.k.a E-Cigarettes or E-Cigs) are quite literally the next wave of recreational smoking. While tobacco cigarettes deliver a whole host of carcinogens as they are burned and inhaled, toxicological studies on e-cigs show it to be a much safer means of delivering nicotine while still resembling typical smoking behavior.
E-Cigarettes do not produce tar so your lungs are not polluted, your teeth and fingers will not stain, your clothes and skin will not stink while those around you will not be offended.
Whereas in most developed countries a smoker is required to step outside for a smoke, e-cig smokers can smoke anywhere because the ’second-hand smoke’ contains nothing dangerous to those around you. Being an electronic smoker means not having to leave your friends and loved ones for a smoke, it means you get to enjoy a smoke like you normally would but in a more comfortable location. Not only will you not harm those around you, your walls will not turn yellow and your room or car will not stink.
Imagine having an electronic cigarette and relaxing while traveling on a plane or at the bar without having to leave your seat or your drink. Circumstances like this can be frustrating to the modern tobacco smoker but the e-cig smoker experiences none of these difficulties. The modern tobacco smoker faces a whole host of health problems related to smoking while the e-cig smoker enjoys a much more measured, controlled and safer smoking experience.
Electronic cigarettes are the future of smoking and it is time for all smokers to evolve and leave tobacco with all its dangers and annoyances behind. Electronic cigarettes are the new, safer and more enjoyable way to smoke.
Steve Jobs released a great article on why Apple doesn’t allow flash to play on its iPhone, Ipod and iPads.I have long disliked flash on the web, not only because it does nothing to help your website get found, but also because it is so proprietary. As a Mac user from the beginning, I couldn’t agree with him more.
Thanks Steve for clearing the air:
Thoughts On Flash
Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death experience, and Adobe was drawn to the corporate market with their Acrobat products. Today the two companies still work together to serve their joint creative customers–Mac users buy around half of Adobe’s Creative Suite products–but beyond that there are few joint interests.
I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven–they say we want to protect our App Store–but in reality it is based on technology issues. Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true. Let me explain. More »
Ironic that the Hitler parodies have been taken down by YouTube. The video meme, which has run its course, has now found new life. This video parodies actually have made the movie a huge success.
Constantin Film AG is having YouTube remove re-subtitled clips of Hitler’s outburst scene in their film Downfall, even though they have no right to do so. Probably everyone on the planet has watched at least one parody based on Hitler in the bunker from the German film Downfall. The joke is to replace the subtitles with your chosen text.
There’s no doubt these parodies have sold more DVD copies of Downfall than any amount of marketing could have come even remotely close to. And it’s cost Constantin Film AG absolutely nothing. Someone over at Constantin apparently doesn’t get it.
